Idea for enhancement

[Slain9178]

Hello,

I have an idea for enhancement, but I am not sure if this might be useful or even belong to the Better Contracts mod.

Anyway, the idea is that player could specify crops that would be blocked to grow by NPCs on unowned fields with certain size in hectares (for all saves/new games). Not completely blocked for all fields (there are already scripts that can do that), but for example prevent rootcrops on fields bigger than 7 ha. Lets just say that harvesting carrots on 50 ha fields is pain in the ***, but it would be "nice" to have rootcrops on smaller fields to have bigger variety of jobs.

I have already tried to create script that does this with help of AI (ChatGPT and Claude), but I am unable to make it work, (my biggest "achievement" is editing XMLs :D) and I guess this script would be extremely difficult to code.

What are your thoughts? Would it even be helpful for anybody else?

Thank you.

[Mmtrx]

Nice idea, could certainly be done.
A rather simple way to implement would be to adapt the harvest mission generator function, so that no root crop harvests are generated for fields greater than a certain ha value.

To prevent NPCs from planting such crops on big fields would require much deeper interference with base game mechanics.

If you like, I could send you a small update to the current BC version, that implements the first solution 🤓

[Slain9178]

@Mmtrx Thank you for quick response :) I presume that first solution regards only contracts generation, but big fields will still have all crops including rootcrops, correct? I would prefer second solution, though. It would be waste to have big fields "blocked" with unwanted crops without contracts :) But I agree with you, second solution will be much more complicated. Yesterday, I tried to use similar logic used by Easy Development Controls, maybe I am on to something, but I am limited by daily usage limit of free Claude AI (better for coding than ChatGPT IMHO), so it will take time. Nevertheless, thank you again for quick reaction :)