Units complete storehouse and become idle

[Langbart]

Youtuber Alistair Findlay complained about a unit behavior issue in its latest Youtube video.

​* ​0 A.D. a26 preview (I get EPICALLY frustrated) (23/Apr/22)

issue

Watch his video at ~3 minutes and pay attention to the women building the house, only at ~6mins will Alistair actually notice that the women became idle.

• Choose 4 women to build a house.
• Choose 1 soldier to build a storehouse near the house.
• After the 4 women are done with the house, they automatically go to the storehouse to help constructing it, but once it is finished, the 4 women become idle. Only the soldier starts chopping wood.
• See GIF below for more clarity

expected behavior

All women should automatically start chopping wood.

reproducible

This issue can be reproduced for the current GIT version [26813] and all the way to the release of Alpha XXVI ​Patañjali, after that I stopped testing.

related

elexis (23/Apr/22)

[23:23:01] elexis storehouse bug sounds like an order queue issue, like shift clicking things while someone having broken code relating to that

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

This is not a bug, but desired behavior. The women were not tasked to build the storehouse, they were tasked to build the house, while the soldier was explicitly tasked to build the storehouse. If units autobuild something, they they don't autogather by design. Now, it depends on how much automation you want. Discussion can be had on that of course. 

[Langbart]

Ok, I can live with the current situation and the current situation has been part of 0 A.D. since at least A16.

[Freagarach]

It is indeed a meta-question about the level of automation. More control would be nice.