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[Dood]

So it looks like the outpost liason wants my fortress to become an official colony of my civilization (See pics).

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Has anyone else encountered that yet. I searched the forum but didn't find anything. My guess is that this is pretty much analogous to getting a baron. But it seems that this time I can choose one of my own dwarves as the new baron.
So to elaborate on the background: I had my fortress running for a few years, but didn't bother assigning a sheriff/captain of the guard. Then I figured I would actually like to have a dungeon master to tame alls those jabberers. They usually don't come to the fortress without a justice systen, so I appointed some useless dwarf as captain of the guard and a few minutes later this message pops up. (It actually happened twice since the game crashed after the first time and I had to use an old save. So it is reproducible.)

If anyone is interested I will report back with the results once something interesting happens.

I also love how he says "Merit deserves a reward", since the last dwarven caravan got slaughteres horribly by a bunch of goblin invaders.

[Diablous]

The baron thing has been re-done. Now instead of some jack-ass coming to your fort to tax it's residents, you choose one of your dwarves to be that jack-ass.

[Dood]

Oh well, the Baron article in the wiki actually says exactly that. I kept looking in the liason article. Nevermind then. 

[Urist McDepravity]

After you accept it and select some dorf, liaison will go back home and some time later you will get announcement that the dorf is a useless baron now.
What is more interesting is whether anyone managed to get DM after receiving a baron.
I have no such slots in [n], and liaison never suggested to appoint one either.

[eerr]

just had this happen myself.

I hit escape and that backed out of selecting the baron...

[Miggy]

A thing to note is that the baron isn't useless, as you can still control what the dwarf does. Just make sure that whichever dwarf you elevate doesn't have a fetish for slade strands or something and your fort can continue on as before.

[ZaDoktor]

A thing to note is that the baron isn't useless, as you can still control what the dwarf does. Just make sure that whichever dwarf you elevate doesn't have a fetish for slade strands or something and your fort can continue on as before.

Yeah, I chose one based on him being competent, empathetic, all-around a great dwarf.

That and he liked rope-reed fiber instead of something like nickel silver.

[LilGunmanX]

A thing to note is that the baron isn't useless, as you can still control what the dwarf does. Just make sure that whichever dwarf you elevate doesn't have a fetish for slade strands or something and your fort can continue on as before.

So if I make my legendary metalsmith into a Baroness, she'll still smith instead of turning into some lever-pulling ninny?

[Shrugging Khan]

Any news on the Master of Dungeons, then?

[Urist McDepravity]

So if I make my legendary metalsmith into a Baroness, she'll still smith instead of turning into some lever-pulling ninny?

Yes, at least for now. Toady could fix this as 'bug' later, since Baron tags assume he/she does not work.

[FreakyCheeseMan]

A thing to note is that the baron isn't useless, as you can still control what the dwarf does. Just make sure that whichever dwarf you elevate doesn't have a fetish for slade strands or something and your fort can continue on as before.

So if I make my legendary metalsmith into a Baroness, she'll still smith instead of turning into some lever-pulling ninny?

I did exactly that. You can even continue to reassign labors.