Citizen request

[H Tower]

our engineers should be building rails, not homes

[cavebear]

I agree. We have plenty of cities and will have more soon. Unless we happen upon a really great spot with specials, we should save our Engineers for RRs.

And if we had started where the Americans did, this game would be over by now and we would be wondering why we thought these settings were going to be a challenge. As it turned out, we have had to work the whole game, just to keep up with the other civs.

[duke o' york]

I don't think we should even found on special spots.
What good is it going to do us? Maybe if we found a site with two coals and two wheat and then built mines and irrigation to get loads of shields for only a few citizens then it would take far longer than necessary. It's the perfectionist view to build on special spots, and we should be perfecting our armies, not our citizens at this stage of the game. It'd take too long for a city to be workable from scratch, even if we threw extra engineers in.
Rails is the way ahead! (and at no movement cost )

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

What I had in mind was (for example): rather than try to build a RR through a mountain range, build a city instead. The city is built in 1 turn, and the tile is automatically railroaded, of course. If we need to get to an area fast, this makes more sense than waiting several turns for a RR to be built, and is easier than using the Xin-trick of multiple engineers

[Zedd]

Very usefull trick. I hve implemented it several times