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jez9999

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Should I put seats in my great hall?
« on: May 02, 2013, 02:55:01 pm »
I'm planning on having both a great hall and a dining room.  Obviously the dining room will have seats, but should the great hall have them too or should dwarves just walk around it?  I'm thinking seats might be a good idea to avoid negative thoughts about complaining about the lack of chairs.
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Xinael

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Re: Should I put seats in my great hall?
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2013, 03:11:13 pm »
Depends what you mean by "great hall". If you're going to designate it as a dining room it'll need chairs to avoid lack of chairs thoughts in the people that try to eat there. If you're not then you don't need chairs and it's completely up to you.
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Re: Should I put seats in my great hall?
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2013, 03:12:39 pm »
I consider my "great hall" to be the marble-floored atrium that gets splattered with the blood of invaders...
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jez9999

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Re: Should I put seats in my great hall?
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2013, 03:54:45 pm »
Quote from: Xinael on May 02, 2013, 03:11:13 pm
Depends what you mean by "great hall". If you're going to designate it as a dining room it'll need chairs to avoid lack of chairs thoughts in the people that try to eat there. If you're not then you don't need chairs and it's completely up to you.
What about the negative "lack of chairs" thoughts though?  If the dwarves are standing for a while in the great hall might they get those thoughts?
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Re: Should I put seats in my great hall?
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2013, 04:03:01 pm »
If it is a "meeting hall" and not a "dinning room" then they will not complain about a lack of chairs.  When designating a dinning hall you have the option of also making it a meeting room, further confusing the matter. ;)
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Re: Should I put seats in my great hall?
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2013, 06:31:56 pm »
Chairs are not used by dwarves except when eating. If you have a dining hall designated as well as a "great hall," dwarves will prefer first to eat in their own dining room, then their office, then the common dining room, although distance traveled will play a part.

As far as I know, dwarves don't sit on chairs when bored.
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Re: Should I put seats in my great hall?
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2013, 08:38:39 pm »
Solon is correct. The only purposes of chairs in DF are to sit on while eating and to designated offices. That's it.
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Re: Should I put seats in my great hall?
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2013, 08:48:19 pm »
Perhaps try a multi-story great hall; the open space meeting area on one Z-level, with chairs ringing it one or two Z-levels above it with ramps leading between the areas where dwarves are supposed to mingle.
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