In the original Colonization and in some versions of FreeCol (but not 0.9.5 or 0.10.0), you can build on a tile owned by natives (and use whatever your central tile produces) but you cannot farm or mine any such tile (or develop it except at great expense) until Peter Minuit joins your congress. Use of native land: very important point early in the game. However (particularly if you have started with large amounts of gold), it may be equally or more important to produce liberty bells so as to hasten the arrival of the most useful Founding Fathers - De Soto, Minuit, and maybe Magellan. Usually you will want saleable materials to earn gold to buy more resources (such as horses and muskets) and recruit or train more colonists. Choose your first site with some care but not infinite care: of major importance is that you start producing something early. When it said "This looks like a great place to start your first city" it might be overlooking the fact that one more step could bring you to a much better site for example, one with four bonus tiles instead of only two. The early Civilization on-screen hint system, familiar to many players, was not infallible. If a man is on a river tile, he can step to another river tile using only one-third of a movement point, thus seeing much more country per turn.
A bit of movement by each will show what inland tiles are available. You will now see several new tiles and may be ready to choose a colony site, although you are likely to need another turn or two.ĭon't disembark your other man at the same place unless sure that it's good enough for your first colony. Use an arrow key to move him onto an unoccupied river tile if any, or as near westward as you can. Right-click on the ship then click the chosen man he will then blink showing that he's ready to move. If one or more shows a little coastline along an edge or at a corner, continue straight ahead for one move to see more land, or do a right-angled turn if the only land in sight requires that.Īs long as you are adjacent to at least two contiguous land tiles that do not contain a colony or native settlement, prepare to send a man ashore: preferably your military man if you have one. If you reach the icebound borders, turn west (or restart: you may have wasted too much time and be at a serious disadvantage compared with other nations).Īt each step, look at the five newly discovered tiles. Heading for the polar regions carries a higher risk of sailing for several turns without sighting land. Then, one step at a time, move initially due west (so as to see five new tiles instead of the three you would see if going northwest or southwest) then if you get a turn or two of no sightings maybe go north or south towards your chosen destination. Decide whether you want the middle or a semi-polar position. Use the minimap at bottom left, pressing "minus" as many times as necessary to reach the "total map" view, to work out where you are. Some players want to find land near the middle of the map - as in chess, control of the centre has advantages. Early reading may be profitable, but the advice below should be enough for several turns.įirst moves Before your ship moves Near the top left of the main map screen you find drop-down menus. This site is developing a copy and more specific links. Main map screen - discussed further on subsequent pages.Ī small deficiency in the current game could be that the game itself does not direct you to look at that Guide.Beginners may benefit from these pages and a few others: Typically they might be in c:Program Files\FreeCol\, with FreeCol.pdf, the Guide, taking up 3 megabytes but having an html version available from the website. Your computer probably has a detailed user guide somewhere among the files you added with the actual game driver. Preliminary advice to a newbie who has been floundering User guide 4.2 What else to do with a ship in Europe.1 Preliminary advice to a newbie who has been floundering.
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