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Quote from: Hesperid on June 29, 2017, 11:14:14 am

I thought repeating functions not being able to cancel their own scheduling was a deliberate design decision.

Why would it be? Expwnent seems to agree that it's unintentional. I can't see much of an advantage from preventing repeating functions from cancelling themselves (particularly since they can cancel other ones already).

Definitely unintentional. We didn't notice until you pointed it out because it's actually pretty uncommon that you need to unregister a repeating event.

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Quote from: Dunamisdeos on March 01, 2017, 08:41:02 pm

Quote from: Rydel on March 01, 2017, 08:27:21 pm

You need to name the rat

Name him after Darkerdaffodil in some way. Never forget!

+1

Name him Smallerdaffodil.

His initial reaction when DFhack first was created was to get upset and try to shut it down. Since then he's realized it's not really such a problem, but Toady is not very comfortable with giving other people increased access to his codebase.

That was splash damage when someone was working on a "visualizer" for DF who intended to reverse-engineer it and make his own version. He contacted Peterix and Toady banned both, then unbanned Peterix after they talked about it. Nobody smart enough to reverse-engineer Dwarf Fortress is dumb enough to think they can out DF Toady. I don't have a link but someone else might.

I'm just sick of them always being scottish.

That looks great but in terms of how much good we can do for the project per hour of free time it's probably not worth it.

I agree that dwarves are too easy to get your hands on and that can create balance issues. "Ruins the game" is a bit strong, but hyperbole is to be expected on the internet. Posting to watch.

It would require very advanced DFHack support.