I've played a good amount of Civ4, and a lesser amount of Warlords, and even less Beyond the Sword. The expansions turned me off enough that I mostly just kept playing the original Civ4, but I'm trying to give BtS another good shot. It's obvious that citizen automation works differently than it did in Civ4, but there's something happening that I really don't understand. :confused:
I'm playing single-player as Ragnar in a Prince/Hemispheres-Huge/Normal-Speed game, currently 225 AD, and I'm trapped on a continent with Willem van Oranje, Cautious, who will not trade tech with me. So my research is just really slogging here at 30%, and my economy is awful, and I'm trying to "debug" this to figure out what's going on.
Then I realized the problem: the citizen automation isn't working cottages. It doesn't look like a single one of my cities is working a cottage. Even if set it to "commerce," it chooses to work the tiles that only give hammers, instead of the cottages. It's also assigning one Science specialist, which doesn't generate any commerce either. Basically, this just seems totally wrong. (See the attached screenshot.)
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening to me? In Civ4 and Warlords, I very rarely turned off citizen automation, as it generally was doing approximately the right thing. Is BtS automation just bugged, or am I missing something? I've also attached the save, in case that's helpful.
I'm playing single-player as Ragnar in a Prince/Hemispheres-Huge/Normal-Speed game, currently 225 AD, and I'm trapped on a continent with Willem van Oranje, Cautious, who will not trade tech with me. So my research is just really slogging here at 30%, and my economy is awful, and I'm trying to "debug" this to figure out what's going on.
Then I realized the problem: the citizen automation isn't working cottages. It doesn't look like a single one of my cities is working a cottage. Even if set it to "commerce," it chooses to work the tiles that only give hammers, instead of the cottages. It's also assigning one Science specialist, which doesn't generate any commerce either. Basically, this just seems totally wrong. (See the attached screenshot.)
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening to me? In Civ4 and Warlords, I very rarely turned off citizen automation, as it generally was doing approximately the right thing. Is BtS automation just bugged, or am I missing something? I've also attached the save, in case that's helpful.