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Can we link the discussion on task priority? Or should we just have a question to sum it up? (feel free to delete this post if/when you’ve dealt with it)

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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…