shipyards and colonists?

[Barkdreg]

in a game as Granada I have 2 shipyards (Tago and Andalusia)
but only get 1 colonist. What's wrong? Shouldn't I get 2 colonists?
One for each shipyard

 

[hjarg]

Nothing is wrong. You only get one colonist for your first shipyard, no more. You may have 100 shipyards, but still get 1/year.

 

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So....Barkdreg loses his first shipyard at the peace table

(I'm speaking hypothetically, of course. I'm sure Mr. Barkdreg never loses provinces at the peace table)

AND he has 99 shipyards left. Does he still get his colonist? I know that's a dumb question but this (great) game has surprised me before.

 

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Originally posted by Steve Staten
So....Barkdreg loses his first shipyard at the peace table

(I'm speaking hypothetically, of course. I'm sure Mr. Barkdreg never loses provinces at the peace table)

AND he has 99 shipyards left. Does he still get his colonist? I know that's a dumb question but this (great) game has surprised me before.

lol - To clarify: you get 1 colonist for having *a* shipyard

So yes - as long as you have *a* shipyard then you get 1 colonist.

 

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Originally the shipyard gave the player one colonist each, but it severelly unbalanced the game. Note also that the point many player have mention that many small odd nations set colonies would be aggravated by the original design. This is a gamebalance over realism issue.

/Greven

 

[Sir James]

Does the AI know this? I've seen Spain & France building shipyards all over the place.

 

[hjarg]

There are other bonuses as well for shipyards: like ability to produce more ships at one time.

 

[Sir James]

They never use anything like the capacity of the shipyards - the money would have been much better spent on manufacturies or diplomacy (or more ships )

 

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Sir James wrote:
"They never use anything like the capacity of the shipyards - the money would have been much better spent on manufacturies or diplomacy (or more ships )"

So you think the AI is that smart

Cheers, Ice

 

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And it's also an easy way to get cheap VP's (15 a time every three years) if you run active missions.