Worker Holidays?

[Barington]

On two occassions in my current game a mass of my workers, about 16 (in fact all those on automatic polution control I think) gather in one city. This is even though there is perfectly good polution to be getting on with.
Im playing as America and on the last occassion they gathered in Orlando!
Any ideas whats going on.

[Ironikinit]

Only two workers will clean pollution at a time.

Something you might try is keeping a few on manual control. Then, if pollution occurs in mountains or another spot that's hard to clean, you can order extras on the job.

Other things that might be happening:

Your empire is so huge that they don't feel like going so far away. I don't know if this happens for a fact, but it does seem to me that workers only look so far away for job before going to sleep.

Some people have mentioned a pre-patch bug where workers wouldn't wake up.

[notyoueither]

Maybe they heard that Tony was reuniting with Dawn and wanted tix before they sold out.

Salve

[MattHiggs]

Pah.. automatic workers are for wussies

[notyoueither]

And manual workers are for masochists?

[MattHiggs]

Yeah ... Grr!

[MattHiggs]

The game is all about micro management and I don't like the computer playing for me.

[notyoueither]

Did I mention group movement?

Salve

[DrFell]

Christ just manage your own workers, it adds fun! I like clicking 5-6 thousand times on shift-r, sure I might get arthritis in 20 years, but it's worth it.

[Skanky Burns]

Yes, everyone knows that waking up 16 workers to clean up a bit of pollution is fun!! And the next turn when you get to move 16 workers back to a central worker-site an fortify them there again, 16 times, well it just doesn't get any better than that!!

[Barington]

Managed to establish diplomatic relations with my workers, but they are demanding 1 gold each per turn before they touch any more pollution. Just kidding.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by DrFell
Christ just manage your own workers, it adds fun! I like clicking 5-6 thousand times on shift-r, sure I might get arthritis in 20 years, but it's worth it.

I've had game for over a couple of months now, and I have quit the game every 10 minutes 'cause my wrists start hurting

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Barington
Managed to establish diplomatic relations with my workers, but they are demanding 1 gold each per turn before they touch any more pollution. Just kidding.

Ahh! Just got the Corpperation tech, and now my workers are demanding a union!

[Zoid]

There´s power in a union...
-Billy Bragg

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Thrawn05


I've had game for over a couple of months now, and I have quit the game every 10 minutes 'cause my wrists start hurting

If you live in the US you could always sue Firaxis and Infogrames for your development of carpal tunnel syndrome.