Dev Diary #6 - Automation & Behavior

[p]Oceaneers gives you full control over character commands.[/p][p]Starting with only a few characters, you generally want to micro-manage all of their tasks as you build up. Once your colony grows and has more production, you will want some characters to do their tasks automatically.[/p][p][/p][p]We continue to expand and improve features in this area, and already have a bunch of quality of life aspects to help with full control, plus automation features![/p][p][/p][h3]Full Control QoL[/h3][p]Click on a character, right click on a tree, and tell them to harvest it. Full control is as simple as that - but you also have access to group commands, and command queueing.[/p][p][/p][p]Queue commands with shift, manage the queue, and even cancel queued commands.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Do a task in the area (or on the island). E.g. "Pickup All" will pickup all the loose objects on the island, and "Harvest All" will harvest all of the same type of bush on the island.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Need Automation[/h3][p]Eating, drinking, sleeping and other "need" tasks can be performed manually like any other with full control. This is great at the start of the game or at critical moments when resources are low and you want to have fine control over which character eats your last ration![/p][p]You can also setup automated behavior for needs, choosing which needs they will manage by themselves. There are also two modes you can use for this behavior, Idle-Only and Full.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Job Automation[/h3][p]Once you have establish a larger colony with crafting stations, farm plots and research stations, you will want to make use of Work Posts.[/p][p][/p][p]Each island can have a work post, it allows you to define which jobs can be performed automatically on that island and in the surrounding water. You can change the radius of this work area as well.[/p][p][/p][p]Characters also have behavior settings for jobs, and will only automatically do jobs you have assigned.[/p][p][/p][p]Once you have a large colony made up of multiple islands connected by bridges, you might decided to specialize each island (farming island, crafting island, etc). Then you can setup a group of survivors to manage each island.[/p][p]

That wraps up this dev diary, we would love to hear your thoughts!

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