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[endlessblaze]

It kinda depends on the person in question.

It would make sense to see something like

"He does not work well under pressure or stress"
For some dwarves and.

"Works well under pressure"
Or something of the like for others.

This would be more realistic than just have all dwarves be negatively or positively impacted becasue it respects the differences of individuals

[Inarius]

This would be more realistic than just have all dwarves be negatively or positively impacted becasue it respects the differences of individuals

That's very true. I hope this will be taken into account. I reformulate the question, in green, this time.

Will the dwarves be impacted by stress according to their personnality ? Can stress be "positive" for productivity sometimes ?

[Urist Arrhenius]

Not to turn this into a suggestion thread, but I'm not sure the stress thing needs to change, because these sorts of stressors are shown to pretty much universally decrease productivity. The death of a loved one isn't the sort of thing that increases productivity. Neither does not getting enough to eat, or anything like that. Happy employees are productive employees, and the type of stress that makes you work more actively usually relates to demands in the workplace, not tragedy at home.

[Inarius]

The death of a loved one isn't the sort of thing that increases productivity.

Unless you are an artist, for example.

[Dirst]

Not to turn this into a suggestion thread, but I'm not sure the stress thing needs to change, because these sorts of stressors are shown to pretty much universally decrease productivity. The death of a loved one isn't the sort of thing that increases productivity. Neither does not getting enough to eat, or anything like that. Happy employees are productive employees, and the type of stress that makes you work more actively usually relates to demands in the workplace, not tragedy at home.

The terms you're looking for are eustress and distress.  At the moment, we only seem to have distress.

[Zarathustra30]

Not to turn this into a suggestion thread, but I'm not sure the stress thing needs to change, because these sorts of stressors are shown to pretty much universally decrease productivity. The death of a loved one isn't the sort of thing that increases productivity. Neither does not getting enough to eat, or anything like that. Happy employees are productive employees, and the type of stress that makes you work more actively usually relates to demands in the workplace, not tragedy at home.

The terms you're looking for are eustress and distress.  At the moment, we only seem to have distress.

All thoughts, including being interested in furniture and the like, are considered eustress.

[Rose]

You mention that spectator areas and such will be automatic. will we still be able to designate them if we want to have a dedicated auditorium? Will this ever be expanded to other activities like gladiator arenas?

[Max™]

I don't know why but reading that made me think:

Urist McDancer cancels open door and get on floor: interrupted by web-spewing three-eyed dinosaur.

[Vattic]

Might we get rowdy creatures dancing on tables?

[BlackFlyme]

Judging by the devlog, creatures prefer to have free space for dancing, away from tables and chairs. At least for the time being.

[Putnam]

Will the new libraries have any raw-defined and/or randomly generated secret books in them, which is to say anything with IS_SECRET:MUNDANE_RECORDING_POSSIBLE in them?

[Shonai_Dweller]

Have you considered having Dwarves shove chairs and tables out of the way to make room to dance? Or is that too complicated for now?

Also, stress seems to have become pretty easy to manage recently, are you making any Fun changes to encourage players to allow dancing Dwarves (besides slight increase in productivity?).
Seems like the min-maxers might not bother with dance floors at all.

[HartLord]

Do you plan to have activities other than dancing that use area divisions in the next release?

[Dirst]

Do you plan to have activities other than dancing that use area divisions in the next release?

I think a spectator area would be useful for a fistfight, too

[MrWiggles]

Do you plan to have activities other than dancing that use area divisions in the next release?

I think a spectator area would be useful for a fistfight, too

We can rattle off probably lots of concepts that can make use of a division area. Sermons. Trails. Union Meetings. Operating Theater. Maybe get refactored for training by observing.