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View Poll Results: Do you automate Settlers
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May 27, 2002, 03:28
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Chieftain
Local Time: 19:23
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Missouri
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Do you Auto Settlers?
Do you automate settlers?
A. Yes
B. No
C. Sometimes
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May 27, 2002, 03:40
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#2
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Emperor
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No - the auto Settler is far too stupid - he will irrigate unused squares before he roads used ones and all sorts of similar calumnies...
The only exception, very occassionally I might just be tempted to hit 'k' if I think that it might cause some illegal irregation  - not in competition of course - just when I'm SPing for fun. 
SG[1]
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May 27, 2002, 03:53
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Chieftain
Local Time: 19:23
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Location: Missouri
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Ive been playing a game for 3 days now though many little 1 or 2 city islands. Roading hasn't been an issue and Im tired of telling them settlers what to do. Oh well will see if it hurts me any.
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May 27, 2002, 04:00
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Prince
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Originally posted by Scouse Gits
The only exception, very occassionally I might just be tempted to hit 'k' if I think that it might cause some illegal irregation
SG[1]
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So do I... 
Oh, maybe later in the game when there is a lot of pollution I sacrifice 2 or 3 settlers to the "k" key, usually I'm not disappointed (they first go to the polluted square so they don't have time to create problems.
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May 27, 2002, 09:20
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King
Local Time: 20:23
Local Date: October 31, 2010
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I voted 'sometimes' but I should have said 'almost never'. The only time I automate is when there is no water around - as SG [1] intimated, sometimes an auto'ed settler will irrigate without a water source, which is handy when landlocked. BTW, some call this a cheat (??).
Otherwise, they tend to do dumb things like cut down irrigated forests, or destroy silkworm habitats, when automated. Usually the risk of wasted settler actions is too high to automate them.
STYOM
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May 27, 2002, 10:27
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Emperor
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No, automated settlers are idiots. And I'd never, ever, ever do it just to get a freebie irrigation. I would embark on a Mad Scheme to irrigate the entire 17 tile route from the nearest river, around the mountain, through two hill tiles…
I like Mad Schemes
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May 27, 2002, 11:31
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Emperor
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Good for you StrayBow - I like eople who stick to their principals however costly they prove to be - I too like Mad Schemes 
SG[1]
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May 27, 2002, 12:27
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King
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noup, never.
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May 27, 2002, 14:45
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Chieftain
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Straybow earned my respect!!! Geesh that mad scheme sounds like hard work.
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May 27, 2002, 17:29
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Emperor
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...for the no water access irrigation trick thingy once in awhile but generally, no, if there is something left to do.
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May 27, 2002, 17:48
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King
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No way they get selfcontrol...
(but it might take some time moving those ~450(or was it ~700) engineers around and let them transform all those plains )
(ps what is the chance of getting a caravan stuck on a mountain when it's the only not-RR square on the island,using the Go-to command ???...)
Shade
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May 27, 2002, 18:06
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King
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No, there idots(
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May 27, 2002, 18:48
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Emperor
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Only on two occasions might I automate settlers:
1. landlocked square, but even then only when doing it the "normal" way would require way too much effort.
And often even then the AI is too stupid, and runs away from the square I want it to irrigate. If I'm not alert enough I'll lose track of the settler and it'll destroy the countryside by leveling forests etc.
2. I'm in the end game, have way too many settlers/engineers and just want to clean pollution and boost the population. Then I'll automate the lot to turn everything into farmland and clean pollution.
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May 28, 2002, 09:42
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Deity
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Never ever.
Re Mercator, I do see the upside of endgame pollution/farming automation. Guess I just seldom get to that point...
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May 28, 2002, 15:40
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Prince
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No
Tried it once but after that never again.
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May 28, 2002, 15:50
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Emperor
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Quote:
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Originally posted by shade
(ps what is the chance of getting a caravan stuck on a mountain when it's the only not-RR square on the island,using the Go-to command ???...)
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That's a no-brainer p = 1 of course!!!
SG[1]
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May 28, 2002, 19:04
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Prince
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No-no-no!
That feature is far too stupid.
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May 28, 2002, 21:33
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King
Local Time: 20:23
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No, AI is too stupid. The go-to command is already bad enough
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May 29, 2002, 17:39
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King
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I once saw an automated settler irrigate a spice becouse the size 3 city only had 6 irrigated grasslands to choose from 
so no, never, even if I have to move those 100 engineers 
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May 30, 2002, 07:10
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King
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No way (except maybe on a one-city, no-special island). The worst -- and this is where I learned my lesson -- is when you have a whole army of automated settlers/engineers late in the game, and a square gets polluted; 40 guys drop what they're doing, hope a train, and travel halfway across the continent to take care of it. 
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May 30, 2002, 09:06
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Just another peon
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Only once in a blue moon. Never in MP, but every now an then in SP i'll try for the for irrigation in the middle of nowhere. But since about 50% of the time the settler just moves off, I've kind of stop even trying.
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May 30, 2002, 15:24
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Chieftain
Local Time: 19:23
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Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
is when you have a whole army of automated settlers/engineers late in the game, and a square gets polluted; 40 guys drop what they're doing, hope a train, and travel halfway across the continent to take care of it.
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It takes an army to clean up messes!!! LOLOL
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May 30, 2002, 16:30
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Just another peon
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I have to teach my settlers how to "hope" a train.
Maybe it would save some research.
RAH
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May 31, 2002, 04:20
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King
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Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man
Otherwise, they tend to do dumb things like cut down irrigated forests, or destroy silkworm habitats, when automated. Usually the risk of wasted settler actions is too high to automate them.
STYOM
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Yes, the automated settler is dumb, but what is cutting down irrigated forrests 
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May 31, 2002, 14:30
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King
Local Time: 13:23
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I never use it. it's the same thing as cheating because if you do it in the MFN it can still irrigate. 
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May 31, 2002, 15:22
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King
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Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida
Yes, the automated settler is dumb, but what is cutting down irrigated forrests
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A symptom of inadequate proofreading! 
I think I either meant to say 'irrigating forests', or 'cutting down rivered forests'... but you get my point...
(automated settlers think silk on a river would make a nice plain... mmmm, buffalo steak, he thinks... )
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