Production Queue in 1.61 dumber than previous version

[Msquare]

Of course I downloaded and installed the 1.61 patch without any hesitation. And for me it made no difference, in the sense I hadn't come accross any problems with video, gameplay and so on, so nothing broken, nothing fixed

but...

when queueing up items in the city production screen, it was possible in 1.52 to do Theater - Library - University. Now, in 1.61 it wont let me queue the University because I dont have the Library yet. In 1.52 it was even so smart that I couldnt queue the University unless the library was buildt or in the queue.



Or is there some trickery I am not doing right?

 

[senwiz]

That's not dumber...That's a fix. LOL How do you know about Univerisity until you already have a library? It was a bug, IMO, that you could schedule them to be built before the patch. I know...I miss it too, but...it wasn't right to begin with. LOL

 

[crunch]

I miss the library > university kind of queuing as well. I guess there was some bug that allowed misusing it, so they removed such queuing option.

 

[Msquare]

OK, thanks for the reply, at least now I know it is not just me. I disagree otherwise, though. I could not queue University unless Library was buildt or queued before, so there was no breaking the dependency rules (unless a subtle bug allowed a cheat ...). So I see the new functionality as a step backwards. Ah, well. I suppose there is an offical site for bug reports´somwhere where I can leave my opinion.

 

[ModernKnight]

In 1.52 it was an easy exploit to put the Lib in the queue, then the Uni, then delete the Lib... the Uni would stay there. For me, anyway. In fact, you could then easily add the Lib after the Uni, if you wanted.

Since I don't cheat, this bug was actually a big hassle because if you wanted to edit a long queue by adding to the top or bottom I had to put things in and take them out to avoid the exploit.

I wish they had "fixed" it so that you could enter "future" things properly. The inability to enter them defeats the whole purpose of the pre-made queues linked to hotkeys. Is that busted too, now? (I'm not in the game to test ATM.)