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[Zankaru]

When your naming them it helps alot, for example I have capped letters at the beginning of the names.

/X\ Dwarf = Founder
/P\ Dwarf = Professional (only does skill, dosent haul)
/L\ Dwarf = Legendary Skill

[HammerHand]

That would work great for me, Zankaru, except that I tend to group my labors in custom professions, whether all the Dwarves in that profession has all the labors involved or not.  For instance:

"Tastesmith" = Brewers and Cooks
"Stoneshaper" = Masons, Engravers, and Stone Crafters
"Greenthumb" = Planters, Herbalists, Millers, and Threshers
"Mountaineer" = Bowyer/Hunter/Trapper/Woodcutter/Animal Trainer (I only ever need one of any of these in a fortress, so I lump them all together)

... And so on.  So, were I to make a Dwarf /L\ Stoneshaper, I can't immediately tell just how he's legendary in shaping stone.
As for /P\, I have enough of my fortress set to dedicated hauling that I usually don't set my professionals to do any of their own.  Some of them, however, do have specific hauling jobs enabled, particularly the jobs used only under certain conditions, like my "Gemfist" (Gem Cutters/Setters).
... But I like the /X\ tag.

Of course, none of that has anything at all to do with the thread's real subject, so I digress.

I'm tempted now to start nicknaming my founders, as I've never remembered any specific Dwarf any other way.

[Granite26]

Use a GeekCode varient...

There are currently +-52 activatable skills, which is more than coverable by a 2 letter code.  Preface with L when they hit legendary, and use 3 letter shorts for groups.

So Tst instead of TasteSmith

TstBrLCoHau - Would be a TasteSmith with Brewing, Legendary Cooking and his hauling labours all on.

FStoMa - Founding Mason with no hauling

Hu(CrLe) - Hunter with xbow and leather.


Course... that's a LOT of micro...

[Zankaru]

Just found out that if you go to a workshop and enter into the P-profile menu it list the dwarves in what order they came to the fort, founders being at the top. Atleast it did for me.

All that micro would get confusing, I only use a few names.

Miner-Mason = Mining, masonry, stone det., arch
Farmer-B-C = fields, brewing, cooking
Crafter-J-T = stone/wood working, gem set/cut, butchery/tanning/leatherworking
#Mover# = all hauling
^Janitor^ = refuse hauling only

Then I add stuff like this.

/XP\/S\ Miner-Mason = founder, pro but has stone hauling activcated.