Problems with raw materials in Abu

[Castrum Bauzanum]

I have this problem:
in the map of Abu, I decided to build the most part of the city on the east. Then I established a laborer camp and so on this left part of the map and began to build a pair of bigger and smaller Pyramid. Unfortunately, till that time, I didn't had the need to use the ship carpenter, so I've noticed that the stones were lit all on the big island in the east. So I built a ship carpenter and some and the new imported raw material began to arrive on the right point, even building some attrack point for the ship.

But when I only missed one single stone per pyramid, the constructions did stop, because either when having plenties of every stones near the monuments, the monument seems to need a stone that was located in the central island..and that stones tries to move under the river's and never arrives...what should i do?

[MarkDuffy]

Welcome to our family, Castrum Bauzanum! :)

I'm dling your game save now. Be right back!

[Keith]

Do you have the patch installed?

[MarkDuffy]

Do you have the patch installed?

Not sure, Keith. :)

OK, Castrum Bauzanum, here are my initial findings. I have changed nothing in your save. I just watched.

Abu ~ Normal ~ Italian Game Version ~ Game loads 1926 BC, city is 30 years old

You are using edicts, cuz you have a few worship & happiness problems. You have no Cult Temple to the Patron God Isis. You have two dedicated Temples, but niether has a statue (five in a DOP). Your Admin Report is on Moderate Worship Red Alert. This in itself is not a problem. You have lots of food. Fine. I didn't check how many Bakeries you had, but I should have.

You only have one Mastaba for Pharaoh available & you always need to have two Tombs for two quick Pharaoh deaths in a row. You have built many tombs for everyone else including many for the Royal family. Do NOT ignore Pharaoh. The rest are not necessary. ;)

You are building a Very Small Pyramid & a Medium Pyramid on the west side of the Nile. This is where all your laborers & your three Overseers (Nearest site, Construction & Construction) are located also. Each is almost complete except each only needs one final Regular Limestone block. There are activated Limestone blocks on sleds all over the Palace area.

You have five Barges (ships) & plenty of Barge Landings (Docks or Piers).

There are two dedicated DOPs next to your Medium pyramid with 12 Regular in one & 20 Fine in the other. It looks like these were placed recently.

I am concerned about your Palace (Image attached). There is a dedicated DOP (several actually, but I am ignoring those for the moment) to "Miniera di rame" that has at least 72 regular limestone, 60 gold, 58 fine limestone & 50 emeralds in it. There is probably much more there, but the display only shows 4 types. This World Map site only trades food for gold & so you originally had this DOP on "any site" (generic as placed) & dedicated it later. Your original limestone was probably delivered here by import.

Something happened to activate all the blocks all over the place including the one in the river. You are building a new Barge Landing, but there is a scar in the river. Did you delete a Barge landing with limestone blocks being hauled from it?

All these observations I did by immediately putting your save on pause & checking out your city. I probably missed a lot & plan to go back, but I need the Patching question answered (when & not just yes/no). You might be patched now, but if you started your pyramids before you patched, you are screwed & need to delete your pyraimds & rebuild them (perhaps ~ this will become a test lab for me & it will take some time to dissect it ~ perhaps days).

None of your Overseers had Lux goods. The Nearest Site Overseer was very mad & soon emmigrated, leaving me with only two. Your oldest Overseer became one in 1930 BC & it looks like dissatisfaction has been a problem there for a long time. Place Lux shops in that location. You actually need more lux shops on both sides of the Nile. Complete sets of six. You could also use more common shops also. The two went to work at both pyramids & your laborers ignored them. However, immediately four laborers went over to the east side on the Nile (where your palace & Nobles & farms are) grabbed a small basalt statue blank & delivered it to the Osiris Temple on the east side & it is now completely carved. So far, the other dedicated Temple to Hapi is being ignored.

Your save appears to have a triggering problem & I might be able to fix it. Don't give up on it yet.

You also might have done some DOP deleting with activated limestone & screwed up triggers after having limestone stuck at Barge Landings waiting for a Barge to show up. This is a problem even in a patched game. Please note, that your game may function differently than mine does. Both because of version & patch status. The things I noticed do not happen in a Patched game, unless the player is doing a lot of deleting of things & cauing triggers to misfire. These can be reset, but it might require you to delete your pyramids. Not yet, though.

Waiting for your reply. :)

[MarkDuffy]

Like I said, Castrum Bauzanum, not yet! :D

I should have noticed it the first time, but missed it. I got it the second time. :o

I had this big list on how to improve your city, but you won the Scenario with your city as it is, so who am I to judge?

Anyway, your last Regular Limestone Block is trapped on the East side of the Nile & your Laborers have no way to get it. It is activated & they will accept no other substitutes. ALL of your Barge Landings on the West side of the Nile do NOT stick out into DEEP water.

Imaged is the one I added. It is the bottom one & you can tell from the minimap where it is. Last two images are your completed MP & VSP. Place only the new Landing & your pyramids will quickly be completed. :)

[Castrum Bauzanum]

Thanks a lot Mark, and sorry for the late. From Sunday 'til now I had no time for serious things, I was busy with working and studyng :rolleyes:

For the question about the patching, I've done it probably the same day I've purchased and installed the game, it was about a month ago, so I think there wasn't this the problem. After that, I've tried to install a nocd crack because sometimes my dvd drive gets really noisy and this thing is really annoying. Should be this the cause of the problem?

Thank you for lots of tips, they will be useful for the next games. As you noticed, the game was already won and I did not kept on to make city better.

[MarkDuffy]

Yeah !!! :)