Trade with natives

[Ziggy6401]

I am playing The Magnate campaign, I put a wharehouse on the gold island, and traded with the natives and got 11 tons of gold, now the native wont trade with me any more. I havent attacked them or anything, however, I did build walls and a gate around my wharehouse, could this be why?

[Dobber]

Are you sure you did not accidentally attack them?
Like be in battle mode when clicking to send your ship or market cart to the chief's hut?

[Ziggy6401]

Thanks, for the quick reply, Dobber. I dont think so but it is possible that I did. If so will they begin trade again, or am I going to have to start over?

[Ziggy6401]

I just noticed that the white player is shooting at the natives. Could this be why they arent trading?

[Dobber]

The AI shooting them should not effect your trade abilities.
It is my experience that they never renew peace with you.
Maybe you have a savegame from before this happened, or perhaps you could end the game and start up and click continue game and it would start up at a point prior to your losing trade negotiations with them.

[RoadRunner]

Maybe you have a savegame from before this happened, or perhaps you could end the game and start up and click continue game and it would start up at a point prior to your losing trade negotiations with them.
If you end a game, the lastgame.gam will be overwritten with the game status you reached at that moment. You can only try to switch to the desktop during the game (press Alt+Tab for that), then switch to the Windows Explorer (press the Windows-key+E), copy, paste and rename the lastgame.gam and return to the game. If you are lucky you get a savegame which is 5 or 7 minutes younger than your current game. :smile:

But I think this option is now obsolete...

And welcome to the board, Ziggy6401. :halloha:

[Dobber]

You can end the game by Ctl-Alt-Del to bring up the task manager window and then selecting 1602 and clicking end process. That will end the game without the lastgame.gam being overwritten and when you select continue game while starting up, you will get the last autosave which could be from 1-9 minutes earlier in the game.

[mamayourpeoplearehungry]

If you end the game the lastgame.gam is from the previous save of lastgame which can be the 1-9 minutes prior to the end.
If you do a save to one of the save files, it will also save the lastgame.gam at the same time.

[furdude6]

You might have to also trade something in return.. cloth or alchol to get the trade if they dont have any thing they need then you probably attacked them...Doh..

[Dobber]

If you end the game the lastgame.gam is from the previous save of lastgame which can be the 1-9 minutes prior to the end.
If you do a save to one of the save files, it will also save the lastgame.gam at the same time.

Thanks Mama, that is what I thought also but after what Roasdrunner wrote I was no longer sure. I was thinking that I had ended a game just recently and used the continue option which popped me in at an earlier point in the game. Actually I was testing a scene for someone and they were wanting me to save the game prior to it's ending and send it to them and it ended before I was expecting and I had not saved it, I did a continue game and it started back up prior to my building a palace and cathedral, so I was spared the indignity of not fulfilling the request of the scene builder.

[Sir Henry]

Thanks Mama, that is what I thought also but after what Roasdrunner wrote I was no longer sure. I was thinking that I had ended a game just recently and used the continue option which popped me in at an earlier point in the game. Actually I was testing a scene for someone and they were wanting me to save the game prior to it's ending and send it to them and it ended before I was expecting and I had not saved it, I did a continue game and it started back up prior to my building a palace and cathedral, so I was spared the indignity of not fulfilling the request of the scene builder.
Don't mix up two different things... if you end a game yourself by clicking on the exit button the lastgame.gam is written, but if a game ends because the goals are reached, the lastgame.gam is not written.

If you end the game the lastgame.gam is from the previous save of lastgame which can be the 1-9 minutes prior to the end.
This is only true for 1503 but not for 1602, as far as the German versions are concerned. Could there be a difference to the international versions? Or is it just another mix-up?

[Dobber]

I have also started up a game and played several minutes and then decide there is something I need to check online and end the game. When I went back to 1602 and started the game back up and clicked continue, I got not the game I had just ended(that I had played just 3 or 4 minutes), but the game before, so at least on the US version clicking end game does not save to last game.

[Sir Henry]

I just did the same and landed back in the game exactly where I left it.

So there really seems to be a difference in the versions. :eek:

[Ziggy6401]

Man do I feel dumb, didnt even know there was an autosave feature. I just saved and loaded my saves. Anyway, I restarted the scenario and played nice with the computer so as not to accidently start a war with the natives. Very tedious, waiting for the natives to need enough cloth and alcohol. Too bad I quit German after 2 years in high school it would be a definate advantage on this board. Thanks for all your help. I'm off to Spice Monopoly now.

[barbshing]

I am so keen to learn more about Anno 1602 and great respect to all the German threads but I look at length for posts in English.

Again with respect could the posts be split between language?

[Dread Pirate Terry]

If you have questions just ask them in English and they will be answered in English. Another way would be to use the personal message feature here on this discussion board. I would try to get back to you as soon as possible to help in any way I could.

[Dobber]

And if you want only English responses, when titling your thread type [EN] in front of the title to denote English thread! That means all responses are to be English!