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Originally posted by Mechanoid:
<STRONG>Agreed.

It'd be nice if from the 'O'rders menu you could set this sort of order as well.
"Wood cutters cut wood [At will/When designated]"
"Herbalists gather plants [At will/When designated]"
Like how you can let only farmers harvest.</STRONG>

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I like this system, especialy if it includes a "never" option, in case of invasion.

-Item Occupancy: I have messed with this and What I have determined is that a default value for the maximum amount of weight that can fit in a tile. This weight includes that of creatures and fluids. If a creatures entering a tile would increase the weight beyond the maximum, then the creature would have to crouch. If the weight is already over the max, then the tile is impassable, and any new items dropped on the tile are shifted to a neighboring tile. If the neighbors are full, then it balances on top. Thus piles of goblin corpses, pyramidal stone piles .

Perhaps give chutes a maximum length and have them drop the item one level lower than the start position, meaning that you could move items several times the distance by having a greater drop. Additionally, have chutes act like stockpiles when generating jobs near the start point and have items that are dropped off the end not count as being in the stockpiles so that dwarves would have to organize the output neatly (that being to prevent too much quantum stockpiling).

Other possibilities include having the chute require a pipe segment or three to build and allowing it to move liquids safely.

All the above in a nutshell: "SECONDED"

[ February 24, 2008: Message edited by: PTTG?? ]

That said, I think that a few good ideas can be salvaged from this; In particular, I think that what needs to be done is have statues changed from generalized to being of a specific creature or species, to distinguish them from engravings, which can describe more general events and concepts but are immobile.

Then, whenever a unit gets "encased in magma" it will burn up if it is flammable and make a basic quality shell-like statue. Similarly, a unit "encased in ice" will drown if possible and then create an ice statue that, if it melts, will re-expose the corpse. So, your glacier fortress can sell elves "glass statues" to take home... imagine their surprise when they get past snow line.

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Originally posted by mineditall:
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you wont see a novice person hauling the crown artifact you made
cant haul items such as anvils without better skill
skilled haulers refuse to haul rocks

other things apply</STRONG>

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Oh sweet baby jebus NO!

I mean, yes, haulers should level up, but by the Spawn of Armok, I don't want to have to retire all of my haulers after a few years of hauling.

[ November 19, 2007: Message edited by: PTTG?? ]

Possibly the biggest downside: Re-doing a lot of raws for sphere associations.
The biggest upside: Being able to mod a new monster into the game, and with one Raw change, you get it fully integrated into the world, in myths, in language, and on the maps.

Of course, there would need to be some lang. raws for things like waves or whatever. There would also need to be different names for every item for each language.

Hmmm... the raws would prolly bloat out like an inflatable raft.