Worker trajedy!

[Shaitan]

There are a dozen workers currently mining 7 different mountains on the NP/MAG border. Only one population point in the 3 cities nearby will be able to use a mined mountain and it would be foolish for that city to do so. The workers must be stopped immediately and put to use where their improvements will benefit somebody.

 

[Gingerbread Man]

Would those mountains be the gem mountains?

Either way, I doubt new Ise is will actually use more that three mountains at it's max populationn but Hakodate could utilise around 4-5 mined mountains, possibly more.

 

[Shaitan]

Yes, they are the gem mountains. Ise cannot use any mountains if the city wants to grow. Dapperdan has no use for any mountains as it would throw off the currently stable growth/worker relationship. Hakodate can use only 1 of the mountains being worked and will need to stifle it's growth to do so.

 

[GenMarshall]

CivGeneral puts another smilie to his tally -_-

 

[Feodor Ardent]

This reflects an on-going oddity in this game. All over the map, our workers are slaving away building mines in mountains while far more productive hills are being ignored. Are all our mining engineers from the School of Hard Rocks in Boulder, CO.?

 

[Feodor Ardent]

Nice to know we have spare workers somewhere, as there is a severe shortage of them in the southwestern provinces and very few supporting the troops attempting to conquer Babylon. Please, let us move them where they are needed!

Feodor Ardent, DMAM

 

[Noldodan]

Yes... I see that there is a grand total of ONE worker working on the mine SE of Minas Alcar, and he still has to build a road as well! Anyway... Hey! What are those workers doing on the plains of Bombay? They should be helping out in NP, where the were asked for! I appreciate the help, but sheesh...

 

[Feodor Ardent]

If you don't want them, put them on a train heading north. A little tinkering with the rail signal station in Jaipur will get them out on the Quellewassern plains where they can do some good.

Langrave Feodor

 

[Shaitan]

There are improvements needed all over. The North Province is putting out 2 to 3 workers per 10 turns now but such worker production isn't going to help unless the workers are applied where they are needed.

 

[ikey]

the New Japan Province could use coms mines on railroads around Nara and Tokyo. These two cities are at CivGeneral's service for producing units, and it would add a good 3 to 5 good shields to the cities if mines were built.

anyways, the worker issue is a thing each governor could take care of carefully so as not to bring problems like this

 

[Noldodan]

Actually ikey, the governors (at least Shaitan) HAVE taken care of it. I say, if it isn't listed in the turnchat instructions, DON'T DO IT!

 

[ikey]

sorry, I didn't mean to offend anyone; i think i got it wrong expressing myself in words
by the way, nice tolkien quote this week

 

[Noldodan]

Offended? ME? I'm never offended, its just that its difficult to express extreme sarcasm through text. And thanks for the complement.

 

[Strider]

If the workers have no better place to go then I would say to let them keep working the mountains, but I see that they are needed elsewhere, so... I say we pack up there mining operations and move them somewhere else.

 

[ikey]

Noldodan: i usually don't understand sarcasm when it's spoken to me anyways
I'm preparing the TC instructions for tomorrow already
Strider: there are a lot of hills to mine also!

 

[Feodor Ardent]

I might also point out, particularly in the case of Rhineland province, that you can often mine prairies to more profit than mountains.

 

[Octavian X]

Not to worry, I assure everyone that a majority, if not all, of the workers will be removed from the area during the next turn chat.

CivGeneral, you need to work on your worker skills...

 

[Gingerbread Man]

Originally posted by Shaitan
Yes, they are the gem mountains. Ise cannot use any mountains if the city wants to grow. Dapperdan has no use for any mountains as it would throw off the currently stable growth/worker relationship. Hakodate can use only 1 of the mountains being worked and will need to stifle it's growth to do so.

What I meant was that when New Ise reaches size 6/12, three of the laborers could switch to the mountains to speed the construction of the aqueduct/hospital (if it will ever need a hospital)

 

[GenMarshall]

Originally posted by Octavian X
CivGeneral, you need to work on your worker skills...

Oct - Can you PM me some advice on the Worker Skills?

 

[Chieftess]

Not to mention the hills around New PDX that will never be used are being mined. (Around the Taliesin/Rhinland border I think. Or does the SW province border it too?) Just noticed the mining of the gems! That reminds me of... PAD1 Regent... If those workers are to be mining the mountains, they should be mining the OTHER side. Bizen needs it (and can use it) more than our tundra/mountain cities.

I have been training CG on how to count the city size, and the tiles that can be used.

Another I noticed. CG had 1-3 workers (even foreign workers working ALONE!) mining the mountains! A single foreign worker will take forever to mine 1 mountain. (24-36 turns). The same goes for rails (and a city being able to use it).

On another note, Kyoto.

1 - It's starving. Was there pollution there? Say so during the turn chat. It didn't even reclaim the cattle!

2 - Not to mention, you 5 workers (alone) working seperate tiles around Kyoto that can't even be used yet! so, there you have it. 3 areas were workers are literally doing NOTHING but wasting precious turns on improving terrain that we either will never use, or can not yet use. Not to mention, there are starving cities! Shield production is also DOWN in those cities because of it. That can mean the difference between a unit this turn, and a unit next turn.

For some strange reason, I feel like I'm critiquing a Training Day Game now.