i agree with others to have an option to opt out of this rubbish...... right now in an event when you have quests that require multiple production's, myself like most people, i built 30+ smiths, i built them right to left and when i say set for EG: 20 when i leave that pop up they are all over the place and have even picked them all up after setting them and placed all the smiths producing together, collect and reset and it does the same thing productions are randomly all over the place.
also if you have things like Sunken treasure, magnum opus, sleigh builders not producing when you try to set smiths it will dio a number of smiths then jump to one, two or more of the others.... ok I guess if i am going to wait out that production time it maybe doesn't matter, but i purposely buy,collect, save mass supply rush for the events.
go and set 4 hour productions and sleigh builders and magnum opus spit out crowns for that, stop soon as you see it go to one of them, zoom out, cancel that production, click back on a smith, do 1 or 2 then its back on one of the others! again close the pop up, cancel the production i dont want.......just a battle to do a simple quest that was straight forward for the last 8 years the game has been around and now it's becoming a chore.