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[Arnos]

Dwarves should smooth the nearest tile, if they did this they could do some smoothing jobs about 10 times as fast, it's just painful to watch them run back and forth from the one hallway to the other smoothing.  This idea could be applied to other jobs to.

[Zereth]

quote:Originally posted by Arnos:
<STRONG>Dwarves should smooth the nearest tile, if they did this they could do some smoothing jobs about 10 times as fast, it's just painful to watch them run back and forth from the one hallway to the other smoothing.  This idea could be applied to other jobs to.</STRONG>

You mean that when they decide to do a "smooth tile" job, they should look for the nearest designated tile? This would be nice, but I think the current setup has smoothable tiles looking for dwarves to smooth them, sot his would need some overhaul of how jobs are assigned.

If dwarves did look for jobs rather than the other way around, though, it might solve some problems like stone sockpiles locking up rocks lying where you want to build something so nobody will move it.

[ricemastah]

Actually the dwarves smooth, mine, cut down trees, and do other designated jobs based on the local squares. Like it is based off of squares and designated jobs, like smoothing, are done based on their position. The squares divide up the whole map into little squares. The dwarf then does the job in the top left corner working down the square until he hits the bottom. Then he goes back to the top again and smooth until he hits the bottom again. This pattern continues until he hits the end of the box in the horizontal direction and moves to the next box in the vertical direction. It continues in this fashion until the job is done. The reason it seems inefficient is when u have several horizontal walls in succession that need to be smoothed. The dwarf has to go around them in order to get to the job so it seems a lot more inefficient. If you do wide open spaces you will notice this effect much more.

[Arnos]

Oh yeah, the job picks to dwarf so the tile should pick the nearest dwarf who just smoothed a tile.

[slMagnvox]

quote:Originally posted by Arnos:
<STRONG>...it's just painful to watch them run back and forth from the one hallway to the other smoothing...</STRONG>

Watch something else?  Engraving is a "set it and forget it" kinda job.

But wait, there's more!

[Sean Mirrsen]

I seem to recall something in the devlog about "smoothing now using mining code to find next tile", or something of that sort. Mining seems to do everything in exactly the same way as other jobs, but it finds a random closest tile as next, instead of a fixed order of tiles as smoothing now does.

[Arnos]

Hooray!, Thanks Toady.