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Dwarf_Fever

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Expedite it!
« on: May 23, 2011, 12:22:00 am »
It would be nice if there were a command from the general menu: "Expedite last task." Ie you press something like shift-E and the game queries your last assigned task, finds the nearest dwarf who is not working on an expedited task and causes him to drop anything he is doing to immediately work on your task.

Would be nice to have for instance when you have a forgotten beast charging your cellar stairwell, and your resident Urist McOblivious, the only dwarf in 10 miles, is too busy mopping the floor to put up that emergency wall to keep the bugger out...

Along those lines, it might also be nice to have a low priority setting like that which causes the next task you enter to go to the bottom of the queue instead of being next.
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Kattaroten

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Re: Expedite it!
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 03:18:41 pm »
Toady i planning a rewrite of the Dwarven AI so that it can support priorities, your suggestion is probably already planned...
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