Sovereignty: Crown of Kings enters Early Access

[tgb]

Sovereignty uses a system along the lines of the old Paradox "badboy" rating, and annexing capitols is in fact the fastest way to get in trouble.

[MetalDog]

Well.  That explains it then.  Thank you, sir.

[-budd-]

any one know how you get a harbor? Seems i can get one because A. i'm on the coast B. I have ship units in my recruit screen. Went out and traded for some wood... I want my ships :)  Is it just a matter of upgrading a province, i'm about to upgrade a province and i'll need ships at sometime, couldn't find anything in the manual.

[panzerde]

You should have a province that has a little anchor in a circle on the coast. That's the port/harbor. It isn't AFAIK an improvement you can build. When you build your ships and it comes time to deploy them, only provinces with harbors will be available for deployment.

[MetalDog]

As Sonneneve, I have a Harbor icon, but, I am unable to access the Ships icon in my unit build screen.  While it may be a resource issue, I'm pretty sure I can't even click the icon.  Any ideas?

[-budd-]

i'm playing Ravenguard, i have a lot of coast line. I have acquired all the resources to build ships and when i tried it says i need a harbor. So your saying if i don't have a harbor to start i'll have to conquer one to get a harbor, upgrading a coast province will not get me a harbor. Well that should be changed some how.

[-budd-]

As Sonneneve, I have a Harbor icon, but, I am unable to access the Ships icon in my unit build screen.  While it may be a resource issue, I'm pretty sure I can't even click the icon.  Any ideas?

my guess its a resource issue. see if you have any red resources when you select ship unit.

[MetalDog]

I don't have any ship units.  Going in game to get specifics.

Yeah.  The Ship icon in the unit build screen is greyed out and not clickable.  And the harbor is in the capitol province of Sonneneve.  I have 9 Lumber.  So.  Any other suggestions?

[-budd-]

no idea if its not clickable, no resources show on the right when you hover? I can click my darkened ship icons and see what resources i needed, never thought about the harbor issue before i went out and bought the wood.

[panzerde]

i'm playing Ravenguard, i have a lot of coast line. I have acquired all the resources to build ships and when i tried it says i need a harbor. So your saying if i don't have a harbor to start i'll have to conquer one to get a harbor, upgrading a coast province will not get me a harbor. Well that should be changed some how.

I started a game as Ravenguard and looked at shipbuilding. My guess is that this is a bug, or an omission. From the province descriptions I think Renford is supposed to have your port. From what I can see, it looks like ports are pre-existing facilities and there isn't a means to build them.

[MetalDog]

There are five icons in the unit build screen, Infantry, Archer, Cavalry, Ships and Siege.  Four of them are clickable and when clicked, show the units available to be built in the middle of the screen.  The units are darkened if I don't have the resources to build the unit and lit up if I do.  The Ships icon is dark, unclickable and shows nothing when I hover over it.  I have 9 Lumber. 

Now, it may be that I still don't have enough of the proper Resource(s), but if that was the case, I should still be able to see the units available to be built by me in the middle of the screen.  I can't, so, that's not it. 

I have a harbor.  If that was the only requirement for building ships, I should be able to see the ships available to be built, regardless of resources.  So that's not it.

So, what does that logically leave as possible answers?

[-budd-]

i loaded up and started a game as Sonneneve, man that is weird. Doesn't look like you can float any ships on that river, weird place for a harbor. Can i borrow your harbor :)



bug

[panzerde]

I don't have any ship units.  Going in game to get specifics.

Yeah.  The Ship icon in the unit build screen is greyed out and not clickable.  And the harbor is in the capitol province of Sonneneve.  I have 9 Lumber.  So.  Any other suggestions?

I get the feeling that the naval portion of the game is still pretty half-baked. I built ships as the Boruvian Empire, deployed them to my port, and then was unable to get them to put to sea at all.

I poked at the editor the other day, and I suspect what's going on is that in your case, the harbor hasn't been properly tied to the province, so you can't use it, and in budd's case the harbor hasn't been place in the province it's supposed to be placed in. That's a guess, but in keeping with how broken I'm finding naval action so far.

[MetalDog]

@ -budd-: Yes, you may.  You'll just have to help me fight six or seven other nations ;)

@panzerde:  Sounds like a winner to me.

[-budd-]

well it is early access, where is the official report stuff thread....steam, matrix, slitherine,