Macro or Micro?

[Sleestax]

I am curious to see what the distribution of micro vs. macro managers is in the game.

[John-SJ]

I voted "manage everything", unless you consider unit gotos to be automation.

[Jaybe]

I occasionally will turn on a city governor to maximize shields, specialists, etc. in a particular situation.
Very rare that I automate a worker, and that usually lasts only 2-4 turns before I reign him in.

Voted "manage everything."
Basically, Civ3 habits that I sometimes try to break out of.

[Shogun Gunner]

Voted for managing everything.

With the reduced number of cities and units, it's actually possible to do this without driving yourself too crazy. In civ3, I ended up automating just because I couldn't take it anymore. 100+ units, 50+ workers, 30+ cities in a civ3 game...there was no way I was checking everything every turn.

[Crossfire]

I manage everything until the late game when most tiles that need improving already are. Then I set my workers to improve the trading network and let them build railroads everywhere. Sometimes I will let them auto improve a city in the late game too, just to give them something to do.

[Stuie]

I have yet to automate a worker.

I do let the city governor decide which tiles to work most of the time.... so I guess that's manage most, automate a few.

But now that I've got the game dynamics down better, I'm finding I manage cities more and more as well. So I'm heading toward manage everything.

[GeoModder]

Workers are a strict nono for automating. I like my forests too much.
Unit Promotions OTOH, that I gladly outsource to the AI.

[petermarkab]

I voted manage everything - I would be a useless RL dictator...

Domestic advior: Sir, its five-to-twelve, we must perform the ENTER ritual.
Me: No I must finish allocating harvest schedules and those nuisance Spaniards are at it again.
Domestic Advisor: but time doesn't stand still...

[alva]

Eveything is set to manual.

[Dis]

I used a city governor the first time last night to maximize production. Because the stupid thing kept rearranging my workers. . Or maybe the city governor is on all the time. I don't know. Anyways this was a troop producing city, and I was trying to figure out why it was taking so long to produce a musketman.

For the most part I hate micromanaging city workers. The only time I have done it was for cultural victories (to change everyone into artists). I know this hurts my game. But that's the way I like it.

But I never automate workers (though it's tempting sometimes). Everything else I do manually.

[Blake]

I use some automation.
The usual automations I use:
Cities: I set them to "production" for building stuff quickly, "Food+production", "food+commerce", or "food+production+commerce", the last one is "no specialists".
Workers: I automate them in the late game, and in multiplayer.

[Morgant]

I pretty much micro everything if at all possible. In late game when I have a lot of cities & workers, I tend to automate them with 'Don't replace previous tile enhancements' checked, and occasionally manually handling a few.
However, in multiplayer with fast turn timers, I try to take as much advantage of automation as possible, so as to afford myself enough time to deal with trades and other necessities.

[TheHateMale]

Has anyone ever done full automation? Automating workers, build queue, promotions... everything that can be automated is. It'd end up a bit like a democracy game I suppose, where you only controlled the military.

Also, your team mates would be idiots.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by GeoModder
Workers are a strict nono for automating. I like my forests too much.

Agreed on the workers (not promotions). I set a couple of workers to automate the local city only for a new capture, and before I new it they were running all over my land, destroying my economy - knocking down forests and turning all my Towns into Farms. I was furious.

Worker Automation Sucks!!!

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by TheHateMale
Has anyone ever done full automation? Automating workers, build queue, promotions... everything that can be automated is. It'd end up a bit like a democracy game I suppose, where you only controlled the military.

Also, your team mates would be idiots.

So, just like a democracy game then.