I skipped City Expansion 35

[DeletedUser20616]

In one of my cities, i made a huge mistake. It's trapped back in Orcs chapter (i'm in Sorcs&Dragons).... do i need to rebuild the settlements again?? It doesn't seem i can just build the portal and pop PP spells??? What's the best course of action?

 

[StarLoad]

you can do it anytime, however I think it requires some Orc specific items still, but that is or was to have been corrected.

 

[StarLoad]

Just looked back and that was not one that they have fixed and it should have been. Maybe someone from beta would have more info

 

[Ivy1996]

I think yes. I had the same situation in another chapter. Foolishly rushed through it to get to the next chapter in time for the event that was starting at the time. Indeed the spells do not work. They produce only goods for the chapter you are in. Should it be fixed? I don't think so. It was entirely my own fault.

 

[Darielle]

Since they are going back and fixing it for all other optional techs, it seems to me that they should fix it for that one, too.

 

[ajqtrz]

I think they should just give you a free expansion and leave it as it is. Simple solution and problems solved without a lot of coding. The skipping of an expansion has to be rare, very rare, so maybe the extra work of making the change would not be worth it.

AJ

 

[Pheryll]

Since they are going back and fixing it for all other optional techs, it seems to me that they should fix it for that one, too.

I brought that up in the discussion for the release notes.

Are other optional techs that require guest race goods going to be looked at (e.g. the roads for the embassies chapter).

 

[Darielle]

I brought that up in the discussion for the release notes.

I didn't think the roads were "optional" techs. I thought only the city expansions and the squad sizes were optional. But I am not in embassies yet so you'd know more about that than I.

 

[NightshadeCS]

I didn't think the roads were "optional" techs. I thought only the city expansions and the squad sizes were optional. But I am not in embassies yet so you'd know more about that than I.

There are quite a lot of things in the Embassies chapter that are optional that I have never encountered before. Even the final stages of some of the guest race buildings themselves!

@Darielle if you are interested to see for yourself, you can scroll forward in your own tech tree all the way to the end. Any research that doesn't have the flow chart line leading to other techs is optional (sorry for over explaining).

 

[Pheryll]

There are quite a lot of things in the Embassies chapter that are optional that I have never encountered before. Even the final stages of some of the guest race buildings themselves!

@Darielle if you are interested to see for yourself, you can scroll forward in your own tech tree all the way to the end. Any research that doesn't have the flow chart line leading to other techs is optional (sorry for over explaining).

The only place where I see that logic for optional falling through is the grafting sites in the woodelves chapter. Without the grafting sites, you would rely on portal profits to get you through the entire chapter and many chapter quests would have to be skipped after reaching the next chapter.

For embassies the final level for embassies is quest required but not tech required, so I would consider it a similar case to the grafting sites of the woodelves.

 

[Darielle]

There are quite a lot of things in the Embassies chapter that are optional that I have never encountered before. Even the final stages of some of the guest race buildings themselves!

@Darielle if you are interested to see for yourself, you can scroll forward in your own tech tree all the way to the end. Any research that doesn't have the flow chart line leading to other techs is optional (sorry for over explaining).

No worries ... over explaining is better than under, lol. Thanks!