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Author Topic: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?  (Read 13187 times)

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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2012, 08:10:15 am »
How can you not set to highest?
I can't stand stats that are unclear ; "hmm, maybe you have food and drink left, maybe you have enough beds/armor/bars/bags of sand, but maybe not...", ungh.
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2012, 08:40:41 am »
no offence, but I wondered why anyone would ever set to something else than highest precision. Different play styles I guess.
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2012, 08:46:52 am »
Why not?
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2012, 08:59:08 am »
Agreed with all of the above, including that you can wait for a migration wave or two.  I used to set up book-keeping right away.  Not only did it tie up a Dwarf that I needed to trade at the depot or talk to the liaison or dig a hole, but I could manually count the important items in the stockpiles and so did not really need a book-keeper yet.  Later on, though, it is invaluable to be able to access individual items from the Z-Stock screen.   :)
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2012, 09:09:35 am »
I usually set a bookeeper to max, after a while my z stocks is completely accurate, I even stop him from working and I don't need to have him do anything anymore... is it really necessary to let them update the stockpile records after you let them do it once in max setting? I mean do the records get unupdated somehow? only seen this when setting one of the lower precisions options and some items reach over that precision level...
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2012, 09:11:19 am »
Quote from: Kaos on April 04, 2012, 09:09:35 am
I usually set a bookeeper to max, after a while my z stocks is completely accurate, I even stop him from working and I don't need to have him do anything anymore... is it really necessary to let them update the stockpile records after you let them do it once in max setting? I mean do the records get unupdated somehow? only seen this when setting one of the lower precisions options and some items reach over that precision level...
I think I've seen it slip once. it went from highest to high 97% to the next level.
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2012, 09:13:46 am »
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2012, 09:16:00 am »
My longest lived fort so far lasted 25 years. The only bookkeeper died in the big tantrum spiral 3 years in, but the records remained up to date (yes, including the bookkeeper's skeleton). Some might tell you this is a bug, but I'm inclined to think they're just damn good at their job.
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2012, 09:49:07 am »
People can tolerate not having the highest precision?  :o
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #24 on: April 04, 2012, 09:50:16 am »
Quote from: Flying Dice on April 04, 2012, 09:49:07 am
People can tolerate not having the highest precision?  :o
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #25 on: April 04, 2012, 10:38:03 am »
I usually set my bookkeeper to low precision at the start, when I have less than 100 of any item. Then after a while I'll bump him up to the next level. Whenever I notice that something is displaying an imprecise value I bump him up again. Eventually he gets up to max. That way I don't have a starting dwarf stuck in the office for months early on, but I still have the precision I need. 
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #26 on: April 04, 2012, 10:50:09 am »
Quote from: Flying Dice on April 04, 2012, 09:49:07 am
People can tolerate not having the highest precision?  :o

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Hey, the books say we have a 100ish drinks left, why is everyone drinking water and complaining about not having alcohol?

Lets melt all that goblinite. How many bins you think we have? 50? What? you estimate about 100? Armor bins then... Oh, we didn't seperate them yet... okay.... cloth cloth ammo cloth finished goods ah, armor. Keep, keep, keep, melt, keep, wooden shield, keep, melt.

Or you know, just have good records and designate it there.
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #27 on: April 04, 2012, 11:32:08 am »
Quote from: Blizzlord on April 04, 2012, 09:13:46 am
Quote from: Japa on April 04, 2012, 05:56:47 am
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #28 on: April 04, 2012, 12:15:37 pm »
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Re: What is the point to anything more than low bookeeping precision?
« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2012, 12:21:37 pm »
count me in for asking why you would *not* have it set to highest? the stocks screen is an incredibly powerful management tool, but only if you have it set to highest.

how many bars of steel do i have? enough to equip another squad? i could "k" over every bin in my bars stockpile and count them myself. or just set precision to highest and check the stocks screen. . . .

hmmm stocks says i have 20 steel axes, but only 19 used, where the hell is that last one. . . oh, at the bottom of a lake with urist mcdrownandmissingforaweek.

welp, have a tone of seeds, better start cooking them. oh yeah, better use the stocks screen to forbid a few to keep in reserve. . .

hrrm, just mass dumped a whole z-level of stone, now i want to use it. guess i better "k" over my dump and then claim them all one at a time. . . or i could just use the stocks screen and claim them all at once!

honestly it's your game, and if you don't want to use the stocks screen it's your call, but you would really have to be a masochist to know what the stocks screen can do, and still choose not to use it. . .

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