Job Outfit Management?

[PyroMancer]

Is there a way to automate outfit changing between jobs? Most colonies are small and thus colonist hold multiple jobs. However many of the clothing items that give bonuses to jobs don't need to be worn all the time. Like your doctor is likely working on other things most of the time. Or the construction worker only needs when you are expanding.

I'd like to make use of the work specific cloths but feel they would have limited use as my workers do multiple things so like do I put construction outfit on my builder that spends most of their day farming when not building or do I just go with farming gear. Same with Doctor/Cook.

[Vermillion Cardinal]

Personally, if assigning job-related clothing I prefer to assign them the garb that best corresponds to what they'd do most of the time. If your builder spends more time farming than building then the farmer's gear it is. For doctor/cooks, the cook's set.

If I have pawns with jobs they do almost equally frequently I pick generalist gear (those that add to general work speed) instead. My older colonies had farmer/ranchers in farming gear, researcher/doctors in research gear, while everyone else wore jumpsuits meant to give them at least some work speed bonuses.

I've since moved on from that level of micro, and these days either give them jumpsuits or let them wear whatever; once they're skilled enough the clothes generally don't matter. Researchers though I might still outfit accordingly since getting research in faster with all the gear and ideology bonuses is very profitable.

[PyroMancer]

Originally posted by Vermillion Cardinal:

I've since moved on from that level of micro, and these days either give them jumpsuits or let them wear whatever; once they're skilled enough the clothes generally don't matter. Researchers though I might still outfit accordingly since getting research in faster with all the gear and ideology bonuses is very profitable.

Yeah for now I just decided to equip items with global work speed and movement bonuses.

On the specialized task though while Doc Farmer might spend more time farming I think getting a bonus when doing operations might be more important. Though don't do those often so might just keep an outfit on the side for when that comes up.