MyOtherName
Emperor
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- Dec 7, 2004
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It frusterates me to no end when the city governer will almost do what he's instructed to do.
In the attached image, observe the governer settings: prevent growth and emphasize hammers.
But what does he do? He works that lovely farmed grassland for a net +2 food surplus, blissfully ignoring that mined grassland which would give a +0 food surplus, and 3 additional hammers.
Okay, maybe this one is slightly understandable, because the governer really wants to give me that commerce point? *sigh* But this isn't nearly the worst of it.
There have been plenty of times when the governer will insist on working a grassland forest for a +1 food surplus in this situation... when there is an unworked plains forest available! Why doesn't the governer work the plains forest instead?
And sometimes the governer is flat out wrong. I've had cities where I could rearrange manually, and get an increase in food, hammers, and commerce! (Or at least increase my hammers and commerce without decreasing food)
One such time, the good hammer tiles had commerce on it too, so I could coax the governer into figuring out the good citizen placement by asking it to emphasize commerce. (It couldn't figure it out with emphasize production) But usually when these situations occur, I simply cannot coax the governer into finding the strictly better citizen placement.
In the attached image, observe the governer settings: prevent growth and emphasize hammers.
But what does he do? He works that lovely farmed grassland for a net +2 food surplus, blissfully ignoring that mined grassland which would give a +0 food surplus, and 3 additional hammers.
Okay, maybe this one is slightly understandable, because the governer really wants to give me that commerce point? *sigh* But this isn't nearly the worst of it.
There have been plenty of times when the governer will insist on working a grassland forest for a +1 food surplus in this situation... when there is an unworked plains forest available! Why doesn't the governer work the plains forest instead?
And sometimes the governer is flat out wrong. I've had cities where I could rearrange manually, and get an increase in food, hammers, and commerce! (Or at least increase my hammers and commerce without decreasing food)
One such time, the good hammer tiles had commerce on it too, so I could coax the governer into figuring out the good citizen placement by asking it to emphasize commerce. (It couldn't figure it out with emphasize production) But usually when these situations occur, I simply cannot coax the governer into finding the strictly better citizen placement.
