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Author Topic: Digging templates - easier, more user friendly than macro usage  (Read 973 times)

Mckee

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I know there is atleast one suggestions of this, but it seems dead and is only 3 posts long.

I think something very useful, especially for those of us who have a standard layout for our fortresses is being able to lay out mining designations and then save them, so as to be able to 'paste' them somewhere else. This could either be a number of saved, user created templates (possibly something you could then share and download throughout the community) or just a simple copy and paste function, so I designate an area to be dug and can then brush over this with another designation and drop it again and again, possibly with a rotate function.

This would save time with stuff like trap rooms and living areas, although corridors and rectangles or squares would not really benefit much.
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Re: Digging templates - easier, more user friendly than macro usage
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2010, 07:35:28 pm »

Yes please! +1
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Re: Digging templates - easier, more user friendly than macro usage
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2010, 11:00:45 am »

The currently solution is quickfort.

Not sure time needs to be spent recreating that particular wheel.
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Re: Digging templates - easier, more user friendly than macro usage
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2010, 02:05:23 pm »

I'd like to see somthing similar for exploratory mining, perhap the player could create a 10*10 template to be reproduced across that level.
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