Workers leave old improvments/forests - how to enable

[DireAussie]

Unless I'm missing something, these options dont seem to be available anywhere in the game interface. I believe the way to enable them is to open up Assets\Gameplay\XML\GameInfo\Civ5PlayerOptions.xml then change the following to true:

<Type>PLAYEROPTION_SAFE_AUTOMATION</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_PLAYER_OPTION_WORKERS_LEAVE_OLD_IMPS</Description>
<Help>TXT_KEY_PLAYER_OPTION_WORKERS_LEAVE_OLD_IMPS_HELP</Help>
<Default>true</Default>

<Type>PLAYEROPTION_LEAVE_FORESTS</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_PLAYEROPTION_LEAVE_FORESTS</Description>
<Help>TXT_KEY_PLAYEROPTION_LEAVE_FORESTS_HELP</Help>
<Default>true</Default>

After doing that my workers appeared to have left old improvements and forests alone

Edit: you can also try AutoWorkersDontReplace = 1 in %userprofile%\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\UserSettings.ini

 

[Batolemaeus]

AutoWorkersDontReplace = 1 in %userprofile%\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\UserSettings.ini should suffice, although I don't see a separate option for forests. For some reason UserSettings.ini is the only of the three/four config files that has no clarifying comments..

 

[DireAussie]

thanks, I didnt know about the ini file - have changed that as well now! Automated workers are so ******ed - without this setting they were changing my farms next to rivers/lakes to trading posts, thus removing the +1 food bonus from civil service.

 

[Nabobalis]

Thanks for this. Hopefully a patch comes out soon sorting out the AI for workers.

 

[Goosey]

is that all i need to do change that ini file? i'm tired of my farm/hammer city's being changed into tradeposts

 

[swornabsent]

This is awesome news, thank you. I generally prefer to micro workers anyway but when my empire grows large enough that it becomes a little cumbersome I’ve definitely thought “man I’d be okay with auto’ing this worker if it wouldn’t go tearing up my river farms”.

 

[Stalker0]

The ini file change did NOT fix the problem in my games...I will try the other options.