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[The Hack]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
According to the Conquests manual, automating workers to clean pollution is now shift-D.

I was im an epic war and tired of manually moving my workers to clean up pollution and used Shift-D and half my workers went to clean a volcano annd the next turn it blew killing about 15 of them. Also the others the next turn went to the battle area to clean craters and it was a pain protecting them untill I got them out of their. I agree that manually moving them is tedious and reseeting the city workers is a pain. But late in the game the governers to well enough at that too not really matter that much in most of the cities.

[The Hack]

Sorry for th spelling!

[Plotinus]

[The Hack] Hey, there's worse spelling than that around here!

[steven8r] I think I am the only computer games player who likes manuals. I refuse even to load up a game until I have read the entire manual from cover to cover. Should I seek expert help?

[Vince278]

Originally posted by The Hack

I was im an epic war and tired of manually moving my workers to clean up pollution and used Shift-D and half my workers went to clean a volcano annd the next turn it blew killing about 15 of them.

There's a manual? The last manual I actually read was for MOO3. (Insert favorite MOO3 joke here).

[vmxa1]

Nothing funny about Moo3 manuals or strat guide. That was some hard reading and for nothing. Not to mention about 70 bucks or so.

[Vince278]

I'm afraid I fell for it hook, line, and 70 bucks. I did get some fun out of the strat guide by being the first to find a legal Ithkul picture before the game came out (Apolyton news about 13 months ago). One of the reasons an Ithkul is my avatar (that and like an Ithkul I kinda grow on people after a while ).

[Cerbykins]

It took me a full day to get through that MOO3 plotline...nothing funny at all
As for spelling, my typos are infamous, andsoon will be around here too

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Cerbykins
It took me a full day to get through that MOO3 plotline...nothing funny at all

I actually liked the back story but the place to write a good book is not in the middle of a manual.

[CerberusIV]

I do use governors for moods but they have their limitations.

The biggest problem is that they don't use civil engineers so are useless at finishing improvements in corrupt cities.

Also watch out with agricultural civs in the early game. I had a start as the Celts with an extra food in my capital so the governor chose to work a forest rather than a shield grassland. Not smart when you are trying to get the city size up for your first settler.

The only consolation of seeing the governors screw it up is that all those AI cities are being run the same way.

[Cerbykins]

I suppose, from the governor's perspective, he can get more use out of un-corrupt 'specialist gold' (at least I assume, perhaps wrongly, it's uncorrupt )
And considering by this point I lack the will to care about the outer empire, and/or buy the courthouses/PS - I've not really caught on to using them yet. I suppose they have their use, and I can SEE how they'd be used, yet somehow - the opportunity just don't come these days
And don't be so sure the AI is using the same strats on itself, I'm sure I saw it choose mines over checkerboard landscaping, even with water available. Or it could just have been co-incidental bad planning on the AI's part. AGAIN.

I will get back to playing MOO3 sometime, but I'd still like to see how to successfully/productively over-rule the governor on more than just ship design (categories, not the designs themselves) and mass colony ship building at the start