Is there any way to increase the number of priority rankings?

[Confused]

Default in similar games is usually 1-9 and a unprioritized setting. The 1-4 and unprioritized makes it a little difficult to prioritize super efficiently as you have a lot of jobs on 2 or 3 but really you'd want some 2s/3s done before others. But you can't set them to 1 because thats reserved for emergency (firefighting, doctor, patient, etc). And you can't set 3s to 4s if you want to use 4 for things to do when effectively idle.

t be nice to get a setting for this, but in the meantime does anyone know a way to alter settings in the files or a mod that does this?

[desrtfox071]

Yes, there's a mod that brings the number up to 10.

[Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG]

it's also sorted from left to right. So if you have multiple items on priority 3, it picks the first one on priority 3 from the left.. and works it way to the right before starting on priority 4 etc

[BlueDragonXD]

Yeah for the most part you really don't need more than 4 once you really understand how it works. But yeah there is a mod. It changes more than just the numbers though. It kind of changes the whole work tab. Unless there is another mod? But the one I know of is this!

Fluffy's Work Tab Mod. Really awesome stuff. Gives you 1 to 9 I think. Plus makes work tab a tiny bit more complicated but gives you more control over the actions of your colonists. Very close to how Dwarf Fortress does it. More catagories. If there is a mod that only gives you 1-9 but keeps everything else the same I don't know?
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=16120.0

[Commandertoblow]

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

Yes, there's a mod that brings the number up to 10.

then why wouldent you tell us the mod?

[MalXenos]

Originally posted by Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG:

it's also sorted from left to right. So if you have multiple items on priority 3, it picks the first one on priority 3 from the left.. and works it way to the right before starting on priority 4 etc

That's good to know. I just got the game :)

[sevenwarlocks]

I'm beginning to think I may not even need 4. For the most part, I control everything by leaving most things at 3, and using a 2 when I really want a pawn to focus on something. I'm fairly new to the game (only because it's THIS game) but I've noticed that ranking firefighting, doctoring, etc. as a 1 (or even, sometimes, a 2) causes the task to be done when the pawn would more wisely be doing something else. I use 4 to mean "Don't do it on your own, but do it if I tell you to."

[ichifish]

Originally posted by Confused Legolas:

Default in similar games is usually 1-9 and a unprioritized setting. The 1-4 and unprioritized makes it a little difficult to prioritize super efficiently as you have a lot of jobs on 2 or 3 but really you'd want some 2s/3s done before others. But you can't set them to 1 because thats reserved for emergency (firefighting, doctor, patient, etc). And you can't set 3s to 4s if you want to use 4 for things to do when effectively idle.

t be nice to get a setting for this, but in the meantime does anyone know a way to alter settings in the files or a mod that does this?

I rarely use anything higher than five for “Will never do x but I don’t want to have to change work priorities for that one time I want you to do x,” but I use Fluffy’s Work Tab (which allows you to break larger jobs into their constituent tasks and I find VERY helpful), and it allows priorities up to nine.

[Kaasenpeper]

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

Yes, there's a mod that brings the number up to 10.

Why would you even comment that without telling what the mod is?
That's so useless and unhelpful...

[Wraith_Magus]

Originally posted by Kaasenpeper:

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

Yes, there's a mod that brings the number up to 10.

Why would you even comment that without telling what the mod is?
That's so useless and unhelpful...

Why would you necro a 4-year-old thread to complain about something said by someone who doesn't even use these forums anymore?

[Dieter]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.