The Governor is really stupid!

[Denny]

Originally posted by Blake
Sadly I didn't screenshot it. I remember I loaded the game, went to the city, clicked on a loaf, the worker was assigned to it. I rolled the next turn and checked the city, the worker had indeed been unassigned. There definitely wasn't a yellow border around the citizen, but the [-] button was there so I hit it.
I then reloaded the game, and the yellow border was there on the offending citizens.

As I understand it, it shouldn't be possible to assign a worker at all while the entire population is forced.

Hi Blake,
so, i think that means i'm not doing something completely wrong then?
Going into noobie mode: I guess by forced, you mean the citizen is highlighted under all the specialists?
Is there any real advantange of ever having a citizen in here (ie, not a specialist or worker)?

Many thanks for your help

Denny

[Blake]

Going into noobie mode: I guess by forced, you mean the citizen is highlighted under all the specialists?
Is there any real advantange of ever having a citizen in here (ie, not a specialist or worker)?

There is no advantage at all. In fact that might be how a bug with (accidentally?) forcing citizens could slip through; no one would deliberately do it.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Denny

so, i think that means i'm not doing something completely wrong then?

No, there is obviuosly a bug in the game around this.

Going into noobie mode: I guess by forced, you mean the citizen is highlighted under all the specialists?

By forced it means that citizen automation is turned on and the governor has decided to create a specialist which the human can't get rid of. Apparently this is indicated by a yellow border around the specialist if I'me understanding it right. To get rid of it, you have to turn citizen automation off.

Is there any real advantange of ever having a citizen in here (ie, not a specialist or worker)?

That depends on the situation. I had one game where I had a city in the jungle and I was building an Obelisk. There was a small food source so the population grew to 2, and when it did the governor created a Citizen who added 1 hammer. It actually came in handy since aside from the center square there were no Hammers available in the area. Of course my city didn't grow, but at least the Obelisk got built a little quicker. Quite often though doing this will harm a city, sometimes even starve it down.