It would be very helpful to have an 'eject' option in various places. Three examples:

(1) I have wheat stocked up in the brewery (not being used since the economy doesn't need beer), when I need it more at the bakery, so I 'eject' the stockpiled wheat out of the brewery. Workers then go and take it where it is more needed.

(2) A poor road system got jammed up as multiple flags reach max capacity of stores. Rather than having to destroy the flag and rebuild, an 'eject' option here would simply make the wares disappear.

(3) Most importantly: suppose I have a master miner in a simple coal mine, when I need him over in a deep mine. (Or, a master blacksmith in a metal works when I need him to go fill in the War Mill vacancy.) Rather than destroy + rebuild, I simply 'eject' the overqualified worker. He goes where he's more needed, and a new unskilled worker eventually replaces him in the simple building.

good idea

cospaok wrote: I just joined the forum to suggest (1) and (3). As for (2) I would prefer to be able to divert traffic on a less used road even if it's a long way off the destination so I can prevent the jammed flags and loss of wares. And, it would be better still if the game decided which way the wares should travel to avoid jammed flags, provided the player has built alternative routes.

Since implementation of the donkeys/oxen/horses i haven't seen any real traffic jams - under some circumstances (like when you connected a lot new constructionsites to your economy and the headquarters pushes all the needed wares out) there still might be some wares not transported directly... but that wouldn't be changed by a redirect.

Nasenbaer wrote: Since implementation of the donkeys/oxen/horses i haven't seen any real traffic jams - under some circumstances (like when you connected a lot new constructionsites to your economy and the headquarters pushes all the needed wares out) there still might be some wares not transported directly... but that wouldn't be changed by a redirect.

There are traffic jams even with donkeys. You have played to much games in the pre-donkey-time and know how to avoid them And there are still bugs in the economy code.

Actually these features are being implemented. I tried a bit of these but stopped them do do more of the work in the economy code. It's quite easy to hack them in different places but I want to do it in a more general way and avoid breaking the current system.