A couple more questions

[Thresian]

Thank you to the people who answered my previous questions. I have a couple more.

Firstly, is an advantage to host? I hosted a game yesterday, and I seemed to be moving a bit quicker, but it may just have been that the connections were generally fast: pings were all below 100ms.

Secondly, to what extent do people automate things? Even in SP, it's slightly confusing when I'm in the middle of a war and I need to stop to decide whether to mine or farm a river-side hill or what the optimal route for a road is or whatever. In MP, it can be deadly, if I time out while trying to decide what to do with a worker, and then at the start of the next turn, I'm looking at completely the wrong part of the board. So I'm wondering if I should turn on worker automation and stop micro-managing my cities after about turn 50. Except that, if I turn worker automation on during war time, the workers tend to wander stupidly to where they'll be killed.

 

[Silverfuturist]

Thank you to the people who answered my previous questions. I have a couple more.

Firstly, is an advantage to host? I hosted a game yesterday, and I seemed to be moving a bit quicker, but it may just have been that the connections were generally fast: pings were all below 100ms.

Secondly, to what extent do people automate things? Even in SP, it's slightly confusing when I'm in the middle of a war and I need to stop to decide whether to mine or farm a river-side hill or what the optimal route for a road is or whatever. In MP, it can be deadly, if I time out while trying to decide what to do with a worker, and then at the start of the next turn, I'm looking at completely the wrong part of the board. So I'm wondering if I should turn on worker automation and stop micro-managing my cities after about turn 50. Except that, if I turn worker automation on during war time, the workers tend to wander stupidly to where they'll be killed.

You are welcome, it is great to hear fresh opinions and comments.

For hosting - it seems some players are faster as hosts. But I hear other players complain that they are slower when they host! I never host, my PC doesn't seem to handle it well.

As for automation - I almost never automate, the workers often do things I don't like. But I am able to manage my workers and everything else without difficulty (unless I am playing teams and until industrial age war happens, which is just insane with all the units and lag happening.) It takes me a microsecond to figure out what to do with a worker. Also with cities, you can queue up the build order for several buildings.

I also never automate scouting - good way to lose scouts to barbs or players who find your intrusive scout annoying. Exception - sometimes I will automate a caravel.

 

[MasterMishi]

better to waste a worker turn thinking or delay due to war than automate

 

[z220580]

I always host, so i can't compare.


I NEVER automate my workers . I use to but after reading on this forum I bite the bullet and always manually assigned them. At first it was a pain but playing over and over again, it is now a breeze and much better than automating, specially for roads, my god they are aweful at figuring out a straight path lol