Extra settlers/worker...

[gabbar]

In one of my recent games, I ended up with an extra settler.. The area that I was aiming for got settled by the AI first. I explored a bit more and looked like the whole world had been settled by then.. No problems, I thought I'll just bring the settler over to one of my smaller cities and add him (or her) to the city, civ3 style.. except that option isn't there anymore!!

Now what do I do with the settler? Deleting him seems like a waste, I can't even convert him to a worker and get some work done.. I just had to make him sleep and wait in case one of the AIs razed some city somewhere.

Any suggestions what to do with extra settlers? And also extra workers later in the game?

 

[kuldiin]

The only thing Ive found also is to delete it.

Shame considering

 

[gabbar]

Wonder why they removed the ability to add settlers to a city..

 

[mrjepson]

Don't worry, the AI LOVES burning cities, there will be somewhere to put him soon enough. Other than that there si nothing to do. If your paying upkeep on him I suggest deleting him.

 

[suspendinlight]

Wonder why they removed the ability to add settlers to a city..

Well since they no longer drain population from a city when built, you could potentially grow your cities using your hammers instead of just your food.

 

[gabbar]

Yes, but that is not very helpful until much later into the game when you have a city big enough to generate settlers every few turns. You are no longer sacrificing the pop but you are still sacrificing the growth.. I don't really think it can be abused too much.

 

[Randle]

Well since they no longer drain population from a city when built, you could potentially grow your cities using your hammers instead of just your food.

Cities do not grow when producing settlers or workers, so really it's the same affect as before.

 

[Mujadaddy]

In one of my recent games, I ended up with an extra settler.. The area that I was aiming for got settled by the AI first. I explored a bit more and looked like the whole world had been settled by then.. No problems, I thought I'll just bring the settler over to one of my smaller cities and add him (or her) to the city, civ3 style.. except that option isn't there anymore!!

Now what do I do with the settler? Deleting him seems like a waste, I can't even convert him to a worker and get some work done.. I just had to make him sleep and wait in case one of the AIs razed some city somewhere.

Any suggestions what to do with extra settlers? And also extra workers later in the game?

Workers? Sleep 'em.

Settlers? I'll do you one better --- I got started expanding late in one game, too. So eventually I sail around the coast and find a sweet little spot JuuuuusT out of the English border... I send a couple defenders and a settler down there...set up the city ... and before I can create my first improvement (for culture, naturally) THE CITY FLIPPED TO THE ENGLISH

So, the moral of this story is ... if you have "extra" settlers... hold onto them until you raze some prime real estate THAT YOU CAN DEFEND CULTURALLY...