Late game boredom with micro management moving hordes of settlers back and forth

Artifex · July 10, 2002, 23:52

It is just 800 a.d and I am starting to get bored outta my wits. Do you all automate settlers? I have conquered 3/4s of the continent and have tons of settlers..they work fast since I am industrious and every turn I have to spend 20 minutes figuring out where to move them next..

Anyone have problems with later game bordom?

Theseus · July 10, 2002, 23:58

I think you mean Workers, and yes, I automate appr. 90%. The rest are special teams.

Come RR, all Workers are manually managed again, until I am satisfied with my RR network. Then I automate most again.

Automate, to me, BTW, means Shift-A.

Also, as I commit wars of aggression, I typically segregate my native workers, and use them to bolster captured cities.

As I have many slave workers, this is not a problem. I do get bored, however, with the late-game mid-turn pause... that's the time to go get a sandwich.

Artifex · July 11, 2002, 00:03

Yes I meant Workers. I have a bunch of jungle that I coudl clear with some teams..but I decided not to do that either because isn;t rubber found in jungles? I am afraid if I clear out all my jungles before I get replaceable parts I might be depriving myself of rubber resource squares.

I guess Ill just bolster some of my cities..then. What way do you bolster them? you mean just build roads and irrigation or add the workers to the cities to increase pop?

Theseus · July 11, 2002, 00:17

1. Don;t worry about clearing... no effect on resources. They still show up anyway.

2. Bolstering: I mean adding to pop. Although improvements, if they can be USED, are better... I HATE seeing city workers using under-developed tiles.

Arrian · July 11, 2002, 08:09

I usually manually control my workers in order to develop my cities the way I want. Once that's done with, I will automate them so they can go RR that mountain on the edge of nowhere.

Late in the game, I typically add my "native" workers to cities, leaving only slave labor to deal with pollution (which shift+A deals with nicely).

-Arrian

DrFell · July 11, 2002, 08:21

I play on tiny, medium, or standard maps to avoid all this tedium. I know it can get really annoying moving tons of workers around, if I have nothing good to do with them I often add them to cities or fortify them in some safe location, for pollution cleanup if they're needed.