[BNW] Another late game question:

[mastrude]

I’ve looked at my cities various buildings. Some of them seem to have Great Persons as specialists for particular buildings. I’ve tried INSTALLING great people in buildings but I can’t. Maybe I need to have manual specialist control enabled for the city? I’ll try this. I currently have auto spec. control.

[Later:] When I turn on manual specialist control and check Oxford and my University, blue dots disappear from food tiles and my science per turn goes up. Have I found a strategy that’s new to me here? Is it really valuable?

I noticed that the blue dots are now checked for OTHER cities that have universities. What do you suppose this means? Can now I only have three science specialists for the whole game?

[I posted this in Quick Questions and didn't get a complete answer, so I've moved it here.]

 

[martindo]

I thought we answered it there: when you discover Education all jungle tiles automatically display 2 blue dots.
If you have one of the Rationalist policies, you get an extra dot from a Trading Post.

When you are doing Manual control of specialists, the ex Great Artist or Musician or Writer is called a Great Work. I confess that I don't have all the vocabulary in short-term memory and need to check the game or Pedia sometimes when posting.

If you build a Research center, you can put a fourth Science specialist in that slot.