Gi-Go Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 I'm currently stuck at the sea because I have little experience dealing with pirates and they broke my masts. I'm trying to grab captain's oar that is out of my reach but my shadow puppet tells me "wHy WoUlD yOU WaNt ThIS" and refuses to grab it. I've brought this up back in Maxwell's beta and I'll do it again now. Why developers desided they know better what I want or don't want to pick up? Other instances include them refusing to help me farm blueprints from monkey queen, and refusing to retreat corpse loot from dangerous zone. Now, this isn't a lot of scenarios, but I have never encountered a situation where I would want to have this QoL feature to exist so it's enough for me to be unsatisfied. I kill my clones when they are done working, I don't summon them on top of garbage I don't want to be touched, I fill my inventory slots to make sure they grab only resources similar to those in my inventory. I don't need your help with managing my minions, please delete this feature I don't like it. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakepeng99 Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 I agree. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antynomity Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Fr, not really the same thing but this reminds me of that hitman 3 change where they thought it was a good idea to make so you can't get yourself searched if you have contraband, so you can't even do it on purpose and it takes away some thinking from the game just because. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
_zwb Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 You would want this mechanic back when they start picking up weapons equipments and figure sketches Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenship2 Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 i think its fine the way it is right now, they literally are a better lazy explorer Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gi-Go Posted August 25, 2023 Author Share Posted August 25, 2023 1 hour ago, _zwb said: You would want this mechanic back when they start picking up weapons equipments and figure sketches Ah, yes, my secret sketch collection that I store in the middle of my grass farm. Wouldn't want them to touch that. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanasdf Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 1 hour ago, Antynomity said: Fr, not really the same thing but this reminds me of that hitman 3 change where they thought it was a good idea to make so you can't get yourself searched if you have contraband, so you can't even do it on purpose and it takes away some thinking from the game just because. How am I supposed to know I got an illegal item when I'm carrying an entire city worth of items in my pockets? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waitdire Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Show me that person who uses a message in a bottle (and tools) in the ocean as a decoration. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
_zwb Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 1 hour ago, Gi-Go said: Ah, yes, my secret sketch collection that I store in the middle of my grass farm. Wouldn't want them to touch that. Unless your grass farm is bigger than the range of the shadow workers, and your base is very organised with no items left on the ground, they will eventually start touching stuff they shouldn't, plus they can walk through walls and other obstacles, making it difficult to chase up and despawn them. To be honest the puppets not being able to pick up things you want somewhat fits the idea "followers are supposed to be a bit silly", it's a bit annoying when they don't work as you want, but the developers aren't mind readers, they can not make sure that the puppets always pick up items they want for all players. Quote "Shadow Servants, Polly Rogers, and the Lazy Forager will no longer automatically pick up: Blueprints, Cooking Recipe Cards, Sketches, Lavae Tooth, and Fans. These items were selected due to their high negative impact on a player’s experience when something automatically picks them up." -- V2C This comment from update 530684 is the reason behind this change, it makes sense to you? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDuelist Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Despite in that particular situation it would have saved you, in the other 99% of possibilities the puppets picking up tools was annoying. The only middle ground I’d see to this is to keep then as they are now BUT allow us to force command them to pick up specific stuff should we choose to. Still, that change would probably take several hours or days to think, code and test, when actually using it would be a very rare thing. But of course I could be wrong Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
_zwb Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 15 minutes ago, ShadowDuelist said: force command them to pick up specific stuff should we choose to. Maybe ctrl left click an item outside Maxwell's reach forces it to pick it up?(exclude things like traps & irreplaceable items) Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2097 Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 There was a mod that overhauls shadow minions and i remembered you could command them to pick up certain stuff. i do like the game makes minons a bit silly though sometimes they don't work as you expected them to is confusing. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/150634-who-asked-for-this-qol-feature/#findComment-1661602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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