Do you use City Governers?

[bongo]

They are very useful for controlling citizens mood. I also have them maximize comerce/production. I never let them decide what to build, I use right-click for that purpose.

[HAND]

I have never used governors...I would use them if they gave the possibility of not building certain improvements/units(or is there?) like Nuclear power plants and explorers....I really don't like the idea of nuking my core cities!

[vulture]

Although I voted 'never' I do occasionally use them, but not often. Pretty much the only time I do is if I am expecting war weariness to increase to disorder-inducing levels soon, when I'll set all governors to manage moods. The downside is that you can't then correct the tile choices for a city without disabling the governor, so when it makes bad decisions I still end up managing the city by hand.

Of course all you really save is one city going into disorder - if WW increases without you expecting it you just go to the city screen of the first city in disorder, and use the arrow icons to scroll through all the cities to reallocate workers in affected cities to prevent rioting there. So only one city ever goes into disorder, if you do right.

[Agathon]

Only for happiness, and then not often. Trying to get them to increase production never worked for me.

[Catt]

I find them quite useful in managing moods, but never let them do anything else. Even with managing moods I generally: (1) won't use it until sometime in the mid-Middle Ages; and (2) frequently manually assign laborers in several cities where the "rounding effects" of shields / production can be better exploited and/or where governor decisions are simply a bit silly.

I sure wish they had a "Maintain WLTKD" setting.

Catt