Missing drill ground

[Kay]

Okay, I thought this one deserved its own thread. I'm sorry for spamming the forums, and I'll be happy to stop once this is resolved:

My drill ground is gone, and I didn't demolish it. I would just like to confirm whether any of these things could cause this to happen:
*Demolishing the sawmill.
*Loosing all my money.
*My only army deserting.
*My population dropping to approximately 2200 people.
*Using version 0.50, 0.52R1 or 0.52R18 with OS4-upd1.

I have done all of these things (lucky me), but I most certainly have not issued any order to delete my drill ground. If my drill ground indeed was not meant to disappear by some game rule I'm unaware of, I would very much like to have it back, as I REALLY need it, and I don't have the wood to build a new one.

Kay

[Godefroy]

Hello Kay,

the vanishing of the drill ground might have happened because of a rare bug,
that occures after demolishing a building from your capital.
Try clicking on the place, where the drillground was, might be only a gfx error.
So it's possible it still works.

Kind regards,
Christian aka. Godefroy

[Kay]

I've tried, but it seems it is really gone. I get the message "You need at least 1 drill ground...". It's also gone from the building lists.

Kay

[Wolfen]

hey kay,

so if the market now works, buy a small amount of wood and stone there and build up a new drill ground.

[Kay]

I haven't got a market. I think you need 6000 citizens to build that? I've got less than 3k, because of my failed harvests. It will be at least two years (probably more) before I'll get out an army that way, and by that time I suspect my expansion options will be very limited.

I've already had a lousy start, and I can't afford to waste two more years. Is there no way I can just get my drill ground back?

Kay

[Kay]

Okay, never mind.

Kay