So to get the hammer bonus to lumbermills and mines do you have to build a railroad?

[futurehermit]

I always thought that the hammer bonus to lumbermills and mines came with the technology Railroad, but after reading on these forums and in the Civ-pedia, I'm getting the impression that you have to build a railroad on the tile to get the hammer improvement. Is this correct? If so, it's something I'm going to have to add to my game because I've never done this (intentionally) before.

 

[oyzar]

yes indeed. You need to railroad the title to get the bonus hammers.

 

[Refar]

By the time Railroad is reserached you usually have lots of bored workers, since everything else is improved already... This is actually the one occasion, you don't need to feel bad about automating them... Just make sure you checked "leave old improvements" and "don't touch forest" options. I usually group them up in pairs or tripplets so they finish one plot per turn and it prevents them from airlifitng as far as my expereince goes - i guess since you can only irlift one at the time, and the automation does not break up groups.

 

[Mattimeo]

If you check "Leave old improvements", will they upgrade roads to railroads?

 

[JujuLautre]

If you check "Leave old improvements", will they upgrade roads to railroads?

They do.

Speaking of my case, I often have a bunch of workers at that time that got since long the order "build a trade network"; as soon as ou can build railroad, they will go back to work automatically, by first linking the cities with new railroads, and then (or at the same moment) prioritize tiles which get a bonus with railroads: mines and lumbermills. Highly convinient I must say

 

[Honkoid]

I'd actually still feel bad about automation, since the workers should first build railroads on mines, lumbermills and quarrys empirewide to raise production as fast as possible. When at war or crossing long distances with your workers connecting your cities FAST should also be considered.
Automated workers don't prioritize that way. Having read a little in Blake's thread about BetterAI, I speculate, that this may be a result of the workers considering only their current vincinity.

 

[Refar]

Automated workers do exactly this - they prioritize tiles that get bonud from Railroads, and they prioritize connecting cities. And with all those workers left over from the past ages (not to mention captured in the wars) it goes fast.

You can still leave one or two worker-teams unautomated for special missions.

 

[Honkoid]

I have to admit, that the last time I used worker automation for railroading was with Warlords. Still have to use it in BtS.

 

[Refar]

I never automate early, but in the late game turns become long, you have tons of units to micromanage, lots of cities... I am just not up to giving peraonal instructions to like 15 work teams per turn :S

 

[Gooblah]

Try this:
In Options, check "Automated Workers leave Existing Improvements" and "Automated Workers leave Forests". Then, select all your Workers (there's a hotkey for this, don't know what), and click on Automated Transportation or something to that effect. Every tile in your cultural borders will now have a Railroad or Road in it.

 

[madscientist]

Yes, you have to buld a railraos on lumbermilled and mined tiles to get the +1 hammer bonus.

I used to runs worker on Manual in vanilla/warlords but in BTS sometimes the workers decide to start building workshops over towns so I stopped automating it.

 

[Mattimeo]

Ok, question. What's Vanilla?

 

[Gooblah]

Vanilla is the term for any game lacking expansion; thus, Civ 4 w/o Warlords or BTS is considered "vanilla" (indicating plainness)