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What's wrong with designing a fortress with adventurers in mind?

It's not like humans are digging your tunnels for you and then dwarves are coming along to chip away at the ceiling. These are dwarven tunnels. For the most part, the ceiling should be easily reachable with a pick.

Maybe if you could specify which dwarves you want to automatically be moved around, but then you could just enable all jobs on them.

I have 3 marksdwarves which I keep placed in specific points in a tower with fortifications at all times. It doesn't help to place a barracks there, as I don't want my melee dwarves sparring in there, and I need them to stand at specific points so they can most readily shoot out at stuff. At the moment I have them in 3 seperate squads, each stationed in their specific place. With this suggestion, I could have 6 marksdwarves in the same 3 squads and tell it to have 1 guard in each at any time. Then the 3 that were on break could practice and be happier.

Another example is that I have a "gate", which can't have doors as the wagons must be able to pass through it, so placing a barracks there is out of the question, yet I like to have two melee dwarves stationed there at all times.

Personally, this is the second thing I would most like to have added, with working sieges being number one (Complete with ladders, battering rams, catapults, and ballistas, of course)

[ December 06, 2007: Message edited by: Tahin ]

I'd like to see this. Walls below a certain height could be usable as tables, for placing things on and eating at, (Bar, anyone?) and it should be possible to see and shoot over them.

I like to make them axedwarves, personally, but that's just my love of limbs flying everywhere.

Set her on duty. If she has a nice bedroom and whatnot, she shouldn't have any issue with being on duty all the time, and you can station her at strategic points. And, on a side-note, Legendary dwarves aren't necessarily at the maximum skill level.

[ December 06, 2007: Message edited by: Tahin ]

I was thinking today, if I picked up a piece of wood and a knife or chisel and started carving, I probably wouldn't get very far before the item I was working on had split in two and was no longer large enough to continue working with.

Why not have the occasional crafting job fail? It would make more sense from a realism standpoint, add a tiny bit of difficulty, and more encourage the use of skilled labour.

This along with the ability to tell highly-skilled dwarves to produce a specific quality of item, for more control over room value, would make crafting much more satisfying.

Apologies if this has been posted before. I looked, and I couldn't find anything, so I'm sorry if I missed something.