Auto citizen management... WTH?

[Zaimejs]

I have noticed the past two games that they need to fix the city management screen. I was playing Korea, and it didn't take into account specialist bonuses. When I selected production, it gave me less production than when I selected Great Person focus. This was because my specialists were giving me bonuses, including production. I know the Ai isn't genius, but I've noticed that they miss out taking into account these bonuses in other algorithms. I saw a thread about tile bonuses, and expansion... how the bonuses for civs, religion and such aren't taken into account.

Please fix this. When I select Gold focus or production focus, I want to get the MOST of those...

Manual selection is fun, but man it takes awhile to figure out which tiles are best, especially with so many specialists and stuff. I'm not even sure that it shows me all I get from each specialist when I hover over them in the city screen.

 

[duxup]

I don't usually manually change stuff like that but yeah I've had the same situation.

I'm racing for a wonder and I go to set the city for production and... wait 20 turns is more than 17....

 

[bcaiko]

I just wish the auto management fuction would not immediately try to starve my citizens the minute I press "Production Focus," then keep switching to starvation every turn after I manually fixed the problem.

Seriously, why isn't there an "avoid starvation" button?!

 

[hudders]

I just wish the auto management fuction would not immediately try to starve my citizens the minute I press "Production Focus," then keep switching to starvation every turn after I manually fixed the problem.

Seriously, why isn't there an "avoid starvation" button?!

I find that playing with the "gold focus" option in that situation gets a good middle-ground with growth higher than with production focus and production higher than food focus.

 

[jjkrause84]

I just wish the auto management fuction would not immediately try to starve my citizens the minute I press "Production Focus," then keep switching to starvation every turn after I manually fixed the problem.

Seriously, why isn't there an "avoid starvation" button?!

Amen!

 

[Harv72b]

I've found that I tend to do much better when I micromanage my cities, or at least my more important cities in a wide game.

And the trick to getting it so the city manager doesn't change things back on the next turn is to lock all your citizens onto specific tiles & make sure you have "manual specialist control" checked.

 

[GrayingGamer]

I find the inability to lock down a few tiles and/or GPs, and THEN set the city to gold/production/default, to be extremely irritating.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Seriously, why isn't there an "avoid starvation" button?!

It's currently on loan to North Korea

 

[binhthuy71]

I've found that I tend to do much better when I micromanage my cities, or at least my more important cities in a wide game.

And the trick to getting it so the city manager doesn't change things back on the next turn is to lock all your citizens onto specific tiles & make sure you have "manual specialist control" checked.

This. In the past I advocated switching to food focus in the early game and then switching to whatever was needed. Not any more. If you want to get the most benefit from your citizens then you have to place each and every one of them and then lock. It sounds tedious, but it isn't because most assignments will be game long.

Assigning citizens is one of the most powerful tools on the game.

 

[RealHuhn]

I find the inability to lock down a few tiles and/or GPs, and THEN set the city to gold/production/default, to be extremely irritating.

You can do that. Shouldn't be a problem ?!?!?
Locked citizens are always locked, regardless of your settings.

I noticed sometimes when I open the city screen it resets all the citizens.

It only resets when you double click on the center tile of the city.

 

[Thander]

I noticed sometimes when I open the city screen it resets all the citizens. I don't know why. One thing I found is to lock each citizen where you want. I double click on the working tiles to remove and then reset the citizen, but this time it is locked and the AI won't move it. Specialists have the handy Manual checkbox. They really need something like that for the regular working citizens though.

 

[bcaiko]

It's currently on loan to North Korea

They're not using that button very well, then...

 

[hobbsyoyo]

They're not using that button very well, then...

They would...but Kim Jong Il broke it when he accidentally backed one of his many ferraris over it.