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[Greiger]

I have the utmost respect for Toady One and Threetoe.  I would not have been a member of these forums for so long if I did not.  But the recent loss of a fortress made me feel the need to post a reminder...

Please Toady and TT, look into some of the older issues next bugfix cycle as well as new bugs.  Even some things that are not technically bugs.

Spoiler: examples (click to show/hide)

For example, my most recent fortress' military would not equip anything but weapons and chest armor.  I modified both the uniforms and individual equip screens in every way I knew how, turning off over clothing, turning on exact match, changing equipment, nothing I did would get them to even remove their non military gear, let alone put on helmets, greaves, boots or gauntlets.  Perhaps I missed an option somewhere, perhaps it is a full on bug.  But something really needs looked at in that process.

I also recently had 2 wagons going opposite directions get stuck on eachother.  And they got stuck there.  The incoming merchants couldn't pass the outgoing, the outgoing couldn't pass the incoming, and noone budged.  I even mined out the walls and expanded the paths to 6 wide, and noone would move, even when alternate paths were opened after the jam.  I ended up having to use DFHack to 'slayrace' the human merchants to clear up the jam. 

I'm sure other players have other issues, and I'm sure you guys code what you feel like coding, which is great, we probably wouldn't be here today if you didn't.  But please consider working out these kinds of issues even if just a few at a time. 
I've been losing more fortresses to frustration lately than sieges, fpsdeath, or mistakes.

Thank you.

[Matoro]

Nearly every release has contained also bugfixes for older issues, so this suggestion isn't really necessary.

Also, equipment system seems to act little weird. It has worked perfectly in every one of my forts, but then there's ones who can't just get it to work...

[Greiger]

I'm just being sure.  That and I had to burn off my moment of frustration in some way.

As for the equipment thing, I used to be that way too, never having any issues at all.  But starting about a week and a half ago, it just suddenly didn't want to work any more.  I would think it could be my modding that does it, but I haven't actually made any changes to my little personal mod in months.  I really don't know what happened.

[Safe-Keeper]

We are of one mind on this one. I just posted a nearly identical thread, in fact, after a particularly annoying "DF quirk moment" . Things like wagons spawning on frozen rivers (inevitably resulting in Fun when the river inevitably thaws faster than anyone could move all the stuff to shore), dwarves who can't build fortifications because they stand on them, dwarves saving corners for last when making walls, thus ensuring the corner can't be completed without demolishing a wall tile, inconsistent/cumbersome key mapping, etc. etc. etc.

Agree with the OP, I would love it if Toady just dropped everything and did a "*legendary bug fix*" patch.

[MrWiggles]

ToadyOne does do old and new bug fixes. It doesnt need a reminder.