Civilization – n alternative to asking every civilization every turn for trade

As far as I know, no mod changes with the auto worker pattern. This is mostly because you need to specialize cities, which means that one size does not fit all. You also have to co-ordinate with the terrain you settle on. Workers, and city planning are some of the hardest parts of the game.

Take a look at these guides at civfanatics.

Your basic plan for early game is to have 2 or 3 production cities, with lots of food and hammers, as well as 3-5 commerce cities, with cottages. You don't want cottages in your production cities radius, but you can have a mine in your commerce city, so that you can build things like libraries, banks, or other money or science boosting building.

I think the game had previously been installed for a specific user and then uninstalled.

I worked around the problem by creating a new administrator account and used that to install the game. With that account the checkbox to install for all users was enabled and the game installed just fine. Once I was done, I deleted the temporary account.

Thanks for all the input.