Fiona
Pharaolympics 2000 Competitor
posted 01-30-08 06:42 PM ET (US)
Haven't played AoE for years, starting again with RoR. Managed fine up to Campaign 2: Britain.
Did ok with original army, but wanted to try again and actually build stuff as well. Converted some villagers, but I have no buildings and no resources - is there any way to start gathering resources when you have no wood to start with, and no storage pit or Town Centre?
Initially I thought maybe this was just a no-build campaign, live with what you have, but when I was trying to think of a way to do this, I happened to look at the Hints section on this site, and one of the comments suggested going to the southeast corner, converting some villagers and "grabbing that gold" - this seems to imply it is actually possible, leading to the question "How can I grab the gold, or anything else, if I have nowhere to store it and no resources to build a storage pit?"
Can any one help - this idea is driving me nuts!
Fiona.
Fiona
Pharaolympics 2000 Competitor
posted 01-31-08 02:26 PM
ET (US)
4 / 12
Thanks all - useful suggestion, except that I'm not sure it's possible on this level, for some reason.
To convert a building I usually select a priest then move my mouse over to the building I want to convert - the cursor then changes to the target, and you can click to convert - trouble is on this level, nothing happens - the cursor doesn't change and there is no entry in the priest options list to convert.
I guess even though the level starts in Iron Age, the technology isn't researched for you in advance, and as I can't build a temple, and have no resources, I can't research it myself.
Any other ideas?
It may simply be that you can't gather any resources or build in this level, it's just odd that the AoE Heaven hints suggest you can.
peter
HG Alumnus
posted 01-31-08 03:35 PM
ET (US)
5 / 12
That's odd. I started that scenario to see if it started in post-Iron Age and it does - I had no trouble converting a storage pit. You're sure you didn't try to convert a town center?
Suppiluliuma
AoEH Seraph
posted 02-01-08 01:07 PM
ET (US)
8 / 12
If my memory doesn't fails me, when you research monotheism, only the Walls ant Town Centers cannot be converted.
Fiona
Pharaolympics 2000 Competitor
posted 02-01-08 05:15 PM
ET (US)
10 / 12
Thanks for the advice guys - I'm not sure what happened, but I tried re-loading an earlier save-game, and this time when I went over to the island where the gold is, I converted the storage pit no problem at all. Very odd.