Lo-Fi Games

Here's an idea I hope you find relevant.

Sometimes, it's hard to be sure what job a character just decided to do and/or why they're unable to do it. I think it would be nice to provide more information to the player so we are able to "debug" that, or just check how far along the character has come in their task list.

"Status: Operating machine" shows up for a lot of different activities! Are they making electrical components or harvesting a farm?

You don't necessarily need to put in all the work to insert unique messages like "Harvesting Hemp Farm L" for all the different tasks, but "Operating machine: Hemp Farm L", using a mouseover tooltip to display that long message if necessary, might be a good idea.

Just my two cents; thank you.

Have been thinking about it for a while. It is indeed a little issue. Willl be nice to even just shorten the task names. For instance, "Operating machine" fits to most of the tasks except farming and leisuring at the recently added sitting furniture. Something like "Job" would fit a bit better, and it wouldn't take as much space, so the station name itself would always be visible. Then we have "Operating automated machine" which is even longer, that could be changed to simply "Operating" or "Control", again, for better visibility. Some really long station names would probably still be cut, but it would be way easier to guess precisely what it is.