Have you ever had one of those moments, when you need something done NOW - be it hauling something, repairing something, ot putting a D**N fire out -, and you have the right guy for the job, one square from there.
You select him/her and right click the task at hand.
"the stuff is reserved by X"
And X is half across the map.
The question is: why right clicking doesn't override this weirdness?
Why do I have to find X, draft him/her, reselect Bob who was a square from the job, and have him do it? Isn't it counterintuitive?
+1
yea +1
+1
Simple, elegant, and a good Improvement.
I would like to add the similar situation can be solved too: "X is not a hauler/doctor/etc". Ok, so x is not a hauler, but if she is capable of it, for just this once, she should do it, just because I say so.
Quote from: Stan-K on December 14, 2014, 05:47:28 AM
Simple, elegant, and a good Improvement.
I would like to add the similar situation can be solved too: "X is not a hauler/doctor/etc". Ok, so x is not a hauler, but if she is capable of it, for just this once, she should do it, just because I say so.
Yea, what you said.
+1 should totally be changed.
Yup
I am glad to know I am not the only one who gets aggravated by this game mechanic.
I surely hope it would be changed soon!
+1! I will only say: firefighting.
I say +2 because both of those are good ideas. So I have a useful task I just want done NOW, and the only person nearby is half the map closer than anyone else.
"Cannot complete: X is not a useful person.
Override X to be useful against their lazy will. Take -5 moral for a day while they sulk and wallow in their own self-pity."
"Cannot complete: Job Z is reserved by Y.
Override Y to complete Job Z with X. Let Y actually go eat a fine meal because they're about to be urgently hungry and tired by the time they trek all the way out here pick up this one piece of metal that X for some reason didn't pick up even though they mined the stupid thing out of the mountain."
yes. just yes 8)
I like this idea so the colonist who was going to do the task originally can still do the same job, just haul another piece or stamp out some other parts of the fire and all in all reduces the micromanagement.
As far as AI goes, when colonist A overrides colonist B's task, colonist B should look for similar tasks in the vicinity (maybe a 5-10 square radius of his original task).
+1 pls
+1
Speaking of ordering colonists you need to be able to to tell them to eat food.
And to go to sleep in the middle of the day (the mod Miscellaneous, has a computer that makes tired people go to sleep and hungey people grab a bite).
+1
+1
and+1
and add something: colonists should be able to override tasks on their own: like one is building and there is a part, reserved by another colonist who is too far away, so first colonist just do his part of the job too.
Quote from: Stan-K on December 14, 2014, 05:47:28 AM
+1
Simple, elegant, and a good Improvement.
I would like to add the similar situation can be solved too: "X is not a hauler/doctor/etc". Ok, so x is not a hauler, but if she is capable of it, for just this once, she should do it, just because I say so.
+1, upvote, yes
+1 please let us override reserved stuff
+1*80^π³
Replied to another topic with pretty much what you said, didn't know this existed until you posted about it on there, so here's my post:
QuoteThis is one of my biggest pet peeves with this game.
But it's not just fires.
It's everything.
I'd love things to be prioritised based on location and how close you are to something.
Say someone recently finished extinguishing the fire and is walking off, yet there's a fire next to them and someone far away wants it, they should override it.
Alternatively, let OUR choice override what the colonists want to do.
So instead of saying "oh you can't click that because it's reserved", how about we get to override it by just clicking on it with a colonist we selected, like we would if it wasn't reserved. The one who originally reserved it would just stop in their place and go do something else. That would be the quickest and simplest temporary solution to this I guess.
+9001
Please... I beg you ;)
+5