turn off citizen automation

[Sjeffers]

Hi guys,

I am a noob in da scene of civilization 4 colonization, and I have a question. Whenever I have the perfect setting in a village (eg. expert farmer in farm area and ore miner in mine area), suddenly, those dumb-asses start turning up in a college or lumber mill for crying out loud. What's the deal with that? I know I turned the whole thing in lock-down, however it still happens. Is this because of me and my noobness or is it some sort of bug in this version?

Let me know.

Cheers

[dalgo]

It could be overlapping territory between your colonies. If you move a farmer onto a tile already being worked by another colony the AI will re-assign him at random. It can also happen when your land is encroached by an enemy. For instance if a Privateer stops on one of your coastal tiles any fisherman there is moved.

[Sjeffers]

Thanks for the info, this could be the case. I will let you know

[Blind Side]

Dalgo's point that there maybe overlapping teritories between two colonies does not sound right to me. If a square is bing worked by another colony - in a farm for instance - you cannot even place a colonist from the other colony in that space.

I agree that when an enemy force (or even not an enemy in the case of a privateer as one is technically not at war with the owner) enters a square occupied by a colonist working the plot he is re-automated and would remain so even after the enemy moves. Natives however do not have the same effect as privateers (unless at war with them).

Sjeffers: maybe a little more details for the particular situation where that happened to you?

[dalgo]

Originally Posted by Blind Side

Dalgo's point that there maybe overlapping teritories between two colonies does not sound right to me. If a square is bing worked by another colony - in a farm for instance - you cannot even place a colonist from the other colony in that space.

Umm - yes you can, I just tried it. In your colony screen there is a red circle around any tile that is being worked by another colony (as opposed to the normal white circle) but there is nothing to stop you moving a colonist to that tile - at which point the colonist in the second colony is displaced.

[Blind Side]

Ah well that may have been Sjeffers problem placing them in one colony when he had already placed someone there in another.

[Sjeffers]

It was indeed the problem. Spanx.