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1. You are right I need to do a overhaul on the inputs. holding down shift will add and remove multiple items to the objects.

2. I haven't decided to make a different job to restock machines or what. Custodians where pretty busy for awhile until I removed the sand that tracked everywhere. I really think a "Production" job is what we need. Anyway there is a plan to add automation to the automation :)

3. That is something I hadn't thought of. What order would you suggest?

4. So the way weapons work is actually based off the sprite it creates. I could look at increasing the hit boxes of those.

5. I agree that pesky dog is something I need to fix. Even just a larger range before he follows would feel better.

6. I took that off for some reason... I think it had to do with it not saving progress if it was on. LOL I'd probably add that back for the full game. I could do borderless but then you can't move the window around :)

Thanks for the Suggestions! UI is my least favorite thing so I also agree on the polish isn't quite there :)

Oh also I am using Game Maker 1.4 for development.

1. Ah okay, I didn't realize that, that will help immensely ^^

2. I see, I was wondering why "cleaning" was listed as the main job of custodian when they only thing which gets dirty is the solar panels.. and I'm not sure I've ever seen the custodian clean that.. A new production job could work too, I just thought of the custodian because all he does in my game is collect poo and refill the wood burner.. It feels like 95% of the time they are just standing waiting to fill the wood burner. Maybe once you get a bigger base he is more busy, but in my game (I just built my first metal machine) he has lots of free time, so I've been leaving that roll empty.

3. If you keep the build menu system as it is, I would go with the order of: Building, Furniture, Light/Deco, Ranch, Production, Automation, Resources, Economy, looping back to Building. This way the main base building ones (Building, Furniture, Lights/Deco, Economy (and maybe Ranch b/c of fences)) are all right next to each other. And all the main farming/automation ones(Ranch, Production, Automation) are also right next to each other.
The one thing I'm unsure about is the placement of Resources.. It's one which I don't really use, so I'm not sure where I would put it.. It's basically decoration right? So maybe it should go near Light/Deco. Or maybe It should trade places with Economy.. that would put all the inside stuff(Resources, Building, Furniture, Lights/Deco) next to other inside stuff, and outside stuff(Ranch, Production, Automation) next to outside stuff with Economy(which has inside and outside stuff) between them.

4. Ah, that makes sense.. is it the weapon sprite? or the the little cloud puff sprite which has the hit box?

5. Yeah, a larger range could do the trick, that way he's further from the player, so he doesn't get in the way, but the player can also approach him to give him pets =] It's not a perfect fix, but it would definitely improve it a lot and probably wouldn't require as much code to change.

6. I was wondering if it was something like that.. does Game Maker not have an "On Application Exit" event? It really should if it doesn't =/

UI seems to be something that I'm kinda good at? So I like thinking about how it can be improved for games that I play =]
From what I've heard, UI in Game Maker is a real pain because you have to basically code it all from scratch.. is that right?