Is fixing farms based on Powder Monkey and Cannon intended?

[Fufuji]

 I have noticed that Powder Monkeys recieved some AI change making them able to shoot cannon balls with a randomly +-30° direction. And they'll no longer shoot if there's no boat in front of cannon. This brings a disaster on all farms based on Powder Monkeys shooting cannons automatically.

There're AI flaws brought to Powder Monkey, for example they frequently shoot the cannon when they themselves are in front of it, killing themselves and delivering curses to players nearby. I wonder whether shutting down farms by preventing monkeys from firing cannons automatically a part of Klei's plan and intended.

[Kihara_kisi]

The new AI is just too stupid,Changes are required.

[_zwb]

10 hours ago, Fufuji said:

part of Klei's plan and intended.

bold of you to assume they have a consistent plan in the first place

[hoxi]

I doubt that giving monkeys the capability of firing a cannon in different directions on a moving boat was intended to kill farms with static land cannons, they seem pretty unrelated. Either way, they could keep the new behavior to be boat-only if they want.

Dunno, at least I'd give them the benefit of the doubt given the addition of pirate raid deliveries where they have a cannon they use for protection (which would require being able to fire it in different directions), even if it has its own issues as mentioned here, monkeys killing each other and even themselves with it.

Them not firing it if there's no boat could maybe be that they didn't want them to blast people on land? Not sure.

[EatenCheetos]

Likely unintended, but the removal of automated farms is something Klei is in favor of anyway, so it’s 2 birds with 1 stone with this change.

[adminaaassh]

33 minutes ago, EatenCheetos said:

Likely unintended, but the removal of automated farms is something Klei is in favor of anyway, so it’s 2 birds with 1 stone with this change.

It's obvious that this is wrong. Your idea is quite extreme, and I believe it is just your imagination. The official stance is likely that they don't want Don't Starve Together to become a game solely about building various devices. However, this doesn't mean that the developers are against building various devices; they simply don't want it to become the main focus of the game. It's like a company's manager saying, "Everyone, please don't overly worry about all the trivial rules, just work freely." But this doesn't mean that the manager wants people to disregard the rules altogether.

[mkemal23]

What's up with the Wavey emotes