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  • #1

    Workers

    Hi guys,

    Many thanks for all the info you have provided on roads, excellent stuff. Ive now got a question regarding workers.

    Ive started my little empire off and have managed to get boxed in by other empires borders. Now ive got quite a few workers (far too many infact) and have no land left which hasnt been developed. What the hell do i do with my workers?

    Ive tried letting them improve land automatically but then they appear to go around replacing things already built (i had a nice little town that got replaced by a farm?). I also considered sending them to sleep but again seems a bit pointless cos then they are doing sweet FA.

    Anyone got any suggestions?

    Many thanks
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    Re: Workers

    Originally posted by rflook
    Ive tried letting them improve land automatically but then they appear to go around replacing things already built (i had a nice little town that got replaced by a farm?)
    Download (if you haven't already) patch v1.52 and under options check the box 'workers leave old improvements' if you don't want your precious improvements destroyed by restless workers.
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    • #3
      Just may them a nice allowance and keep them around for when railroads and oilwells come up.

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      • #4
        I just put them to sleep in cities around the empire until they become useful again.

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        • #5
          It's too bad that you can't have your excess workers join a city like you could in previous Civs.
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          • #6
            When my workers run out of stuff to improve, they communicate to me (telepathically) that they want me to start conquering my neighbors so that they have something to do.

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              • #8
                Disband half of 'em and put the other half to sleep.

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                • #9
                  Check your upkeep costs. If units cost you money, disband your workers and pity the lack of public works. Otherwise, put them to sleep in some city.
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                  • #10
                    It's too bad that you can't have your excess workers join a city like you could in previous Civs.
                    Yes! I've had this thought too! We need to mod this into the game.
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                    • #11
                      ... No we don't.

                      What effect would you have the Worker do? +40 food to the city in question? Converting Hammers to Food isn't too much of a problem, but this allows you to Pop-boom your Capital, or to send out population into your outlying cities for Slavery spamming. Cities grow quickly at lower populations, and one worker can be transformed into a lot more hammers than it cost to make him.
                      If you make the Worker simply add a solid 1 Population, the outlying slave problem gets better while the pop-booming of strongly improved bases gets worse.
                      A Base with the Globe Theatre would be able to Slave-rush all the multipliers it needs. Also, given sufficient preparation, any base anywhere can slave-rush anything within two turns, including wonders.
                      Another option is that you allow a worker to settle into a city as a super-specialist worker. But, even as a +1 modifier, he'll pay back his cost within 40 turns (less for forge cities) and keep on giving. You could use a flood of workers + Beaurocracy + Forge to create a monster of a Capital.

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                      • #12
                        You have some good points, but I still respectfully disagree. I would like to see some use for the workers (especially toward the end game) other than improving already improved tiles.

                        Another example--although it's more suitable for beginning stages--is the colony option; why is it that workers can no longer build colonies for resources outside one's cultural borders? I would like that reimplemented as well.
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                        • #13
                          Perhaps a Worker could consume himself in order to instantly build a town?
                          That would seem both useful and balanced, so long as it becomes available at some point after Serfdom (I'm thinking Railroads)

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
                            Perhaps a Worker could consume himself in order to instantly build a town?
                            That would seem both useful and balanced, so long as it becomes available at some point after Serfdom (I'm thinking Railroads)
                            Ah, self-cannabalism, why-not! LOL

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                            • #15
                              Perhaps an option to moth-ball the worker, so he doesn't count towards unit costs?

                              I'd agree that we dont really want to be able to add workers to a city or use them as super specialists.
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