Thoughts on cancelling queued armory, buildings, units, or tech

Muh Dude

This idea first came to me shortly after the first resource dump, which happened about a day after I had started irrigation.. I was stuck researching a now useless tech for 100+ hours when I could have kept grinding weapons and armor. Then recently, I queued up a 100 guard towers instead of guard houses. Not the worst, but I still had to complete them before I could destroy and remake. So... What if we could undo?

CyberPtra

I would say refund, but lose like 10%…. To break contracts 😋

Xliest

I think you need to lose some amount of everything. Certainly gold maybe make buildings 50% refundable. And techs make refundable 80-90%

OgGnome

I say ya got 40% of resourses back

Jaxx

I'd say that the penalty should be harsh. What you get in return must be worth the loss.

Jets

Would be neat that when armies disband due to housing and or gold/food, a percentage of weapons is left behind. Not everyone would take their weapons when they leave the military.

TheKeeper

I just applied the tech cancellation, with a 50% gold refund, but I still don't know how to modify the UI without making it more complex to refund everything else. Any ideas?

Lord Thane

TheKeeper I tried it out, works good. Probably only thing I would change is to put it at the bottom of the page so it's out of the way, and add a confirmation prompt to verify user wants to proceed to prevent misclick.

TheKeeper

Lord Thane Done, and I added the modal with separate js and css, so we can use it later.

Muh Dude

Love it. You guys rock! Does it save the time left for technology? Honestly, I hope it doesnt

TheKeeper

Muh Dude Nope, only 50% refund

TheKeeper

I found a way to implement it without messing the UI 🙂 I implemented it in Armory, building and military is a WIP

Jets

I'd like to go a little further with the topic... When destroying buildings I believe we should get some wood and iron back since we are paying a workforce to destroy it for us. Random input 20% return?

My thought also go to the potential disband of military units, not all military members will take their weapons. Say 10% get left behind?

Just looking at it from a quality of life perspective, I have never had any issues with either.

trupheus

Jets military disbanding means either didn’t have a house didn’t have food or didn’t have gold. They’re keeping the equipment. 🤣

Jets

trupheus valid, what about destroying buildings?

saadht

Jets

We reuse the wood by recycling, and the iron by smelting and reforming. Whatever we can't salvage, we sell as scrap. Hence, all wood and iron, and 50% gold.

trupheus

saadht gold is a sunk cost.

What’s happening though is slowly chipping away at resource scarcity. Keep walking this path and why bother having resources if you barely have to consider them. In my opinion.

Jets

saadht 50% reimbursement could be a new technology? Say start it at 25% and then we add another econ tech that would double the recycling efficiency. That would be neat. I'd rather we have more techs

saadht

trupheus

I think resources have been the biggest limiting factor for me this round so far. Therefore, I don't agree that we're chipping away at scarcity.

Jaxx

saadht To be honest the short tech time is the most crippling thing because we avoid building stuff to save gold and that affects everything.

Xliest

Jaxx guys, keep in mind this is just a test round the techs will go back to 10x time to complete at which point gold will be abundant. And resources will be the limiting factor. I have 40 mills and mines and I’m limited on wood and iron constantly.