Stupid puppets, build a boat already!

Smokeybear · Dec 10, 2012

Dunno how many times now I've watched a coastal puppet grind away forever making lighthouses, harbors, and seaports... without bothering to do the key act of building and putting a workboat onto the resource(s), ever. Even seen them build all that stuff when there are NO workable resources within 15 tiles of them. :rolleyes:

Come on, Firaxis... really? Patch 'em up, thx.

Eagle Pursuit · Dec 10, 2012

As far as I know, puppets never build units of any kind. YOu need to provide a work boat from a different city.

Smokeybear · Dec 10, 2012

Eagle Pursuit said:
As far as I know, puppets never build units of any kind. YOu need to provide a work boat from a different city.

Tough to do when you have none that aren't puppets, or its water access is blocked off by ice/geography. They need to make an exception for this situation, or at least tell them not to make all that useless water-focused crap if there aren't any boated-up resources that will ever be in work range.

joncnunn · Dec 10, 2012

Smokeybear said:
Tough to do when you have none that aren't puppets, or its water access is blocked off by ice/geography. They need to make an exception for this situation, or at least tell them not to make all that useless water-focused crap if there aren't any boated-up resources that will ever be in work range.

Actually most of the benefit from bonus sea resources is from the lighthouse; very little is from the work boat.

Socratatus · Dec 10, 2012

Well, they`re puppets - they do what they think best. Occupy them over if you want to directly get them to do what you want.

Smokeybear · Dec 10, 2012

Socratatus said:
Well, they`re puppets - they do what they think best. Occupy them over if you want to directly get them to do what you want.

Yeah, yeah, I know

Just seems awfully wasteful to have to mess up your plans and annex a city needlessly just to make it build a @#$% boat when it should be automated. Accessible sea resource = automatically build boat. Not rocket science.

Tachii · Dec 10, 2012

Would be nice if we can buy units in puppet cities though Realistically I don't think it matters if the puppet decides what to build. The civilization who own the puppet got the right to buy stuff in that city, see it as a donation. Might make puppets too powerful tho, lol.

Bandobras Took · Dec 10, 2012

That's the drawback to puppeting, all right. All units -- including the Workers to improve their tiles -- have to come from cities you control.

Olleus · Dec 11, 2012

The most annoying thing is the refusal of puppets on other continents to build harbours. Ever. Just so infuriating that I'm missing out on 20+ gold a turn due to one stupid puppet.

Smokeybear · Dec 11, 2012

Lord Olleus said:
The most annoying thing is the refusal of puppets on other continents to build harbours. Ever. Just so infuriating that I'm missing out on 20+ gold a turn due to one stupid puppet.

Oh, they'll build one, all right... in the year 2015, just before the game ends, once they have nothing else left to build.

Stupid puppets, build a boat already!

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