Hi,
DMA released Lemmings 2 in 1992. For 24 years now, the assignment priority has tormented L2 players: You have a cluster of lemmings in a digger pit. You would like to assign to the digger among the walkers. But instead, the game assigns to a walker.
Challenge: Save 40/60 lemmings in Two's Company, Egyptian 1, using at most 3 skills.
Solution: Merge the two hatches at the top with a basher (skill 1). With a right-facing lemming, dig down the right-hand side of the column (skill 2). One pixel before breakthrough to the bottom, assign the to the digger a fencer. He will fence through both remaining pillars in a single go.
Trick: Assign precisely to the digger in a crowded digger pit! Here's how to do it.
Incoming...
Naive attempt: Hover the mouse cursor right on the digger in the pit. A sensible game would recognize this obvious desire to assign to the digger, right?
Nope, L2 thinks you'd love to assign to walker here. The digger keeps digging happily. The solution attempt is flunked.
The correct method is to move the cursor as far
away to the left from the digger as possible. If we move the cursor farther than this, it would close. This alludes to the blinking cursor trick in L1, to select right-facing walkers. If the digger were alone in the pit, I don't believe the mouse would even open here!
This is guaranteed to select the digger. Try it!
I can't reproduce this with the cursor at the right instead of at the left. Maybe it depends on the direction of the digger. Maybe you have to offset towards the left independently of the digger's direction.
Don't let the assignment priority play tricks on you. Instead, you should perform tricks with assignment priority!
Not applicable to Sports 1: If your worker enjoys the company of stunners instead of walkers, you can't profit form this research. The stunners eat the click and don't delegate the click to the worker. You can't save more than 58 in Ceci n'est pas une pipe, Sports 1, with assignment research only.
-- Simon