OK, I've now been playing Civ 4, Fall from Heaven for several weeks and I've run into some issues that I find a little aggravating and I'm hoping that someone knows how to resolve them...
1. Upon converting raw mana nodes into real mana nodes (air, water, dimensional, etc.), I find that my workers don't particuarly care for them. I've found that I have to station someone (typically a maceman and a mage) on top of them to keep an eye on my workers to insure that they don't decide a mine or workshop is just a whole lot better than an old mana node... Does anyone know a way (like do NOT destroy existing improvements -- has to be a hot key for this, right?), other than micromanaging your workers, to keep them from destroying your mana nodes?
Of course, perhaps it isn't just mana nodes... A couple of games ago I thought my workers were going to start slugging it out. I'm building war elephants and, abruptly, I lose my ivory supply. Turns out that I have four workers industriously working on my elephant square -- two of them want to build a workshop and two of them want to build an elephant camp. Until I exiled them to another continent, I thought they were going to kill each other...
2. Shadows.... Drove me crazy!!! Another civ's shadow (nationality unknown wouldn't you know!), began killing my workers. Finally I got my own shadow out to where the other was thinking that one shadow could see another. Found out that was NOT the case. No matter what I did (like inundating the squares where their shadow should be), I couldn't stop it. Finally, rather suicidally I thought, the shadow decided to attack some of my troops. Managed to kill one of my horsemen, but upon attacking a city the shadow was FINALLY killed. OK: How the heck do you see and attack another nation's shadow?
3. The Mithril Golem? Does he really exist? Reading the Civilopedia entry on this guy, it appears as if I had all the right ingredients for creating him. I was the Luchuirp, I had founded the Runes of Kilmorph and made it my national religion (cult?), I had mithril (along with Mithril Working), I had Golem Mastery, I had a golem workshop in the city that had founded Kilmorph... I still couldn't build it...??? So, does he exist and, if so, what does it take?
I would be in the debt of anyone that can provide some suggestions or answers to the above. Thanks in advance.