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When you have a big pile of things in one spot, instead of having a separate tab for each object you have just one tab will all objects. This is kind of fine, because it would be impossible to display 100 tabs, but the problem with this is that you get only partially interactive list of all objects on the spot. You can click them and open their respective views, but there's no going back to the last place you've been to. That makes reclaiming individual pieces of equipment from dump zone nearly impossible, I'd love to have dump/undump/forbid/unforbid/melt/unmelt visible on that list so that I could click it and scroll over to the next item. Having more than one item on list of 100 becomes a nightmare as you have to click the tile, go through the list until you find an item, click it, reclaim it, close the view, click the tile again, scroll the list to find next item and to the same thing over and over again... impossible when you accidentally dumped you steel armour stockpile or just want to claim some items from the pile of garbage that the siege brought to you.

Another thing kind of similar. There's no way to filter items by their quality/durability/whatever. Do you have 200 dwarfs and they all replaced their used clothes with new ones? Would you like to get rid of the used ones by dumping them into lava? Well, tough luck, looks like you'll have to go through the entire stock and select them one by one from the list of hundreds of clothing items with the painfully slow scroll speed : )

you could try forbidding the trap that has XX worn weapons in it, no idea if it will make it avoid activation, just a thought.

Maybe if you forbid a door in their way? Or unforbid a different way in?

Otherwise, perhaps editing goblins, but not sure what, if any, changes you could give them.

You could use DFhack and obstruct the way to the traps with placed obsidian. Then deconstruct the offending trap when the siege is over.

If you're using DFHack you might even be able to destroy the component that's about to break.

Quote from: Blue_Dwarf on April 14, 2014, 09:14:58 pm

Quote from: FrankMcFuzz on April 14, 2014, 06:05:00 pm

Towns and Gnomoria are also face-slappingly infuriating that they even exist.

That's a problem with Dwarf Fortress, not Towns or Gnomoria. Both of the latter provide what DF doesn't - an accessible game with great user experience.

User 'interface', maybe. But user experience? I highly disagree. Experience regards how much fun someone can have with a thing, and having played Towns I would say it's about as samey, boring, shallow as you could get with a game of the genre. Not having played Gnomoria, I can't say, but after realizing that they don't come close to the experience that DF provides, I'd rather not try it. But after looking at some reviews for Gnomoria just now, it does seem like a step up on that atrocity that Towns was. Bleegggh. Maybe when Gnomoria is $2 I'll buy it and play it for 10 minutes before realizing that I need me some in depth dwarfy management.

Once you realize that a kitchen is b>w>z and that none of the shortcuts make any sense, it grows on you.

But Banished. Banished is a pretty good go at the 'managing townspeople and resources' genre. Everyone get Banished.