Governors

[Arrian]

I almost never use the governors.

The only time I do is late in the game, when all I'm doing is maxing out my population. I tend to start irrigating more to boost the pop of my cities, and am usually running 20% or more luxury spending (hopefully with 7-8 luxuries). The "manage for happiness" setting does have one nice feature:

If one of your tiles becomes polluted, and you clean it up, the governor will automatically put a citizen back to work on that tile. Without the governor, you have to do that manually.

I once gave Arrian grief over planning an inter-continental attack to grab the 8th luxury... he was right, I was wrong.

While you have helped convert me to the "Dark Side" I have helped show you the "light" w/regard to luxuries. It's doubly important for the raging warmonger. The builder can trade for luxuries. The warmonger often cannot (at least not at reasonable prices) or will not, on general principle.

-Arrian

[Theseus]

So now we are "luxurymongers," with the associated impacts on game strategy!

Back on governors:

I am now so used to having it on for happiness, I get uncomfortable when it's off. In my recent commie poprushing and starvation incident, I had to check those cities every turn, as the starvation would cause automatic reassignment of workers, even to the point of revolt.

I wish there were a governor setting for "starve these foreign bastards until there's only one or two left!!"

[Gastric ReFlux]

I wish there were a governor setting for "starve these foreign bastards until there's only one or two left!!"

If there were such a governor, I would actually use one for the first time ever.

[Dida]

It looks like the governer also decides which citizen to go when you build a settler or worker or draft a citizen. What I don't understand is why he doesn't pick the foreign bastards first.
There should be a genocide option in the game, where we can round up all the foreigners, and kill them in concentration camps, because they are really a pain in the neck.

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by Dida
It looks like the governer also decides which citizen to go when you build a settler or worker or draft a citizen. What I don't understand is why he doesn't pick the foreign bastards first.
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Would you like to found a new city with those "foreign bastards," or have a worker that works only at half speed? That is what you would get if the worker/settler was taken from those foreigners!

Count your bleepin' blessings!