Yop! Cheapest idea: fix that very very very very very annoying bug which lasts for few years already. You send your guys into fields for some tasks, say, kill siege guys. Your guys succeed this and now your command to disarm and after that you want your guys to haul trophies to home base, but... your guys get out of pockets their meals. What next? Command to consume it here in fields? Please fix it at last! This is also true for other cases, not only just after disarming, but also just after vomiting etc. So maby more robust fix is not get out meals until colonist actually starting eating or (if you want to save nice animation of colonists carrying their meals) add ability to PICKUP items, or at least pickup meals (in case if pickuping of ANY items ruins some of your balance plans). This will really really really help. Really. Thanks in advance!
UPD. This is not so important, so you guys can just skip next reading. So, allowing pickup any items can save lots of nerves with few other bugs/features, even that ones which I can't remember or imagine atm As example, colonist becomes unconscious (say because of heat wave) and drops his favorite +1 rifle. Why can't other guys pickup it while just passing through to other tasks (or even while rescuing this colonist if it weights not too much). Or say, we just succeed with killing siege guys, stripped some of them and want to haul lots of light items. Why can't colonist just pickup several joints and that smg? Etc
UPD. This is not so important, so you guys can just skip next reading. So, allowing pickup any items can save lots of nerves with few other bugs/features, even that ones which I can't remember or imagine atm As example, colonist becomes unconscious (say because of heat wave) and drops his favorite +1 rifle. Why can't other guys pickup it while just passing through to other tasks (or even while rescuing this colonist if it weights not too much). Or say, we just succeed with killing siege guys, stripped some of them and want to haul lots of light items. Why can't colonist just pickup several joints and that smg? Etc