Engineering / using backpacks is broke

[Dkid]

My engineer will work for a while then just randomly stop getting building materials out of the chesst. No it's not a general chest its the correct chest. They also donn't even use their trader backpacks and stack them up. They just grab 2 that fits in ntheir normal inventory and go back and forth.. Nav refresh doesn't work. Stopping them and redoing it manually then putting it back to auto engineer doesn't work. ..

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

The not using backpack is normal. As is only grabbing two.

[Dkid]

Why?

[skoolmaster]

why not?

[Kasterjojo]

You would run the risk of encumbered by grabbing 5 items and only using 1 or 2. This prevents that from happening

[Dkid]

If they are wearing a backpack it makes no sense that they dont use the bacvkpack when doing their jobs. Thats why.

[Dkid]

Originally posted by Kasterjojo:

You would run the risk of encumbered by grabbing 5 items and only using 1 or 2. This prevents that from happening

Oh i guess that makes some sense

[BrowneHawk]

I also notice on occasion the ai jams itself up. Found one of my engi's stuck at the crates because he had to many on him.

[Bored Peon]

Engineers will use more than two materials at a time, you jsut have to load them manually.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

Originally posted by Dkid:

Originally posted by Kasterjojo:

You would run the risk of encumbered by grabbing 5 items and only using 1 or 2. This prevents that from happening

Oh i guess that makes some sense

That is the reason.
Before the game would fill every nook and cranny in your inventory. Which caused a ton of issues with crafting and weighing players down to much.
So the Dev cut it down to two or less depending on how much room you have in your body inventory space.