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Milskidasith

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[40d] Hunter runs out of arrows, changes target.
« on: April 06, 2009, 04:15:09 pm »

So one of my hunters was out fighting the good fight against The Enclave wolves, but he ran out of arrows. I figured that he was going to charge the wolf (who was vomiting and had his internal organs and spine badly injured). Instead, he charges the wolf right next to him and beats it to death, leaving that wolf to die slowly (except, somehow, it managed to heal a broken spine [I think] along with misc. broken organs in a few days. Then it ran off the map).

I figure this is because when the hunter runs out of arrows, he goes back into "find target and ambush" mode instead of "slaughter mercilessly" mode, and since the wolf he was slaughtering was farther away than the (incredibly stupid) wolf standing next to him, he figured it wasn't worth it. And then he beat the other wolf's skull in because that wolf thought it deserved to exist.
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Carcer

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Re: [40d] Hunter runs out of arrows, changes target.
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2009, 09:30:46 am »

Not all that bad of a bug, really.

Did a season change happen in the time it took that wolf to heal up?
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Re: [40d] Hunter runs out of arrows, changes target.
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2009, 03:17:32 pm »

Why's that a bug?  It seems logical to reevaluate your situation when you run out of ammo.
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Re: [40d] Hunter runs out of arrows, changes target.
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2009, 03:57:03 pm »

They're not making smart evaluations...but hey, still early version :)
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Re: [40d] Hunter runs out of arrows, changes target.
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2009, 04:14:49 pm »

I'd say its rather smart to go after the wolf next to you rather than the wolf that's half dead and way over there. The only "bug" would be that he didn't swap targets sooner.
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set the meeting area on top of a retracting bridge above a huge pit. pull lever.
Entire goddamn fortress cancells task: resting injury.