Workers

[Gangerolf]

What are the rules on trading workers?
Sometimes I can demand or buy workes from other civs, sometimes I can sell my workers to other civs and sometiems I can't trade workers at all. I don't get it.

[dunk]

Workers must inside your capital to be traded. If you have a worker in your capital, it will appear on the diplomacy screen. And vice versa for the AI.

[Gangerolf]

aha. Thanks

[Gangerolf]

And vice versa for the AI

Isn't that a bit dumb. How often does the AI have a worker inside its capital? Maybe every 15th turn or something. It should be easier to trade workers in my opinion.

[Lucilla]

Originally posted by Gangerolf

Isn't that a bit dumb. How often does the AI have a worker inside its capital? Maybe every 15th turn or something. It should be easier to trade workers in my opinion.

I agree, it should be possible to trade workers independent from their location. I think, however, that it might be implemented the current way, because there's no easy way to determine which specific worker you want to trade. So there must be a rule to define which workers are tradeable.
You wouldn't want your worker that's about to build a road in the next turn on the outer edge of your empire to suddenly disappear, just because you traded it.

[dunk]

Originally posted by Gangerolf

Isn't that a bit dumb. How often does the AI have a worker inside its capital? Maybe every 15th turn or something. It should be easier to trade workers in my opinion.

Well, I usually only get wrokers in trades when I'm pounding the AI in a war and then make a lopsided peace treaty. Usually, the AI hides all of its workers in its cities during wars, so their capital can have a heap of them.

[W4r_Machine]

Originally posted by dunk999


Well, I usually only get wrokers in trades when I'm pounding the AI in a war and then make a lopsided peace treaty. Usually, the AI hides all of its workers in its cities during wars, so their capital can have a heap of them.

Most peace treaties do end up a lopsided deal. Most I got was 4 cities, techs and slave workers.

[SABRA]

Its a bit confusing right now ,
captured workers show up in the city screen as the workers from the human player civ .

[spy14]

It would also be nice to be able to sell military units in the same way, that would finally let you interfere to some extent in other civs wars

[Kingof the Apes]

I like the idea of indirect support of a weaker civ to mess with a strong civ, all without you fighting.

[zulu9812]

You could do that in SMAC - dunno why it wasn't put in CivIII. MAybe PTW will have unit trading

[alva]

Originally posted by zulu9812
You could do that in SMAC - dunno why it wasn't put in CivIII. MAybe PTW will have unit trading

AFAIK: PTW will NOT have this ability

[Gangerolf]

you could do it in civ2 as well (give units to other civs), so why wasn't this implemented in civ3

[Grrr]

Unit Trading, not only of workers, is in my humble opinion essential.

[alva]

Originally posted by Grrr
Unit Trading, not only of workers, is in my humble opinion essential.

can't say i dissagree here :

Long time no see Grrr, what happened?
Good to see you back