Scout not able to move.

Skirmisher · #1 October 3rd, 2008, 09:56 PM

First time I've seen this, my starting scout in a new SP game has gotten stuck after moving. I'm a year into the game now and it still is unable to move. Is this a magic site effect or something else?

Rytek · #2 October 3rd, 2008, 10:11 PM

is it an oceanus scout on land?

Skirmisher · #3 October 3rd, 2008, 10:14 PM

It's a land scout on land. The arrow won't appear when I click on another province next to it.

Skirmisher · #4 October 3rd, 2008, 10:23 PM

And the reason is that this random map is not allowing connection between provinces that obviously should be connected.
There are no mts,water or anything obstructing access to these provinces yet the map wont allow it (8) key.

Ironhawk · #5 October 6th, 2008, 03:30 PM

Attach the game data so we can take a look. Sounds wierd.

Edratman · #6 October 6th, 2008, 05:15 PM

There is a contrdiction here.

You were able to move the scout into the province, thus it had to have a province connection. Now that connection is lost because you cannot move the scout out.

One possibility is that the map file got corrupted somehow.

Skirmisher · #7 October 6th, 2008, 05:52 PM

I moved the starting scout into an adjacent province. I was unable to move it further (I never tried to move it back the same way) The province was connected to the stating province but NOT connected to any other province.
Sorry I don't have the savegame still. The (8) key shows what provinces are connected, once I tried that I could see that the other ones were not connected.
It was strange though as it never happened before. If I see it happen again I'll post a file.

Edratman · #8 October 6th, 2008, 07:12 PM

It sounds like you moved your scout into a dead end province, a fairly common map occurance.

You need to use the "8" key more often. I always have it active.

Skirmisher · #9 October 6th, 2008, 07:40 PM

It was dead end in that sense, but only one of the four provinces surounding it had mountains(or any other obstruction) between it and this province in question. The other provinces adjacent to it were just basic open lands yet the map wasn't allowing access to them. Yes I will be using the 8 key often now to check that.

Omnirizon · #10 October 6th, 2008, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Skirmisher

It was dead end in that sense, but only one of the four provinces surounding it had mountains(or any other obstruction) between it and this province in question. The other provinces adjacent to it were just basic open lands yet the map wasn't allowing access to them. Yes I will be using the 8 key often now to check that.

map filters -> show connections

I set this in EVERY game. it should be default. I don't know why it isn't