New Priority system is a mess

[Grimgaw]

9 hours ago, Giltirn said:

Perhaps a dev could weigh in on the possibility of added a menu option to toggle between job>task priority and task priority>job sorting of the job list?

Going by last weeks Klei stream, even devs can't (briefly) explain priority system. That, in my eyes, is a sign of bad design. 

It works, but good luck trying to explain it to a beginner...

[Kabrute]

@BlueLance bug report it, building disable probably got overlooked as a task path somehow

[Mariilyn]

On 16/03/2018 at 6:33 AM, Grimgaw said:

Going by last weeks Klei stream, even devs can't (briefly) explain priority system. That, in my eyes, is a sign of bad design. 

It works, but good luck trying to explain it to a beginner...

Or a sign that they want to see how players are figuring out the priority system by themselves, without developer interference? As it was explained earlier in this thread?

This new system is probably more difficult for people who are used to something else and don't want to adapt their gameplay. It works very well and new players will do just fine.

[BlueLance]

49 minutes ago, Mariilyn said:

Or a sign that they want to see how players are figuring out the priority system by themselves, without developer interference? As it was explained earlier in this thread?

This new system is probably more difficult for people who are used to something else and don't want to adapt their gameplay. It works very well and new players will do just fine.

I highly doubt it would be for players to figure out, they ahve little tool tips etc, if they wanted players to figure it out they would remove those as well.

The other thing is it seems there are a few things which are so low on priority they get done last (Looking at your disable building, showers and switches)

[Mariilyn]

21 minutes ago, BlueLance said:

I highly doubt it would be for players to figure out, they ahve little tool tips etc, if they wanted players to figure it out they would remove those as well.

The other thing is it seems there are a few things which are so low on priority they get done last (Looking at your disable building, showers and switches)

Well the tool tips are part of the game interface and they are there to help the players ingame. Since there is a tremendous amount of information and numbers to transmit to the player, I think there is no choice but to rely on them to a certain degree so as not to overload the regular windows with info. Although maybe some of them are temporary until a more visual mean of transmitting information is implemented.

For example you can see which errands are part of which job if you mouse over the job names in the priority tab. I dont want to see this list each time i open the priority tab but am happy to be able to access it very quickly, inside the game, if I need to. Its necessary for me to know this info when organising the job priorities but it would be extremely tedious to figure it out by trial and error.

For the showers and switches and disable building I dont know what is happening but we should try to confirm how it is currently supposed to work. 

[Sebastiangperez]

i loaded a save game , and i bet that the game broke the priorities and other logic stuff every time the game updates  (patch ) ... the dupes stop working , stop feed the Algae Deoxydizer , all dupes started to do all jobs and not his .