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The reason it was changed was because people complained about serfs randomly bringing stones/timber to houses, suggesting it would be more efficient if timber was delivered before stones. IMO this is a good change in principle, it just has the unintended consequence of making stone delivery to houses lower priority than stone to roads too (when previously they were all the same priority).

Why? My idea was to avoid for example, that you build your school and your workers have nothing to do, because stones are delivered before wood. So other players will have finished their school way faster :-> faster recruitment of new labours/serfs

IMPORTANT: This way players in mp had a disadvantage at the school building. This disadvantage wasn't fixable by the player, like you said it's randomly.

I agree that it doesn't work optimal maybe right now, but I don't think that my idea about "wood first" for buildings were bad in any way.

I agree with pawel, the "wood first" change was definitely good. I've made a minor tweak so it's only +5 bid (instead of +10) for stone to construction sites. It's still enough so that for an individual construction site wood will always be higher priority than stone, but it should make stones to construction sites get ignored less often (in favor of stone to roads) so it's more like the old completely random system.

It needs to be tested When will the new nigtly release?