Breaking down buildings, furniture, vehicles and machines

[Solfius]

in which case, the only realistic way to clear such projects is to be able to "undo" the work down and remove the resources. This would take time to do, maybe an hour to remove the resources, and undoing the work would work the same as dismantling a completed object

[g1asswa1ker]

I am in total agreement.

[Kael]

So am I. And then I guess if there are projects like that and undoing projects isn't implemented in time we could always ask PD (or whoever does things like that now) to come in and manually remove all of them

[fishfin]

I think that it should be possible to remove resorses from uncompleted projects and buildings, furniture... but you only get a percentage of the resorses (like 25-50 percent)

[g1asswa1ker]

I personally feel that the cost of undoing something a building a project what ever is you get nothing. Simple and salty. It's a vesing thing for the player/character but simply a fact to live with. Reason being that if you require the return of items it might put to much of a demand on the systems resources and or program. better to make it simple and a project, machine, item or building simply goes away.

[west]

Boo urns. I've had thousands of grams of resources sunk on projects by vandals who never put any time into them but to apply them to projects; by all logic they ought to be sitting in a pile somewhere where we ought to be able to get to them but can't. I'd say any project that's unfinished ought to be able to be worked backwards at approximately the same rate to get maybe 90%+ of the initial resources back.

[g1asswa1ker]

Vandles are not a problem of programming. They are a problem of tyour charactors... ie if you are not smart enough to get it into storage and under safer keeping then you will have to deal with it on your own terms.

Regardless, it would be better to implement this without the return then not have this at all.

[Chris Johnson]

Cancellation of projects , and (some) recovery of resources has already been accepted. This thread was originally about the destruction of existing objects not projects.

[Solfius]

So what's your opinion on that, given we can destroy locks, but no other objects?

Surely the same programming can be applied to machines and such?

[Chris Johnson]

From a progamming point of view the lock destruction and breaking code could not be used for implementing this suggestions - It's code specific to locks with different types of triggers and checks than would be required here.

This suggestion , if implemented , would be better approached as an extention to already existing deterioration routines - Active item destruction is essentially a speeding up of deterioration. Deterioration of buildings, vehicles and machines has already been accepted and will eventually be implemented.

[Solfius]

This suggestion , if implemented , would be better approached as an extention to already existing deterioration routines - Active item destruction is essentially a speeding up of deterioration. Deterioration of buildings, vehicles and machines has already been accepted and will eventually be implemented.

That makes perfect sense to me, unsuprising as I've mentioned it before, but it simply remains to see when it's implemented now.

(What do you mean the programmers have lives? What would they want one of them for?)