Problems assigning Pals

[NYX2062]

i know the devs are working on curbing the cheating on servers but can they please also heavily look into the fact that assigning pals is still very broken and as a main feature of the game it needs to seriously be addressed. Ive seen many complaints on it and it would be nice for them to acknowledge it in announcements

[Stellar Remnant]

Someone mentioned a potential fix for this in another thread.

Replace the offending pal with another from your storage, then replace the other with the original. Try reassigning. Should be fixed.

[NYX2062]

Originally posted by MiniHerc:

Someone mentioned a potential fix for this in another thread.

Replace the offending pal with another from your storage, then replace the other with the original. Try reassigning. Should be fixed.

i have tried that already and it doesnt work and im tired of disassembling and reassembling the same things over and over again. its incredibly frustrating
edit to add: i have also tried putting them in my party and then putting them in the storage and then in the camp and it didnt work, ive tried feeding them and making them sleep to restore any remote loss of sanity and it didnt work. i do not play modded at all so it cant be that. it is just genuinely broken

[Kmaxx]

They need to stay assigned there as well. 9.5/10 times they will stay there for a few minutes, then go get food and then end up doing other tasks.

[Soren]

Originally posted by Jax2062:

Originally posted by MiniHerc:

Someone mentioned a potential fix for this in another thread.

Replace the offending pal with another from your storage, then replace the other with the original. Try reassigning. Should be fixed.

i have tried that already and it doesnt work and im tired of disassembling and reassembling the same things over and over again. its incredibly frustrating

A problem I found once was the facility being like 1% out of bounds. My Pals didn't want to touch my ranch for example because it was too close to the edge of the land border. I didn't even think it was out of the border personally. But I moved the ranch closer in and the problem was solved.

[NYX2062]

Originally posted by Soren:

Originally posted by Jax2062:

i have tried that already and it doesnt work and im tired of disassembling and reassembling the same things over and over again. its incredibly frustrating

A problem I found once was the facility being like 1% out of bounds. My Pals didn't want to touch my ranch for example because it was too close to the edge of the land border. I didn't even think it was out of the border personally. But I moved the ranch closer in and the problem was solved.

i have all of my stations centralized too because of that exact problem. There literally is no reason why a pal that is at 100% san and !00% full cannot work at the proper station

[Murb]

I feel like they caused this problem (at least for me) a couple patches back.

Sometimes you can fix it by removing a pal from your base and adding them back in. Other times you need to rebuild the station.

Even with those ways to fix it, if you rebuild your breeding grounds, it is just going to happen again when you manually assign pals to it.

I think the only mitigation is just not to manually assign pals at all until they fix it. Sadly this means that some stations are useless and you need to use pals that only have specific skills (cooling/electric) if you want pals to focus on something.

[Soren]

Originally posted by Murb:

Even with those ways to fix it, if you rebuild your breeding grounds, it is just going to happen again when you manually assign pals to it.

I mean yeah, it is annoying. I'm starting to see it more and more. It only seems to generally happen to the ranch where you can't assign them there (though other non-assign based taskes too maybe). These days, I just have a box for the base pals. Place all the base pals into a box, teleport away to browse a merchant shop (not sure if those step is necessary tbh), come back and place the ranching pals first when putting back the Pals.