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FreeCol: FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation.
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Scout cannot visit native villages directly from a ship if tribe unknown #105

Closed mfasold closed 2 years ago

mfasold commented 2 years ago

My scout is trying to talk to the chief of Indian villages, directly from a ship. This worked fine for the first village I was visiting (the tribe was already known to me). But when I tried the same with the next village, there was an error after clicking on "Ask to speak to chief", namely "The server cannot do that". In the second case, the tribe was not yet known to me. I can provide a savegame, if that might be helpful.

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domis86 commented 2 years ago

IIRC in original Colonization you needed to visit villages with scout from land.

But im not sure what is the intended idea of this behaviour in FreeCol.

mpope042 commented 2 years ago

IIRC in original Colonization you needed to visit villages with scout from land.

Correct. FreeCol supports both behaviours depending on an option. It should not however ever say "The server can not do that" at the user level, so there is a bug here either way.

Please report bugs to the sourceforge bug tracker which explains good things to put in a bug report, of which a saved game would indeed be helpful in this case. There was alas nothing helpful in the log file this time. The github freecol presence is intended only as a mirror.