Disappearing Workers?

[adac]

Has anyone else noticed their workers slowly disappearing mid to late game? Seems to really start happening around railroads.

I used to think it was just automated workers (so the workaround was not to automate until I really didn't need them anymore), but yesterday I had a manual worker vanish while building a road to a Citadel. It's not all at once, they just slowly start disappearing.

Just curious if this is a known issue or even working as designed.

 

[looorg]

Can't say that is an issue I have noticed. Are you running a heavy deficit and they are getting disbanded due to that?

 

[adac]

No, it doesn't appear to be correspond to deficits at all. In most cases, the worker is in the middle of an improvement and then is just gone the next turn.

 

[Solic]

I have been experiencing this as a feeling, that I have too few/less workers in midgame/endgame, but I've never concretely identified it as in counting my workers at various stages of the game and then it suddenly not adding up.

I always automate my workers too.

 

[Nightmare Dusk]

Most of the time i start selling my workers around industrial cause all my cities have thier tiles improved and i don't need an army of workers to maintain improving tiles as my cities expand, so if they've been disappearing I've just chalked it up to me selling to many

 

[Erikose]

Had this happen in the last version - pre 10-7. Discovered coal, but no workers ran out of my cities to mine! Purchased a bunch manually (no gold shortage), but wound up happening to me again next era. I use many mods, though, and based on the above comments, it seems likely related to one, not VP.

- E

 

[adac]

Had this happen in the last version - pre 10-7. Discovered coal, but no workers ran out of my cities to mine! Purchased a bunch manually (no gold shortage), but wound up happening to me again next era. I use many mods, though, and based on the above comments, it seems likely related to one, not VP.

- E

I guess that's possible, but the only mods I use are Really Advanced Setup and Promotion Flags EUI (other than full VP with EUI of course). Hard to see how those mods could cause this..

I notice the issue because I always escort my workers (even when automated) and suddenly I will have active escort units with no worker under them. Yesterday was the first time I had a manual worker disappear, which is what prompted me to post.