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    [Bug] Automated workers won't build mines

    After patching the game, and starting a new game, I have noticed that my automated workers won't build mines, at all, except if there's a special resource in the square.

    Once windmills come around, they won't hesitate to build those.

    I haven't enabled the option to disallow workers changing improvements, and i'm playing on a great plains map.

    It's quite strange to see. I found a new city in a fertile area with a few hills and my automated horde of workers descend upon it, but leave the hills alone, except maybe for a few roads.

    I seem to recall that the patch made som changes to the automated workers code. So it could be that Firaxis introduced a bug. Have anyone else experienced this?
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    I think the AI auto workers cares a bunch more about food than a human does.

    Mine carries a -1 food production, and so the AI doesn't like it.
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    • #3
      I just started another game to test this, and the workers will build mines, but not if there's another spot in your empire that could be irrigated. They're just irrigation-happy, it seems.

      I'll start using the 'improve city only' options, that'll help, I think.

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      • #4
        I usually only have the AI auto-build roads. In any case I have the "automated workers won't change pre-existing improvements" option on so if I do automate them I don't have to worry--the AI workers have a tendency to turn full-fledged towns into farms.

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        • #5
          I've had problems with automated workers hopping onto tiles I'm already improving and building something else, so I've gone back to only letting them build roads. The only dumb thing they can do there is give the opposition a free railroad if my empire is split into sections.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by joncnunn
            I think the AI auto workers cares a bunch more about food than a human does.

            Mine carries a -1 food production, and so the AI doesn't like it.
            A Mine has no food penalty whatsoever ... you are refering to the workshop, which will reduce food by 1, unless running state property.

            You might be experiencing a food drop off if you put a mine on a plains hill that had a forest. Forest disappears, so does the food it provided.

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            • #7
              forests don't give food...

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