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Hah, yeah, That's the way it goes. As spirals go it was an incredibly small one, I think I  killed one of the dwarves like, secret john or something. the guy who went insane was married, and had the same relationship status with the guy as the wife and half the fort, but only he went insane with grief.

Went downhill fast too. Tantrumed 2-3 times for about a second before calming down, then snapped.

I seem to have woken up this morning magically able to use the military screens.

Right now I'm working on a fort with automated defense systems, I've done it once before, but it was smaller scale and not as integrated as I want this one to be. I want to have to fight against the fort as well as the enemies. Malcontents will be caged and pitted into the maintenance levels to make sure everything keeps running smoothly.

that and the Heart Machine. The magma pump sealed away deep in my fortress that activates and controls it all with it's rhythmic pulsations. to which all other systems are tied.

The Rangers, Clad in blue spider silk, leather, and eventually adamantine clothes will have to find ways around the security lockdowns to kill the enemies in a rain of flashing silver.

I usually mass designate stone detailing and send them to the quarry to smooth every inch of the layer that's nearly mined out.

I tend to pack an unconventional 7 I've been told, but it works for me

I bring a manager/Bookkeeper, Leader, and Doctor even though they're rarely needed right away.

Quote from: ThatAussieGuy on July 18, 2011, 08:28:07 am

Think you missed the sarcasm there, Tiruin.  You might want to give RAK's post another read.

i'm half serious... i do do all that stuff, and i do try to keep everyone alive, but i am not overgrieved when someone dies.  i'd have abandoned this fort in the middle of "the goblin years" if i did, as we lost about half our population (but no tantrum spirals, i am proud to say)

A good overseer isn't willy nilly with his deaths, but doesn't overly mourn them either, unless it was a really cool dwarf. I do the same things.

My dwarves are like children to me, they must be FIRMLY reprimanded when they do something wrong, but as long as they do as they're told it's rivers of booze and masterwork roasts forever in streets engraved with the triumphs of their ancestors.

However, troublemakers soon realize that there are worse places in the fort than the mines. I exile them tot he power relay levels, where they become engineers who maintain the rest of the fort, with naught but plump helmets and just enough barrels for it all. their homes are rough, dank, and have naught but a simple bed in a hole in the wall, maybe with a scavenged door made from the wood of an abandoned axle, or from clearing the trees out of the canals in the plumbing level.

I agree, eventually specialization is important, but to start with I just mass enable a ton of skills (not all, but needed ones for whatever's going on then) and then when I really want quality I set a workshop to only take high masters or Legendaries and crank out the goods. you get a surprising number of high master migrants, so make use of them! I tend to not give mine too many other jobs unless their skill is useless, and just set their job on repeat until my fort is filled with masterwork barrels or whatever.