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Hey there. By the time I get RR I have normally placed roads everywhere and
it should be much easier to use the above command, right? Well, if I tell a
worker to build one to a city (or whatever) he will just get as close to the
place as he can before he even begins! Am I doing something wrong? I hope I
have explained myself well enough?

Thanks

 

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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:33:07 GMT, "Di Farker"
<diannefarker@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Hey there. By the time I get RR I have normally placed roads everywhere and
>it should be much easier to use the above command, right? Well, if I tell a
>worker to build one to a city (or whatever) he will just get as close to the
>place as he can before he even begins! Am I doing something wrong? I hope I
>have explained myself well enough?

I rarely use the command, preferring to build the railroad in the
optimum locations manually. Thereafter, plain automation should make
the workers fill in any non-critical locations.

But it seems to me that the build road/railroad to command was a
drag-click sort of thing, rather than just setting the destination.
So if you click on the square by the city, that is where it is going
to start. Instead, you need to make it like a goto path, starting
from the current location and ending at the destination.
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"Jeffery S. Jones" <j

> I rarely use the command, preferring to build the railroad in the
> optimum locations manually. Thereafter, plain automation should make
> the workers fill in any non-critical locations.

I manually use the "Build Railway To" and, as soon as I get railways, I
click on all the workers, except slaves, so that I can order them all to
build a railway to the capital from where they presently are. As they begin
to arrive at the capital, and it's amazing how fast this starts to happen as
railways get built, then I begin to build a railway, using all available
workers as they arrive in the capital, to the farthest city away from the
capital in the "kingdom". When they reach the farthest point, again quite
rapidly as workers begin to accumulate, I order them to build a railway to
the next farthest city, and so on and on. The idea is to build mainlines
from say the northern most point, to the southern most point and ditto east
to west. This makes movement of troops much more rapid. As soon as the
mainlines are built, then you can assign workers to build you branch lines.
Once all cities are rail connected, then I put workers back onto auto-pilot
and forget them, until I need new railways built into captured cities.

The only change I make to this is if I'm at war when I discover railways. I
still order all workers to build a railway to the capital, but once they
arrive there, rather then order them to build a mainline, I order them to
build a railway to a city at the front line.


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"Roger T." <rogertra@highspeedplus.com> wrote in
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>
> "Jeffery S. Jones" <j
>
>> I rarely use the command, preferring to build the railroad in
>> the
>> optimum locations manually. Thereafter, plain automation should
>> make the workers fill in any non-critical locations.
>
> I manually use the "Build Railway To" and, as soon as I get
> railways, I click on all the workers, except slaves, so that I can
> order them all to build a railway to the capital from where they
> presently are. As they begin to arrive at the capital, and it's
> amazing how fast this starts to happen as railways get built, then
> I begin to build a railway, using all available workers as they
> arrive in the capital, to the farthest city away from the capital
> in the "kingdom". When they reach the farthest point, again quite
> rapidly as workers begin to accumulate, I order them to build a
> railway to the next farthest city, and so on and on. The idea is
> to build mainlines from say the northern most point, to the
> southern most point and ditto east to west. This makes movement
> of troops much more rapid. As soon as the mainlines are built,
> then you can assign workers to build you branch lines. Once all
> cities are rail connected, then I put workers back onto auto-pilot
> and forget them, until I need new railways built into captured
> cities.
>
> The only change I make to this is if I'm at war when I discover
> railways. I still order all workers to build a railway to the
> capital, but once they arrive there, rather then order them to
> build a mainline, I order them to build a railway to a city at the
> front line.

I hand build my railroads. One small group of workers to build a
line from the core to the front, and almost all of my other workers
build up the core cities radii.
Remember, railroads aren't just for transport. They can give your
city a significant boost between food and shields.

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In article <k19lf01a64hefepl3f9vfgtgjt0kcb31lt@4ax.com>, Jeffery S Jones wrote:
>
> I rarely use the command, preferring to build the railroad in the
> optimum locations manually. Thereafter, plain automation should make
> the workers fill in any non-critical locations.

Mildly OT, but there's a reason for using Build Road to rather than Road
at a particular square.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48829

 

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In alt.games.civ3 on Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Jeffery S. Jones wrote :
>On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:33:07 GMT, "Di Farker"
><diannefarker@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>>Hey there. By the time I get RR I have normally placed roads everywhere and
>>it should be much easier to use the above command, right? Well, if I tell a
>>worker to build one to a city (or whatever) he will just get as close to the
>>place as he can before he even begins! Am I doing something wrong? I hope I
>>have explained myself well enough?
>
> I rarely use the command, preferring to build the railroad in the
>optimum locations manually. Thereafter, plain automation should make
>the workers fill in any non-critical locations.

