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shultays

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all civilians back to base?
« on: November 14, 2010, 06:24:43 pm »

how can I achieve that in new version of df? in case of an ambush or siege my civilians tend to go out and I cant lure invaders to my traps thanks to that :/ I guess that is related to civilian alert but I couldn't do it

also seriously guys, is it just me or new military system is a bit complicated?
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shultays

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Re: all civilians back to base?
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2010, 06:30:38 pm »

disregard that, I specified a burrow for my civ. alert and it worked

is there a way to keep animals inside the fort?
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Trammelkey

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Re: all civilians back to base?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2010, 06:51:52 pm »

As far as I know, just pens or chains.
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Re: all civilians back to base?
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2010, 04:01:36 am »

...and a hallway full of pet impassable doors, which will work 'fine' if you have say, 4 of 5 sets of doors altogether, with space between the sets of doors for pets to gather, and let the pets that manage to get through some of the doors back inside the fort again when their owners have pathed back inside, for all values of 'fine' which equal 'requires lots of fiddly micromanagement'.
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worldspawn

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Re: all civilians back to base?
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2010, 12:23:54 pm »

My question is how can I keep the burrow. Once I turn the alert off my dwarves still won't leave the burrow.
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Re: all civilians back to base?
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2010, 04:57:38 pm »

My question is how can I keep the burrow. Once I turn the alert off my dwarves still won't leave the burrow.

I've had that same problem.  De-assigning/re-assigning 160 dorfs each time I'm attacked is very tedious.  I'm interested in hearing a solution if anyone has one.
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Urist McDepravity

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Re: all civilians back to base?
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2010, 05:02:35 pm »

Do not assign dwarfs to burrow. Assign burrow to alert, and then set this alert.
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Re: all civilians back to base?
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2010, 12:29:49 am »

My question is how can I keep the burrow. Once I turn the alert off my dwarves still won't leave the burrow.

What I do is delete the burrow  :-[
Its tedious to redefine every ambush/siege but it works.  :D
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