I just started a new village and got a runner! YAY! Where is a runner most valuable, builder, farmer, researcher, doctor or breeder?

I put the runner on food & everyone else on research. When he plucks the bush dry I switch to building. Runners for me seem to leave the research table to often.

I think there most valuble at research or being a doctor...

Runners seem to work best as farmers and builders. Really any job that requires walking (or running in this case :P) will make the best use of runners!

I agree with Warren. I like to use mind for farming if I am in a new village that is vulnerable for food, otherwise building. They are great for clearing the beach and the lagoon.

I'll start them with farming, then, when there is a pretty good surplus, I'll switch them to building. I'll take somone off research (probably) to train up as a farmer in her place. They are great on most building jobs, particularly hut-building, clearing the beach, unblocking the lagoon, and watering the field. They are pretty much wasted on research, medicine and breeding.

i agree a runner is best on food(at the beginning) and building when doing the beach and most important the lagoon. i have used them on the tech table but they are done before any one else( i pause the game and pick up and drop all scientists after they do their kick thing, so a runner messes this up). i've never tryed one as a doctor or as a parent(quick fix for the population i bet).

LOL

I can imagine a male runner would get the entire adult female population with child in pretty short order!

Talking of which, I can't quote figures, but most of my runners have been female. I have had some males, but there seems to be a bias towards women, at least for me.

The one I have now is a male and I made him a builder. On a previous game I had another male runner who I made a breeder and he would go to the love shack and be finished before his mate and even got there...so funny to watch. It is also amusing to watch two runners breed, it's difficult to finally get anything to happen but when it does they run as fast as they can to the shack and then quickly move on with their lives...

i love using my runners on anything that requires distance, building especially.

i think tho, that my favorite time to watch runners is when I have then on farming, and they are running back and forth fishing. i time them, sorta, by watching who they come out of the water with, and then how close that villager is to the bin when the villager passes him the second time. its especially funny when they are fishing with a group of elderly villagers who are just doddering along slowly and then this young buck just swishes by them. i imagine all sorts of conversations those older villagers are having about the runner!