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Wait, hold on. Duplicate entries work? In a predictable and useful manner?

...This is getting too far off topic, though. I need to do some digging.

Also think about linux users!

This.

That would be why I never did wind up trying the Mayday graphics...

I don't think assigned work animals should be completely without attachment. However, I think it should be something that takes time(or maybe not, but that's by chance) - every so often, a dwarf with an assigned work animal will get a possibly-random check to see if it adopts that animal as a pet outright. This could be accompanied by a message much like when cats adopt someone now(I've never put pets up for general adoption so I don't know how that works; I have framerate issues as it is).

This would mean, though, that you could assign a few dogs to the mason who's going out to wall up the magma pipe. If the fire imps stay out of sight, great, they can be unassigned and put back into the pool; if they come up to interfere with the work, the dogs will either take care of it, or at least buy the mason some time to get out of fireball range.

This does pose the risk of walling in the dogs. But if they aren't formally pets, it's not a huge deal.

Quote from: Xombie on November 24, 2009, 07:33:02 am

Also standard is boolean variable - thing can be either standardized entirely or not.
E.g. "pretty standardized" monitor is "quite flat" and "somewhat color".

Huh?  No, that's... not how English works.

Fallacy of equivocation. "Standard" in general English use is synonymous with "typical", but the relevant definition is techspeak/jargon - and, indeed, something either matches a standard or it does not.

I do still think TRUE and FALSE would be safer options(as mentioned, typoes of either won't likely be read at a glance as "valid value").

Tangentially, I do hope the raws get a bit more standardized; having some tokens with _'s between words and some where the words run together is an unnecessary nuisance, and I can't see that it'd make things any easier for Toady either. But since the raws are already getting an overhaul, it's probably best to wait and see what happens there.

Would it be possible to edit the values that DT reads either via the program or another program?

You might want to explain what you mean, rather than just reiterating your query.

It would be interesting if some things that currently cause civs to declare war(and maybe some that currently don't) could instead be resolved by a contest between champions of the relevant civs/sites.

I'd also like to add - for the love of all that is good, PLEASE give us a way to abort a search short of aborting the game entirely. And have the game left zoomed to the best match when we do.

As it stands, it'd be nice if the finder stopped at the first full match.

My computer takes 2.5sec or so to scan each location. On a large map I have 257 of them. This translates to 10 minutes of searching - which is vexing when I have a solid hit within 70. (Yes, I know my laptop's 1.6GHz Celeron and 1/2 GB of RAM are horribly inadequate for DF, and the framerates I play at would probably make most of the community weep, being under 20 in general play - but dammit I need my dwarf fix! And the point still stands.) If it's not going to give us a way to scroll between sites, there's no need for it to keep checking the lot when it's already found a perfectly good one.

Being able to manually abort and wind up at the best hit would be a more general solution to this, letting the player decide at any time "good enough," and would also allow the player to correct "oh crap, finger slipped, hit NumpadEnter instead of NumpadRight" sorts of mistakes.

Falling into a number of traps here..

I really don't see a reason for enemies carrying money.

Trap #1: Not everything in the game needs to have pure advantage for the player. Enemies can carry their money because they like being rich, and the best way to make sure they STAY rich is never letting their money out of their sight. (Ed) This is a bit of game flavour which makes perfect sense - AND it does, in fact, have potential use in game; read on. (/Ed)

In fortress mode, you have a set amount of coins in the economy. Adding more isn't really necessary. It's even better to not use coins at all due to the constant carrying.

Trap #2: The economy as it stands is known to be flawed. The economy will not be broken forever. Rejecting suggestions because they don't work with today's flawed implementation isn't the wisest of things. (It's far from the stupidest, but the whole point of a suggestion is to think forward.)

Once the economy(and esp. stacking of items, including coins) is working better, dwarves might well require coins and other precious goods rather than relying on omniscience about their own bank balances.

Having a way to carry money, combined with intelligent stacking(or at least storage of multiple similar items in a container, as Toady recently stated marksdwarves are doing for ammo) may in fact banish a great many of the economy's problems.

In adventure mode, each civilization has a different form of currency, don't they? So let's say you steal money from an enemy, you surely aren't going to spend their currency at their home, will you? They probably aren't fond enough of you to let you waltz in and buy that Carp Waterskin you've had your eye on.

Trap #3: Not all money is without intrinsic value. In fact, purely-extrinsic currency(which gets its value for no more reason than that the issuing government says so; paper money, but also base-metal coins) is, IIRC, a fairly modern thing; until relatively recently, the base unit of currency was based around precious metals.(ed.: e.g. the pound sterling, based on sterling silver; many currencies have been based on gold. /ed) In DF, ALL economic coin values are proportional to the value of the metal; a single coin, in terms of the economy, has a base value of 0.5, and the multipliers of x2, x20, and x30 give copper, silver, and gold their respective values of 1, 10, and 15 dwarfbucks.

You might not be able to go into that enemy city and buy their carp leather waterskin, but you could take their coins back home and add them to your own wealth to buy that *<<-naked mole dog leather waterskin->>* instead. You might not get full value for coins from another civ, but that's just because of the need to make sure they're pure.