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Hi everyone.

So I set up an area for my military (which consists of 1 person atm) to train. My soldier has a copper battleaxe, which I assigned to him. I want him to train with a training weapon. How do I go about alternating? Right now he has both, a copper axe and copper training axe. He is dual wielding them. I want him to ONLY use one at a time, so if nothing is happening he has the training axe equipped to, well, train. And if an emergency takes place he switches to his real axe. The only way I see this possible is to unassigned the copper battle axe and then reassign it when needed. This can work now, but what happens when I have 20+ soldiers?!? That would take a lot of time to keep changing Equipment of each individual soldier.

I feel like I'm missing a key feature that makes this situation simple.

PLEASE ask any questions because I can already tell the way I wrote this is going to cause confusion...

Thanks!
-Nom

Nom here,

I am trying to make a simple Black Jack game, but i am having trouble with if functions relating to generated numbers.
Being Python isnt really important because this simple feature is on most programming languages.

So what did i do wrong?

Ideally after receiving a 2 as the random number it should print 2 again.
The strange part is the elif function for 3 works... i think it has to do with me having OR in the argument.

Adventurer mode**
So i want to become a werebeast so whenever i get a quest to kill one i go at night but the target is still in peasant form. after looking at the wiki i found out it HAS to be a full moon.

So is there a way to find out what nights will be full moons (during the day) or do you literally have to wait the night of to check weather <W>.

First, I should probably start by saying that the majority of what is said in this article goes for adventurer mode and adventurer mode only. With that:

In my opinion adventurer is going a little lifeless. Not in what you can do (especially with the upcoming patch), but what happens when you aren't doing anything. The sad truth is I cant wait to be ambushed by goblins or attacked by bogeymen, because otherwise there is no activity whatsoever in the world.

1. Civilizations on break? Why is it that everyone is at home doing absolutely nothing? Shouldn't the farmers be farming on the fields at each town? Why arent the hunters and rangers hunting? Even if the farmer doesnt really obtain crops or the hunters never kills a animal, it would add to the liveliness of the game.

2. Raids? It seems as the goblins and kobolds are always ready to jump on your back, but they never attack a town or village. When i say attack i dont mean a full-fledged siege (that would most likely destroy everything in world gen) but maybe just 3-5 goblins periodically attacking a village just to spice things up.
*Sub-suggestion: There should be a messanger. This way if a town is under attack, within a couple of hours a child will come running to you town to tell you*

3. Professions? This is sort of a add-on to my first suggestion. When I get maimed or damaged in a battle, it would be great if i could go to a surgeon/doctor.etc. and have them do something. Im not asking for them to do something out of the ordinary, in fact, its less about the injury and more about having a interactive environment. Currently there are soldiers and commoners, because the professions mean nothing without individuality.

Like i stated, i understand most of this if not all will not be used for multiple reasons like it can open up too many exploits, it would make world gen insanely difficult, and just the fact that it would down-right crush your processors, but i thought iw ould just give a little taste of my dwarf utopia. 

Hey Nom again.

So i always get quest saying to kill something in the sewer but i always encounter dead ends.

So i get the quest, and go into the sewers. From this points my TSK is **** saying im on point. So i search the sewers but keep finding dead ends. What usually happens is:

You know how the sewers are three tiles wide. the outer are block floor and the inner is Deep water. The block floor sidewalk ends by a sandy wall or something and only the water continues. However, if you try to use the water path since the sandy block wall is above you, you end up drowning. 

Am i doing something wrong or does this have anything to with with swimming skill?
Thanks in advance

Hi, im a new member of DF, you can call me nom.

Straight to the point: I hear about all these amazing things you can do such as retrieving stolen babies from goblins or seiging camps etc. But I don't understand how you get there. To my knowledge, your camera is restricted to your fortress only, so how would you go about visiting a goblin encampment?

To conclude, is there away to interact with civilizations outside your little camera view screen?

Thanks and hope the answer isnt something simple, i have a habit of being simple sometimes.