Manually using workers questions ?

[Rustypipe]

Okay when you manually control your workers what is the first thing you should build, I usally build roads then irrigation.

Also does anyone have any tips on contronling your workers, and what do you do with all your civ's once they make to much food and stuff just change them to specialists ?

 

[cgannon64]

I suggest mining grasslands, hills, mountains, and the occaisonal plain. Then I sugguest irrigating most plains, flood plains, and deserts. You can do a mix of irrigating and mining plains if you wish, since its not good if you have all 2 food-1 shield squares.

I usually mine/irrigate and then road a tile, then move onto the next tile to improve.

 

[Puppeteer]

Check out Cracker's Opening Plays Site in the War Academy. It's very detailed and you probably won't absorb it all at once. I haven't absorbed it all at once, twice or thrice, but it's a big help.

For city improving you typically want to improve enough flat squares (not hills or mountains--they take longer) for your population to work. Later in the game you can spend more time improving the tougher terrain.

You also want to connect your cities with roads and make roads for military purposes and to connect luxury and strategic resources.

For the first improvement of the game you'll usually build a mine (for grassland) or irrigation (for plain if it is by fresh water) first and then a road immediately after. You'll probably want 4-6 improved tiles to work and then work on the road net a bit. But each situation is different.

cgannon64, mining hills and mountains in the early game takes a lot of worker turns and despotism reduces the benefit of doing so. Irrigating deserts is probably a last resort move unless you're Agricultural or are advanced enough to build a railroad on it.