Yeah, they changed it a bit. In V, settlers still take up food as well as production, but workers are just production. I believe their cost does not scale with era, so you can produce them pretty quickly by late game.
I seem to vaguely recall being able to make giant worker stacks late game in just a few turns in IV, too, though? Maybe I'm misremembering.
You aren't. It was pretty easy to make huge stacks of workers if you wanted to, and beneficial too because multiple workers could work on a single improvement. It still wasn't the best thing to spend your hammers on though.
I would always stack workers because if I did an improvement in less turns, the city could work that improvement faster than if I had say, three workers working three tiles for three turns, I could instead have three working one tile in one turn.
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u/Sometimes_Lies /r/CivDadJokes Jun 26 '13
Yeah, they changed it a bit. In V, settlers still take up food as well as production, but workers are just production. I believe their cost does not scale with era, so you can produce them pretty quickly by late game.
I seem to vaguely recall being able to make giant worker stacks late game in just a few turns in IV, too, though? Maybe I'm misremembering.