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Rollory

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New target ordering
« on: August 26, 2006, 08:06:00 am »

Whenever my miners finish somewhere and go looking for something else to mine, they always seem to do a search from left to right across the screen.  This often means that if I have various small scattered blocks of stone I want excavated, they'll do a lot of running around rather than going to the nearest next one.  Could this be changed?  It would save a LOT of time if they applied a little common sense.
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Shujaa

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Re: New target ordering
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2006, 09:21:00 am »

It's the same for all the designation jobs - drag out a large chunk of forest to cut and they will always start from the top left corner.
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Rollory

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Re: New target ordering
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2006, 09:54:00 am »

Which has nothing to do with the fact that it's STUPID.
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Re: New target ordering
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2006, 10:26:00 am »

Yes, but at least, it is. Wich is already not that bad   :roll:
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Mechanoid

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Re: New target ordering
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2006, 06:29:00 pm »

I agree that they should target the closest job instead of starting at the one in the top-left corner.
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