I have the tutorial turned on, and one of my villagers fell sick. I dragged a child onto him, and got the tutorial message "nice try, but children don't work..." Then I got a second message "your villager is still sick. Drag the same villager onto the sick villager..."

I think since it's already told me I can't use a child for this, it shouldn't say "the same" villager. If it was an adult it would be appropriate, but perhaps it should check if it was a child and in that case say "another villager"

The tutorial is somewhat limited in how it can respond to what you do. It assumes that you will use an adult, and isn't programmed to use a different message if you happened to use a child. That's not likely to be changed, since it would require too much rework of the tutorial and would risk introducing bugs.

I did the same thing and got no message. The child healed the villager. Hmm.

Children can heal sick villagers in VV3, as they could in previous VV games. This is only a small tutorial issue.

i have a problem everytime i try to type my name in to start playing it gives me an illegal what up with that

What name are you trying to enter? And it gives you an illegal what?

Error:Access violation at 0x0012E3B1(tried to write to 0x00000000)Program Terminated
when you go type the name you wish to call your tribe

What name are you trying to enter? Does it contain any special characters?

badgirl

i want to buy the game but not until i get this problem fixed