i built a church so it covers my houses and i have a weaver and two sheep farms. WHY ARE SETTLERS NOT APPEARING! i am stuck in pioneer level!
i have not played in awhile -- obviously -- but i remember the upgrae just happening. i can't find anything to click to upgrade to city level 2!
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The upgrade happens without your interaction-no button to press to "age" up.
My guess is that you are totally out of tools-this is an easy early game issue to bump into, especially if you pitch out and claim an expansion island early. Each upgraded shack takes 1 tool to upgrade if I recall. You might also have the "do not release supplies for automatic upgrades" clicked on the warehouse.
Edit: Note that I heavily encourage the use of the manual upgrade button since tools are hard to come by until the middle to late settler part of the game. You can just run taxes in the yellow until you want to do some housing upgrades, then move them back to green to maximize income.
If you want to avoid a tools crunch, what I do is send my initial ship to the freetrader for his stock right at the start and then set a passive buy for tools for a large amount. Even on Hard I still have enough spare cash to fund at least one big buy until I can get my own tools chain off the ground.
