Ebony

[ostseewoelfin]

Hello, I am asked for ebony by the pharaoh. I can't make it myself. In the trade I can import, but I do not get it. Does anyone have an idea?

[Snam]

Did you set storage yard to accept ebony? Also check is it land or water trade route, if water maybe you are missing a dock.

[Biggles]

I had a similar issue where it looked like I wasn't importing it, after nearly going bankrupt I figured out I was importing it and then the baazars were taking it almost as soon as it arrived as they have it set to buy as a default.

[Barnes]

Falls es über eine Seeroute importiert werden soll mußt du ein Dock bauen, aber selbst dann kann noch einiges schief gehen, bei mir werden nach den laden der gespeicherten Spielstände die Schiffe nicht mehr abgefertigt und neue kommen nicht. Am besten das Spiel liegen lassen bis ein update draußen ist sonst bekommt man nur schlechte Laune.

[Forever_Lona]

Do you have your Ebony import set to a certain amount, or "as needed"?

[ostseewoelfin]

thx to all...i will check out all of your advice... :)
@Barnes: ich glaube. ich werde deinen Rat beherzigen und auf das nächste Update warten. Inzwischen schießt sich das Spiel immer wieder auf. Nervt.

[☠ Asasin ☠]

If this is for the Selima Oasis mission, then there are a couple of things to note:

1) Your Bazaars by default will buy ebony and then you end up not being able to stockpile it to fulfill the Pharaoh's request. Honestly it is annoying to remember this, but any time you are about to buy a Bazaar, pause the game, put the Bazaar down, then immediately go into its settings and tell it "Don't Buy" for Ebony.

2) There is only one town that sells Ebony as an export, it is called Kerma. It will be sieged at various moments throughout the mission. So build up a small military early on so you can provide forces to help them with their battle and resume Ebony trade.

3) You can offset at least some of the Kingdom Score loss by not being able to fulfill the request by appeasing the god Ra, and also sending forces to defend other cities when they are attacked. Though I recommend just giving the Ebony over as much as you can whenever you can.

4) If there's no visible reason why your town doesn't have ebony, check your bazaars... it's possible they bought it already. That happened to me a few times, I would forget to check "Don't Buy". In that case, I clicked the red X next to the shop's Ebony stock to throw it away, set it to "Don't Buy" and trade resumed as normal.

You can do more but I set my Ebony to stockpile at 400 and that seemed to be enough to fulfill all the requests coming in. Kerma did get sieged again later on, and then a different town did, so I couldn't defend them both and ran out... but by that point my Kingdom Score was so high it didn't matter.

Also some people have observed at least one glitch where a Bazaar will show it has *negative* Ebony stock, in which case you might need to delete and rebuild that Bazaar or restart the mission entirely.

[ostseewoelfin]

Thanks for the useful tips! I will check the settings in the bazaars right away. I had hoped it was solved in which I activate in the trade overview the storage (right next to the trade goods are two small buttons).

Originally posted by ☠ Asasin ☠:

If this is for the Selima Oasis mission, then there are a couple of things to note:

1) Your Bazaars by default will buy ebony and then you end up not being able to stockpile it to fulfill the Pharaoh's request. Honestly it is annoying to remember this, but any time you are about to buy a Bazaar, pause the game, put the Bazaar down, then immediately go into its settings and tell it "Don't Buy" for Ebony.

2) There is only one town that sells Ebony as an export, it is called Kerma. It will be sieged at various moments throughout the mission. So build up a small military early on so you can provide forces to help them with their battle and resume Ebony trade.

3) You can offset at least some of the Kingdom Score loss by not being able to fulfill the request by appeasing the god Ra, and also sending forces to defend other cities when they are attacked. Though I recommend just giving the Ebony over as much as you can whenever you can.

4) If there's no visible reason why your town doesn't have ebony, check your bazaars... it's possible they bought it already. That happened to me a few times, I would forget to check "Don't Buy". In that case, I clicked the red X next to the shop's Ebony stock to throw it away, set it to "Don't Buy" and trade resumed as normal.

You can do more but I set my Ebony to stockpile at 400 and that seemed to be enough to fulfill all the requests coming in. Kerma did get sieged again later on, and then a different town did, so I couldn't defend them both and ran out... but by that point my Kingdom Score was so high it didn't matter.

Also some people have observed at least one glitch where a Bazaar will show it has *negative* Ebony stock, in which case you might need to delete and rebuild that Bazaar or restart the mission entirely.

[monsieurJean85]

Regarding Bazaars taking your Ebony as soon as you import it, there is one more thing you can do to prevent this, in addition to Stockpiling:

In the options, you can set Bazaars, Storage Yards, Granaries and Docks to buy/accept nothing as their default setting.
On the one hand, this means taking the extra step to set what you want them to buy/store each time you build a new one. On the other hand, this allows you more control over what is bought/stored where.
I remember in the OG game, where this option wasn't present, I'd sometimes build storage yards for a new industry I'd set up, only to have them cluttered with useless goods because I forgot to tell them what not to store, or I'd forget to tell Bazaars not to buy Luxury Goods and suddenly my houses would all evolve to manors when I didn't want it.
Though, now, I sometimes forget to tell a newly constructed Granary or Bazaar to store/buy food XD

[ostseewoelfin]

and i wondered why the houses were doing so well. but i didn't even see a piece of ebony in any of the warehouses. XD

Originally posted by monsieurJean85:

Regarding Bazaars taking your Ebony as soon as you import it, there is one more thing you can do to prevent this, in addition to Stockpiling:

In the options, you can set Bazaars, Storage Yards, Granaries and Docks to buy/accept nothing as their default setting.
On the one hand, this means taking the extra step to set what you want them to buy/store each time you build a new one. On the other hand, this allows you more control over what is bought/stored where.
I remember in the OG game, where this option wasn't present, I'd sometimes build storage yards for a new industry I'd set up, only to have them cluttered with useless goods because I forgot to tell them what not to store, or I'd forget to tell Bazaars not to buy Luxury Goods and suddenly my houses would all evolve to manors when I didn't want it.
Though, now, I sometimes forget to tell a newly constructed Granary or Bazaar to store/buy food XD