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[Eagle of Fire]

They don't exactly bring their tool back. Once a settler take a job, he keep that job until he dies. So that mean that you'll still have the worker but you can't get the tool and the settler separatly again.

[Icewolf]

To build a harbor you need a special terrain close to water. The game offers you the possibility of building a harbor by showing you a little anchor on the right bottom of a big building symbol. Otherwise I'm afraid you won't be able to build a harbor.

Sorry, I don't know about your second question.

To build ships in the shipyard in the gold version you simply click on the little square with the boat in it that is deplayed in the information screen of the shipyard. You can choose between boats an ships to be build.

I hope this is helpful. k:

I have a problem playing this fantastic game under WinXP SP2.

I can start the game, sound works ok. But at the bottom of the screen I have a black line (about 2 cm I guess). Right on the place where the menu buttons are in the game. So... I can't really play it.

Has it something to do with VESA drivers?

Any help would be appreciated!

[The Fifth Horseman]

Use DosBox.

Hi. I've read all of you so I see that you all are real "settlers"... I've got a problem with settlers IV... It's seems as if the trade ship doesn't work properly and I can't see what the problem is. Once I'd set the destination I set the amount of the good that should be carried to the other island but the ships don't move at all. I don't what's wrong because They had already transported some raw materials and tool before, but suddenly they stopped. I don't know wha's wrong... please, if you can advise me... thanx. [quote]

[velik_m]

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Hi. I've read all of you so I see that you all are real "settlers"... I've got a problem with settlers IV... It's seems as if the trade ship doesn't work properly and I can't see what the problem is. Once I'd set the destination I set the amount of the good that should be carried to the other island but the ships don't move at all. I don't what's wrong because They had already transported some raw materials and tool before, but suddenly they stopped. I don't know wha's wrong... please, if you can advise me... thanx.
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maybe your dock is full?

you should try official forum:
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/8301057942

[Icewolf]

Well, you're making a mistake when you handle it that way.

To get new soldiers you are supposed to make new weapons.
Gather iron ore and coal. Build an iron smelter where he makes steel from iron ore and coal.
You need to have an armory as well. He again crafts arms and shields out of ore and steel.

These are delivered to the hq and indefinite helpers turn into soldiers if there is a need for them.

[Frenkieee]

Yeah, I know the way to make new soldiers. I've already completed the World Campaign. But this was just something I was not sure about. In some very large maps with a lot of opponents, it could happen that after a long while, all iron and/or coal sources are depleted, and thus you can't create new soldiers.

So, I burned down some military buildings, but not all soldiers returned to a HQ/SH.

[Eagle of Fire]

If you destroy the barracks around roads of your own, you are sure that they will come back. If you destroy too many barracks at the same time and that some of them wander off and can't find a road back to your castle then there is a good chance that you will lose some of them.

[Frenkieee]

I've been doing some experimenting and this indeed seems to be the case. Burning down one building at a time does seem to help.

I also experienced more returning soldiers when there was a SH in a relatively short distance. The further away the nearest SH was, the less soldiers returned to it.