Medieval Monday Talk #70 – Manage 2.0

Greetings, medievalists!

Let’s continue our series where we’re working on stuff that you’ve been requesting. The Manage tab is located in the upper part of the screen. It’s a window that helps you assign settlers’ equipment.

It did an okay job, but its functionality can be streamlined and improved. Observe the new version.

All those manage weapons, shields, headgear, apparel and armor sections will be grouped in two categories where you’ll be able to manage all of them.

We’ll be dropping the drop weapon button (hehe). You can still perform that action by selecting a settler, but we are removing it from the manage tab to keep the tab itself as clear as possible.

And you’ve requested to implement a copy/paste function to manage presets, so it’s about time we implement that, too. You’ll be able to apply one preset to all settlers with the paste all function.

Remember those rally points that we mentioned in our previous MMT? Rally point checkmark is there to show if a settler needs to respond to the Rally point call. That way you can control the settler’s activity via the Manage panel!

The final thing we’ve implemented, and this has been requested a lot, is the ability to change clothes automatically based on seasons. By selecting the edit of apparel profile, you can choose what type of clothes/armor should be wearable in what time of year.

Another check box present both here and in the edit of weapon presets is Force Un-equip – right now, if you change the presets (let’s say from All Apparel to No Apparel) the settler would immediately drop it. With force un-equip checkbox turned on, they’ll instantly drop things that don’t have a checkmark. This will hopefully give you better control, especially when it comes to yearly overrides.

And this would be all for this MMT. We’re very happy with this upgrade, but let us know in the comments if we missed something here. There is still more to do, more stuff to talk about while you wait for these features. See ya next week. Until then…

Stay medieval!