BETA 54C BETA 54C: DANIEL VERSUS SCROLLBAR CODE

If my computer is still acting up when I get home I may have a long wait before I get to taste this fruit.

 

Oh cool, this fixed a lot of the stuff I was having issues with (mainly scrollbars and that pesky Public House restocking thing).

 

Yes, the smooth scrollbars have improved my QOL by 50 points and I'm no longer in a state of despair.

And no more accidentally trapping colonists in doorless buildings? At least we can still intentionally do it.

 

Heh, now it seems the big thing isn't just getting your hands on guns, but actually supply your people with enough ammo (at least when things get Too Real)

 

It seems Flatten Terrain has been moved to the very bottom of the priority list for job selection. This really didn't cause any issues once I realized it was going on, I'm only mentioning it in case it wasn't intentional.

 

When I started my colony, I assigned enough jobs for each present overseer (beginning with a Flatten Terrain order where I intended my stockpile and initial farm to go) plus 3 additional smallish ones so I wouldn't have to watch as closely to make sure everyone was always doing something until the stockpile was up and hauling could begin. No one picked up the Flatten Terrain order at all at the start, and when the first task they were doing was complete, they again would ignore it in favor of one of the additional 3 (one forage, one chop wood and one clear terrain). Only when it was the only available job did anyone touch it.

Edit to add: If this would make a difference in their decision making, I always have the game paused while I'm tagging the initial jobs.

Edit 2: Successfully reproduced it happening the exact same way on 2 new maps. I'll try and keep a closer eye on this next colony and see if it only happens at the start that way, or each and every time there are more jobs available than overseers.

 

Crash when I clicked to remove Ceramics workbench.

Unfortunately, I loaded the autosave and tried to recreate it but didn't have any luck. Hopefully there's something here you can use.

*Edit: The blue "floor" of the workshop did disappear when I tried to re-place the module though.

 

Rad, the public house fix! Time to dive in.

 

Could we get a way of setting tasks as high priority in the outstanding tasks list perhaps? Would allow us to boost a particularly important work order that might be holding up other plans disproportionately (like flattening terrain or emergency fungus run!).

 

I really like this version; either you upped the event frequency a bit or it's just luck, but my 54C colony is having lots of interesting times, bandits and reps and Novorusian bombing runs (it's how they show their love, they're a bit rough and tumble).

Some small niggles that came up over the last few games:

Naturalists: should use the same order for the mode it's in and the stamps, as it is hunt and surveying have different places. It's also rather annoying to see something I want to stamp, have to pause, find the building, scroll back over half the map with the stamp activated... would be nice if they showed up with the other stamps (woodcutting, mining, etc) if the colony has a naturalist up and running (with the inactive function greyed out?). Also do animals have tooltips? If they do, they don't work for me.

Workshop UI: I find myself scrolling down to the "unassign" button more than any one other position, yet it needs the most scrolling. Put it at the top please?

And a mini bug report: the workshop menu for making bureaucrat's desks thinks they need normal planks and red-backgrounds it when you're out of planks (but correctly uses lacquered planks to make them).

 

Odd, I had the opposite experience. Other than the occasional group of bandits, I didn't have any other events happen.

 

Same, still not many events, but I'm keeping despair low. Not sure that's been adjusted yet though.

 

Guess I just got lucky then. And I suppose being in a desert slowed my usual expansion down to where bandits were more of a problem...

 

In the past, particularly during singing grass events, I have paused other tasks to get the ones I wanted taken care of.

 

I suspect the major complaint against those controls is that they require the user to actively unblock previously paused operations. People want to push tasks to the top of the list and be done with them.

 

I actually used to be constantly deleting and then remaking tasks before pause was added.

I actually still just delete them anyway.