Unit Maintenance Costs ?

[MxM]

By deleting a worker you basically exchange future production for the gold you´d have paid for each worker during the turns from worker deletion to construction of a new one. Sadly the game favors such behaviour.

I think that 1) Workers should not be free, so that you do not make infinite amount of them, but 2) They are should be cheap enough to maintain some amount of them. May be 1g per worker without increase as time goes?

[Louis XXIV]

Yup, the worker thing is definitely annoying. You tend to capture them during combat and, at least in the games I've played so far, the workers tend to complete their jobs relatively early in the game. In earlier versions of civ it seemed to me that the game was balanced from this viewpoint. A "normal" number of workers would have new things to do right up to the point where railroads were completed. They are very very expensive now. So, while "delete" feels like "kill" to me and it's wrong to kill your buddies, you have to do it.

I think the removal of the population cost mitigates this. It's not like it feels like you're killing military units if you disband them.

Anyway, I'd always have worker boredom problems. In previous games, I'd road every tile in my territory and then fortify a stack of about 10 (or a stack of about 30 in Civ3). Forcing me to disband them is a trade off. I don't do it unless I'm convinced I need to, but do it if I do have the need. Then I build some more when railroads kick in (or an emergency happens).