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[Urist McDwarfFortress]

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Yep. My Duke just convicted my King of violating his production order. Dwarven "Justice" at work!

[Girlinhat]

If your mayor is the only dwarf with glassworking skill, mandates glass items, and the mandate fails, the mayor will sentence himself to a beating because "the glassworker failed to comply".

[Sergarr]

It's a split personality thing.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

If your mayor is the only dwarf with glassworking skill, mandates glass items, and the mandate fails, the mayor will sentence himself to a beating because "the glassworker failed to comply".

Ha ha! Thats great! Dwarves, you so crazy!

[Solon64]

I don't think they'll actually carry out the sentence though, since they've still got the immune to justice tag.

If they do, then there is no point to that tag. Or its a bug. Or its VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

[hiroshi42]

If your mayor is the only dwarf with glassworking skill, mandates glass items, and the mandate fails, the mayor will sentence himself to a beating because "the glassworker failed to comply".

This is...glorious.  The perfect way to deal with nobles, just make sure they are the only craftdwarf who will be held accountable.

Hmmm... Actually, how are dwarves chosen for punishment?  Is it a selection of dwarves with skill or just with the labor activated?

[whitecold]

I'm afraid it depends on the skills, as in my fortress my nobles like to convict my soldiers, which have all their labors turned off.

[laularukyrumo]

This is pertinent to Toady's interests. I believe this means a few tags don't work properly... such as immunity to crime, and you would expect the menial work exemption to absolve them of responsibility anyway--you physically CAN'T have them create anything.

[Larix]

Except in the current version, the menial work exemption is also broken. Nobles will do anything from hauling to dragging animals around to military training to smithing the copper picks they themselves mandated, as long as the proper labours are enabled.

[Ace_Warbringer]

I can attest to this one, as my current nobles all have jobs, and are often the subject of they're own mandates.

[Mr S]

So true.  I like to make my nobles into Foodies; cooks and brewers.  I figure they're just sitting around eating, drinking and socializing anyway.  They may as well have Foodie "hobbies".

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

My king is one of the fort's top engravers. He helped decorate his own throne room and bedroom.

[wierd]

If you want something done right, do it yourself?

[katwithk]

"urist mcjenkins, schedule me an ass beating at 4 o'clock for not making the glass I mandated myself to make"

[MasterShizzle]

The best one I had was a dwarf found drained of blood in the bedroom complex. There was a crime reported, a witness, and an accused murderer. I thought it was an easy find on the vampire: I looked at his thoughts screen and saw this:

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The long list of memberships gave it away, and he had an enormous extended family, none of which were present at the fort. Okay, so he's a vamp. I lock him into a tiny room and make him bookkeeper-for-eternity.

Then I looked at the justice screen and saw that I had gotten the names mixed up, and I had locked up the accuser instead of the accused by mistake. Turns out to have been a happy accident, since when I found the dwarf accused of murder, her thoughts screen looked like this:

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...so I locked her into a tiny room and made her manager-for-eternity. Two vampires in the same fort, and either one of them witnessed the other one draining a victim, or one of them drained a victim and tried to pin it on the only other vampire around. I still don't know which one of them actually did it.