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[Lurve]

I understand that before another idle point (meeting hall, statue garden, zoo) is set up, if dwarves don't have the outside starting location to idle at they'll just stand where they are.  Okay.  

But since 98% of the time they have much better alternatives, can't there be some way of turning off the "idle outside" job without turning off all outside jobs (which incidentally, is nearly useless ATM because it traps dwarves that are already outside)?

An 'O' option, an init.txt option, whatever, I'm not picky.  I just like keeping my dwarves safe and they are anything but when they draw "stand outside like an idiot" from the idle locations hat during a goblin siege.

[Toady One]

I'll have to add a negative thought penalty or get rid of the outside milling entirely, or those no point in having an option.  If they have a preference for being outdoorsy, maybe they should seek this more often/at all, and then think negative thoughts when they are restricted.

[Lurve]

Preferences and negative thoughts would work, assuming there were dwarves that also hated the sun (they're homogeneous enough as it is).  Then we'd have a third option - leave outside idling on, lock the doors during a siege and let natural selection take care of the problem.