DoI: Worker Merging?

[Ginger_Ale]

Currently, our core areas east of the mountain range are pretty much fully improved. That leaves us with a lot of workers over in this area. There are also some cities such as the following that could benefit from increased population via worker merging:

Provolutia: Size 4, building University
The Black Hole: Size 8, building Cavalry (has lots of grasslands and mountains to work for shields)
Husborne Crawley: Size 7, building Heroic Epic (has lots of plains and mountains to work for a balance of shields and food)
Spichester: Size 6, building Marketplace (hopefully soon an Aqueduct), (once it builds an Aqueduct it will have lots of forests to work in combination with the food bonuses to get lots of shields)
Delhi: Size 8, building Marketplace, (has hills to work for shields, not too bad with corruption)

If you are for worker merging, what cities, and when? If you aren't, what plans do you have for the workers in the southeastern portion of our empire?

Director of Infrastructure

 

[Chieftess]

As governor of Spichester, I would like the market/Aquaduct rushed so that foreign workers can live there. With enough irragation and forestry, my city would make a good production center.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Post that in mad-bax's province thread, I don't do rushes.

 

[Bertie]

I'm all for merging workers (not slaves though; their upkeep is free), but I suggest we wait until after Steam Power and we have a chance to build rails. If some workers are out of tasks, they could plant and then chop forests in some of the more corrupt areas. Also, I suggest we don't merge any workers until a city has an aquaduct.

 

[Furiey]

After we finish railroading, not before, and some of those cities need Aquaducts first. In the meantime, there's desert to irrigate, marsh and jungle to clear in our main part of the continent plus there's going to be lots to do in the Spanish/French region.

With the high cost of unit upkeep in Republic I would prefer merging native Workers first, then those of Civs who have already been eliminated. Cities that would be worth joining Workers to earlier may be those building Wonders - but joining to donsignia now would cause problems - we need to complete this Wonder build first - if we are starting it on another prebuild it may benefit then.

We are going to need a lot of workers to complete our railnet, lets use them for that first.