DF Suggestions / Small request re farming
« on: February 05, 2007, 12:25:00 am »Could the layout of a farm be changed to where it'll overlap nonplantable areas? Right now, if I have a room that's thirteen spaces wide by thirteen spaces high, with supports built along the seventh row and column to keep it from collapsing, then I flood it and try to build a farm. It only lets me plot out the farm to the support, then it marks the support as an invalid area and won't let me plant. So I end up with a farm six plots wide, and a blank row of muddy floor on the seventh space where the support is.
Could the farm plot designation code be changed to like the code for designating stockpiles, where even if it's not a valid target space, it still lets you place the stockpile and works around it?
On a totally non-farming note, another thing I'd like to see. Dwarves in the military should give a much higher priority to going from standing down to on duty. I mean, if they're standing down and sleeping, eating, whatever, not a problem. But if they get put on duty, they should drop what they're doing and come running to the point they're stationed at. The entire dwarven military structure seems really relaxed and laid back-kind of like the National Guard if it was being run by the PTA. "Ya'll come on in this weekend and let's do some work. If you feel like it, that is. If you have something else to do, well, okay. And it'd be nice if you all showed up over here by the front door to the fortress, but if you really think just hanging out by the river is a good thing, well, go right ahead." A little short on discipline, I think, is what I'm trying to convey. 