Topic: Fur production instead of Reindeer

hessenfarmer wrote: I agree we should add some hint about meat being a byproduct. If you miss other information, please be somewhat more specific then "many places" so we could do something about it. We can't address anything we do not specifically know about.

After reading this discussion I wonder: I have read about other "sequence-style" production buildings like some of the mines that produce different things according to a pre-set sequence. Is it also there the case that if you supply the mine only sparsely you only ever get the things at the start of the sequence and never get 'to the end'? This would be most non-intuitive. Neither is the sequence itself documented in the help (I believe), nor the fact that depending on how you supply the building (steady or in 'chunks'), the outcome could be totally different. The former I just see as missing documentation, but the latter to me strongly feels like a bug, at least if not clearly communicated. Is this "sequence-resetting" really intended or at this point only "a by now accepted unintended behaviour"?

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I don't quite get your reply. Maybe I could try to explain a little more. The way I imagined things work in my naive thinking was something along those lines:

• I read that (some) mines produce different materials in sequence, say AAABAAB. Now, if there happens to be not enough food after the first AA, I imagined production simply stops and is resumed when more food comes in, so it would continue with AB. Instead, this discussion here would point to resetting the sequence and the next time it would start with AA again. I couldn't imagine this would be done on purpose which is why I never imagined it would be done that way.

• For producers like tool smithies I imagined it would actually somehow look at the demand (and available resources) and base the decision on what to produce next on that. Say: I need 2 hammers, 1 net and 1 pick. I happen to not have cloth right now, so the net is skipped. From the remaining 2 hammers and 1 pick something now would be chosen based on some other criteria - maybe simply 'the highest (demand - stock)' with some intelligence to deal with infinite demand. I would not even consider things that are currently not needed and not spend time on those. However, it seems to be a lot more inefficient than that and simply cycle through a fixed sequence and taking a lot of time potentially doing nothing, while tools are needed.

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