Annoying things to be fixed about going over the commerce limit!

[The Rusty Gamer]

some annoying things about the commerce limit that could easiliy be fixed.

When workers are set to automatically collect resources (lumbermill, mine etc), they should know not to do so if the commerce limit has already been exceeded. This is annoying having to mannually remove workers.

Another annoying (though slightly less so) is the continual flashing when the commerce limit is exceeded. Could it be changed to only do this initially when the limit is exceeded (to alert you) but then just change the number to a different colour. Flashing numbers are a blinking nuisance! Also, it would be a good idea to get an indication just how much over the limit you are (sometimes it occurs after doing something besides assigning workers) and so then you can work out exactly how many workers to unassign. Or even better, have an option for workers to automaticaly unassign themselves if the limit is exceeded.

[flash9286]

u can put your citizens on idle so when they are created they just stand around till u give them a job

[The Rusty Gamer]

Yeah, but I don't want that. I just want them to be bright enough to know when ther'es no point in gathering resources. That should be easy to fix.

[flash9286]

then dont make the extra citizens and u want have the problem

[The Rusty Gamer]

I want extra citizens on standby to do other things like build new buildings.

[rocksk]

Actually the citizens are smart enough to avoid collecting resources when the limit is max when they are idling.

But if you upgrade the collection tech, the rate of collection for a worker for the current set of workers will naturally exceed the limit. As you complained, they will not automatically stop collecting.

The solution is simple, click the idle citizens three times to select all citizens. Then press the stop button. All citizens will then stop and performance the resource limit check. The AI will then automatically reassign workers to each resource with the minimum workers. Excess worker will remain as idle.

Do this after every resource upgrade will keep you in good shape.