21-01-2002 23:00									#1
	Quick question about captured workers... Suffering from ads?

It seems to me that when the AI captures my workers, they magically teleport away, so that I can't recapture them. Is this a bug, or a "feature"?

Thanks,

Ollie

	21-01-2002 23:22									#2
	Got spare money?

They are not teleporting anywhere. The AI disbands most captured workers upon capturing them if it "thinks" it cant get them back to its own territory without losing them. I am not sure how it makes the determination but it seems to do good job since we can rarely capture them back

	21-01-2002 23:46									#3
	ahhhh... Remove this text

OK, that makes sense

Thanks!

	22-01-2002 02:19									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Gutz They are not teleporting anywhere. The AI disbands most captured workers upon capturing them if it "thinks" it cant get them back to its own territory without losing them. I am not sure how it makes the determination but it seems to do good job since we can rarely capture them back

Aaah, so that's what happened to them! I kept hunting around looking for them. Oh well, I got a lot more of his than he did of mine.

	22-01-2002 03:27									#5
	An interesting, semi-related fact about Civ3. Inflate your Upload Space

When you build a worker, it will be of the same nationality as the citizen that was subtracted. So, my newly-conquered Persian cities produce persian workers while I'm trying to 'slim' the foreign element. I was honestly surprised to see that kind of depth in the game, and it effectively stopped a strategy of mine to build workers until the pop was 1, then refill it with the produced german workers. 'Xept they didn't become germans, that is.

	22-01-2002 04:16									#6
	Re: An interesting, semi-related fact about Civ3. Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

quote: Originally posted by MonsterMan When you build a worker, it will be of the same nationality as the citizen that was subtracted. So, my newly-conquered Persian cities produce persian workers while I'm trying to 'slim' the foreign element. I was honestly surprised to see that kind of depth in the game, and it effectively stopped a strategy of mine to build workers until the pop was 1, then refill it with the produced german workers. 'Xept they didn't become germans, that is.

Well you could always send them off to your well established cities, and then replace them with your own.

	22-01-2002 04:54									#7
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Also, if the workers are on a railroad that goes into Fog-of-War territory, it looks like they disappear.

	22-01-2002 05:29									#8
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quote: Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous Also, if the workers are on a railroad that goes into Fog-of-War territory, it looks like they disappear.

Well it's quite possible that there is an enemy unit in there that's picking them off as they enter the fog of war. Or even a barbarian horde.