Topic

Cancelling/Interrupting Crafting/Cooking/etc.

Crafting actions (be they cooking, grilling, mixing, grinding, smelting, etc) should be stoppable once begun.
Mistakes can be made: wrong recipe, accidentally hit 'max', or just a change of mind for instance
However once begun they cannot be stopped

Currently attempts to cancel a crafting action results in a taunting "Let it finish!" message in local, while force closing Glitch does nothing.
The dichotomy between the seemingly gradual nature of the crafting (loading bars, crafting one item at a time) and what must the be instantaneous reality of the programming, breaks down when one tries to 'cancel' an action halfway through.
This results in a feeling of loss of control for the Glitchen who assume that s/he has control over the gradual (usually irreversible) process.

Suggestion is to program it so that these actions can be cancelled halfway through.

(this is just my opinion, but I think its right either way, hopefully its not too hard to program in though.)

Posted 87 days ago by AiSard Subscriber! | Permalink

Replies

  • +1! But you won't make anything.
    Posted 87 days ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to canceling resulting in not making anything, since if you try to make a high amount of something the process goes much faster and so people could easily abuse this to just get their stuff done quicker.
    Posted 86 days ago by Makai Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Really? Crafting in quantity makes things go quicker? I hadn't noticed that at all.

    But, yeah. Canceling should just stop the whole process and return everything to status quo ante.
    Posted 86 days ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've never understood why you could cancel grinding and smelting but not crafting.  Drives me nuts when I mess up and type in too large a number.
    Posted 85 days ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, yes please.  I accidentally made all of my rubeweeds into tinctures the other day and forgot to shuck any first - when I tried to cancel, I couldn't.  
    Posted 85 days ago by Addlepated Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Aye, agreed, even if there is a -5 mood penalty or somesuch.

    Also, being able to withdraw from an SDB while the crafting pane is up!!!!
    Posted 85 days ago by Sturminator IX Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Any spice milling, fruit changing, gas transforming, and bubble tuning craft faster as you use larger amounts, so accidentally typing 10 instead of 100, would be nice to be able to cancel early.
    Posted 85 days ago by LųĉĩđεşşΨ Subscriber! | Permalink