Topic: Move expert worker automatically

It happens a lot of times that a building is stuck with "Expert missing" while next door there are suitable workers. Especially with Barbarians and the Empire, when I upgrade the mines I end up with non-functioning ones until I realize it and then dismiss some Chief/Master miners from other mines.

I understand that Widelands is about managing an economy, but this is an often frustrating micromanagement. I build the necessary advanced buildings and they don't work and I need to hunt for another building to move one of its worker over.

So, my suggestion is that if an expert is missing from a building:

• check if a suitable worker is available in another building that can be swapped to a new worker
• send a new worker to that building
• then send the (now free) expert to the building that needs that expert

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