Do you ever use city governors?

[Mad Bomber]

I use governors to manage happiness, and a concentration on production and commerce.

[Vince278]

Never use governors myself. Everything runs better if I'm in charge.

[Tassadar500]

I never use governors. I don't trust them

[Last Conformist]

@Arnelos: That sounds like a bug.

[Donegeal]

The best place to us them, IMNSHO, is when you have just taken over a large city and have lots of resistors.

Now we all know that you end resistance by placing units in the newly aquired city. You then either make all the workers into scientist or taxmen to lower the population or just so you don't have any "unhappy" people. But, due to the order in which things occure in all your cities upon starting the next turn, your garisoned troops will quell some of the resistors. Those resistor then tell the computer to reorganize the Work Force for the city. When it does this, and there is no Governer turned on, the work force will emphasize food, then production, then commerce, and finally happiness. Generally, you aren't going to have enough of a population to keep the city happy when this happens and your city will go into Roiting. However, if you turn on the governer emphasizing happiness in a city that you just took over, the work force will be reset to happiness first (which means the governer will starve the city to keep it happy if it needs to), then food, production, commerce and so on. The trick is to remember to turn off the governer once all the resistor have been quelled.

[Grandpa Troll]

so it looks as though we should sparingly use Governors?

Ok..I am still tring to learn..coming from Call To Power!

Thanks all..will continue to monitor posts!!

Maybe Ill balance between a Military Advisor as my Governor and then all Hades will break loose?

Peace

Grandpa Troll

[Panag]

hi ,

well from time to time they are okay , .....

as for the actual use , , about 40 %

have a nice day

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by panag
hi ,

well from time to time they are okay , .....

as for the actual use , , about 40 %

have a nice day

40%..during early years or later in the game?

Just trying to figure is all....

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll


40%..during early years or later in the game?

Just trying to figure is all....

May I ask why exactly you post a picture everytime you post?

[MyOlde]

Now I have another question re governors. I know to turn one on you go to the city map and press G; but is there a shortcut key that lets me set the governors in every city to, say, producing offensive units?

Reason I ask is that I'm China in my current game and am trying to build up a bunch of Riders before invading my neighbour. It would be easier to do them all at once (if possible) than going to each city and setting the governor.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Nuclear Master


May I ask why exactly you post a picture everytime you post?

Ahhh...This is a simple answer:

Like the dog..

BECAUSE I CAN!!!

[Tassadar500]

When you choose to select a governor, there is a button at the top that says "Apply to all cities". At least, that is what I can remember

[furrykef]

I'm not really into micro, but on this I have a short and long answer.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Hell no.

(Of course, abusing the governor for micro is a good idea, but I'm not quite on that level yet!)

And Grandpa, I find the pictures in every post a bit annoying and distracting...please don't add pictures unless they actually have a point. It's like ending each post with a pointless non-sequitur paragraph. Like you finish a long post about some fine point of Civ strategy (like some obscure reason you may want to use a SGL for research), but just before you go you give us a quick summary of not your post but why we should have our pets spayed or neutered. Which is sort of what Bob Barker does, but never mind that...

- Kef

[Dauphin]

I never use governors unless I can use it to ensure a certain tile is used when a city grows a population point.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by furrykef
I'm not big into micro, but on this I have a short and long answer.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Hell no.

(Of course, abusing the governor for micro is a good idea, but I'm not quite on that level yet!)

And Grandpa, I find the pictures in every post well within your rights and it is not like the rest of us do not do things that distract from the posts!..please add pictures unless you decide not to, actually I have a point. It's like Free Dpeech, you have that right you know! but never mind that...It aint none of my business, I am a moron and I am sticking my nose in your business which is not right and well I am sorry if I or anyone else is rude. Please forgive us for trying to dictate to you. On behalf of these other folks whom post topics that are mindless or stupid as we all do sometimes, please its your deal, so carry on!!

- Kef

Thanks I will...please dont worry i forgive you..and thanks for the information about the governors!