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grendel

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Fisherdwarves at a designated fishing area will all dogp
« on: December 08, 2007, 11:07:00 pm »

If you use the zoning menu to designate a fishing area, all of the dwarves will pick the exact closest spot to them to fish from even if it's already occupied by another dwarf or dwarves. This results in them all piling up on the same spot and aside from looking pretty silly, I think it slows their fishing down considerably as well since it forces all but one of them to lie down.

   

[ December 08, 2007: Message edited by: grendel ]

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God of Toast

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Re: Fisherdwarves at a designated fishing area will all dogp
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2007, 12:15:00 am »

Oooh, a dock. I should make one of those.
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Eiba

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Re: Fisherdwarves at a designated fishing area will all dogp
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2007, 04:51:00 pm »

It's the same with any designated area activity. I've got four dwarves standing on each other gathering sand from the same tile in the middle of a huge desert...
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FFLaguna

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Re: Fisherdwarves at a designated fishing area will all dogp
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2007, 08:52:00 pm »

Same happens for establishing a drinking zone. It would be prettier and more sensical if only one dwarf would occupy each square.
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Name Lips

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Re: Fisherdwarves at a designated fishing area will all dogp
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2007, 11:23:00 pm »

What happens if you designate lots of tiny fishing zones?
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Tahin

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Re: Fisherdwarves at a designated fishing area will all dogp
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2007, 11:57:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by Name Lips:
<STRONG>What happens if you designate lots of tiny fishing zones?</STRONG>

They'd probably choose the closest one.

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grendel

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Re: Fisherdwarves at a designated fishing area will all dogp
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2007, 12:19:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by Tahin:
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They'd probably choose the closest one.</STRONG>


Yep I already tried a bunch of 1x1 fishing zones and that's exactly what happened (again).

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Re: Fisherdwarves at a designated fishing area will all dogp
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2007, 12:59:00 am »

I had this written down in my list before the October release, but I found it sort of annoying to code so I put it off.  I'll get to it at some point.
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