workers

[pkorten]

I was wondering, I always use SHIFT-A when ordering a worker. What do the rest of you use? Just A , or manually ordering them around? And what would be the best? I only know it is a lot of work to give every worker orders manually. I also use CTRL-N once in a while when i just built a lot of new cities

What do you think?

 

[Tassadar]

On a standard map size( with about 16-20 city) i have 2 stack of 12 worker not more. I control them all time. If pollution strick 12 worker( for non-industrious) can clean it in 1 turn on a mountain( democrty+rep. part) and i go back into this city display to put a citizen back to this tile. If you lets worker on automatic, they fool around, auto worker are as stupid as advisor.

Auto-worker have been programm to do the worste thing not the better.

 

[acjvanv]

Manually, always, it`s one of the bigger advantages you have over the AI, especially in the early ages....

 

[MadHatter]

I'm pretty much a hands-on type of guy, so I'll do most of it manually, but one thing I use ALL the time (boy am I in love with THIS hot-key) is Shift-P to automate to just clean up pollution. I also use Ctrl-R (build road to designated spot) and I've been toying lately with the idea of using Shift-I (improve just this city).

I wonder...if you have the Governer emphasize city growth, will the worker put on Shift-I emphasize irrigation over mining? That would be cool.

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

I always control them in the early/middle game, gradually putting foriegn workers on shift-A when i get too many of them.

As soon as RR's are in, i manually control them all to connect all the cities then turn them loose on shift-A, keeping just a few stacks of 6 of mine for fine tuning cities.

I recently had a game on a large map, 60% H2O. I had over 180 of my own workers and hundereds of slaves. I'm not gonna control all of them manually.

MH: Shift-I is just full auto for that city only. Full auto does emphisize irrigation, but it will change stuff you have already done. Try ctrl-shift-I.

 

[Pillager]

I use ^P to auto-clean pollution, but the problem is that if all the pollution disappears, the workers do nothing when pollution reappears, so they have to be reassigned. I want to be able to give them an order that means that they will always clean pollution, and if there is none, that they wait until there is, and then clean the new pollution etc etc. Is this possible?

 

[bobgote]

I do it manually until i get hospitals/sanitation. This can be very painful when you have a huge empire, but it has to be done, or you get no production. After hospitals, i use A (mainly to get rid of forests)

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Shift-A workers have a high pollution cleanup priority. The trick is to have enough of them so that enough are inbetween tasks each turn.

To just get rid of forests, use shift-F. Full auto workers will change everything you did. Of course if you don't require the production anymore, it is a good way to increase late game score.

 

[bobgote]

I also use A at that time because the improvements it makes are the best for an over 12 metro. (too food heavy for smaller towns)

 

[robehans]

MANUALLY!!!
The only thing i let the AI do to my units of any kind is GO TO, it calculates the shortest route and it doesn't accidentally press "9" instead of "6"
In a recent game on a large map i had captured 30 persian citys, and about double the amount of workers... then ad my own 50 workers to that sum... all of em controlled manually...

 

[Rosicrucian]

I do manually to make sure all my land is mined early on. Gradually (around railrload) I start shift-A'ing them.

Hey I can't find my manual, where can I get a list of all the worker commands?

 

[ssmith619]

Yes, does anybody have a list of commands? There seems to be a never-ending list of them. Also, why doesn't Firaxis make a dialog box for this? It's such a useful function that so little people know about.

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Check the file section either here or Apolyton. There is a reference file someone made. I printed out the keyboard shortcuts page. It has all the worker commands on it.

 

[bobgote]

I think there was one on the civ3 site maybe, ( http://www.civ3.com ). It had everything on it.