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Feature #1901
openwhen a city's radius grows, workers on sentry should activate as autoworkers to handle the newly available tiles.
Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
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Category:
Server
Target version:
-
Start date:
01/11/2026
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Description
when a city's radius grows, workers on sentry should activate as autoworkers to handle the newly available tiles.
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Updated by Marko Lindqvist about 1 month ago
Ideally autoworkers should improve tiles beforehand already (instead of being idle), so when the city radius grows the city gets improved tiles immediately.
Updated by John Robertson about 1 month ago
In my prototype, I have the autoworkers build road/railroads around the outside perimeter of the city radius.
I do this so that the warriors, on sentry, in the city, can effectively respond to attackers at the perimeter.
In the case of outside the perimeter non-road improvements:- (for me) there is an aesthetic of ruggedness/wilderness for the outside the city tiles; causing me to not want these tiles improved (other than roads).
- There are opportunity costs updating tiles yet-to-be-used, vs tiles in other cities that could be used now.
- There is a timing issue, if the radius is to grow from 2 to 5, how far ahead is appropriate?
- Scaling the timing back, would it be worth calculating the improvements/autoworker/turn and then start the work that many turns ahead of the city's growth.
- Usually, when the city first expands, the new tiles are not immediately needed.
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