It should be possible to dismantle construction sites

[Robert Pollak]

Since materials can be regained by tearing down buildings, it should also be possible to tear down unfinished buildings for the same reason.

I had this idea because - being a Widelands newbie - I ran out of raw stone and had a lot of unfinished buildings made of stone :)

[SirVer (sirver)]

What is the general feeling about this? I am kinda on the fence. It makes sense on the one part for symmetry reasons, but I also feel that placing a constructionsite should be some kind of investment.

So I am pretty torn :).

[_aD (ad-simplypeachy)]

I quite like the idea but like some others it seems to be an edge case. Whilst I know how difficult it can be when running out of wares for construction, I can't imagine it happens often enough that a player needs to scavenge from construction sites.

However, effort has already been taken into giving construction sites the feature to remove wares. This does seem like a natural addition to it.

[SirVer (sirver)]

I think from a technical point of view this is not trivial to implement. Right now, dismantlesites figure out the ware they return by looking at the chain of prior buildings they were - if a constructionsite is to be dismantled midbuild, it would only return a fraction of these wares and the state of the constructionsite as it turns into a dismantlesite would need to be carried over. This is possible, but not straightforward to implement.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for widelands because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[SirVer (sirver)]

Setting to incomplete for bug sweeping.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for widelands because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[SirVer (sirver)]

For now I do not see this as a good investment of time. Building this will be nontrivial and I do not think it is a very important feature. I am still on the fence if it even is desirable.