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Resizing stockpiles

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Aquillion:
quote:Originally posted by karnot:
<STRONG>I'll repeat someone's very old suggestion : when new stockpile is drawn right next to the old one - you should get a menu asking if you want to merge them.</STRONG>That could get annoying...  does this menu just appear on top of everything else, interrupting whatever you're doing?  Also, what if you draw a stockpile right next to two other ones, which one would it merge to?  Would you have to choose from a list?  How would the list let the player know which is which?Better suggestion:  If the 'start space' of a stockpile is on top of another stockpile of the same type, then the result is an extension and not a new stockpile.  Since there's only one start space, that can never be ambiguous, and it requires no fiddling with menus.  Possibly if the start space isn't on top of a stockpile, then the 'end space' could be checked instead.Oh, and what if the player cuts a stockpile in two with de-selection?  For that matter, what happens now if the player does that?[ November 07, 2006: Message edited by: Aquillion ]

Angela Christine:
Deselecting part of a stockpile still leaves the remaining bits of the stockpile as a single stockpile, with the same options and number.Putting more stockpiles next to existing stockpiles doesn't work so well for food now, unless you have an abundance of barrels.  Each non-full stockpile that uses barrels grabs an empty one as soon as it can.  This might lead to brewing failures due to lack of barrels, while you have a barrel is sitting empty in your raw fish stockpile, another in your prepared food stockpile, and one in your lye stockpile.  Fewer larger stockpiles make more efficient use of barrels and bins than many small stockpiles.

Draxxalon:
Another potential interim solution would be to allow larger than 25x25 stockpiles.I dont/wouldn't mind destroying a stockpile and then rebuilding it on top of itself, if it meant I had a single stockpile instead of two.(Its not perfect, but its better than what we have now)

Pacho:
I think it'd be better if we could save stockpile settings

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