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[gtmattz]

So I was just working on a new fortress and realised something...

The game will pause and zoom every time you find some pretty rocks, but your dwarves can be killing each other or in a tantrum spiral or getting slaughtered by zombie mountain goats and the game just keeps rolling along 

[rufio]

It would be nice even just if the hostiles actually appeared somewhere near the top of the units list, so that I don't have to pause the game and spend five minutes scrolling down to find them and zoom to them manually.  Not that it really matters, because as soon as I unpause the game, my dwarfs usually chase the hostiles offscreen again.

[JaaSwb]

'You have struck Microcline!' RAEG!!


Two things that make you things you mentioned easier, rufio:

Pressing PgUp/PgDn in menus that you scroll through with the arrow keys or */ in menus you scroll through with +- will scroll one screen at a time, getting you to invaders and such much faster. Also, invader squads are shown as red blobs on the minimap, making them rather easy to locate and follow.

Pausing the game every time a dwarf gets killed would be rather tedious as well - the average tantrum spiral would take hours to spacebar through

[sproingie]

You have struck Microcline!
You have struck Microcline!
You have struck Microcline!
You have struck Microcline!
You have struck Microcline!
Urist McNoble, King, has been struck down.
You have struck Microcline!
You have struck Microcline!

[rufio]

Yes, I know about that, but between my ~130 dwarves, ~40 stray puppies and god knows how much deceased wildlife it still takes a while.  Caravans also seem to show up as red on the map (and add another huge amount of entries to unit list), and when I'm doing this, it's usually to find out where some lone thief/snatcher/megabeast has gotten to, and not to follow a whole raiding party.

/grumble

Recentering the camera after getting called away to look at some shiny new microcline is actually relatively easy: u->down x 4/5->c usually does it.

[gtmattz]

Pausing the game every time a dwarf gets killed would be rather tedious as well - the average tantrum spiral would take hours to spacebar through

Yea, I can see the logic behind not pausing on combat and death, as that would make ambushes and sieges fairly annoying.  I mainly just posted because I never really made the connection and when I just did it struck me as a bit silly.

[TheDJ17]

I'm quite sure that in the next version the camera zooms when ever a dwarf dies. Also COMBAT TEXT!

[warhammer651]

o thought it just changed water into wine?

[Safe-Keeper]

Isn't the next version going to let you customize for yourself what messages to show and which not show? Not to mention pausing/unpausing?