Forts & Automated Workers

[krasny]

i have noticed that sometimes my automated workers build forts instead of an appropriate development on a resource

 

[ori]

the forum search is your friend

I assume that you are talking about Beyond the Sword:
As noted in the dozen or so bug reports on this: Forts now connect resources - so if the resource cannot be worked by a city fort is the better option since it lets you defend this resource more easily...

 

[krasny]

automated AI put a fort on a silk plantation that my capital was working

also resources just have to be in your nation's boundaries to get some benefit from the resource, eg. iron, health, etc

the AI is putting forts on these

 

[ori]

automated AI put a fort on a silk plantation that my capital was working

They should not - do you have a save that shows this - sounds like a bug.

also resources just have to be in your nation's boundaries to get some benefit from the resource, eg. iron, health, etc

no you also need them improved e.g. iron has to be in you borders and has to have a mine or a fort on it. Therefore if it is in a city's fat cross the mine is better if not the fort is better

 

[krasny]

They should not - do you have a save that shows this - sounds like a bug.
no you also need them improved e.g. iron has to be in you borders and has to have a mine or a fort on it. Therefore if it is in a city's fat cross the mine is better if not the fort is better

i am afraid you are wrong on this matter

if you put a fort on a resource you don't get any benefit from that resource, if you improve the resource outside of the city cross you at least get some of the benefits of that resource, eg. iron+mine=your civ gets access to iron

prior to BTS i have never seen a AI build a fort, now they are building them where:

a. it it is pointless building a fort
b. on a resource

 

[ori]

i am afraid you are wrong on this matter

if you put a fort on a resource you don't get any benefit from that resource, if you improve the resource outside of the city cross you at least get some of the benefits of that resource, eg. iron+mine=your civ gets access to iron

prior to BTS i have never seen a AI build a fort, now they are building them where:

a. it it is pointless building a fort
b. on a resource

Try it - you are wrong on this: building a fort on a resource connects it in BtS, but hell don't just take my word for it - see these threads:
here, or here, or here (ok these are just three reports on the same thing not a dozen )

 

[krasny]

i stand corrected, BUT automated workers DID build a fort on a silk resource in my capital's 'X'

anyway thanks for the resoned debate

 

[herwin]

i am afraid you are wrong on this matter

if you put a fort on a resource you don't get any benefit from that resource, if you improve the resource outside of the city cross you at least get some of the benefits of that resource, eg. iron+mine=your civ gets access to iron

prior to BTS i have never seen a AI build a fort, now they are building them where:

a. it it is pointless building a fort
b. on a resource

I've seen the same thing in BTS. There's something squirrely going on here.