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Author Topic: Preventing Tantrum Spiral Catastrophe.  (Read 5928 times)

GreatWyrmGold

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Re: Preventing Tantrum Spiral Catastrophe.
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2012, 06:25:59 pm »

Other than "blowing up" buildings, that sounds reasonable.
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Re: Preventing Tantrum Spiral Catastrophe.
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2012, 07:38:00 pm »

Other than "blowing up" buildings, that sounds reasonable.

A dorf trowing a tantrum can destroy an object. Sometimes this can be very bad if the object destroyed is a lever controlling something important.
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Re: Preventing Tantrum Spiral Catastrophe.
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2012, 09:44:01 pm »

One easy fix would squash this bug and make forts less likely to kill one squad of goblins, then 80 citizens because a couple soldiers died.
Not that easy a fix, I'm guessing Toady has most reactions like that linked to a function, if the he had to change something like this he would have to make and change a bunch of his functions. While simple in thoery it would still be hard with just how complicated dwarf fortress is.
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Re: Preventing Tantrum Spiral Catastrophe.
« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2012, 10:15:31 pm »

Other than "blowing up" buildings, that sounds reasonable.
A dorf trowing a tantrum can destroy an object. Sometimes this can be very bad if the object destroyed is a lever controlling something important.
The problem I had was confined by quotes. Dwarves don't have explosives, and they should never have explosives stable enough for a tantruming dwarf to destroy a building with. Maybe they'd blow THEMSELVES up, though.

One easy fix would squash this bug and make forts less likely to kill one squad of goblins, then 80 citizens because a couple soldiers died.
Not that easy a fix, I'm guessing Toady has most reactions like that linked to a function, if the he had to change something like this he would have to make and change a bunch of his functions. While simple in thoery it would still be hard with just how complicated dwarf fortress is.
It's also planned, although as an alternative rather than a replacement to tantrums.
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