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« on: October 14, 2011, 06:08:32 pm »
Well,on the bright side, this is great training.
The downside is that I need to dig one heck of a grave cavern.
So I'm trying to figure out what happened... Or rather, IS happening, as I'm letting it play out in the background as I type this. I can't seem to stop it, so... *shrug*
The story is that a caravan from the mountainhome came along... And so did a goblin siege. Well, I'm still trying to learn how to train a dang military, so I had to just hole up, and try to build some smashers.
In the meantime, the caravan went mad. I figured I oughta jump on that quick, so I immediately targetted a couple merchants and yaks with my squads in training. The do the deed... And then a few moments later I start seeing deaths on my alerts. Well, this is a crowded citadel of 100, so it was hard to determine just what happened. I figured it was a fluke. I let the game continue. Then I see more deaths. I have no idea where theyre coming from... Merchants? But I don't see them..
Eventually I identify that it appears the military is killing random people with their training weapons and bone bolts. I set the squad orders to 'move' to a spot, see if I can interrupt whatever theyre doing.... They are not listed as insane. In fact, they've been quite happy, all this time.
I'm now down to 30 dwarfs, apparently all going highlander on each other, and I can't get anyone to do anything. But *NO ONE* is insane, or technically out of my control. I cant figure out what happened.
This was my most successful fortress yet. I had a corral of horses. Everyone was happy. My military was starting to get proper training. I was building my first waterfall & pump system. I'm irritated.
Losing is fun if you can affect the outcome based on knowledge from the loss... But this was just random.
Alright, enough venting... But really, what the hell happened? Ideas?
