Construction workers stop building

[Patchuly813]

I've had this happen in various different scenarios.  I'll have buildings waiting to be built, sometimes for decades, and the construction workers never build them.  I've tried cancelling all pending buildings except one and placing high priority.  I've placed buildings close to the "main" town area.  Is there any other way to "force" the construction workers to build?  What am I paying them for, if they're not working?  I've raised their salaries, I've set the level to easy does it.  The assistant continues to ask for a high school, or a church, or a farm, or whatever, but the construction workers won't build.

[Coconut Kid]

1) Construction Priorities. Why do workers sometimes ignore a distant high-priority project in favor of a nearby low-priority project?  The priority system is not absolute, but rather is a function of distance and priority setting.  For buildings with equal priority, workers always go to the nearest building.  Each level of "construction priority" counts as 25 cells of map distance.  Workers will still go to a low-priority building if it's at least 25 cells closer than a medium-priority building, or 50 cells closer than a high-priority building.  The "stopped" priority is absolute; a stopped building will be ignored no matter what distance it is from a worker.

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Brain Eating Plague

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The location of the Construction Office is very important. The number of Construction Offices is also important.

There is no way to "force" construction other than having only one building within a proper distance.

You need to learn to ignore the "assistant" - just jumping to do his prompt is not necessary.

When the Laborers have to walk too far, they are too tired to build. So you have to make sure the Construction Offices are close to where you want to build buildings. Maybe you have to build more Construction Offices.

[Brf]

Did you accidently click the "hart construction" button in the prioroties for each building?

Is your game fully patched?

[Brf]

"hart construction"

halt construction even....

This not being able to correct errors is pretty annoying.

[Patchuly813]

Did you accidently click the "hart construction" button in the prioroties for each building?

Is your game fully patched?

I didn't click the halt construction button (I knew this - I'm fluent in "typoese").  I think I just had either too many buildings pending and/or they were too far away. 

I wasn't fully patched before I posted this, but I am fully patched now.  So far, I haven't had any construction problems and thanks to this board, I've gotten many hints about how to go about developing my islands!