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effigy, right, that is true that my idea come from not correct interpretation, but input from others helps unleash more creativity (as that last idea shaped and got more detailed dues to questions from NoQ).

By the way, any way you fix it, at least make it so I can GIVE the order to build while it's burning, but the truck will EXECUTE the order only after it stopped (If it's not too hard), because this is really annoying to me.

iap, yeah, I hate that i can't put that into orders queue.

iap wrote:By the way, any way you fix it, at least make it so I can GIVE the order to build while it's burning, but the truck will EXECUTE the order only after it stopped (If it's not too hard), because this is really annoying to me.

+1 (:

So what if two trucks of different players stand near the oil waiting when it stops burning?

I think that in that case (with orders queue) it also should simply wait, to not make things too complicated (read as: prone to bugs).

NoQ wrote:

iap wrote:By the way, any way you fix it, at least make it so I can GIVE the order to build while it's burning, but the truck will EXECUTE the order only after it stopped (If it's not too hard), because this is really annoying to me.

+1 (:

So what if two trucks of different players stand near the oil waiting when it stops burning?

Oh, then just whoever give the first order wins. And then it would make some players angry, and they open a thread about fixing it, but by then the game will get to beta 7 or 8, and this is PLENTY of time to play with giving orders to burning derrick

Not always that must be the same as the one who clicked first, it depends on other factors, like mostly proximity.

iap wrote:

NoQ wrote:

iap wrote:By the way, any way you fix it, at least make it so I can GIVE the order to build while it's burning, but the truck will EXECUTE the order only after it stopped (If it's not too hard), because this is really annoying to me.

+1 (:

So what if two trucks of different players stand near the oil waiting when it stops burning?

Oh, then just whoever give the first order wins. And then it would make some players angry, and they open a thread about fixing it, but by then the game will get to beta 7 or 8, and this is PLENTY of time to play with giving orders to burning derrick

I like this

AIs often suffer from trying to build on a burning derrick, only to find they can't and then they move their trucks to do something else and lose the derrick. So allowing trucks to wait until burning stops and then automatically start building (on first come, first served basis) would help make AIs much more effective. (And it would be less annoying for humans too - I always get annoyed waiting for the burning to stop before reissuing the build order).

@aubergine its OK if you annoyed when enemy destoyed your derricks

on first come, first served basis

Yeah, that. First *come*, not first *ordered*.

NoQ, exactly, I've meant the same above.

"First arrived, first served" will be clearest description

And I don't mind if enemy destroys my derricks and gets their truck there before me to build a new one. That happens in game already, it's my fault not theirs that I didn't get my trucks to the derrick soon enough.

iap wrote:By the way, any way you fix it, at least make it so I can GIVE the order to build while it's burning, but the truck will EXECUTE the order only after it stopped (If it's not too hard), because this is really annoying to me.

+1 from me as well, even though that might not be a valid "other" solution for this poll.

Edit: Beta 5 is out. The developers have decided to reduce burn time based upon how complete the Oil Derrick was when it's destroyed. This poll will be closed for now.

Shadow Wolf TJC wrote:...

Edit: Beta 5 is out. The developers have decided to reduce burn time based upon how complete the Oil Derrick was when it's destroyed. This poll will be closed for now.

That's just a quick change (probably the least controversial part of all suggested changes), while wondering what else should be changed. Changing burn time doens't mean nothing else can be changed.