Req: A button to toggle manual specialist control

omniclast

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Hey folks, I'm working on a simple XML mod to make specialists more useful, but having tested it I'm finding that the manual control bug becomes REALLY annoying when you actually care about placing specialists.

As in Civ5, specialists can either be controlled manually or by the city governor, and if you manually place any specialist you flip to 'manual mode' and have to place them all manually. But unlike Civ5 the city UI does not include a button to toggle manual control on and off (I'm guessing they meant to make specialist placement more like tile placement, but then forgot or didn't have time). The result is that if you ever place a specialist manually in a city, there's no way to put it back on automatic, so you will have to micromanage your specialists in that city all game.

It should be a very simple matter to code a button that accesses the specialists manual control boolean (which is probably named the same as in Civ 5). However I'm really unfamiliar with Lua coding so I was wondering if someone could help out with this.
 
I think if you click on the city it puts it on automatic the save as it would tiles. Still, having a lock function like with tiles would be an improvement so you can set some specialists but leave the rest to AI. Like with a poor production energy focus city, lock your engineers so something gets done but leave the rest go between generators or traders.
 
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