i want to offer new game function in a Headquarters:
it's call "downgrade specialist".
shortly:
serf-specialist => serf + instruments

for example.
yesterday i had big problem.
i started with "low" resources.
i build 2 mints - 1 minter i had already at start and another 1 minter appeared by using tiegel and tongs.
after that i had 0(!) iron founders and cant create them cause havent instruments for it!
minter and iron founder are using same instruments.
but without iron founder i can't produce steel to produce tiegel in metalworks to receive iron founder.
as result i havent't steel, i havent weapons, i havent instruments.
it's fatally.
game is over at the start.

i hope i've founded right words in english and explain that problem.

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Just destroy one of the mints, that's how the game works…

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No, that won't work, Pechente, as iron smelters and minters are different kind of people, even though they use the same tools. Workers also won't give away their tools ('downgrade')
again once they took them.

Probably the possibility of worker downgrades would make a nice addon. Another possibility: Change the ressource sets to make such a case impossible (as long as no worker is being
killed) - i.e. for low ressources, give each player one iron smelter and one minter to start, instead of a minter and a melting tool. As far as I know, the original settlers II ressource sets
were made like this.

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Right it wont work but you just did something wring and so you have Lost,thats the Game.
As addon you have to add it in the bugtracker ;)

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Zitat von Guest:

yes, that will solve problem too.
i have been playing Siedler since times of Serf City (1994) and i FIRST time have problem of that kind.

Zitat von Spike:

i agree, that situation may be seems like ingame feature..;
but i think aforesaid function ("downgrade") will be useful in some situations, and it will be realistic too.

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Yes its just an addon ^^

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One definitely shouldn't "fix" that, as this is a clear player's fail if you go for 2 minters at the beginning when playing on low resources.

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