Any way to better control auto-build?

[Creosote]

I've been messing with the City Governor panel to try and get my cities to develop more automatically, at the moment I m scheduling every improvement.

But no matter how I seem to make the selections they go nuts, and build 10 Horseman in a new city or some other such nonsense.I did try the queuing of improvements, but the problem is you have to have the improvements to queue them, which you dont in the first half of the game, and even then you have to confirm it every time.

I wondered if there was an easier or better way of setting this up, as at the mom its a bit of a pain having to manually do the build on a large number of cities.

 

[Turner]

There is, but it takes a while to fine tune. And you'll find that one game you'll need one way, and another game another.

First, let me start of by saying always choose your own city builds. Don't let the AI do it. Ever.

Now, what you want to do is go into a city. Any one will do. Click on the little head next to your build box and contact the govenor. On the top of that dialog, there will be Production, I think it is. Click on it. On this screen, you'll have the option of choosing what the AI will suggest you build. I say suggest, because if you have "always ask at end of build" (or somesuch, don't have the game infront of me) it will put up what it thinks you should build. Now, you can scroll through these, and change the optoins to 'Always', 'Sometimes', and 'Never'. I usually turn military units to 'never' (and also, in the preferences where "always ask" is, I turn on "build previously built unit. This way, I can pump out the military units I want) and then based upon what's going on in the game, change the rest to 'sometimes' and 'never'. Hardly ever do I have something on 'always'. And Wonders are usually 'never'.

It's a bit confusing at first, but you can figure it out pretty easily.


Edit: Oh, and use 'Default for all cities', so you don't have to do it for every city.

 

[Creosote]

Right, got it, thanks a lot, thats made life a little easier!