Workers won't stop making forts!

[sportsfreaklgg]

I know I shouldn't put them on Automate, but towards the end-game I have no choice but to, otherwise it isn't fun managing everything. They simply won't stop making forts over important resources, I don't understand why. Is there a way to make them not do it?

[Willem]

That's the standard BtS behaviour of automated workers whenever they come across a resource that isn't within a city radius. There's nothing you can do to stop them other than not to automate.

[sportsfreaklgg]

The resources are in the cultural borders, if that's what you mean.

[Solomwi]

They're inside the borders, but outside the city radius, i.e. the "fat cross" of tiles the city can work. Starting with BtS, a fort built on a resource delivers the resource just like the appropriate improvement does. For instance, a fort on iron gives you iron, just like a mine would.

For a tile outside the radius of any city, building a mine/pasture/farm/plantation delivers no benefit other than giving access to the resource, but building a fort delivers several benefits other than access, like the ability to station planes and enter with ships if coastal, plus the defense bonus if you have a unit guarding the resource. Inside the city radius, obviously, it's almost always more beneficial to build the non-fort improvement since you also get the tile benefits by working it, but outside the only potential benefit over the fort is fewer worker turns spent building it.

[Theben]

Make groups of 2-3 workers and work them manually. Solves the problems of automation, and shortens the time spent moving them dramatically.

[Jaybe]

Re: Workers won't stop making forts!

Originally posted by sportsfreaklgg
I know I shouldn't put them on Automate, but towards the end-game I have no choice but to, otherwise it isn't fun managing everything.

So maybe you SHOULDN'T manage everything; just let it go (and I do NOT mean automate)!
Either store your workers in particular cities (airports perhaps), or put them in stacks outside your cities (so you can see where they are) in various locations.

If you are expanding/conquering more cities then you only have to micromanage the workers for those areas. Leave the workers at home alone, occasionally perusing the area for needed changes.

My last game I was on a domination run on a foreign continent, having 70-80 cities total. At home it was pretty much no workers working aside from occasional forest chopping or preserving, mostly just queuing up at the airports for a transoceanic flight. Note: I do NOT road or rail every tile.

[TriMiro]

Build pastures/plantations and so on over all recourses in your empire (manually) and give workers "don't destroy exiting improvements" command (from options).

[sportsfreaklgg]

Solomwi, thank you so much for the info, now I'm happy they build the forts. Man and I thought the game was bugged, but really it was just my lack of knowledge of what forts actually do. Ok thanks.

[Addled Platypus]

have them sleep ???

[Zenn-La]

Originally posted by TriMiro
Build pastures/plantations and so on over all recourses in your empire (manually) and give workers "don't destroy exiting improvements" command (from options).

That is what i do.

[Supr49er]

Originally posted by Addled Platypus
have them sleep ???

Maybe they're government workers.

Relax, I'm a government union worker myself.

[Theben]

That's pretty much what I do when they run out of tasks. Usually they'll be waiting around for RR's and after that their jobs are 'phased out'.

[Barzog]

Build pastures/plantations and so on over all recourses in your empire (manually) and give workers "don't destroy exiting improvements" command (from options).

That doesn't work. They will destroy a plantation and put a fort on the resource, even with this option enabled.

[wodan11]

Screenshot or it didn't happen.

[Metaliturtle]

I noticed this too, I was actually glad for a fort they put right on a bottleneck for me. It bought me 5 turns to gather an army and invade Monty. Not to mention helped me level up an archer to Uber status.