Warrens and goblin housing/fulfilling needs

[Xenaro Naulmunnen]

So you removed burrows and made it so that we are no longer restrained by a build area around warrens, sure why not first one was scuffed and the second one was simply a hindrance, but I feel like you need to touch warrens on an important point which is housed goblins.

As it stands now housed goblins belong to a certain warren and recover their needs from that particular warren, which means that if I make the mistake of assigning a job to a goblin that is housed at a warren that is far away from said job, that goblin will have a lot of problems covering his needs AND doing his job.

One way to fix that would be to automatically (or manually even) relocate a goblin if a free warren is found closer to that goblin's workplace.

Another one would be to remove housing as a whole, warrens would still exist both for increasing the goblin limit and recovering needs but goblins would no longer be forced to eat and sleep in a specific warren.

[DNLH]

The latter would be actually nice, I was talking about how we need reassigning, but goblins just doing their thing in the closest Warrens would be, I'd think, an easier solution.

You could still keep the pop limit being dictated by the Warrens and they could still have limited slots, so single one wouldn't be enough to service a particularly busy area. You could also pop 'em around the map this way, basically creating emergency shelters. I like this a lot, but I do wonder if it could be added easily.

EDIT: Heck, maybe you could even do something like specific Warrens for specific jobs, either as upgrade or separate buildings, so just one kind of goblins (one for each main trait and Peons Pen?) would be allowed to use 'em, but they'd fulfill their needs faster.

The more I think about it, the more I like even the mental image itself, of goblins just living wherever except for chosen few who wear the best hats and get to have their own spot (like Chieftain, Trade Prince and so on).

[TamTroll]

i don't think this would be a good idea, but something that COULD happen is perhaps the Warrens almost acting like Burrows, Goblins go in one, and come out another that's closer to their destination. Warrens and storehouses already share inventories, so it wouldn't be unusual for the game.

Like i said though, that mechanic might do more harm then good, idk.