Bryancarls
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In Conquests, is there anyway to automate workers to clean up pollution/damage? I tried Shift-c, and Shift-p, but neither will work.
Automated pollution clean up
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Flintlock
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Go to prefrences and then under units (I think it is) there's an option "turn on advanced unit action buttons", or something to that effect. Turn that on, and the button for that, as well as a bunch of others, appears when you select a worker.
If you must know the hotkey, however, it's Shift+D
If you must know the hotkey, however, it's Shift+D
Bryancarls
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Thank you.
citizen001
Banned
Why would you want to? computer doesn't make a good job of it, it splits up all the workers.
Bryancarls
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Thats why I do it. When ive just started getting factories and I dont have any pollution limiting city improvements, i get a lot of pollution, and I dont really care to take the time to direct all the workers myself, even if it would be quicker.
citizen001
Banned
I understand your viewpoints.
Zandrew
The Black Knight
After I've finished building railroads I have a lot of workers with little to do, so I fortify stacks of them near my capital. I wake up a stack each turn and keep clicking "automate cleanup" until all is clean again. They'll keep cleaning each turn if more pollution appears. If there's nothing to clean I return them to my capital.
smeggo
Chieftain
I put keep putting workers on automated clean up.
Can come unstuck during a war when they go to a newly won city to clean up pollution and you have to use up valuable units to defend them.
Or a great swag of them head to a bombarded tile and the lazy swine lean on their shovels for a whole turn as there's no road there.
Can come unstuck during a war when they go to a newly won city to clean up pollution and you have to use up valuable units to defend them.
Or a great swag of them head to a bombarded tile and the lazy swine lean on their shovels for a whole turn as there's no road there.
Zandrew
The Black Knight
They also run off to clean up unusable volcanos. This just means I have to direct cleanups manually for a turn or two before going back to auto-clean. It's tricky to use while at war, so I usually don't use it then.
gunkulator
Emperor
The problem with automated cleanup is that the workers wake up when there's nothing left to clean.
If I have my empire all roaded and railed, I put my workers on Shift-A (automate but don't alter). They will clean up pollution and when they're done, they move into a city and sleep. They automatically wake up, move and clean when pollution strikes again.
Remember you have to manually rework a tile from the city screen unless you have one of the governors enabled. Late in the game, I enable the happiness governor in most of my core cities so that I literally don't have to do anything about pollution.
If I have my empire all roaded and railed, I put my workers on Shift-A (automate but don't alter). They will clean up pollution and when they're done, they move into a city and sleep. They automatically wake up, move and clean when pollution strikes again.
Remember you have to manually rework a tile from the city screen unless you have one of the governors enabled. Late in the game, I enable the happiness governor in most of my core cities so that I literally don't have to do anything about pollution.
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