Engineer commands

[Inverse Icarus]

Dark: you cant STOP ICS with anything short of a city-cap.

but making settlers cost 2 pop points makes it so sleezers have to WAIT a few turns before building their next sleaze city.

and the whole culture-model will really discourage ICS.

but hell, after about a month of playing, im sure i could find a way to manage a sleezing civ, weilding 100 cities, it's just a matter of time before SOMEONE figures it out.

[connorkimbro]

I think that the settlers costing 2 pop points will slow down growth, but not necessarily in a bad way. however, i also don't think it will SOLVE icq.

i think the barbarian idea based on culture that was posted a few weeks ago is a REAL good idea which is also realistic.

i also think that there should be a "queue" of commands to give settlers. . if not each specific instruction, than at least guidlines so they don't get retarded while on auto . .

[Warm Beer]

As far as "auto-build" mode goes, it may be like SMAC (sorry, Rasputin, for making the comparison): auto-road, auto-irrigation, auto-pollution clean-up, auto- mine....

So, you'd have specialized auto-workers with thier jobs determined by a pull-down menu... That's what I'd expect.

[Beckdawg]

Well the things u guys said about setlers are right on as far as i have heard. Going back to talking about the setlers "bugging off"(nice line from top gun by the way), in SMAC you could tell a former unit to improve home city. I also think you could tell it to improve just a certain city. It kind of worked but didn't always build what you would have built yourself. Still it was better than all that micro management in my opinion. I just thought i would add my 2 cents in here. I assume Civ 3 will have something of this nature in it.

[Beckdawg]

Well the things u guys said about setlers are right on as far as i have heard. Going back to talking about the setlers "bugging off"(nice line from top gun by the way), in SMAC you could tell a former unit to improve home city. I also think you could tell it to improve just a certain city. It kind of worked but didn't always build what you would have built yourself. Still it was better than all that micro management in my opinion. I just thought i would add my 2 cents in here. I assume Civ 3 will have something of this nature in it.

[Recurve]

Originally posted by Beckdawg
It kind of worked but didn't always build what you would have built yourself.

What if you could tell the engineer what you wanted - "I'll have 15 farmland and 5 mines, please. And if you see any polluiton, jolly well clear it up"!

[One More Turn!]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Now that they have stacks we should be able to send a whole stack of engineers out to do one thing and have it completed in proportional time. If one engineer takes 10 turns to irrigate a square 5 engineers should do it in 2.

Any ideas of whether this will be the case or not? I would like to see it implemented, maybe with limitations such as number of engineers that can be stacked.