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[Bulkor]

Sorry if this has been posted before.  I had a clerk set on maximum precision.  I drafted him after he'd been a legendary clerk for a while and assigned a replacement.  The replacement didn't do any work, and the clerk settings screen told me that there was enough work done maximum precision.  Things have stayed that way for around half a year; the stocks are still accurate and the clerk isn't doing anything.  I haven't tried unassigning the clerk but I have moved the accuracy settings around, with no effect.

[beorn080]

Did you give the replacement an office? If you didn't he won't do any work because the office stays with the old record keeper.

[Bogdanov]

May be so, but it's still pretty weird that the stock records are still accurate after half a year, since your fortress has produced tons of crap...

[Bulkor]

The replacement has the same office the old one did.  Also, I just tried firing the new clerk, and the stocks seem to be updating themselves now; the number of drinks is changing on its own.

[Tacroy]

Well see, that's what made the old clerk legendary; he designed a clever system of weights, pressure plates, pulleys, levers and round rocks with numbers on them that keep perfect track of the contents of your fortress.

[BurnedToast]

Stock records are not perfectly accurate, they DO decay as you produce things. The  bug/feature is that they decay very very slowly.

Even creating 20,000 new objects (stones from mining out a whole level) it barely brought my records below perfect accuracy.

[Skanky]

Does the new bookkeeper have skill in bookkeeping? If so, then all is well. He doesn't need to do much work to "top up" the accuracy of the books.

[Bulkor]

The new bookkeeper is an herbalist with no clerk skill, so yeah, I dunno.  I'm coming up on two years and the records are still perfectly accurate.

[TotalPigeon]

Basically, what you are saying is that stock accuracy should decay a lot faster than it does. Also, record keeping should level up a hell of a lot slower too. Currently, it's like a free legendary.

[Earthquake Damage]

Yeah.  At least pumping iron (read:  operating a pump that isn't attached to anything) tires a dwarf out so he has to take breaks.  Bookkeeping is just as fast but without the breaks.

[RadicalThought]

[ubuntu] Same problem here!

My Grand Treasurer (=bookkeeper in a 200,000 fortress) is idle all the time. In the nobles screen his name is white, and indeed he has his own office (though only needs a meager one). So the room settings are okay. (I also saw that he likes dining in his office). In the settings menu I also get the message: "Your bookkeeper has done enough work to attain highest precision." The stock menu seems to be changing on it's own, and is 100% accurate.

I also tried:
replacing bookkeeper
making new office

[RadicalThought]

My bookkeeper is working again!

Gave him a new room AND removed the old room. The remove construction option on the throne that defined his old office did not work. So I guess something was wrong with his old throne. After dumping that throne however, the bookkeeper took his new office and started working.

[kuro_suna]

My Grand Treasurer (=bookkeeper in a 200,000 fortress) is idle all the time. In the nobles screen his name is white, and indeed he has his own office (though only needs a meager one). So the room settings are okay. (I also saw that he likes dining in his office). In the settings menu I also get the message: "Your bookkeeper has done enough work to attain highest precision." The stock menu seems to be changing on it's own, and is 100% accurate.

I don't think theirs anything wrong here, its just that when they reach legendary they only need to set foot in their office for half a second or glance at a random stockpile a few times a year to keep all stocks 100% accurate.