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NTJedi

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Dwarves changing their names??
« on: March 26, 2012, 01:41:16 am »

Does anyone else have a problem where dwarves will change their name to something different than what I provided??  This only happens when those dwarves are going into battle.
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Re: Dwarves changing their names??
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2012, 01:44:56 am »

it's a feature. They get titles after a few notable kills. However, instead of being called "the mighty" or "goblinslayer" they go for names like "the bronze chutes" or "morningdusted".
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NTJedi

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Re: Dwarves changing their names??
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2012, 03:00:15 am »

I just change their names back to their previous boring names such as FightSword1.    :D
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Re: Dwarves changing their names??
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2012, 03:55:02 am »

I just change their names back to their previous boring names such as FightSword1.    :D

In stead of changing their names back you might want to make sure that dwarf stays happy, drunk and well equipped; because a named dwarf with a named weapon is a one-man-army :p

You can have professions like "Axedwarf" and "Speardwarf" to indicate what equipment they need, for retired miners I add a profession named "Soldier".
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Re: Dwarves changing their names??
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2012, 03:59:49 am »

This happens to me, dwarves lose nicknames I gave them and revert to their normal names
if they score a kill.

They don't have legendary names yet, they just revert back to their normal name.
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Re: Dwarves changing their names??
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2012, 09:35:02 am »

Stop using Dwarf Therapist to assign nicknames - it doesn't know how to do it correctly, so they end up disappearing once the dwarf gains a title.
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