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From: edg@ingres.com (Ed Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Powermonger comments
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.233428.12725@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 31 Jan 91 23:34:28 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.231935.7383@county.oz.au> <28224.27a5764e@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991Jan30.033406.24251@portia.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jan30.033406.24251@portia.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>In article <28224.27a5764e@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2fmlempire@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>In article <1991Jan28.231935.7383@county.oz.au>, justin@county.oz.au (Justin Beech) writes:
>
>>> *  Inventing things: Sometimes people work for ages without producing 
>>>    anything... why?
>>> 
>>
>>You got me, if they aren't inventing I just issue the command again and
>>usually that gets them in gear.
>
>Make sure you have food in the village you are inventing at.  I made this
>mistake *dozens* of times... Once I dropped some food, *poof*, there was my
>catapult.
>

You can just recruit everyone in the village if your captain has lots of food,
and then start inventing.

Here's somthing else I've noticed (but maybe it's my imagination):

Trying to make a catapult, I put my captain in Agressive.  Then invent.  
They invent.  sawing ... hammering ...  I wait thru about 15 minutes of this
and nothing.  Finally there's no more woods.  

I retried the same thing, except this time I re-issued the Invent command
about every 20-30 seconds.  Bingo! Catapult after about a minute.

-edg-