Why are workers destroyed after building certain things?

[Sinapus]

Game balance seems to be the main excuse.

Personally, I think colonies should only vanish if it ends up in the city radius of a full-fledged city. Otherwise, it should send resources to either the nearest city (food/shields) or the civilization as a whole (commerce).
If w/in the boundaries of another civ, you only get the resources if you are at peace w/them or if there is a path that is unblocked by their territory.

Then I can grab those gold resources in the middle of those thick mountain ranges and get a small bit of cash to throw into my coffers.

Yes, I'm thinking something along the lines of the supply crawlers from Alpha Centauri. Though with more options on where the resources are sent. Pick a city from the list, and such, default is the closest when the colony is created and/or the destination is changed.

Haven't gotten far enough into the game to play w/airbases yet. Will try soon since I have a four-day weekend coming up.

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by UberKruX
i think outputs give 3 on hill and 4 on mountain, but feel free to correct me.

Oops! My bad - You are right Uber, a typo on my part.

[Traelin]

Originally posted by Sinapus
Game balance seems to be the main excuse.

It's definitely game balance that's the reason.

EDIT: Hrm just noticed I'm a Prince now. Some people would beg to differ with that methinks.

[joncnunn]

Keep in mind that if you capture some slaves, they can also be used to build these structures.

This may be the primary reason while the cost of buying workers greatly increased in PTW.

I guess that military units can only benifit from 1 Radar Towers even if they are within range of 2 of them?

Outposts being built in Neutral Terrirory can also be used to keep barbarians out.

Colonies & Outposts can be more important if you apply mods that eliminate the ability to build cities in both Tundra & Desert. (You might need to elimate plant trees in tundra as well.)

[Dis]

actually now I realize why it is coded that way.

Because the radar tower and lookout tower is actually a "unit" that "sees". I guess they couldn't code it so a terrain improvement "sees". So essentually the worker turns into an immobile unit that sees 2 squares (4 on mountain etc.)

[Switch]

Originally posted by Dissident
actually now I realize why it is coded that way.

Because the radar tower and lookout tower is actually a "unit" that "sees". I guess they couldn't code it so a terrain improvement "sees". So essentually the worker turns into an immobile unit that sees 2 squares (4 on mountain etc.)

That's too funny

[Usually Insane]

tanx wittlich, nice to know. however, isn't it better to just place a unit on the mountain instead, seems smarter to me... then again, I haven't had the chance to play the game yet