Unable to build Watchtowers

[dopp]

I can't build watchtowers or forts anywhere in the Algiers and Cairo regions for some strange reason. This really quite irritating. I checked the regions file but there's nothing special about these two regions. Can anyone else confirm having this bug?

[Quillan]

I don't think it's a bug. There are wide areas of desert where I can't build watchtowers either. On the road from Timbuktu north, once you move from the medium fertility area into the wilderness, no more watchtowers can be built. I've built a couple in Algiers, both along the road west of the settlement before the river. Keep in mind, you can't build one next to a foreign character.

[dopp]

I can't build them on the roads either, that's the problem.

[Oaty]

Could be the old bug that carried over from RTW that if a flood occurs the province is permanantly damaged instead of temporarily. If you remember for certain that there was a flood then send the save game to CA so this old bug is squashed for good. I dont think any other disasters cause this. Or if you cant remember any disasters there still send it to them and let them figure out what causes a province unable to be built in.

[dopp]

I am very confused. An earthquake occurred in Algiers and now I can build there again...

[Quillan]

Then it's very likely a past flood was the cause. What I used to notice in RTW was if a disaster struck, like flooding in a province or a volcano eruption, and I reloaded a save game that turn, the disaster wouldn't be represented anymore. The effects were still there, though. It's probably that the flood flag remained long past where it was supposed to, preventing you from building.