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Captain Mayday

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Please change Dwarves Stay Inside to include Inside area
« on: December 16, 2007, 03:21:00 am »
At the moment it only appears to refer to subterranean areas. This is no good when you need to freeze an aquifer to bypass it, as getting the dwarves back underground means they won't use the access shafts, even if they don't open out into the outside areas.
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Re: Please change Dwarves Stay Inside to include Inside area
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2007, 07:02:00 pm »
Yes, "stay indoors" should refer to "indoor" areas, rather than just "subterranean".  Of course, this would make dwarves consider places like under bridges as indoors, and hide under them instead of in the fort proper...

Maybe "Stay indoors" should keep the dwarves either subterranean or in areas that you designate is indoors?

[ December 16, 2007: Message edited by: Keldor ]

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Re: Please change Dwarves Stay Inside to include Inside area
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2007, 07:22:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Keldor:
<STRONG>that you designate is indoors?

[ December 16, 2007: Message edited by: Keldor ]</STRONG>

200% agree.

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Re: Please change Dwarves Stay Inside to include Inside area
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2007, 07:23:00 pm »
Oh yes please!
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Re: Please change Dwarves Stay Inside to include Inside area
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2007, 07:00:00 am »
What about, in the zones menu, you can choose to make the zone a "retreat", and in the case of an "All dwarves stay indoors" command, they'd run there.
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Re: Please change Dwarves Stay Inside to include Inside area
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2007, 07:27:00 am »
Or a giant horn item/building you make that when blown, will cause all dwarves in the vicinity to go to shelter areas.

This would make the realism both nice and fun, because then you'd have those unfortunate dwarves far off in the distance unaware of their impending doom :3

[ December 17, 2007: Message edited by: RustedAxe ]

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Re: Please change Dwarves Stay Inside to include Inside area
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2007, 04:18:00 pm »
I want a war-time designation type thing, something like: "Stay here," "Avoid this place," "Just don't go here." Like the traffic designation we have now, but much harsher, and only be used when a "Danger" option was toggled on, which would probably replace "Stay inside."

Dwarves would only travel through "Avoid this area" if a job item or workshop was in it, or it was the only path to a job, and would altogether ignore "Just don't go here."

This would make outdoor forts quite a bit more feasible.

[ December 17, 2007: Message edited by: Tahin ]

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