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Author Topic: Fireside chat with a noob  (Read 941 times)

Hekat

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Fireside chat with a noob
« on: October 17, 2006, 03:03:00 pm »

HI! Welp, I neeever ever would have believed that I would be anywhere near capable of playing and enjoying an ascii game but.. darnit if I wasn't up playing this 'till 3 am last night!

So anyway, I've got some burning questions that I hope you fine gents and ladies will answer, they are:

I have a bridge that kind of didn't.. work, I'm getting no spam messages telling me I did it wrong, but it is forever blinking and not building, how do I delete a bridge order to try building it anew?

I want to build a trading post, but I'm told I need an architect, I recently got some immigrants, but none of them are architects- is there a way I can designate some peasant to 'become' an architect?, or any other job type for that matter?

I'm suuure I have plenty more questions, I'll be back soon with more!:B
Thanks
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Toady One

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Re: Fireside chat with a noob
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2006, 03:40:00 pm »

[t] lets you look at more buildngs than [q].  Use [t], then
  • on the bridge.

    You can change the jobs that dwarves do by pressing [v], go the dwarf, then [p] [l].  You'll get a large list.  Architect is on there somewhere, though possibly as "building designer", near the bottom (have to go through some pages).

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MJ working

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Re: Fireside chat with a noob
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2006, 04:07:00 pm »

Architecture is the very last one in the list. So it is found one above Mining.

I would look at the bridge though, I believe it requires Architecture as well (like the trading depot) so I think you'll be ok to not cancel it, just assign some-one only architecture and they'll get to it.

Also though, the bridge will then need masonry.  So either the "architect" will need to have masonry activated or you'll have to wait for a mason to become free.

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Maximus

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Re: Fireside chat with a noob
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2006, 10:14:00 pm »

A freemason?   :D
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Gakidou

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Re: Fireside chat with a noob
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2006, 10:23:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by Maximus:
<STRONG>A freemason?    :D</STRONG>

Do freemasons throw tantrums when the shriners and illuminati have more valueable bedrooms?

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