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    Workers driving me nuts!

    Ok, so I built a city surrounded entirely by hills. My city is on a hill. I manualy irrigated all the surrounding tiles, so that I can have a population big enough to be worth somthing. My population is now at 11, with a hospital and an aquaduct...

    This is the part that annoys me: Every turn my workers will pile up and mine on top of my irrigation! If I don't cheque _every_ turn, my workers will mine to the point that my population begins to starve. What can I do about this?
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    Try to use "shift+A". Moreover, never use "A".

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Moonsinger
      Try to use "shift+A". Moreover, never use "A".
      What does "Shift+A" do that "A" doesn't, and will that prevent me from having to stop workers from mineing over my irrigation?
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      • #4
        Shift-A automates them with the stipulation that they will not alter any improvement already done. So, yes it will stop them from mining over irrigation.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by dunk999
          Shift-A automates them with the stipulation that they will not alter any improvement already done. So, yes it will stop them from mining over irrigation.
          Thanks! A lot! This one was driving me up the wall!
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          • #6
            Shift A is so much better than just A alone, I wonder who actually knowingly uses A over shift A. Its not as good as manually doing everything, but once i have the intial road system and cows mined, I sacrifice perfection for efficiency and quick turn times.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by asleepathewheel
              Shift A is so much better than just A alone, I wonder who actually knowingly uses A over shift A. Its not as good as manually doing everything, but once i have the intial road system and cows mined, I sacrifice perfection for efficiency and quick turn times.
              Well, now that I know...
              Was this somthing in the manual? How _should_ I have learned this?
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Andrew Cory
                Well, now that I know...
                Was this somthing in the manual? How _should_ I have learned this?
                No, if I remember correctly, it's not in the game manual. The "Shift A" came with the patch.

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                • #9
                  Sometimes...AND I STRESS SOMETIMES...I use A over Shift+A. I was in the late game and I had finally reduced my worker force to 50 from 120. The only thing they were doing was basically cleaning pollution. Anyway, I woke a few of them up from their sleep and set them on basic automation in order to get a few extra food out of my core cities that I had all mined... I had thirteen cities over 100 production (with my uber-city that was lucky enough to have the Iron Works producing 180) and so the five shields or so weren't missed much in lieu of the ten I got from the mined/railroaded mountain that I could use afterwards.

                  I've never had the problem of the workers not giving me enough food, however, when I set them on automation. Of course, you're a much braver person than I by taking a capital starting location that maxxes out at 11!

                  Just clarifying the use of "A"...sorry if I wasn't very helpful otherwise.

                  Feyd
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Andrew Cory

                    Well, now that I know...
                    Was this somthing in the manual? How _should_ I have learned this?
                    I wasn't meaning to be sarcastic, my point was really that if you know about it, why use just A. I dont know where this was told, perhaps in the readme or something.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by asleepathewheel


                      I wasn't meaning to be sarcastic, my point was really that if you know about it, why use just A. I dont know where this was told, perhaps in the readme or something.
                      Actauly, I didn't read it that way, though I see how my comments could have been mistaken to reflect poorly on your own, no such thing was intended...

                      As far as being told... I was wondering if I should have RTFM...
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Andrew Cory

                        Actauly, I didn't read it that way, though I see how my comments could have been mistaken to reflect poorly on your own, no such thing was intended...
                        haha, not a problem, no big deal.

                        Originally posted by Andrew Cory

                        As far as being told... I was wondering if I should have RTFM...
                        well....perhaps. though i think it was probably in the readme's. Anyway, so much has changed even with the unit order's that I have no idea what was added when.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by asleepathewheel


                          haha, not a problem, no big deal.
                          You'll have to excuse me, I come from the sluggy freelance boards, one where you couldn't start a flamewar if you _tried_. I know because one was attempted and it failed miserably...

                          Originally posted by asleepathewheel
                          well....perhaps. though i think it was probably in the readme's. Anyway, so much has changed even with the unit order's that I have no idea what was added when.
                          Yeah, I wouldn't mind if they made a compleatly new manual available to us in exchange for our old ones, say in about a year or so, just to keep everything correct...
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                          • #14
                            When you use "Shift-A", workers go off and railroad squares that will never even get used. But I'll definitely use it to quickly get through pollution problems. The useless railroads is just a tolerable side-effect.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by LordAzreal
                              When you use "Shift-A", workers go off and railroad squares that will never even get used. But I'll definitely use it to quickly get through pollution problems. The useless railroads is just a tolerable side-effect.
                              Hell, I _count_ on those extra railroads. If someone invades, it gives me a lot of avenues of attack. Also, if said invader starts tearing up my infrustructure, it isn't as bad as it might be otherwise...
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