[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11656) AutoReply: Randomly lazy workers

["neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Hi Freeciv team,
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>Great game you guys have produced, I'm currently engaged in three games 
>at the moment, two at work on 2.0.0-beta4, and one at home on 
>2.0.0-beta5.  I'm liking the workers and borders.  However as you may 
>have guessed, I have a bug.  Recently (i.e. late in the game), my cities 
>are all of size 20ish, and I keep finding that on random turns my cities 
>de-assign all but a couple of workers, leaving my city with 15 
>specialised scientists and a looming famine.  The problem happens 
>repeatedly, especially in Vaasa and Helsinki in the attached game.  I 
>don't think it's related to the hostile military units as I was in peace 
>until I began the space race, and the problem occurred even then.  I 
>haven't noticed it in beta4, but that may be because those games are 
>around the size-8 city mark.  The easiest way to spot it is to play a 
>few turns with the Grid on, as suddenly all the squares around a city 
>turn white (handy, that!).
>
>Let me know if you need more info,
>
>Neil.
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Hmmm it appears I may have been too hasty in my diagnosis and bug 
report.  It does seem to be related to hostile units nearby which makes 
me suspect that it is a feature.  If this is the case then I'm sorry for 
filing a bug report about it, but I think it should be changed.  Having 
to re-assign 20 workers each turn in three cities is a major pain 
(imagine if I had lots more cities!).  As I recall, Civ 2 used to only 
de-assign the workers from the squares occupied by the hostile units, 
and then it would automatically re-assign them afterwards.  Let me know 
if there is a good reason not to do this!

Cheers,

Neil.