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Since they have names did you check to see if they're notable leaders in the civ screen?

Back in 40d I had a queen who took up residence in my fortress, I had set up all her legendary rooms and decorated it richly with masterwork/artifact furniture and engravings in anticipation of her arrival, everything was perfectly completed in time for her arrival only to have her die of old age barely 1 season after she took up residence.

GAH!

Double facepalm: I had also built rooms for her consort (i.e. husband but not king), only to realize later that he had died years before my fortress was established.

A quick and dirty way to force the caravan to spawn in a specific location is to channel out a trench 1 tile from the edge all the way around the map, leaving a gap where you want them to spawn.

This I do but you don't have to channel the whole map's edge. Just channel a highway from the edge of the map to your depot entrance, make sure you give some distance from the depot to the edge of the map so that spawning gobbos will at least have some distance to travel thus giving you an opportunity to spot ambushes  earlier (via traps/patrols).

E....................................WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
E.===================================WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
E.........X..........................gg..DDDDD..W.............
E.........X..........................gg..DDDDD..W.............
E.........X...highway................gg..DDDDD..+...Fortress..
E.........X..........................gg..DDDDD..W.............
E.........X..........................gg..DDDDD..W.............
E.===================================WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
E....................................WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
E - map edge
. - ground
g - bridge
D - depot
W - wall
= - channel
+ - door
X - traps as EWS

The caravan wagon will only spawn at the edge of the map at end of the highway.

Quote from: LegitMacgyver on April 11, 2010, 12:46:49 pm

This new system totally flies in the face of how I imagined my military in the old version.

Previously my armies trained in fierce fully geared barbaric sessions and only the strong survived.  It was much more Dwarfish, at least in my way of thinking.  I liked that if you made it through years of training alive you were an ultra-badass.  Now these pussies sit in class all day and take notes about dodging and sword skills... totally lame.  I want the real warriors back ):

I agree. I miss this aspect of it. I always thought that any dwarf who died in training just wasn't cut out for it.

With the advancement of civilization comes many new perils...

...one of them is the introduction of health and safety regulations.

From that small edit at the end, it seems that your dwarves are either magically gaining skills, or that they are "reporting" that they are "organizing/and waiting for demonstration" when in actuality, they are doing "Individual Training", as that is the only way AFAIK for a dwarf to gain weapon skills.  I don't really know of a workaround to fix this, but you may have the same problem as Shiv.  You can check the previous posts in this thread for that.  Though they might be unrelated, I am unsure.  But it should be worth a look.

I'm guessing it's the latter, the job status says different but they're still gaining skills from it. They're now up to adequate level. The dorfs in question do not do any civvy labours even though they are inactive, apart from occasionally drinking/eating/sleeping plus storing their equipments back into the bin for some reason and then going straight back to training. Even more doubly confusing. I'm hazarding that they've actually finished training, hence why they're storing their equipment but as soon as that's done they automatically start a new training session.

Rather than post a new thread I'll post a question here if no one minds (hopefully). I've got a new squad set up with 2 dorfs in it. Both have only dabbling military skills. I had them set on inactive and assigned an armor stand as a barracks for them to train in but the squad leader keeps "organizing combat training" and the other dorf comes around to "wait for combat training". They don't appear to be doing anything else.

I'm pretty certain some sort of training had happened in the past while I wasn't looking because they didn't have dabbling military skills before I assigned them into a squad. But right now, all that's happening is one dorf organizing and the other waiting. I'm hesitant on using a workaround listed in this thread: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=53156.0 because of how it'd bug the dorfs later on. Any ideas what I can do or are my dorfs forever bugged?

edit: check that, it appears that while one dorf is organizing and the other is waiting they're actually gaining skills from it. My organizer is now a novice speardwarf and the waiter is now a novice hammerdwarf, before they were just dabblers. Pretty confusing.

I saw in another thread that it's possible that only one farmer can work a plot at a time, so that might be slowing down your yield some to. I've taken to making each row of my farm a different plot, and things seem to be working faster.

I've got eight 3x4 plots and my small band of pseudo-dwarf farmers are working on 'em round the clock with 2-3 farmers per plot (seeding and harvesting). My plant stockpile is overflowing, I'm running out of barrels to put plants, booze and prepared food in (had to limit the barrels in the plant stockpile too). My dorfs are choking themselves on food!