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Michelle
16-01-2007, 02:13
Why can't I upgrade all of my raw materials? On some islands I can, but I can't on all of them.
thegrindre
16-01-2007, 07:01
Are you sure you have enough supplies on each island, (wood, tools, bricks)?
phantomjak
16-01-2007, 07:53
It's one of two possible problems:
1) You don't have the required materials on that island to upgrade the raw mineral facility. Click on the facility that goes directly over the mineral deposit and look at the facility's summary circle in the lower right hand corner of your screen. If the upgrade button that should appear on the top of the summary circle is depressed and not glowing, it means you don't have the required materials. Move you mouse over the depressed button and it'll show you what your missing in red.
2) The vein of raw material is finite and doesn't have an infinite deposit. Going back to the summary circle, if the upgrade button doesn't show up at all, that means there isn't an infinite source and therefore you cannot upgrade your facilities. Remember, not all mineral deposits can be ungraded to mine indefinitely. The deposit itself must have an infinite source to begin with.
in addition to 2):
To determine, if a mineral deposit is infinite, before you put a mine on it, just have a look at the resource symbol above it. If the resource is in a lorry, it is infinite, if it's not, it's finite. :wink:
Upgradeable deposits have as a symbol, the resource in a mine car. The mine car designates a deep vein of resources available there. Only the ones with the mine car are upgradeable,
I don't want to talk, just look what I can show you :wink:
http://www.ladygames.de/1701div/mine-upgrade.jpg
@LadyH, she knows how to upgrade them and has upgraded some, she wanted to know why she could upgrade some, but not all.
lorry = a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides or British for motortruck.
:hello:
Well, obviously i made a mistake. Thank you for letting me know. But is it really that funny? I am pretty sure, that everybody understood, what i meant.
I'd like to see you helping others in a non-native language...
phantomjak
17-01-2007, 03:35
Well, obviously i made a mistake. Thank you for letting me know. But is it really that funny? I am pretty sure, that everybody understood, what i meant.
I'd like to see you helping others in a non-native language...
WaxWorm, your not wrong at all. While lorry is primarily used these days in the UK as a word that means a large, commercial truck, its old usage did include any rail system that transports material in and out of mines or factories. Its just not in common usage anymore.
It could be in the spelling of the word as well! As in lorrie!
Lorīrie
n. A small cart or wagon moving on rails, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.
Mhhkay, then i am just enough "inside" Anno 1701 :biggrin:
Michelle
18-01-2007, 01:57
thanks everyone!
Actually I found it in more than one location, BaldJim! (My searches included looking for definitions to lorry, lory, and lorrie, in trying to cover any possibility of the way it could be spelled.)
Here is another Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (http://dict.die.net/lorrie/)
Lorrie \Lor"rie\, Lorry \Lor"ry\, n.; pl. Lorries. [Prob. from
lurry to pull or lug.]
A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines
to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for
shifting baggage, as at railway stations.
So actually we find the word lorry included in the listing, which makes the spelling now irrelevant.
Edit: To explain the reason I went on this hunt, in this thread was not the first time I had encountered the term lorry used to describe a mine cart. Somewhere in my lifetime(all 51 1/2 years spent here in the US), I have heard or/and read the term used in that capacity.
Maybe a little explanation, why i chose "lorry":
In german (my native language), the word "Lore" is still commonly used for a mine cart . And all dictionaries translate "Lore" into "lorry", which also etymologically makes sense to me. I wouldn't be suprised, if this was the real origin of the word.
Apart from that, i think this discussion is pretty needless, since the topic starters question has been answered and it doesn't help anybody to know if it's called lorry, mine car(t), push car(t) or whatever, don't you both agree? :wink:
.................................. i think this discussion is pretty needless, ........................................ don't you both agree? :wink:
Yeah, we have been beating a dead horse! :lol:
thegrindre
19-01-2007, 01:46
I believe this small educational thread was very helpful to me. Thanks, guys...:biggrin:
I now know another term in a foreign language... Don't be ashamed.
PannaMAn
25-01-2007, 15:41
my post isn't really about the upgrading of raw materials, but it's about raw materials, so I'll post it here :)
my question is: I have 3 brickworks 2 squares away from a claypit. but they all work at only 66%. and when I close one, the others still stay at 66%, is there a way to get them to 100%? because I don't think there is like a max of 2 brickworkers that can access the pit at once or so....or is it just because they spend an awefully long time (maybe 1/3) in that pit hacking for the clay?
btw, this is the same for my marble productions...
Actually there is a limit of 2 brickworkers for 1 claypit. Try putting those 2 closer to the pit and they should get 100%.
The two that were left would not instantly show 100%, they would actually have to function at 100% before returning the display to 100%. If you give them time to cycle through the work process, you will see them return to 100%. The clay pit as well as the marble quarry only produce enough raw material per cycle to keep two manufactories stocked and working 100%.
PannaMAn
25-01-2007, 17:45
ok, thx dobber and waxworm. I guess itīs bye bye for a brickworker :)
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