Home zone VS clean zone

[MysteriaSpell]

I LOVE the idea of a home zone in order to "stake" out land and keep fires down etc etc.   What I would like to see though is different types of zone overlays we might be able to do instead of just "home" zones.

My colonists keep complaining cause its not pretty... well its not pretty because there is blood, vomit, and DUST everywhere... I have 2 colonists set to do nothing but haul and sweep which is what they do constantly, but they keep wanting to clean up outdoors! EFF that I only care about living quarters!  I wish there was a separate zone for "prioritize cleaning" other than the general HOME zone... OR even make it where you could CLICK a home zone to "turn of cleaning" "turn off firefighting" in certain areas of home zone!

(Also maybe custom zone colors if ya could throw it in other than just random?)

Other than that I would say this game is absolutely amazing and I have already lost many nights sleep by staying up and playing til 6 am not realizing how late it was getting!   And I am sure many more to come!

[dazhat]

Yes!  Cleaning is annoying. If we could have cleaning zones this would be very useful.

[Shinzy]

+ for zones
I like zones, zoning is fun =P

[mcduff]

+1 for this.

[loc978]

+1.

Good to see this brought up again. I tried, once:
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=8658.msg93736#msg93736

Ideally I'd like to see repair designation completely separated from zones of any kind (Claim should be enough, maybe with an unclaim option for things you built but don't want to repair), with cleaning and firefighting separated from one another.

[NephilimNexus]

I dunno, I just use the home zone tools to remove everything that isn't actually my base.  Seems to work just fine.

[Bohb Daishi]

I grow tired of watching my colonists run to the other side of the map to sweep a patch of grass next to my geothermal plant.

+1

[kingtyris]

+all the numbers.

I mean we already have a zone to designate clearing snow, it shouldn't be hard at all to make a cleaning zone.

[Adamiks]

Started work on arbitrary area restrictions for colonists: basics, designators, icons, drawing, selection for colonists, coloring, feedback on inspect pane.

[Vas]

One idea is to just make it so colonists don't clean areas marked as "outdoors".  Because those areas get dirty constantly anyway.

[Barley]

Outdoor cleaning makes sense for metal/concrete pathways but I must ask HOW DO COLONISTS 'SWEEP' DIRT?

This game I swear  .

[Euzio]

+1 for this definitely. I do want my pawns to beat out fires when they start outside my base (especially those near and around my geothermal generators and power conduits outside), but not to clean every single inch of the floor out there....