Question on workers

[Rasputin]

Originally posted by jordie


Ah ok. Thanks for the answer. Would be good if there was someway to turn foreign wokrers into your own, or perhaps over time would be good.

wel lyou can add them to your own citys and then overtime they will be converted to your nationality, then you cna build a worker agian and voila , native worker !!!

[georges bonbon]

[QUOTE] [SIZE=1] Originally posted by Jaybe Personally, I keep using them usually. I might establish radar towers, airfields, etc. with them.


If keeping slaves has a negative influence on attitude with the related civilization, why should using slaves to build radar towers, etc. not have the same effect?

[Rasputin]

because they die making the radar tower so they cant complain anymore

[georges bonbon]

Originally posted by Rasputin
because they die making the radar tower so they cant complain anymore

According to Jaybe: "The worst thing you can do with guest workers is disband (kill) them."

So is there a difference in killing and killing by building radar towers?

[georges bonbon]

Another question:

Is there a difference between having slaves and making them work?

Or is just having them enough for a bad attitude?

[Rasputin]

well the ai is going to hate you anyway so stuff it , keeep the slaves at work ....

[latka]

Let's talk about the other side of the coin. If you are at war with a civ and capture a 3rd civs workers from them, can one give them back to the 3rd civ to improve their relation? If yes, how significant is it improvement?

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by latka
Let's talk about the other side of the coin. If you are at war with a civ and capture a 3rd civs workers from them, can one give them back to the 3rd civ to improve their relation? If yes, how significant is it improvement?

The way I understand it, the only relation improvement you'll get from this is the gifting bonus. IOW, you'd get the same improvement by giving the AI whatever amount of gold it considers equivalent to the worker.

Personally, I keep using them usually. I might establish radar towers, airfields, etc. with them.

I used to do this, as well, but now I reserve my native workers for the "consuming" tasks. Native workers are replenishable, where captured workers, for the most part, are not. Keep all the captured workers you get to save on maintenance costs. Remember 2 slaves = 1 native work wise, but the 2 slaves are free.

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by georges bonbon
According to Jaybe: "The worst thing you can do with guest workers is disband (kill) them."

So is there a difference in killing and killing by building radar towers?

i wouldn't call it killing them.

"adding them to the radar tower staff" may be more appropriate ...

they'll probably do it voluntarily anyway, because operating a radar is a lot more fun than digging mines, laying RR-tracks and irrigating farmland

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by sabrewolf
"adding them to the radar tower staff" may be more appropriate ...

they'll probably do it voluntarily anyway, because operating a radar is a lot more fun than digging mines, laying RR-tracks and irrigating farmland

I recently used a captured Japanese worker to build a radar tower. Do I really trust the "radar tower staff" to tell me when the Yamato and the Musashi come steaming around my territory?

or even...I guess I shouldn't add my captured Arab worker to a city...INSTANT AL QAEDA CELL. Maybe I'll add them to my island city - "Guantanamo Bay"

[bongo]

Does anyone pay for the captured workers BTW? I always thought the original civ did but as I have never lost workers to the AI I never had the change to find out. But today I loaded a PBEM save where my civ had lost 1 worker to a foreign (human)civ. I carefully examined both F1 and F3 but couldn't find that I paid for him.

So, who does? If they always are free then we have a possible new PBEM exploit. Just share all your workers with an ally and you both end up with a maintance free worker-force.

[sabrewolf]

it's a trade-off between price and efficiency. chopping down that jungle in 12 or 24 turns does make a big difference...

[Outsider]

I use them as inefficient laborers until I wipe their original nation's last city off the map, THEN add them to my cities. No unhappiness problems then.

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by bongo
So, who does? If they always are free then we have a possible new PBEM exploit. Just share all your workers with an ally and you both end up with a maintance free worker-force.

This would be a good idea except for two things. One is the time it takes to get them into the capitol and then out doing work.
The other is you would have to have twice as many. Yes they cost nothing to maintain, but they are expensive to build.

[bongo]

You don't have to send them to the capitol, send them to the border and exchange them in a 'fake' war.