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Urgent Lever Change

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Twilight:
Hello,
 as we all know, levers with mistaken identitites can be horribly dangerous things.  Toady, here is an easy yet powerful idea: when a lever is "Q"-ed, (or "K" -ed) there should be a space there for an optional description text line.  Under "Q", there would have to be a new option, '"W"rite a description', for players.  Hit the key, write a text line (i.e., "main farm floodgate"), and finish.  This can be changed by the player again and again.  The text shows up in the lever's window and eliminates guesswork (make for interesting succession game possibilities, too).  No more searching for a lost piece of notebook paper!  Any luck that this idea might fly?

Toady One:
Something will happen sometime anyway.  The lack of clarity with levers has been on the list since before the first public release.

Blue Eagle:
This has been suggested at least 3 times that I can think of.
It's probably going to happen.

puke:
bah.  to spice things up, levers should have random functions.  an unskilled mechanic with low quality mechanisms could create a lever that randomly activates any feature that was previously connected to a lever.  or that connects a feature at random to any pre-existing lever.OR, when you create a "pull lever" job, a dwarf could randomly pull the WRONG lever based on his lever pulling skill!

Twilight:
Well,
 as long as it's on the list, then it should work itself out.  The only "problem" with this has nothing to do with the game, it has to do with players forgetting or not knowing what each lever does (yes, in real life, we'd have a little sign, such as "Do Not Pull - Fortress Magna Destruction Switch!").  Really, its not to make the game better, but, to make a significant improvement to the game playing.  Really, an editable simple line or two of text associated with each lever would more than do it.
   Random functions?!  Now that would be wild - maybe an option for insane fortress builds!  Now, pulling random levers could work with insane dwarves, possessed (fey) dwarves, adventurers who are drunk or insane, or (one day) drunk dwarves getting out of hand at one of their "parties".

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