Autobuild - Domestic Advisor

[DrDave]

In single play Civ 2, my empire tends to grow so large that I get too many settlers to effectively manage so start building improvements in cities but I do not have the time/cannot be bothered to micromanage each city individually.

So lazily I set each city to autobuild with the Domestic advisor in charge and leave it there until everything is built or there is a problem (e.g. it is part way through a wonder I have built elsewhere).

My question is - how good is the domestic advisor, am I missing out on much by not managing the build order personally. I have in the past dabbled with a city preference file to decide the preferred order for each city but my feeling is that different cities will need different items at different stages and may be worse than the domestic advisor.

What are people's advice here? And does anyone know why all the improvements never get built, either with the advisor, or with a city preferences file?

Cheers,

Dave

 

[funxus]

He sucks. The advisors mostly give crappy advice, so you should decide the build order yourself. Same goes for the automated settler/engineer...

 

[ElephantU]

Put it this way: the AI seems to use the same "auto-advisor" logic in its cities, and you know how they lag...

 

[The Person]

That's about the only drawback in Civ2; the cr*ppy AI.

 

[Dave01]

The only time I use him is when I have a massive civilization, but even then he tends to build Sewer Systems in every city when Im a democracy with high luxuries and then my people start starving. Easier just to do stuff one by one Im afraid.