Just started playing, questions on gameplay

[aunteekNaser]

Hey guys. First of all if this is the wrong part of the forum, kindly direct me to the right place. My continuing excuse is that I started playing yesterday and am very new to this. I started playing on one of the archipelago maps in singleplayer, and found an island. However, I could not colonize it. I also tried looking in the gameplay tutorial, but nothing was there. How would I proceed to colonize or just set a soldier or two on an island? Thanks.

[Indibil]

You need to build a Civic center in the island.

You can build Civic centers since phase II.

You can also build a military colony if your civilization has that building (much like a civic center but less expensive and smaller).

[Lion.Kanzen]

Can place a  dock, is similar , don't need territory influence and you can use as dropsite.

[Herr Doctor]

First of all...AMAZING GAME! Love it.  It kills me at times, but love it.  There is one thing that I cannot find enough info and I continue to wonder... How do I leverage resources at the market?  The percentage of resources does exactly what? does increasing  the portage of a resource means that I trade more of that resources or is it meant to increase the revenue of that resource material?

[Phalanx]

I believe (I may be wrong) that the percentage of resources is the percentage of that resource traded.  So, if food is at 43%, then 43% of your exports are food.  

I think.  Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

[bb_]

Indeed the percentages set are* the percentages traded and so the percentual income for that recourse from the trade. So if you set food to 43%, 43% of all trade income will be in form of food.

 

* It is actually a chance function on every trip the trader decides what he will trade that trip, and if there is a 43% on food the chance of choosing food is 43/100. Following by theory of big numbers it follows that 43% of the trips will be done with the food resource,