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I'd like it if all those Horses that you end up with hanging around your fortress could be used to help hauling.

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Oh god....so what will be next? We will see Willy Wonka as an immigrant?
Seriously some of the suggestions in this subforum are just FUBAR.  

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I don't see whats wrong with Chocoloate... I mean, it isn't exactly a modern invention is it?

If there was something like Chocolate in it though then I think that it should only be available through trade with Elves. That way, there is at least something useful to get from them.

[ September 10, 2007: Message edited by: Bricktop ]

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What I'd like is to be able to select a few dwarves, assign them all to a specific workshop and make sure that the workshop is working 100% all the time. When one of them sleep/work/go on break/whatever, there would be at least one other of them who is able to come to work in the downtime.

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I'm not sure how hard this would be for Toady to do but maybe there could be a toggleable option for whther or not they all eat/drink/break at the same time etc etc Now you mention it I would like to have workers working together to keep a workshop going 100% of the time but with things like Miners I would rather have them keeping in one group.

I think it would be good if the dwarves all worked to the same schedule. like you say, it would mean that these large dining rooms that get created would be used properly. Also, possible Dwarves good get happy thoughts if they eat in a room with so many other eating dwarves eg "Urist Bunnyhop has been happy lately. He ate in a room with 50 dwarves lately."

So they would be Noble's AND Workshops? Sounds good.

I like the diea of the tree's leveling up while the Elves don't. I think organising the elves into military squads and stuff should be left the way it is in Dwarf Mode because otherwise it would be almost impossible to put up a decent defence.

Like you say, this would also make the elven mentality make much more sence as well as providing an interestingly new way of dealing with problems.

The only possible problem with this would be that there wouldn't be anywhere near as much depth as there is in Dwarf mode. After all, in dwarf mode a lot of the fun is in getting large and complex fortresses. A possible idea for making this a bit deeper would be if you could also have other plants to perform some roles. While your tree's will still be the main things of importance, things like Nettle and Bramble patches would be the equivalent of traps.

Oh, and I've just realised... this would make a lot of sence in the DF world so far because if I remember rightly tree's in Elf Settlements have names...

I think that being able to make sparring weapons would be a great addition.

Also, about the balancing issue, how about this for a solution:

Sparring can only train dwarves as far as proficient. After that, sparring gives no experience and so to progress past that they would have to train in actual combat against enemies. That will make champions rare, as they would only be possible to get if one dwarf happened to survive loads of battles (makes sence, really) and it would mean you can get an effective military without killing any dwarfs.

I'm not so sure about the goblins brining miners to tunnel into your base... just sounds like path-fanding nightmare to me (as well as making it impossible to construct a decent defense. I know we don't want it to be too easy like it is now, but you should still be able to do something that helps).

I do like the idea of goblins bringing mobile ballista's. What I think would be cool (and would help with the over-poweredness of traps just now) is if, when ballista bolt went through a square with a trap in it, it destroyed the trap (as in deconstructed it).