Jan 17
Simultaneous operation of only one table
Idea is to make labor more valuable and increase cooperation. So that new players on the server can participate in the developed economy.
Target is to eliminate too much advantage of players with many stars. After all, it makes no sense that one person can produce unlimited amount of products consuming a lot of food.
For example, currently one engineer can supply the whole server with Steam Trucks, which blocks this profession from new players. But with suggested feature one engineer is limited in production. The only way to produce more products - ask other engineers to add their labor.
Player can still have a lot of crafting tables. Each table can be filled with work orders. But these orders will be completed one by one in the order, which player determines.
Implementation:
Just add queue of orders, common for all tables.
Pending
Implementation is really simple indeed, and makes sense to be realistic, but that's really a massive gameplay change. Join the game a moment, launch parallel orders for your various projects while your food is cooking, tools preparing, building material creating, so you could make what you want in your limited time will be difficult. As it is really simple, it could really be a server option (for more hardcore players).