Okay, I've tried dozens of times to ally other villages after giving them gives but when my members get down there with wooden instruments and macans - they just don't play - or rather, the other tribe just sits there. I've tried using fireworks, etc but nothing working. Any suggestions?

You must have your maracans, digeredooins, and fluitist selected, then you have 1, 2, 3 as the ability to play the instrament. The other tribe should show one of the instraments in a speech bubble, and you press that button. If they don't then your game is broken and you should contact EAxis directly.

EAxis?

EA/Maxis combined into one word. In other words, the help button on the upper right corner. We're just fellow players, we can't do tech support.

lol that the funniest thing i heard all day. well duh. of coarse they sit there. there waiting for you to play what they want you to play.

I saw the same thing.

Usually it was because the chief was still a little ways away. Make sure your group is near each other, and then click to start playing.

Hold shift and click everyone in ur band then click on the people that way ur sending em all in..fireworks should bea easy just walk into the middle of em and let rip. how ever fireworks cant be used to go from blue smiley to green

I had this problem when my Chieftain had the "Call Flock" Ability. I use it and then he herds nearby creatures with him by waving his hand. But once all the creatures had died, and the ability recharged, he continued the waving of his arms as if he was herding the creatures and refused to do any action. And since he couldn't do anything, I couldn't befriend other colonies because he refused to lead the band. The only thing I found he would do was collect eggs, but only sometimes.

3nzym3zero wrote:Okay, I've tried dozens of times to ally other villages after giving them gives but when my members get down there with wooden instruments and macans - they just don't play - or rather, the other tribe just sits there. I've tried using fireworks, etc but nothing working. Any suggestions?

You must bring your chieftain, have you done that?

As stated above, you need the Chieftain, also, i had troubles at the start to, but I noticed it was because my creatures were trying to get in the right spot, and I was impatiently trying to re-click. The tribe members have an AI that they need to be in a certain place to begin, ones with similar instruments together.

As a Note, if you play easy, all you need is 2 instrument users for whichever instruments you have, and the Chieftain.

With just those you can get them in the Blue Friendship, then Green.

Also remember to be Social, not aggressive, also have enough food in case you need to gift them, The game help pop-up will usually tell you if you need to gift them.