I don't like automating workers - they tend to mine grasslands if you
don't watch them carefully.
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"Paul Hyett"
> >
> >>Hey there. By the time I get RR I have normally placed roads everywhere
and
> >>it should be much easier to use the above command, right? Well, if I
tell a
> >>worker to build one to a city (or whatever) he will just get as close to
the
> >>place as he can before he even begins! Am I doing something wrong? I
hope I
> >>have explained myself well enough?
> >
> > I rarely use the command, preferring to build the railroad in the
> >optimum locations manually. Thereafter, plain automation should make
> >the workers fill in any non-critical locations.
>
> I don't like automating workers - they tend to mine grasslands if you
> don't watch them carefully.

And I don't like to micro manage. 🙂

 

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"Di Farker" <diannefarker@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<7DxKc.933$lb5.506@newsfe1-win.ntli.net>...
> Hey there. By the time I get RR I have normally placed roads everywhere and
> it should be much easier to use the above command, right? Well, if I tell a
> worker to build one to a city (or whatever) he will just get as close to the
> place as he can before he even begins! Am I doing something wrong? I hope I
> have explained myself well enough?
>
> Thanks

For me also, when I use "Build railroad to" (shift+ctrl+R), the worker
sometimes go to the destination city and begin constructing from
there. Try telling him to build to a tile next to the city instead of
the city itself. It seems to work. I don't know the exact reason why
the worker sometimes behave this way. Maybe it depends if the
starting tile, or the second tile, is roaded or not.

David

 

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> >Hey there. By the time I get RR I have normally placed roads everywhere
and
> >it should be much easier to use the above command, right? Well, if I tell
a
> >worker to build one to a city (or whatever) he will just get as close to
the
> >place as he can before he even begins! Am I doing something wrong? I hope
I
> >have explained myself well enough?

> But it seems to me that the build road/railroad to command was a
> drag-click sort of thing, rather than just setting the destination.
> So if you click on the square by the city, that is where it is going
> to start. Instead, you need to make it like a goto path, starting
> from the current location and ending at the destination.

Thanks!

 

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I tend to build a railway using a stack of enough workers so I can get a
square built in 1 turn... then I move them from the capitol to the outermost
city (closest to the front if at war), then build a ring around my nations
outermost cities so troops can quickly access all border cities for rapid
defensive deployment. Once those are done I make RRs to all my strategic
resources, that way if those squares get bombarded/pillaged, it knocks that
square back to a road instead of just a bare square, allowing me to still
keep access to that resource if I do not have an available defending unit to
stack on that square/route to take the hits. Then I fill in the gaps.

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"Di Farker" <diannefarker@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Hey there. By the time I get RR I have normally placed roads everywhere
and
> it should be much easier to use the above command, right? Well, if I tell
a
> worker to build one to a city (or whatever) he will just get as close to
the
> place as he can before he even begins! Am I doing something wrong? I hope
I
> have explained myself well enough?
>
> Thanks
>
>

 

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"Roger T." <rogertra@highspeedplus.com> wrote in
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>> I don't like automating workers - they tend to mine grasslands if you
>> don't watch them carefully.
>
> And I don't like to micro manage. 🙂

I take the middle ground - I develop all the "important" squares by hand,
and then once I start to get bored with the micromanagement I'll automate
them with Shift-A (Automate / No Altering). This usually happens around
the time that I've got all the cities railroaded together, and pollution
starts cropping up.

 

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"Don Quixote" <donquixote235@hotmail.[takethispartout].com> wrote in message
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> "Roger T." <rogertra@highspeedplus.com> wrote in
> news:b24610c2db1e24c1dbd042fe9f28b1fa@grapevine.islandnet.com:
>
> >> I don't like automating workers - they tend to mine grasslands if you
> >> don't watch them carefully.
> >
> > And I don't like to micro manage. 🙂
>
> I take the middle ground - I develop all the "important" squares by hand,
> and then once I start to get bored with the micromanagement I'll automate
> them with Shift-A (Automate / No Altering). This usually happens around
> the time that I've got all the cities railroaded together, and pollution
> starts cropping up.

I start automating when I get railroad. Until then, the A(semi)I is liable
to send workers off to weird places where they'll waste significant time
travelling. Once I have railroad, I order a couple of workers to build
railroad between border cities and the capital, but mostly I just let them
do their thing. I'm using PTW, and I find the AI is efficient enough in its
decisions at this point to just leave it.

 

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"Dennis Edward" <nospam@nowaynohow.org> skrev i meddelelsen
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> I start automating when I get railroad.

So did I - until I ran out of iron or coal a couple of times before the
"AI" finished building all the rails. :-(

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