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Natti

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I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« on: March 15, 2011, 11:26:35 am »
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15086021/announcementflood.PNG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15086021/announcementflood2.PNG
Any help? This has been going on for a year and it's ruining the game for me. Can't find the important announcements because of the cancelling flood.
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2011, 11:46:19 am »
You get those plenty in the late game, not much you can do about it aside from canceling the jobs of all your dwarves
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2011, 11:47:39 am »
I have, what, about 50 dwarves and all those announcements came in a few seconds.
So.
Any ideas?
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2011, 11:55:55 am »
It simply means that nobody can find anything. What was there is no longer there, or you simply ran out. Not much you really can do besides retask everyone.
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2011, 12:01:52 pm »
I'm pretty sure in the orders menu you can turn off job cancellation messages.
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2011, 12:09:54 pm »
Still, I'd like to solve the problem, not just hide it.
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2011, 12:18:49 pm »
The item was moved after the dwarf was assigned the task to haul the object, and so they cannot find the object.

Are you using bridges to fling/drop things or water to push things?

Was there a cave-in recently?
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2011, 12:21:44 pm »
None of those. Just normal growing fortress life and a few mandrills killed by caravan guards.
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2011, 12:25:25 pm »
Quote from: agatharchides on March 15, 2011, 12:01:52 pm
I'm pretty sure in the orders menu you can turn off job cancellation messages.

But it also hides the more useful job cancellation notices. Like, monsters approaching. With the messages turned off, you might not notice it until someone has been struck down.
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2011, 01:14:52 pm »
Why are you using Blue emu's avatar?
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2011, 02:47:37 pm »
Blue emu? Who's that?
I've been very inactive and I just grabbed a picture of an emu from Google Images. Didn't know someone had already taken it.
Changing my avatar now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2011, 09:15:54 am »
I suspect that your problem may come from the fact that you have too many "repeat" jobs, which can cause dwarves to "fight" for the same items.

You could use the announcement.txt, in the init folder, to hide these announcements while keeping the other important ones visible.
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Re: I'm getting some annoying announcement flood.
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2011, 12:08:08 pm »
Allright, thanks. Goblins already solved the problem for me so I had to start a new fortress.
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