How to automate a settler?

[doncorleone]

Can some one help me with this ? I would like to know how to automate a settler. I know it can be done, because I used to do it before. After a lapse of one year, I don't seem to remember. Please help.

 

[Smash]

you can use the orders menu or I think the key is K.

 

[Nishdog]

K does automate the settler; and there's an additional bonus/cheat I think i read about somewhere on this board before:

If you're in the middle of nowhere and there's no water around to irrigate, you can automate a settler and it'll start irrigating even without access to water. This is a cheat the AI opponents uses, so I figure I'm allowed to use it as well (although I only use it sparingly-if there's water 2-3 cities away, I'll just do it the right way and irrigate my way to the inland city)

 

[Franklyn]

I don't trust those little settler buggers as far as I can chuck 'em. They're not very good at their jobs, and they end up wasting their time. Sort of like some real-world workers ...

And Nishdog, I was just kidding about the settler cheat. It's really quite handy in SP. You might want to try building airbases on hills -- you get extra food that way, IIRC.

 

[Nishdog]

I don't trust automated settlers either. Like i said, i only do it if i'm in the middle of nowhere; i will monitor what they are doing when automated, and I'll usually re-activate them after the first irrigation is built; then i can just manually irrigate around that, without having them running off building roads outside my city radius.

 

[Dell19]

I never use automated settlers because I had bad experiences when I trusted my city advisors to do a good job...Trying to build a wonder in not one but all my below size 5 cities. Even though I was already building the same wonders in better cities. Grrr

 

[doncorleone]

Originally posted by Smash
you can use the orders menu or I think the key is K.

I hate to do this, but Houston, We have a problem!!
I still cannot automate the settler by using the key K or using order menu. In fact, my order menu does not have a automate option. Help!!!

 

[Nishdog]

Originally posted by doncorleone

I hate to do this, but Houston, We have a problem!!
I still cannot automate the settler by using the key K or using order menu. In fact, my order menu does not have a automate option. Help!!!

Go into your Civ2 directory and open a file called menu.txt
The following should be under the heading @orders

Build &Fortress|f
Automate Settler|k
Clean Up &Pollution|p

If the Automate settler option is missing, that may be your problem; add that line into the file using an ASCII text editor (I use DOS's edit command); If automate doesn't become available to you after this, i don't know what to say.

Make sure you back up your original menu.txt file before altering it. Good luck.

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Actually, now that I think of it, try this before altering files:
make sure caps lock is off; you need to press the k button in lower-case for the automate feature to work.

 

[Ren]

Originally posted by Dell19
I had bad experiences when I trusted my city advisors to do a good job...Trying to build a wonder in not one but all my below size 5 cities. Even though I was already building the same wonders in better cities. Grrr

I have this problem all the time, except not usually with small cities. I will have one of my well protected cities building a wonder and the next thing I know some puncy little town has built my damn United Nations! Aaarrrgghh!!

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by ren


I have this problem all the time, except not usually with small cities. I will have one of my well protected cities building a wonder and the next thing I know some puncy little town has built my damn United Nations! Aaarrrgghh!!

I think it may have been because I had over 100 cities when it started happening, which made it doubly annoying because this was the time when I really needed to be able to automate my cities...

 

[Chump]

I think that trick with the automating Settler is quite cheap. I never use it, unless I'm in reeeeeally deep trouble

And that's one of the biggest problems in the game. Incredibly stupid AI. Too bad there's no way you can proritize some improvements

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