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Author Topic: Unit list  (Read 558 times)

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« on: February 17, 2015, 04:50:50 pm »

Two modest proposals:

1) blinking legendaries

When you get your first legendary the effect is nice, but very soon I wanted to remove it both on the list as well as on the map. In practice the whole fort blinks and this doesn't exactly help when things are already hard enough to parse. Especially on the map (when using ASCII tileset) this makes dwarves harder to distinguish because it makes miners and stoneworkers, farmers and woodworkers, fishers and craftsdwarves, children (legendary observers or bone carvers) and engineers look identical.

2) assigned profession names

If I give a dwarf a custom profession name, that matches an existing one, it would be neat, if he could be sorted into this category. Dwarves tend to aggregate into red (pump operator), white (engraver), violet (manager - military due to organising demonstrations) regardless of their main profession in my forts.