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[EmperorJon]

I was just thinking of a few additions to the macro side of the game...

• Ability to copy designations and it will calculate it into macro format
• Ability to copy actual real terrain and it will calculate it into a macro format with building functionality

The first would allow you to make sure your designations are actually correct before macroing it, and the second would enable you to copy a large area of the fort again. It would dig out all the stuff needed, put stairs, ramps, channels etc. all as copied, would ignore a tile if it was impossible to do so, and most importantly stick down buildings. So it would place a bed on every bed. This would just be the first bed on the list, but adding options for 'Use best bed' or 'Use only *type*' etc. would be wonderful.

Just some thoughts.

[Lav]

The first has only limited usefulness, while being extremely difficult to code, if not outright impossible. A very primitive example: suppose you try to create a wood chopping macro. How is the game supposed to determine that you want to copy a complete rectangle, not a heap of one-tile designations? Besides, if you are not sure, just find an empty spot on the map and run your macro a few times.

The second is simply impossible - even Quickfort macros are split into four sections which are applied manually. This was done for a reason - the game has absolutely no code support for "build this bed here in the future when this room is dug up" orders, and is extremely unlikely to ever have.