City Govenor

[delsolsi]

I have set all my cities to emphasize Production and Commerce, but my automatic workers insist on irrigating instead of building mines. Am I missunderstanding how this works, and is there a way to prevent this?

[Ethelred]

Yes there is way to stop that. Don't automate your workers. Thats it. The governors don't appear to affect how the workers make improvements.

I strongly recommend handling your workers manually at least in the early game. On a standard map this isn't tedious most of the time. Later in the game I automate some or even most of the workers. Especially after I have most of the Rail network up. Even then I keep a team of manual workers ready to do special jobs.

Automate with SHIFT-A not A. That way they won't go around changeing improvements, they will only make new ones. If I have a load of jungle to deal with I will set some workers to automaticly cut the jungle but that tends to be slow since they never use more than two automated workers on anything except pollution.

[delsolsi]

Thanks for the reply.
Thats what I was afraid of, it just takes so much time to manually tell my workers what to do, I was hoping the city governors would help out, but I guess not.