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Author Topic: Hauling Skill and Profession  (Read 770 times)

AceSV

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Hauling Skill and Profession
« on: February 12, 2015, 10:31:07 am »
Wouldn't it make sense for a dwarf that hauls things all the time to become better at hauling?  Having a team of professional Legendary +5 Haulers that can move heavy things faster than usual sounds useful.  Hauling might also train a more general strength and movement speed and lead to late-life back injuries. 

This might help with the current dev plan to switch from jobs selecting dwarfs to dwarfs selecting jobs. 
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Re: Hauling Skill and Profession
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2015, 08:47:29 pm »
I don't know if hauler is really a profession.
But if would be nice if it trains strength better.
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Re: Hauling Skill and Profession
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2015, 08:58:44 pm »
What would work well would be having jobs in general turn squad-based, especially after workshop-rooms come in. At the very least being able to setup work parties to go in bucket-brigade style teams would be a nice way to speed up hauling and encourage larger numbers of haulers to boot. That way you could also bring in things like foremen and apprentices, with haulers in a particular work party being gathered up by the foreman and organised with their required tools (if any) to move things around.
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Re: Hauling Skill and Profession
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2015, 08:40:36 am »
Quote from: utunnels on February 12, 2015, 08:47:29 pm
I don't know if hauler is really a profession.
But if would be nice if it trains strength better.

It's a profession in the real world.  We have people like truck drivers, fork-lift operators and delivery boys. 
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