Workers in a Stupor

[SunZsu]

Interesting little effect I recently noticed ... w/patch 1.29, had sent stacks of workers around to clean-up pollution using the "J" command .... they would clean a given hex all in same turn, however, come next turn they were still "digging away" with their hoes even thought the pollution was gone .... was pretty interesting to watch this take place on forest squares - what caught my eye was how could I have a worker "irrigating" a forest square , then I remembered the turn before that I had sent them there to clean pollution :enlighten .... had to click on them to get them out of their "stupor"

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The Khan does not err, for the world is wrong, and He, is right!!!

 

[Jimcat]

If you look very closely, you will see that workers cleaning up pollution have a little push-broom, as opposed to the hoe that irrigating workers use.

 

[Admiral Rimmer]

I know when you automate workers to sort pollution, they wait for orders once all the pollution is cleared up - I wish you could just make a few automate so that whenever new pollution shoul rear its ugly head, they just drop what they are doing to sort it - global warming is killing my farmland!

 

[DaGgeR]

If you Shift-A your workers, their top priority wil be Pollution Cleanup. If they find no other work to do after the pollution is cleaned up, they will go to the nearest City and wait. As soon as new pollution appears, they will go for it. Of course, since this is automation, they will build roads/railroads, irrigate, mine, and cut down Jungles when no pollution exists on your land. And the Shift-A will guarantee they won't change your farmland to mines (and vice-versa).

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

DaGgeR: true, but they do have other stuff on their list, too, so if you have few workers pollution can swiftly mount up. Un-auto some and send them off with shift-p

 

[sealman]

If you use Shift-A will more than 1 worker go to a pollution square or do you have to move the others?
Never automated workers before becuase they keep changing my improvements.

 

[DaDoo]

they'll keep sending workers to the pollution site until the pollution is gone.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

DaDoo: you need an awfull lot of workers for that. But I tend to have them (slaves)

 

[MAS]

In order to clean up polution in one turn, you need exactly the amount of workers as the amount of turns it would take one worker!

so if it takes a worker 6 turns to clean up a certain polution site. Then you need 6 workers to do it in one turn. In fact, it will happen the same turn so you can re-assign a citizen to the square not losing any production or food that turn.

The calculation becomes a bit more diffecult if you mix workers and slaves. But it shouldn't be to hard.