Click and Drag System?

[voxel_pirate]

No official statement as far as I remember but we’ve had a good discussion about some kind of a priority list in the following thread (which touches the outlined idea a bit)…

Task Priority -- An important mechanic ignored by many DF-like games

If I understand the current gameplay implementation correctly, the AI is task based. The player assigns tasks, the AI director keeps a queue of them and selects units capable/compatible and convenient to carry out the task and completes them. Player has no direct control over what the units do. A common problem with this system is that if you have something that’s urgent, you have to either cancel all other tasks or modify a lot of unit job priorities such that a specific job is done right awa…