My governer is a zombie

[Raloth]

Every single game I've started recently has always had the governer make the second citizen of my capitol an entertainer when there is no military police. It's incredibly annoying as I don't get the small production bonus from setting the luxery tax the next turn. I've checked every option. The governer page says "No" for manage citizen moods. No matter hwat though it always makes the second citizen an entertainer.

How do I bury this governer in the ground?

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Simple. You turn him off. Right click a city, hit the "Governor", and turn him off.

You learned Civ lesson #1: never trust a governor.

 

[Raloth]

There is no "off" that I can see. Everything is set to "No" and under preferences the "always build previously built unit" is checked, but he always comes back from the dead at the beginning.

 

[Apocalyptic]

Yes...where is this turnoff? I plan to avoid the governor from now on although now I am not sure how to maximize production without him heh. How do I maintain a good balance?

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Follow these steps:

1) Right click a city
2) Chose "Contact Governor" on the drop down menu
3) Have "No" checked on all the left column items
4) Have "All Cities" checked on all the right hand column items
5) Click the "Default Setting For New Cities".
6) Click the "O" at the bottom right hand corner of the Governor box.

And be free of to governors forever!

@Apocalyptic: Try to always have 2 food per turn if you can. Then, mine the rest of the tiles (or have some more food too, by irrigating). Try to get a balance of food/shields. If you are on all grassland (2 food tiles), mine them all.

 

[dgfred]

Simple. You turn him off. Right click a city, hit the "Governor", and turn him off.

You learned Civ lesson #1: never trust a governor.

Even though I agree with you , I always use the 'happiness'
governor and I mostly win on emperor , but most good and
excellent players do NOT use them. Since I like a 'fun' game without too
much mm and don't really want to move up any further in difficulty it works for me .

 

[KabeDerlin]

Something about having the computer control my citizens happiness is disturbing to me...

 

[Mr. Do]

I only put the governer on when my people start going out of control with unhappiness, e.g. due to war weariness, or loss of luxuries. But I don't like leaving it on for too long because the þ@£$<@£# doesn't bother to put the workers back in the right squares once they can be happy again.

 

[Tomoyo]

Since I have to defend my theory that everyone who starts a thread with their first post gets a welcome, Welcome to CFC, Raloth!

It happens to me too. It doesn't bother me that much because it is only a lost shield or two.

 

[bingen]

When the governor is off he will not make entertainers for you, however there is one exception, cultural expansion. If your city culturally expands the governor will take over the placement for that turn so if this coincides with city growth making people happy you get an entertainer. Notice that on Emperor+(? when you only start with one happy guy) this will happen on every turn 10, unless you also have a unit there or a food bonus.

 

[Raloth]

Since I have to defend my theory that everyone who starts a thread with their first post gets a welcome, Welcome to CFC, Raloth!

Thanks .

When the governor is off he will not make entertainers for you, however there is one exception, cultural expansion. If your city culturally expands the governor will take over the placement for that turn so if this coincides with city growth making people happy you get an entertainer. Notice that on Emperor+(? when you only start with one happy guy) this will happen on every turn 10, unless you also have a unit there or a food bonus.

That is exactly what is happening. There is no way to turn it off?

 

[onedreamer]

Why should you turn this feature off btw ? You should know exactly when and why a citizen will cause a city to riot. Just make sure the city will not riot on the 10th turn that coincides with growth of citizenship and culture, and you'll have no entertainers. If you don't want an entertainer there, this is what you will have to do in any case, so why bother ?

 

[TimBentley]

Growing and culturally expanding the same turn is the problem, huh? That's helpful. Just set the lux to produce one happy face (at this point, 20% is usually required) the turn before growth/expansion.

 

[Renata]

@ Tim -- yep, that works. This is one of those little things that annoys the micromanagers among us, though, because either you lose one gold piece that turn, or you lose whatever number of shields you would have gotten on growth, and there's really no way around it except to build a military unit first and keep it home -- obviously not always something you want to do.

Renata

 

[onedreamer]

and there's really no way around it except to build a military unit first and keep it home -- obviously not always something you want to do.

I'd say obviously something you always want to do, especially on levels Demigod+. Never send a settler without a defender !

 

[punkbass2000]

You don't keep your military unit at home though. It should be out exploring.

 

[Calder]

I always use governors for happiness only, for the same reasons as dgfred. If the gov starts using entertainers its because you either have a luxury deficiency and need to use the slider to compensate, or your government doesn't suit your taste in warfare. I very rarely see entertainers in my cities when the mood gov is used, and if I do, I fix it.

 

[Tomoyo]

I'd say obviously something you always want to do, especially on levels Demigod+. Never send a settler without a defender !

Actually, I think it that the higher the level, the less risky sending an unescorted settler is, because what escorts really are for is to protect your settler from barbarians. On higher levels, the barbarians may kill your escort anyway, so it is less important. Also, the AI doesn't attack you because of a stray settler.

 

[WackenOpenAir]

You guys cant find how to turn it off ???

I never even found a button to turn them on. I must say i haven't searched for it though. It just seems to me they are by default off.

PS: Also when i play on deity / Sid, it is not unusual for me to have no warriors except for maybe 1 or 2 scouting ones before having multiple cities. If seafaring or expansionist, scouting is done by boat or scout, so then that means no warriors at all.
I only build warriors when i have production that cannot be used on settlers/workers because there is not enough population (and i already have a granary or decide not to build one in that city)

 

[bingen]

Wacken you misunderstand the question, he has turned off the governor but still it sometimes annoys him.

Another time the governor though off, may still mess with some of your placement is when you build worker/settlers.