Idle beaver tracker
it would be really nice to see which beavers are employed but currently idle (different to "unemployed" beavers).
E.g.: you have a farmhouse with two beavers employed but the fields are full so no planting or harvesting can be done at all. In this scenario there should be a mark in the employment list to show they are currently idle
my suggestion would be that it could go like:
Job | Workers | Idle
-----------|--------------|------
Farmer | 2/2 | [2]
Builder | 1/4 | [1]
..... etc
Comments: 6
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01 Feb, '23
Gagabou MergedAdd a routine check for idle workers:
if( actual_time - last_time_working >= time_until_idle)
{
ShowIdleStatus();
}
Where with a "City hall" sort of administration building/production menu the user could define the time_until_idle. Could be in seconds or in-game hours.
That means you don't have to have a timer running for every job and can still get a relatively accurate "Idle indicator" for jobs that can't use "nothing to do in range".
This way a settlement doesn't have builders doing nothing while the farmers are dying and not being replaced resulting in a starvation event. Or at least, the user gets a warning that "Useless jobs" are being prioritised somehow. -
10 Mar, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin"Idle timer/indicator" (suggested by Gagabou on 2023-02-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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25 Mar, '23
DrawrofThis is the first thing that bothered me enough to use the feedback feature for. I would really appreciate some kind of idle beaver indicator. It's hard to keep an eye on everything that's going on, watching out for when beavers run out of work to do. It's frustrating to find them sitting on their asses, not knowing how long they've been like that. Makes me want to reload an autosave just to shift them to different work right when are all done with their current task.
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03 Apr, '23
Talãooo MergedAnd on clicking it would open a new window of all those who are out of work to do, if it's just one, take the camera to him. This way we could better manage and optimize tasks more.
Ex:
!! There are 01 beaver(s) without tasks -
14 Apr, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin"When beavers have nothing to do, inform on the screen." (suggested by Talãooo on 2023-04-03), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jul, '23
DataDefinitely need idle beaver notification for important tasks (e.g. getting water).
E.g. I have water pumps at varying levels. Had a beaver sitting around doing nothing and I just happened to notice the pump was not working away...
Another time, I forgot to add storage for a commodity and happened to notice the beaver was sitting idle! :/
