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FreakyCheeseMan

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Divide Units List
« on: April 10, 2010, 11:50:34 pm »

I always find that one of the more easily-removed annoyances of Dwarf Fortress is the units list- scrolling just through the dwarves is slow but not *too* slow, but if you want to look at, say, attacker units, you either have to scroll through every dwarf and every domesticated animal, or backwards through every dead animal- for a developed fortress, this can take quite a while, and could be easily remedied by letting you skip to certain sections- at the very least 'Dwarves, Domesticated Animals, Invaders, Dead", or further- "Stoneworker Dwarves, Agricultural Dwarves, Wild Animals, Hostile Invaders".
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Re: Divide Units List
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2010, 06:42:23 am »

Definitely, the option to categorize the dwarves this way, not to mention sorting them by happiness, labour, idlers, wounds, etc. would make unit management a lot easier.
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