Long time lurker, been over at CivFan for a while..

[Ming]

It's a simple matter of the whiners making the most noise. The happy people are playing the game, while the others simply whine about it

[Jaybe]

It's a simple matter of the whiners making the most noise. The happy people are playing the game, while the others simply whine about it

Particularly at CFC & at 2K!

[Standup]

Significantly! I mean, Civ II did not have worker automation!

You know I don't think I've ever used this feature. Possibly comes of being a 'builder' but turning it on would leave me with even less to do.

[wodan11]

Worker automation in Civ4 was seriously broken. Just plop a spy in an AI city and watch the craziness they do, then ask yourself if you want that for your empire.

[rah]

If you set them to don't chop trees and don't change existing improvements, there was only so much damage they could do. SO while I usually didn't use it, in MP games with timers, later in the game I would automate most of my workers. (Especially those captured) That way when I lost some that would wander too close to the front, I didn't really care.

[wodan11]

If you set them to don't chop trees and don't change existing improvements, there was only so much damage they could do.

Agreed that helps but I still wouldn't automate them, myself.

[larsenex]

Thanks for the replies. Yes I am getting the game for Christmas. I plan on playing it. I liked the demo and I look forward to the new patch coming up this week. I remember yoiu Wodan11 from my Call to Power 2 days. Good times. I am currently engrossed in Gal civ 2 and I look forward to teh same with Civ 5. I remember what a tough sell Civ 4 was and it seems peeps have a short memory. I do believe this game will get (much) better with a few expansions we all just have to be patient.

[Quick]

I have been playing Civ for a long time. Each new version and expansion felt like an improvement on the previous while keeping the feel. I liked Civ IV so much that I delayed buying Civ V until I finished a multi-month game of Civ IV BtS. When I first started Civ V I was disappointed as things didn't work right. The problem was that I was expecting things to work basically the same. After playing through a game and a few dozen turns of a second, I had learned how to play the 'new' game. Civ V is much more like a different game than a continuing improvement of the series. looking at the game on its own, I like it the same as Civ IV. I plan on going back and forth between the two. (I haven't played the older versions after starting a new release as the older versions felt like they were missing something.) Since I haven't tired of Civ IV and it is so different from Civ V, I can play and have fun with both, depending on what I feel like at the time. I am hoping that a future relase will combine the best of both versions.