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PhilD

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Mandate for "drums"
« on: September 10, 2006, 10:52:00 am »

My Broker issued a mandate for 3 "drums". I understand this to mean some instruments, but I never found a command to queue jobs for "drums", only "instruments". Am I supposed to make up lots of instruments, and hope some of them turn up as drums?
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SynthOrange

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Re: Mandate for "drums"
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2006, 11:00:00 am »

At this point, yeah. You just make a lot of the class of object (instruments in this case) and hope that they get made eventually.
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Slime

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Re: Mandate for "drums"
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2006, 11:06:00 am »

Perhaps it should be made so that if there is a mandate, these items will be automatically created if you choose to make some instruments.
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grendel

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Re: Mandate for "drums"
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2006, 12:57:00 pm »

I've never seen stone drums. Maybe drums can only be made of wood?
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Rollory

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Re: Mandate for "drums"
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2006, 01:50:00 pm »

I've had Jet drums get made, so I assume they can get made from any kind of rock/stone.
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Gladi

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Re: Mandate for "drums"
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2006, 02:28:00 am »

Bright day
Cannot you order more specifi things in manager screen? (though I have restarted with new fortress so not sure)
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GrimmSweeper

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Re: Mandate for "drums"
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2006, 12:17:00 pm »

Nope. Only jobs that are available in the Manager screen are ones that occur naturally from buildings.
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bbb

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Re: Mandate for "drums"
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2006, 02:49:00 pm »

talking about mandates.. wouldn't it make more sense to have 0/2 rather than 2/2 (ie.. mandate completed, rather than mandate yet to be filled?)

... btw.. where do i find out how much time i've left to complete mandates?

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FunkyWaltDogg

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Re: Mandate for "drums"
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2006, 03:12:00 pm »

So far as I know there isn't a way to see exactly how long you have to fulfill a mandate, but you can get a general idea from the colors.   Brown is a new mandate, yellow has been waiting a while and red is about to run out.
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