Foresters lodge - disabling of planting

[Shadowhawk]

Why would I ever want to disable planting new saplings? Thoughts? Thank you.

[28rommel]

Never really.
The only thought I have, is that someone might want to do this, to completely remove the area of trees around the Foresters Lodge. But if you want to do that, you can simply (and much faster) do that, by "painting" the area to be cleared.

[Claybot]

Never

I've tried it once or twice a long time ago and I never understood why anyone would do it.

If I need trees cut that badly I select and have them cut.

[rkelly17]

Same: Never. Every town I start I disable cutting until I have maximum tree coverage. I put gatherer's huts next to my foresters since plants grow around trees. But I have never disabled planting.

[Kataclismic]

I usually have a forester in an area that I will later develop. When I'm getting closer to developing it I'll stop planting new saplings, then when they come to build they don't have all the trees to chop down first.

[Siwa]

if a person dont have to plant trees they go cut them on bouble speed

[Grat Dalton]

I use disable planting to clear an area for future build sites.
This helps general labors focus on moving goods instead of clearing trees.

[Nimir-Raj]

If I'm adding a new forester's lodge (and have existing ones) I may sometimes have cut only just to boost logs if needed. I'd rather do that than have the labourers do it so they can focus on other things.

Naturally it all comes down to circumstances though.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Shadowhawk:

Why would I ever want to disable planting new saplings? Thoughts? Thank you.

IIRC:

Trees can/will spread on their own, just not as quickly as if a forester planted them.

Some changes were made pre-release that effected the magical forest/herb thing/mechanic and disabling it could have been to allow more space for such herbs to grow. (That mystical/magical forest/herb mechanic isn't in the game, but there could still be references for it hanging around.)

It also takes time to replant, but this is barely noticeable IMO. Once the player has some proper foresters, woodcutting/collection is pretty trivialized and it'll stack up pretty quickly.