"Escort" pawns going into potentially dangerous situations.

[Call me Arty]

   Walls are nice and safe, and so are turrets. The issue is: You don't have these all across the map (most likely). This brings the issue where you need things outside of the fort, and therefore, out of safety. This is where we need some kind of "escort" system. Simply put, have a little checkbox next to someone's name the "restrict" tab next to the allowed areas. They leave that area marked, say, "Relative Aliveness"? A warrior follows them. Like the "Assign" tab, you could have the option of picking one of these escorts, if it matters whether you'll need a club or an assault rifle. Why would you need this?
   For example: It's the most severe winter your colony's face for quadrums. All the plant life is frozen over, and the predators have torn apart anything with a pulse. This isn't an issue, you have food, you have heating, and you have turrets. You're fine. The issue?

• You assign everything to be hunted. Half those things were going to chew on something else. Your warriors are weakened by a winter in thick snow getting scratched and bitten by bears, wolves, and snow leopards, and are in no shape to keep fighting, as they're either dead or wearing two peg legs and holding their gun in their last arm, the bionic one. . . your last bionic arm.
• A drop pod just came screaming out of the sky. The person inside it has passions for everything your colony is lacking and maybe half of their lower body not bleeding profusely. "Well, just rescue them!" Okay. You send a pawn out to rescue them. It's your best gunner. The snow and power armor slow them down too much, and by the time they're almost home, the rescuee bleeds out. Okay, send your fastest runner! They don't have any weapons, as they are a pacifist. A snow leopard tears them limb from limb. How is this preventable? An escort. Gunner to slow to match pace? Doesn't matter, they're fast enough to keep your pawn, your rescue, and any hungry animal in their range. Or, y'know, just draft them and click constantly to make sure that they're close enough all the way out, and back. Aren't you glad you now had to spend an extra couple minute clicking and watching that area instead of managing your actual base?
• You're out of components and the solar panel that made just enough juice to keep the heat on in the night just broke down. Don't worry though! There's a nice lump of components halfway across the map, enough to probably fund a couple extra projects too, at that. Depending on your skills, this probably means multiple trips back and forth mining, hauling, and resting. Are you going to assign someone to just sit around with a gun that whole time? Where are they? Freezing their ass off at the deposit? Halfway back? Final stretch? No, give a miner a bodyguard, just one, to cover their ass for the whole stretch without any worry of them starving to death from keeping a careful watch. Same with a geothermal generator, that takes a day or two of work just to make the frame for, let alone build.

I hope you all see my point, this is a very simple addition that helps with a lot of unnecessary grief. It uses zones (already there) a job (already there), and some people following others (See: Obedient animals). If there's something obvious I'm missing, or if there's some mistake or eyesore in my post, please let me hear it.

This has been discussed in the past, though not in much detail, or differently to the point that I feel like this won't be derivative.

[patoka]

problem is this would make pyromaniacs too easy to deal with and while i would like that, i am pretty sure it isnt intended to be.

that said, i would really like a better use for assassins, up until now i had to sell them into slavery everytime.