Wandering Workers

shaygitz wrote:
I first noticed it with Otto from the Shøp; I'd tap the chair icon to collect the chairs and release the characters, then quickly put them all back to work. But Otto would wander off as though he didn't get the message, sometimes straying as far as the tunnel before turning around and heading back. This really messed with my routine, as 5 of them would finish at the same time, and then 20 seconds later Otto would finish. I got so bugged I put him on a 24 hr. task and left five to build chairs. Then it started happening with Grampa at the coffee house, and then Louie. Coffee's too important to have only four people making it, so putting them on other tasks isn't an option. Anybody else having trouble with this? I didn't see any other threads about it, so maybe not

I know exactly why this is happening, as it happened to me with Otto and Grandpa-not with Louie as I'd figured it out by then. You know when a character completes a task and they do a little victory movement of some kind? Well Otto, Grandpa, and presumably Louie, have longer animations, and it interferes with the giving of tasks, as they wander off a little first then move towards the task building.

My solution is to just wait until they're done, or not tapping the crafting building to instantly collect the crafted items. By then, their victory animation is done! :)

Just makes it tough if you're playing hard for a period of time, tapping everything as soon as it's ready and timing your play. Not a horrible thing as bugs go, just annoying

Do you have a piece of road in front of the building? This solved it for cme!

shaygitz wrote:
Just makes it tough if you're playing hard for a period of time, tapping everything as soon as it's ready and timing your play. Not a horrible thing as bugs go, just annoying

I've been playing non-stop for hours at a time, and it's no problem. Watch him do it, it's a second or two longer than the rest. Honestly, I do it myself. It doesn't slow you down.

annettemarc wrote:
Do you have a piece of road in front of the building? This solved it for cme!

I'll try the road. I've stacked buildings in front of the door, and they just walk through them

AOFIGO009 wrote:

shaygitz wrote:
Just makes it tough if you're playing hard for a period of time, tapping everything as soon as it's ready and timing your play. Not a horrible thing as bugs go, just annoying

I've been playing non-stop for hours at a time, and it's no problem. Watch him do it, it's a second or two longer than the rest. Honestly, I do it myself. It doesn't slow you down.

It's as much as 20-25 seconds, depending how far they get. Not so awful for the chairs and the 30-second turnaround, but it really screws myntiming up on the 2-minute coffee tasks

I tried your suggestion of waiting a few seconds before putting them back to work, but it hasn't changed anything for me. I'll keep at it

shaygitz wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
Do you have a piece of road in front of the building? This solved it for cme!

I'll try the road. I've stacked buildings in front of the door, and they just walk through them

You can try that too, but I've got roads outside them too, and it still happens. Just watch them, it's really not as bad as you think, I do it myself. Just let the game collect what's dropped, and Abe, Otto and Loue will all be done. You're just trying to rush things too fast, but I'm still going fast enough to have about 160 million in REV.

AOFIGO009 wrote:

shaygitz wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
Do you have a piece of road in front of the building? This solved it for cme!

I'll try the road. I've stacked buildings in front of the door, and they just walk through them

You can try that too, but I've got roads outside them too, and it still happens. Just watch them, it's really not as bad as you think, I do it myself. Just let the game collect what's dropped, and Abe, Otto and Loue will all be done. You're just trying to rush things too fast, but I'm still going fast enough to have about 160 million in REV.

Okay, I will. Can't argue with $160M! :D

For me, its all instant. Are you reassigning them by re-tapping the chair on top of the building?

Are you waiting for the money to move out of your way? I don't. I tap once on the stacked handshakes, then immediately tap the green chair on top of the byilding TWICE, one right after the other. The first tap lets me tap again which is to open the task list. I don't even think poor Otto makes it all the way out of the building.

Not happening to me! :shock: