Suggestions from my playthrough

[philinthesky]

Hey Ludeon, thanks again for this great game, I'm having a blast!
A few things have been bugging me while I play, so here are some suggested fixes:

1. OPTIMIZE BUILD ORDER: Let's say i want to build a floor and there's trees in that area. The worker will cut down only ONE tree, then get materials for the floor, then build the floor and repeats until all tiles have been done. This is a huge waste of time. Would there be a way to optimize the build-order? For example, the worker cuts down ALL the trees in the area first, then gets the ingredients to build, then places + builds? It would avoid my workers going back and forth and back and forth between storage areas and the build area.

2. COMS CONSOLE: I get notified when a ship leaves my range, but I don't get notified when it arrives... so it just feels shitty to be notified because I didn't even know the ship was there. Wat?

3. CLEANING ZONES & FIREFIGHT ZONES: Please. 

I also have a few new ideas to propose for the game:
3. If you train an animal from birth (as opposed to when it's an adult), could it learn faster given that it's grown up with you from the start?
4. Could rain wash away blood? A bit random but hey, gotta ask.

Thanks again, you rock my socks off!

[NinjaDiscoJew]

2. COMS CONSOLE: I get notified when a ship leaves my range, but I don't get notified when it arrives... so it just feels shitty to be notified because I didn't even know the ship was there. Wat?

Do you have your Coms Console powered 24/7? I always get a notification when a ship arrives and departs.

[Neotic]

3. CLEANING ZONES & FIREFIGHT ZONES: Please. 

I also have a few new ideas to propose for the game:
3. If you train an animal from birth (as opposed to when it's an adult), could it learn faster given that it's grown up with you from the start?
4. Could rain wash away blood? A bit random but hey, gotta ask.

Thanks again, you rock my socks off!

Pawns/colonist will clean and fight fire in the home zone (the blue one) and to my knowledge rain does wash away blood or at the very least it goes away eventually.

[milon]

2. COMS CONSOLE: I get notified when a ship leaves my range, but I don't get notified when it arrives... so it just feels shitty to be notified because I didn't even know the ship was there. Wat?

FYI, when you first build a coms console, you should check it right away and see if there's any ships currently in range.  That's the part you don't get notified about, but you will receive a notification when they leave. 

[Texaskimo]

2. COMS CONSOLE: I get notified when a ship leaves my range, but I don't get notified when it arrives... so it just feels shitty to be notified because I didn't even know the ship was there. Wat?

FYI, when you first build a coms console, you should check it right away and see if there's any ships currently in range.  That's the part you don't get notified about, but you will receive a notification when they leave. 

I'd like to add to this. If your coms console becomes unpowered for any reason and a trade ship arrives while its power is off you will not get a notification. Solar flare, zzt event that kills its power, or if you just had it switched off for a bit to conserve power ALWAYS immediately check for a trade ship when it gets powered back up. This game loves to play mind games with you, I'm pretty sure an unpowered coms console at least triples the odds of a trade ship arriving.