Mass Transit?? Take a cab.

[0bsidi0n]

Aeson's Recycling Ploy?? I searched and can't find it...

Wait... found it.... damn, what genius!

[DeepO]

Jaybe, from a purist approach I can understand not putting workers on Shift-A. Indeed, very large cities can yo-yo a little. I don't mind that, as the automation is much too easy, I'm too lazy to manage all of them. Of course I too keep a bunch of them on manual for 'special' problems (even until the last turn).

Oh, but even if I'm not a purist, I do have large parks of forest in between cities (if, through circumstances I miss some tiles). Workers on Shift-A will not chop them, and workers on deforest (Ctrl-Shift-F, IIRC) don't touch them either. The only disadvantage is that those forest get RRed too, they aren't exactly romantic breathing room for the overcrowded cities.

DeepO

[Jezz]

one problem with shift-A is that they'll RR tiles i don't want. If i have 2 coals, i'm only going to use one, and to prevent it from disapperaing, i'll pillage the road on the second coal. But shift-A workers will go and put road on it like good little lemmings.

[DeepO]

Also true. Roading resources is a bit of a problem. However, in the early game, workers are never automatic in my games, and my core cities get manually improved. After steam, most of them get put to auto.

If, at that time, I still have resources that are inside a city radius, I will improve the tile anyhow, as I want the bonusses from the resource (Coal especially, as it gives 2 extra shields). Whether I improve it, or the AI does it doesn't matter.

Resources outside of city radii I won't road explicitly or I should need the trade. But, I find that auto-workers are not pressed to do these as well, in most cases these will only get RR when all squares are improved, and the auto-workers are just RRing the free tiles. At that time I don't care, if I should lose a coal, I still have another, which is connected. So there is no gap of availability.

I concur that auto-workers are not perfect for every situation, and having them means you sometimes have to take some disadvantages as well, but I find them to good to leave alone. I play at large-huge maps, and controlling over 100 workers myself is just too tedious.

DeepO

[lindberg-johan]

Using workers to remove pollution instead of preventing it by city improvements seems to be very much alike George W Bush's environmental policies... saying that "We have no proofs saying that cars and industries are causing global warming".

[DeepO]

Ouch.. that hurts. Comparing me to dubya? I surely hope that I have more ethical environmental beliefs in real life!

But, I can't help it that this is an American game, which implies that any mean is good to reach a goal, and I find auto-workers practical environmentalists. They do cost less, both in money and in trouble (yeah, I know, more Bush-speak )

DeepO

[alva]

Another example: I want woods in tiles that are not within a city radius. They are my 'parks', but they will not stay that way if I shift-A. BTW, your post did not address my specific example that you quoted.

i thought i was the only one who did this

[Lucilla]

Originally posted by Jaybe
BTW, your post did not address my specific example that you quoted.

You are right, I didn't read carefully enough

[XarXo]

I agree