Speeding up workers

[Thar]

Hello! I'm trying to do something but my workers are simply too slow, I found a program that can rail/road your entire empire which is perfect here but I need to speed up irrigation and mining too (I know you can switch to democracy but it's still too slow and I don't even have it). Any ideas? Preferably a trainer or something, editing the rules feels complicated because this should only be for me and it's a game in progress.

And is there an easy way of changing the winning conditions after you've started, like changing the culture win to 200,000/40,000?

 

[vmxa]

Things are pretty well balanced now, speeding up the workers would toss that into the bin. Only way to change victory conditions is with an editor and I am not sure any exist that could do it.

The best way to get a task done is to have many workers to do it. An 8 worker turn task can be done in 1 turn with 8 workers.

 

[Taras Bulba]

just increase the worker rate of your workers... normal workers have a worker rate of 100%... increase it to maybe 200%, or 150% maybe... whatever floats your boat...

it is how i cheat.... i add a worker called the fast worker (just steal the graphics from the modern day worker) and give it 2 movement and like 500% worker efficiency... i can get like anything done in 1 turn

And is there an easy way of changing the winning conditions after you've started, like changing the culture win to 200,000/40,000?

don't think there is a way to change it w/o changing some files, which i have no clue about, but you could always just cut the time in half (less time to get the culture) or to cut culture from stuff, such as library only giving 1 culture, and universities 1... it would really hit the 200k victory

 

[Thar]

Things are pretty well balanced now, speeding up the workers would toss that into the bin. Only way to change victory conditions is with an editor and I am not sure any exist that could do it.

The best way to get a task done is to have many workers to do it. An 8 worker turn task can be done in 1 turn with 8 workers.

Yes of course, this is cheating and very unbalanced, but I'm trying to accomplish something special not just playing a proper game.

just increase the worker rate of your workers... normal workers have a worker rate of 100%... increase it to maybe 200%, or 150% maybe... whatever floats your boat...

it is how i cheat.... i add a worker called the fast worker (just steal the graphics from the modern day worker) and give it 2 movement and like 500% worker efficiency... i can get like anything done in 1 turn

Yes, I suppose I could use the editor, making the super worker special to my civilization perhaps?

don't think there is a way to change it w/o changing some files, which i have no clue about, but you could always just cut the time in half (less time to get the culture) or to cut culture from stuff, such as library only giving 1 culture, and universities 1... it would really hit the 200k victory

True, hmm, is it possible to set the culture for palace for example to -5 per turn? Or maybe even -X where X is the civilization culture you're scared about and playing one turn.

 

[MAS]

The simple in-game solution would be to build more workers. A lot of hands make light work, they say!

 

[sercer88]

...And is there an easy way of changing the winning conditions after you've started, like changing the culture win to 200,000/40,000?

Seems like the worker problem has been fixed...but this one is even easier to fix (though you have to start a game to use it...)

Select NEW GAME from the menu, select your settings and move on to the civilizations and difficulty menu. In there you will find a place that says GAME SETTINGS (beneath your civ's leaderhead picture and below the button that says DESCRIPTION.) Once you click that button, you can select any game setting on that menu and put in any value for it...and included in those settings are the Total Civ Culture and One City Culture values you are looking to change to 200000/40000.

 

[Thar]

Seems like the worker problem has been fixed...but this one is even easier to fix (though you have to start a game to use it...)

Select NEW GAME from the menu, select your settings and move on to the civilizations and difficulty menu. In there you will find a place that says GAME SETTINGS (beneath your civ's leaderhead picture and below the button that says DESCRIPTION.) Once you click that button, you can select any game setting on that menu and put in any value for it...and included in those settings are the Total Civ Culture and One City Culture values you are looking to change to 200000/40000.

Yes I know, but I'm talking about changing it after the game's started.

And BTW how can you easily upgrade all your units at the same time? And can you easily make every city build the same thing?

 

[Aabraxan]

And BTW how can you easily upgrade all your units at the same time?

Shift + U will upgrade all units of the same type as the active unit that are inside cities with barracks, if you have sufficient gold to do it all at once. Be careful using this, however, because it will also upgrade elite units of that type that are inside cities with barracks and they will lose their elite status.

And can you easily make every city build the same thing?

I don't know that it's "easy," but you can contact the governor in your cities and put them all on the same production settings. There's a setting (for example) for how often to build stuff. Like "Build offensive units: Always/Soimetimes/Never."

 

[grognard]

The PowerBar Utility will let you turn your workers into SuperUnits and build mines and irrigate in one turn. The Civ3MultiTool Utility will let you change the winning conditions after you start. Both of these programs can do other marvelous stuff also, but they will give you what you asked for initially. You didn't say what version of Civ3 you are using.

 

[Thar]

Shift + U will upgrade all units of the same type as the active unit that are inside cities with barracks, if you have sufficient gold to do it all at once. Be careful using this, however, because it will also upgrade elite units of that type that are inside cities with barracks and they will lose their elite status.[/b]

Aha, how do you find stuff like that out? Maybe there are more shortcuts I don't know about. For example I didn't find out about waypoints until I right-clicked a town by accident.

I don't know that it's "easy," but you can contact the governor in your cities and put them all on the same production settings. There's a setting (for example) for how often to build stuff. Like "Build offensive units: Always/Soimetimes/Never."

Ok, I was thinking more along the lines of copying the current build or build-list, but I suppose I can give the governor a try.

The PowerBar Utility will let you turn your workers into SuperUnits and build mines and irrigate in one turn. The Civ3MultiTool Utility will let you change the winning conditions after you start. Both of these programs can do other marvelous stuff also, but they will give you what you asked for initially. You didn't say what version of Civ3 you are using.

How did I miss that with the PowerBar? I've been using it, what do you click? I will check out Civ3MultiTool, and I'm running Civ 3 Conquests 1.22.


Anyways, thank you everyone for your replies.

 

[Aabraxan]

Aha, how do you find stuff like that out? Maybe there are more shortcuts I don't know about. For example I didn't find out about waypoints until I right-clicked a town by accident.

There are some very useful "cheat sheets" in the Civ 3 Reference Section.

Ok, I was thinking more along the lines of copying the current build or build-list, but I suppose I can give the governor a try.

I'm afraid that I simply don't know if there's a way to copy the queue. I never use it. If I may ask, why do you want all your cities to have the same build order?

 

[Thar]

There are some very useful "cheat sheets" in the Civ 3 Reference Section.

Yes, there was some good information there. Like this one about hotkeys:
http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/reference/civ3keys.txt

I'm afraid that I simply don't know if there's a way to copy the queue. I never use it. If I may ask, why do you want all your cities to have the same build order?

Maybe if I'm building a huge army. Anyways it seems you can save the current production queue with SHIFT-Q and load it with Q so I'll try that.