Is theAI mean? Earth quakes in Timbuktu

[RJJ101]

I was building up a nice collection of merchants in a fort next to a gold mine in Timbuktu. The better ones were earning 606 Florins a turn. Then there was an Earth quake that killed them all. Is the AI mean, or am I just unlucky.

As an aside, do forts protect merchants from hostile take over ?

[Darkarbiter]

yes

[AlphaDelta1]

but personally I find in M2TW that unrest is easily managed.

By other merchants, yes, from other military forces, no.

Cheers

[AlphaDelta1]

Apologies, I pasted the wrong text. I meant to quote you as follows:

As an aside, do forts protect merchants from hostile take over ?

Cheers

[Slaists]

well, eathquakes are not that bad IMHO (unless you keep all your merchants in a fort in the hit province). what I dislike more are flash-floods: takes away move points from that province for the durantion of the whole game.

[Atalus]

I just had a full stack crusade going to bagdad , 5 family members in it for fun , and we got hit by a earthquake the turn after i started the siege. Lost everything except for 1 family member and two units of Infantry.

[LordKhaine]

Had an earth quake do the same to my merchants at Timbuktu. I can only advise capturing the city in that province. It's located close to the gold so you can easily and quickly replace merchants. And it's in such a remote place it's fairly safe from military attack. Place some watch towers around and you'll get years and years of advance warning as well.

Natural disasters have always scared me since my first family member heading to the new world got killed in a storm halfway through the journey

[Taiwan Legion]

how do you use forts with merchants?

[LordKhaine]

how do you use forts with merchants?

Send family member on resource. Built fort. Fill with merchants. Simple. Done on the gold in Timbuktu you can have a dozen merchants all gaining 500+ florins each.

Don't even need to keep any military units inside.

[dismal]

Send family member on resource. Built fort. Fill with merchants. Simple. Done on the gold in Timbuktu you can have a dozen merchants all gaining 500+ florins each.

Don't even need to keep any military units inside.

Wouldn't it be easier to open the console and give yourself a bazillion florins?

[x-dANGEr]

Wouldn't it be easier to open the console and give yourself a bazillion florins?

May be.. But doesn't have the same feeling.

[LordKhaine]

Wouldn't it be easier to open the console and give yourself a bazillion florins?

But that would be a cheat, while sticking merchants in a fort is only an exploit.

[SMZ]

just call it a trading post - what happens when they discover gold anywhere? a "Rush" as it's called - not one guy goes and stakes a claim