What comand do I choose to make workers upgrade to railroads?

[steve dave]

Is there anyway to give your workers a universal command? Tell all to do something without clicking on each one?

I know that I can click on each one and have them build one on each square manually but I want to automate them to do it.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

There isn't such a wonderful command.

 

[steve dave]

So if I don't want to do it manually then I just hit automate and hope that the create railroads?

 

[WildFire]

Pretty much

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Originally posted by steve dave
So if I don't want to do it manually then I just hit automate and hope that the create railroads?

You'd have done them all by now if you hadn't wasted time posting here

 

[Grille]

Originally posted by steve dave
So if I don't want to do it manually then I just hit automate and hope that the create railroads?

You'd better don't just hit automate, but shift-a (then they don't change existing improvements).
So if you had already built all possible improvements you want on any working tiles (except for hills, mountains, tundra - no multible choices here, just mining, road, rr) before railroads come up, your hopes would be completly satisfied.
edit: other useful universal commands can be found in pedia ("worker actions" or something), e.g. shift-j to autoclear jungle,
control-n to build up trade network etc.
note: shift-j will force the worker to clear all tiles in cultural borders, not just working tiles, but they don't stay automatted when whole jungle is gone (that's not the case for shift-a)

 

[Grey Fox]

To automatically build Railroads to a location you press: CTRL+SHIFT+R and then you click on a the destination.

CTRL+R is road to location.

 

[Willem]

Originally posted by kittenOFchaos
There isn't such a wonderful command.

Yes there is, it's CTRL-N. This will automate your Workers to build a transportation network that connects all your cities and resources.

 

[RonO]

Cntl-n doesn't work to build railroads...or at least it doesn't for me.

 

[Grille]

ctrl-n (vanilla civ3): build up trade network
This means if you control-n a worker, he will connect all cities on continent to your trade network. A city is assumed to be connected to network when it has access to road to capital (or indirectly through harbors/airports). So the worker won't build railroad. Anyway, may be a *useful* automatic worker's command. Only way to let a worker (may) build railroads is crtl-r (but not everywhere then) or shift-a (also build other imps).

 

[Aggie]

Steve dave, it's best to ask these kind of questions in the newbie thread. This is used to get answers to basic questions like the one you asked... I use it a lot myself.