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[Faces of Mu]

Hi Toady and all,

I had a fort, abandoned it, and when I reclaimed I kept getting "Ambushed!" type messages and the screen would flick to the ambushee. Given I had reclaimed and I expected there to be a few of these, so I ignored it for the sake of trying to focus on mining. However I got the same thing happen every second, so I only got work done while paused, and could hardly monitor anything. After a while I noticed that the unit being ambushed was the planter from my previous fortress. So I couldn't control him, turn off his hunting or bring him somewhere where he wouldn't keep running around triggering ambushes by deer.

The problem was:

a) A dwarf not in my team kept triggering ambushes
b) the ambush messages were persistent, every second
c) it kept translocating my view to the ambush (every second!)
d) I couldn't control or stop this dwarf (player ignorance?)
e) I wasn't sure how to set the gate entrance so I could use F1 key to change my view back to exactly where I was working (player ignorance).

Ta!

[infinity]

I had a similar problem, although it wasn't on a reclaim.  

A giant eagle kept "interrupting" my workers, despite the fact that it was several levels above the ground level.   I would get spammed with these "interruped" messages.

[Toady One]

You can set your view locations with 'h' hotkeys.  I'll look at the rest of this.