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Author Topic: Choose construction position with bridge interface.  (Read 520 times)

Lord Vetinari

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Choose construction position with bridge interface.
« on: October 21, 2010, 05:47:22 pm »
As the title says.

When constructing something, we have to deal with dwarves sometimes choosing the "wrong" side to work and thus end up trapping themselves. There are a lot of related suggestion on this topic concerning the modifications to the AI, but I can't find anything about manually choosing on which side the constructor must stand by adding to the construction menu an option like the one we use to choose on which side a bridge raises. If the player doesn't choose, the dwarves behave as they currently do. Wouldn't this be easier to program?

Sorry if it's already been suggested, maybe I just used the wrong keywords.
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ManaUser

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Re: Choose construction position with bridge interface.
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2010, 01:01:20 am »
That could work. Though I think my personal favorite idea would be to make dwarves respect "Traffic Areas" for building. That is, have them stand in a High Traffic zone if possible, Normal if not, and Restricted only if there's no other option.

It seems nicely intuitive and I like that it wouldn't involve adding anything new to an already complicated interface.
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aepurniet

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Re: Choose construction position with bridge interface.
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2010, 09:05:11 pm »
why choose? implement both! give players the option of doing it either way.
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