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Marshall Burns

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A bug with modding positions, FYI
« on: August 20, 2010, 09:53:05 am »
So, in my Castlevania-based mod I'm working on, I wanted to have more progression with the nobles. For instance:
Manager -> Chancellor -> Seneschal
each replacing the one before, and having the same responsibilities but being more demanding and generally bitchy. I thought this would work, given that there's a default progression of landowners and military dudes.

As it turns out, though, there's a bug with the MANAGE_WORK_ORDERS position and the ACCOUNTING position. If you put the REPLACED_BY tag on one of these, they won't show up at all upon embark. I tooled around with it for a while to make sure that's what it was, and sure enough all the other changes were fine; it was the REPLACED_BY tag that borked it.

So, now you know.
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Re: A bug with modding positions, FYI
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2010, 10:02:58 am »
seems there are other replace_by related bugs

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=2689
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Re: A bug with modding positions, FYI
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2010, 10:10:16 am »
oh and FYI .. there is a bug forum and a bug tracker... would be a better place to report that stuff ;)
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Re: A bug with modding positions, FYI
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2010, 12:05:41 pm »
Still, would have been nice to know these before I ran into these myself.
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Re: A bug with modding positions, FYI
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2010, 04:29:46 pm »
Quote from: Rhenaya on August 20, 2010, 10:10:16 am
oh and FYI .. there is a bug forum and a bug tracker... would be a better place to report that stuff ;)

Yeah, I know, just calling it out here so fellow modders will be sure to see it and know. Information sharing is good!
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