Allow to reduce maximum number of workers for a job
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Hi,
As it says in the title, it'd be very useful to reduce maximum number of people assigned to the task. It can serve as a workaround to several AI issues now but also can work as a priority management tool:
1. Reduce number of workers that are assigned to a low-priority task (e.g. need more stone than wood now);
2. Temporarily set maximum number of workers to zero in task to prioritize other tasks (e.g. need to quickly finish castle wall and don't have time to continue building a shed nearby).
As it says in the title, it'd be very useful to reduce maximum number of people assigned to the task. It can serve as a workaround to several AI issues now but also can work as a priority management tool:
1. Reduce number of workers that are assigned to a low-priority task (e.g. need more stone than wood now);
2. Temporarily set maximum number of workers to zero in task to prioritize other tasks (e.g. need to quickly finish castle wall and don't have time to continue building a shed nearby).
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Locked will not remove the currently assigned Bricktrons from the task, but will prevent new ones from joining the task.
This however, does not modify the number of SLOTS you can have on a task. The number of slots exists mainly to limit issues with the AI. All tasks used to have 8 slots, but tunnels and quarries were reduced to 4 as 8 became too hectic and the AI would often mess up.
Simply go to the task list at the bottom, and hover over the task you wish to change the priority of.
Then hold SHIFT and click the task to RAISE the priority.
Hold CTRL and click the task to LOWER the priority.
Incidentally, "Repair Crew" Task says that you increase or decrease the number of assigned Bricktrons, but it's actually changing the priority between High - Medium - Low - Locked as well, rather than changing how many Bricktrons are assigned. So perhaps at one point it used to change how many Bricktrons were able to be assigned to a task, but then they changed it to a priority system and missed changing the string for the Repair Crew Task?
I assumed that the leftside of the task would allow for changing slots, while the rightside changes priority, however, this is not the case.
Also, @abbradar, I believe it was mentioned in one of the new tutorial videos Sauropod released, but when I made my first post, I was unable to find it, so I may have been confusing it with one of Shatojon's Streams.