>> Maybe make treants or something?
Yeah, good idea.
>> P.S. What is the nerve staple good for? I used it on a couple of orcs and now they're just useless.
Is an Alpha Centauri reference, the ultimate police state preventive action to crack down on the drone riots. It's supposed to be a measure to stop tantrumers/borderline berzerkers before they go melancholy or on a rampage (giving them NOEMOTION, making them blind, and reducing their speed). How useless are they? I thought they should be fine on low skill jobs. If it's making the stapled workers really useless i'll tweak it, reducing the speed penalty, or making the effect wear off after a (long) time.
There's tobacco now from rat weed, which is a better happyness solution for productive citizens.
edit.
one application i like (the idea anyway... is not well tested yet) nerve stapling for is if you're in a world in which you've had an unhappy or even abandoned fort, and you start a new one, it sometimes happens that you can get waves of semi-murderous migrants. Run all the newcomers through the nerve stapling chambers rather than wait for some fell mood to strike or an angry Olog to punt your shaman into the volcano. Other users had asked for a way to blind siege operators.