27-05-2002 12:28									#1
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Do you automate settlers?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Sometimes

	27-05-2002 12:40									#2
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No - the auto Settler is far too stupid - he will irrigate unused squares before he roads used ones and all sorts of similar calumnies...

The only exception, very occassionally I might just be tempted to hit 'k' if I think that it might cause some illegal irregation - not in competition of course - just when I'm SPing for fun.

SG[1]

	27-05-2002 12:53									#3
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Ive been playing a game for 3 days now though many little 1 or 2 city islands. Roading hasn't been an issue and Im tired of telling them settlers what to do. Oh well will see if it hurts me any.

	27-05-2002 13:00									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Scouse Gits The only exception, very occassionally I might just be tempted to hit 'k' if I think that it might cause some illegal irregation SG[1]

So do I...
Oh, maybe later in the game when there is a lot of pollution I sacrifice 2 or 3 settlers to the "k" key, usually I'm not disappointed (they first go to the polluted square so they don't have time to create problems.

	27-05-2002 18:20									#5
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I voted 'sometimes' but I should have said 'almost never'. The only time I automate is when there is no water around - as SG [1] intimated, sometimes an auto'ed settler will irrigate without a water source, which is handy when landlocked. BTW, some call this a cheat (??).

Otherwise, they tend to do dumb things like cut down irrigated forests, or destroy silkworm habitats, when automated. Usually the risk of wasted settler actions is too high to automate them.

STYOM

	27-05-2002 19:27									#6
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No, automated settlers are idiots. And I'd never, ever, ever do it just to get a freebie irrigation. I would embark on a Mad Scheme to irrigate the entire 17 tile route from the nearest river, around the mountain, through two hill tiles…

I like Mad Schemes

	27-05-2002 20:31									#7
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Good for you StrayBow - I like eople who stick to their principals however costly they prove to be - I too like Mad Schemes

SG[1]

	27-05-2002 21:27									#8
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noup, never.

	27-05-2002 23:45									#9
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Straybow earned my respect!!! Geesh that mad scheme sounds like hard work.

	28-05-2002 02:29									#10
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...for the no water access irrigation trick thingy once in awhile but generally, no, if there is something left to do.

	28-05-2002 02:48									#11
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No way they get selfcontrol...
(but it might take some time moving those ~450(or was it ~700) engineers around and let them transform all those plains )

(ps what is the chance of getting a caravan stuck on a mountain when it's the only not-RR square on the island,using the Go-to command ???...)

Shade

	28-05-2002 03:06									#12
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No, there idots(

	28-05-2002 03:48									#13
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Only on two occasions might I automate settlers:
1. landlocked square, but even then only when doing it the "normal" way would require way too much effort.
And often even then the AI is too stupid, and runs away from the square I want it to irrigate. If I'm not alert enough I'll lose track of the settler and it'll destroy the countryside by leveling forests etc.
2. I'm in the end game, have way too many settlers/engineers and just want to clean pollution and boost the population. Then I'll automate the lot to turn everything into farmland and clean pollution.

	28-05-2002 18:42									#14
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Never ever.

Re Mercator, I do see the upside of endgame pollution/farming automation. Guess I just seldom get to that point...

	29-05-2002 00:40									#15
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No
Tried it once but after that never again.

	29-05-2002 00:50									#16
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quote: Originally posted by shade (ps what is the chance of getting a caravan stuck on a mountain when it's the only not-RR square on the island,using the Go-to command ???...)

That's a no-brainer p = 1 of course!!!

SG[1]

	29-05-2002 04:04									#17
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No-no-no!

That feature is far too stupid.

	29-05-2002 06:33									#18
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No, AI is too stupid. The go-to command is already bad enough

	30-05-2002 02:39									#19
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I once saw an automated settler irrigate a spice becouse the size 3 city only had 6 irrigated grasslands to choose from

so no, never, even if I have to move those 100 engineers

	30-05-2002 16:10									#20
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No way (except maybe on a one-city, no-special island). The worst -- and this is where I learned my lesson -- is when you have a whole army of automated settlers/engineers late in the game, and a square gets polluted; 40 guys drop what they're doing, hope a train, and travel halfway across the continent to take care of it.

	30-05-2002 18:06									#21
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Only once in a blue moon. Never in MP, but every now an then in SP i'll try for the for irrigation in the middle of nowhere. But since about 50% of the time the settler just moves off, I've kind of stop even trying.

	31-05-2002 00:24									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly is when you have a whole army of automated settlers/engineers late in the game, and a square gets polluted; 40 guys drop what they're doing, hope a train, and travel halfway across the continent to take care of it.

It takes an army to clean up messes!!! LOLOL

	31-05-2002 01:30									#23
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I have to teach my settlers how to "hope" a train.
Maybe it would save some research.

RAH

	31-05-2002 13:20									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man Otherwise, they tend to do dumb things like cut down irrigated forests, or destroy silkworm habitats, when automated. Usually the risk of wasted settler actions is too high to automate them. STYOM

Yes, the automated settler is dumb, but what is cutting down irrigated forrests

	31-05-2002 23:30									#25
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I never use it. it's the same thing as cheating because if you do it in the MFN it can still irrigate.

	01-06-2002 00:22									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida Yes, the automated settler is dumb, but what is cutting down irrigated forrests

A symptom of inadequate proofreading!

I think I either meant to say 'irrigating forests', or 'cutting down rivered forests'... but you get my point...

(automated settlers think silk on a river would make a nice plain... mmmm, buffalo steak, he thinks... )