[Gateway103]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Telling a commander to transfer an item will clear his orders. Very annoying if you want a researcher to cast a ritual spell, so you tell him to cast, then remember to move all his research enhancing items to other researchers!

I think one of the reasons that this is the way it is because there are magic level boosting as well as forge cost reduction items around.

Would you not want the system to reset the forger/casters' order when you transfer away such items after giving a forge/cast order? As oppose to keep the order, which would be wasted (insufficient levels, or cost too much than you have), or actually worked which would be a bug.

Therefore, I think for programming simplicity sake, IW opt'd for reset of orders every time an item is transferred, rather than distinguish which items were transferred, nor detect if there are actually needs to reset order.

Pure speculation of course

-Gateway103