Let's talk about Revision 34!

Specifically regarding 34a:

With the changes to soldier behaviour (which may have been fixed for the next revision), I'm having a game-breaking issue with raiders - raiders will steal stuff and go back to camp. Colonists will wander to that camp with the intention of hauling goods back to the colony, and die. More colonists will stream toward the camp to both haul goods and bury bodies. This results in a suicidal lemming behaviour that self-reinforces over time. Soldiers refuse to rally or shoot under any circumstances. The more enthusiastic ones may still stab with their bayonets.

The current soldier behaviour problem does shed light on another issue: colonists should probably not be wandering to bandit camps to retrieve stolen goods as part of regular hauling behaviour. Or if they do, it should only be under explicit instructions from the colony administrator. A similar conundrum exists for corpse retrieval / burial: I know that corpses that lie a long way away have lower priority, but what about corpses that lie in bandit camps, which can be quite close? Maybe some way to tag the surround area as 'out of bounds' for foraging and corpse retreival?

 

Not sure if something similar has been done already, or if this is possible, or there are Other Plans, but I'd like to see bandit-stolen goods, once they have been moved a certain distance from where they were nicked, get tagged "stolen" on drop.

Stolen goods would be ignored by hauling and workshop jobs, but on area-drag or direct click of the dropped object, prompt a Recover Goods order. This would show up in the (cancellable) jobs list and be accepted by crews with hauling enabled. Once brought back to civilisation or a stockpile, the stolen tag would be removed.

 

This is probably not useful, but it made me laugh.

 

What about setting items stolen by bandits as being under bandit ownership, thereby preventing lemming behavior until the bandit is killed. Or they could generate an aura which invalidated non-militaristic orders in a certain distance. Both options have pros and cons.