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So, I have a [relatively] new computer, and have been using it happily for say... about 4 months.

The problem is, it's got a strictly wireless connection as it stands. Which is remarkably unstable when I attempt to use it to play anything like, say, Team Fortress 2, Starcraft... Battlefield 3... anything like that basically.

So what I'm hoping to do is find some means of getting an actual wired (?) connection set up somehow, since I'm reasonably sure it would be more stable.

I've been looking at USB/Ethernet adapters on amazon and such, but I was hoping to get an opinion from someone else before going and buying something. I figured Bay 12 has at least a few people who know their way around this sort of thing, so I'm asking here - Should I go with a USB/Ethernet adapter, if so, would I have to get a specific variety, and if not, what other options are there?

No, I am not advocating that we sent dwarf-based satellites into space...yet.

What I am suggesting is simple: add in a possibility that a given world will have more than one moon. I suppose the title could have been more clear.

There could either be a random chance that a given world will have multiple moons, or simply a worldgen option or something like that. Worlds with different quantities of moons could act differently in terms of tides and such if tides and such ever end up in the game.

What is already going into the game could be affected by this too, though. Individual moons could affect certain variants of were-creature. Although I imagine in most cases a were-creature would only be affected by one of the moons, it could be... different, having a dwarf that turned into a rampaging monster twice a month, or worse, turned into two different monsters each once a month.

I guess they'd probably have to be able to be differentiated somehow, though. No idea on how this would work without adding a 'local cosmos' tab or something to legends mode. Maybe the moons could be colorful... although I could see people trying to destroy one of their worlds moons if it turned out Microcline cyan.

Plus, it's a small step towards more space-related stuff. Which, as I remember correctly, exists in some form or another in the grand scheme of things.

Exactly what it says in the subject.

Elaboration: It could be nice to have a (R)ecruit to: option in the professions menu (I get the sinking feeling that's not what it's called - the one where you assign labors and work dogs <<) that, when selected, gives you a list of military squads that aren't already filled that you can assign the dwarf to.

I just figure it could add at least a little bit of simplicity to the whole process, maybe.

So. I recently came down with a pretty bad flu. (The full description would include the phrase 'both ends' so I'm not going to mention that .) In the interest of sharing, what do you all do when you've got one?

Myself, I go through roughly the following process:

1) Wait until I'm done vomiting for at least 4 hours or so.
2) Start on diet of crackers and peppermint tea until I recover enough to start eating to recover all the delightful electrolytes and such I lost in step 1.

I'm not entirely sure what has occurred here, myself. I grabbed a random immigrant blacksmith (note: still with immigrant status. Not sure how this may have affected him) and stuck him in the militia with another guy (who actually does something.). At first he just kind of goofed around (individual combat training that does nothing)... then I tried to make them do something effective training-wise.

He is now labeled as having no job. The idler count in the corner lists the number of idle dwarves minus one- him. When he's the only idler, there are no idlers. He does nothing- ever. I'm not even entirely certain that he eats anymore. He won't do civilian work, he won't follow military orders, and more importantly, when I tried to pull him out of the militia and put him in his own squad for execution purposes... he crashed Dwarf fortress altogether.

Any thoughts?

Is it possible to prevent a kind of wood from being used in wagons and NPC trading goods? I've put this in my RAWs:
[MATGLOSS_WOOD:ELF]
   [NAME:petrified elves][ADJ:elven]
   [TILE:226]
   [PREFSTRING:terrified expression]

And it's just awkward when the elves show up with petrified elf flutes to trade.

Also, the humans showed up with a wagon made of them.

(Petrified elves originally from assorted silliness mod.)

Apparently if you take a stockpile and de-designate the area between two of more chunks of it (so that the stockpile doesn't exist between said chunks), the chunks all consider themselves to be a single stockpile.

 
I have no idea how the dwarves decide what part of the stockpile to put stuff in. Presumably they put items in the one closest to them.