Why not send units to gather other resources after finishing the current one?

[Amalaki]

when workers finished with stone, why not send them to wood which is close to them?

I would upload a picture but don't find the function?

to you have a mail,i have some other ideas too

cheers, jo

[elexis]

Not entirely convinced, it should mostly be the players duty to order his units.

If this were implemented, it might have an unexpected side effect. For example sending 30 units to a mine, only 25 being able to gather, the other 5 then walking to trees that might be covered by an enemy tower for example.

On the other hand, there is a similar problem with hunting. If cavalry finished hunting deer, they leave the nearby sheep untouched iirc.

[elexis]

I am not convinced that units should switch automatically to a different resource type. It should be sufficient to detect idle workers as easily as possible.

[Stan]

Maybe for food. But I agree that the rest seem kinda annoying. For food I guess units shouldn't go hunting outside territory unless their previous order was to do so :)