Automating Settlers/Engineers - Anyone do it?

[neilinoz]

I was playing a rather dull cheating game (created a map for my own civilization and kept all others on a barren, inescapable continent) when I got sick of telling Engs what to do - so I pressed "k" and got them to do their own stuff.

I've never really been impressed with the results. I want them to turn deserts into grasslands with Railroad, but they tended to simply irrigate, make some roads, and go away.

Is there any way of getting settlers/engineers to do what you want them to do? Or is this one of the goals of Civ 3?

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[Paul]

Automated settlers/engineers are just stupid. You're better off controlling them manually.

[Ming]

Automated settlers... HA HA HA HA!

The only thing they are good for is to irrigate squares with no access to water.
But some would consider this a cheat

[Hasdrubal]

quote: they tended to simply irrigate, make some roads, and go away.

If only they would...



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Ceterum censeo Romanem esse delendam.

[Genghis Al]

I aoutomated my settlers once... ONCE.

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