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[Sergius]

What the subject says.

Forget about over complicated schemes about having soldiers with alternating shifts or whatever. What I would like is some simple order like "prepare for battle" that tells soldiers to go get sleep (and wake at the same time, even if they're no longer sleepy), and immediately drink and eat afterwards -hungry or not- (and smoke a stogie or take a leak or whatever it is that soldiers do before going to a massacre). That way, when you send them "on duty" to get slaughtered, at least they'll be awake and nobody will run away to "drink" or "eat" so they will all die in good company.

Maybe the whole sleep/eat/drink/on break system can take a big overhaul too. As it is now, it seems that dwarves have a "hungry/not hungry" flag that goes off and mandates "EAT NOW!" at fixed times instead of some sort of hunger bar that they can fill even if they're only half-hungry. This would need some kind of fractional item system, so you can have half your meal and save half for later, or any other percent of a food "unit" that you want.

But at least a "prepare for battle" where they gorge themselves with food and drink (even booze if it is the night before!) and have a very good rest before a major skirmish would be nice.

[Naero]

The game already has tags for 'hungry' and 'starving' (and 'thirsty' and 'dehydrated'), why not just make it so that certain important tasks will only be interrupted if the dwarf becomes starving or dehydrated? That makes more sense, a dwarf isn't going to leave in the middle of a battle because they feel a bit peckish, but if they're famished that's a different matter.

I suppose the problem is that a dwarf probably doesn't distinguish between when it's in a battle and when it isn't - it just knows it's on duty. I'm guessing this'll be solved in the upcoming army arc.

[Sergius]

The thing is, I want my soldiers to be 100% freshened up before a long battle. Such as when you decide you want to exterminate every last monster in the chasm... you don't want half of them to go "hungry/starving/thirsty/dehydrated" or whatever flag makes them eat after the first couple of giant bats they kill.

[Slappy Moose]

That would be a really nice feature.

It would at least make all soldiers able to actually use their mass strength, instead of attacking the enemy 2 at a time.

[Tahin]

I like this. Even so, they really need to take a "Proactive" eating/sleeping/drinking approach so that when the time comes for them to actually do something, they'll be at their full potential. The only downside I see to this is if you have all your military dwarves on the same schedule, and absolutely NO ONE shows up because they're all taking a leak.

[Zereth]

quote:Originally posted by Tahin:
<STRONG>I like this. Even so, they really need to take a "Proactive" eating/sleeping/drinking approach so that when the time comes for them to actually do something, they'll be at their full potential. The only downside I see to this is if you have all your military dwarves on the same schedule, and absolutely NO ONE shows up because they're all taking a leak.</STRONG>

That's why you have more than one squad on different schedules.