problems with no peasants

[Mipitu2]

Everything has been going great up to my downloading the Akhetaten scenario. Now when I load any scenario that doesnt already have buildings placed, when I place a building in the beginning, it says "There are no peasants in the city" even though there are villagers everywhere...any advice?

[MAX-1]

Yea i noticed that too. But no fear, all still works.

[Mipitu2]

Still works?

I ran for a couple of seasons and no one comes and builds brickworks, farms, common shops etc. I tired it for a couple of season on several different scenarios. I gave up waiting. :(

I am playing Nubt which comes with pre-builts and for some reason doesn't seem effected by whatever has happened.

[Keith]

Did you build your palace first?

[vic_4]

You need farmers or servants to get middle classe cityzens. Villagers take only low class jobs.

[Mipitu2]

The palace was built. The farms were in place but they just lay there empty with the same message, "No peasants available in the city".

I will go through the process once more to see if there was something I was just inadvertently missing. But I played all the way through the campaign without a hitch and only had this happen much later on after the Akhetaten install.

I am going to uninstall and re-install and see if that does anything....

[Keith]

How many villagers did you have available? If you use them up before they get to spawn children things can go kind of slow in the population department for a while. Farmers, nobles, shop owners, and the royal family will all eventually spawn children it just takes time...especially at 1.0 speed or less.

[Mipitu2]

Well, I would have to go and look at the particular scenario since I am at the office, but since I hadn't successfully built anything other than the palace, I would be guessing quite a lot of villagers would be around. When I looked in their huts the male villagers are all standing around swinging their arms - or whatever it is they do when they have nothing to do - can't seem to remember right now.

I guess maybe I should clarify - I am getting the message "There are no peasants in the city" but there are villagers present and "unemployed". The farms don't get occupied, and neither does anything else. The palace gets erected and then the other buildings sit there unconstructed for several seasons without any of the villagers attempting to move in.

I will see if this persists when I get home.

[Mipitu2]

By the way - thanks for the help and the patience! I love this game and wish I wasn't having this little problem.

[Keith]

If you still can't figure out the problem, upload a copy of your save game file to this message thread.

Post a new reply and use the Attachments button below. U;load the file, then close the upload windows and submit your message.

[MarkDuffy]

Keith, if Mipitu2's game is corrupted, you running his save won't change anything. It will work for you.

What I find interesting is that there is verification (Max) that downloading Akhetaten changed the game.

This means that TM used Alhetaten as another patch!

Sneaky TM...

THREE patches so far!

Not good

Mipitu2, your game is totally destroyed, probably from a bad download/install of Akhetaten. Reinstall & redownload Akhetaten. The game works fine with that download.

Edit: I wonder if there is a problem with the patch sequence. Most of us downloaded Akhetaten between patches 1 & 2, IIRC. Perhaps you downloaded it after Patch 2, Mipitu2?

[Keith]

The only thing in that Akhetaten.exe file is the .scn file. It doesn't change anything in the game. It is just a self-extracting archive file. There isn't anything in the .SCN file that would "patch" the game.

[MarkDuffy]

The only thing in that Akhetaten.exe file is the .scn file. It doesn't change anything in the game. It is just a self-extracting archive file. There isn't anything in the .SCN file that would "patch" the game.

So downloading Akhetaten did NOT add the "There are no peasants in the city" message to all scenarios?

Max is wrong?

[vic_4]

I have installed Akhetaten scenary and it did not change anything on my game, it is supposed to be a simple scenario, if you look at the installation screen, inly the .scn file is extracted.

[MAX-1]

When I started Akhetaten, I placed my palace, four nobels, 6 lux shops, 8 servents, 8 common shops, 8 brickmakers, 6 bricklayers, 2 bakeries, about 24 farmers, a priest, and a school. Thats the way I always start, so I thought that the villagers would run about trying to construct and get a job. Thats the way it usually starts right off. Anything that can be built for free in the first year, usually is handled by a vilager.

So before I unpaused :eek: and let it roll, I went around to check my shops out, just to make sure that they were the right ones. And thats when I noticed the weird message. "This house will not be occupied. Your city has no peasents." And I was like, o.k. This is just the begining, on pause and such.

Unpause.

And heres how things progressed. The palace got built, and fast. Pharoah moved in. Nobels homes got built, but half moved in. Servents got built, moved in and then moved out to become shoppers. Brickers got built and then things got moveing along.

So I started another sand box. Daughter of Isis. Same messages with the same stuff placed down. I did notice that servents are a key to progression in the begining sequence of developement of the city. :rolleyes:

[MarkDuffy]

So I started another sand box. Daughter of Isis. Same messages with the same stuff placed down. I did notice that servents are a key to progression in the begining sequence of developement of the city. :rolleyes:

This makes sense, Max. Servants are like my place&delete laborers. Good stuff!

The "new" message is not really a problem & if it is a change, I like it better. Workers are supposed to go through the advancement chain...

Time will also work!