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Author Topic: Dwarf Skill Selector  (Read 944 times)

mrPalomar

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Dwarf Skill Selector
« on: January 20, 2012, 01:06:22 pm »
Hi all,

I've created a web page to help pick skills that a particular dwarf might excel at for those of you whose brain goes a little fuzzy trying to do figure out how to assign skills for the embark. Please let me know what you think, and I hope it's useful to some of you!

http://fishcandy.org/cgi-bin/skills.py

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tommy521

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Re: Dwarf Skill Selector
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 01:22:11 pm »
Holy... Mother of god that's brilliant! :D
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Joey

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Re: Dwarf Skill Selector
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 01:36:30 pm »
Brilliant!

I have never paid much attention to my dwarves when assigning them jobs however (except for skills). This might make me OCD even more over my fortress. A small, very small, part of me hates you for making this site, the other part loves you.

Thanks for this tool.
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Re: Dwarf Skill Selector
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 01:40:26 pm »
I input a hypothetical worst-at-everything dwarf and was disappointed that "useless noble" didn't come up.
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mrPalomar

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Re: Dwarf Skill Selector
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2012, 01:53:53 pm »
Thanks everyone.  I'd like to implement something that lets you set up the attributes for all of your dorfs and then gives you a matrix that you can use to select skills for each one all at once to make sure you've covered all your bases.  First though I think I'll add a filter that lets you only looks at skills you're interested in.

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on January 20, 2012, 01:40:26 pm
I input a hypothetical worst-at-everything dwarf and was disappointed that "useless noble" didn't come up.

Try again  ;)

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Re: Dwarf Skill Selector
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2012, 02:56:03 pm »
By the Gods... Putting the stats at max says that the top two matches...

Are animal trainer...

...And Druid.

Elves.
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mrPalomar

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Re: Dwarf Skill Selector
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2012, 04:49:03 pm »
FYI, The script has been updated to allow you to filter out skills that you may not care about.

If anyone has a background image or is interested in prettying the html up a bit I'd love to hear about it.
 
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 20, 2012, 02:56:03 pm
By the Gods... Putting the stats at max says that the top two matches...

Are animal trainer...

...And Druid.

Elves.

Ouch.  That's probably a bug. It might help if I had some suggestions for what it's supposed to say there...
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Re: Dwarf Skill Selector
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2012, 05:27:36 pm »
I really REALLY don't want to... but this just begs for it:
I'll make a fort where every dwarf can only be assigned skills that he will excel at.


Also, this should be integrated into Dwarf Therapist.

Edit: Update: First Road Block: my first dwarf on the list has all negative or average attributes... what do I do? Suggestions? Hauling duty? Pump operator until useful less useless?
« Last Edit: January 20, 2012, 06:13:59 pm by Rude »
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