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Solara

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turn off emotions?
« on: March 26, 2008, 10:32:00 pm »
I don't know much about modding so I'm not sure this is even possible, but is there anything I can do to make my dwarves act more like dwarves and less like weepy emotionally unstable lunatics? We just scattered the goblins and instead of celebrating their victory and toasting their stouthearted friends who died gloriously in battle everyone is starting to tantrum and send yet another fortress into the destruction spiral. I'm sure this has happened to everyone, but I for one would like to enjoy bloody sieges without afterwards wishing I'd wussed out and just used traps instead...  

I'm hoping there's a tag or something I can add to keep them from going berserk because they sprained their wrist or smelled a bad smell or some guy their ex-girlfriend's uncle's cousin kind of sort of knew ran out into a hail of arrows and got turned into a pincushion.

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Re: turn off emotions?
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2008, 10:48:00 pm »
You would have to add the [NOEMOTION] tag to Dwarves I guess, but ive never tried it.
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Re: turn off emotions?
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2008, 11:07:00 pm »
I think [NOTHOUGHT] will better accomplish what Solara wants.  It eliminates all those thoughts like "so and so admired a fine cabinet lately" or "so and so lost a friend to tragedy recently."  Your dwarves will be neither happy nor sad, and will never tantrum.
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Re: turn off emotions?
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2008, 11:09:00 pm »
It's NOEMOTION.
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Solara

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Re: turn off emotions?
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2008, 08:24:00 pm »
But I still want them to enjoy their fine cabinets.  :(

Oh well, thanks guys, I'll give the NOEMOTION thing a try in a new fortress even if it does make me feel like a horrible cheater. It's too bad there's no way to just sort of tone down the effects of bad thoughts without resorting to turning them off entirely...

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Re: turn off emotions?
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2008, 12:06:00 am »
There is though - a giant engraved dining room + nice bedrooms for every dwarf + a skilled cook/brewer to make happy though creating meals = dwarves will be ecstatic even while the fortress falls apart around them.

Also appoint a captain of the guard - being released from jail gives a massive +1000 happy thought, which is enough to make any dwarf ecstatic no matter what so even if they tantrum and kick a puppy they will be fine after they get out of jail.

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Re: turn off emotions?
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2008, 11:10:00 am »
Is your dining room royal? Seriously, a Royal quality dining room is ridiculously easy to do (Big room of normal rock. Smooth. Pack with a ton of chairs + tables. Royal, almost no effort.) and will almost totally prevent tantrums.
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