Automated Workers

[JoeCivFan]

I am having a problem with my automated workers! As soon as they are able to, they start spamming trading post, even over already improved tiles. It soon gets to a point where all of my farms are gone, and are now trading post, and my cities start to starve! Even if I take a unit off of automation, and rebuild a farm for the city, even if its only just enough to sustain its population, as soon as I put him back on automation, he rebuilds the trading post. Is this some kind of bug? Or is it just the consequences of using all automated workers?

 

[Mannu]

Automated workers will always build the improvement they think best for the tile. It's not a bug per se. However, previous versions of Civ have had an "Automated Workers Leave Improvements" option which I think will return at some point.

I'd also like an Automated Workers Leave Forests option to come back as well.

Or a mod may bring these options to life.

 

[Pragmatic]

In "My Documents/My Games/Civ 5," there's an INI file which has the option of "automated workers leave improvements." If you set it to "=1" instead of "=0," that should settle that problem.

Why they didn't include it in the Options section, I don't know.