I completely agree

I have one village that I have decided will not gain and farming techs until after all other possible puzzles have been completed

it is very very difficult, and i haveto spend a lot of time mushroom hunting, but i am so into that particular tribe

part of the beauty of this game is that you can play in SO many different ways, it never gets old

When I start a game i'm on it for a least 12hrs. I have one on fishing one on building the rest on reaserch. Depending on the first two events, is how I take the lead. Picking musrooms and collectables along the way. Having the odd baby, to keep the flow of things.

Since this thread is all about fishing and algae, I'll post my question here instead of creating another thread.

I started a new game of VV2 a couple of days ago. (I had played it for the first time a couple of months ago, but I stopped when I had developed level 2 of every technology and solved about 40% of the puzzles, so please don't post any spoilers.) Difficulty was set to "easy". I remembered that it's vital to build the dam early in the game in order to prevent my villagers from starving. It was completed before the algae showed up, and the villagers completely focused on planting and harvesting crops instead of fishing. Now that I have solved about 6-7 of the riddles, the ocean is still crystal clear. But I know that it is necessary for the algae to show up because one of the later riddles is to get rid of them. Did I mess up the game because of switching to farming too early? I tried to make the villagers fish again, but they just seem to prefer planting crops. I had to manually place them in the ocean every time as they just wouldn't keep fishing.

What can I do to make the algae show up? And why do the villagers refuse to fish? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Algae shows up after you take a certain amount of fish from the ocean. Keep fishing...it will show up!

Many people have done the same thing, and it won't prevent you from solving the algae puzzle.

I tried to keep fishing, but I had to manually move my farmers to the ocean because they didn't keep fishing on their own but preferred watering their crops instead.

Anyway, I'm relieved that I'll be able to solve the algae puzzle no matter if the ocean is polluted or not.