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Uzu Bash

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bench seating
« on: February 18, 2015, 09:25:29 am »
Compared to a row of chairs, the time and resource cost per tile would diminish the longer a bench is. The transport time would increase, but the installation time would remain the same. Installed, bench seating is more social than the same row of chairs, and dwarves would have the chance to form impressions about their benchmates, from the nearest to the furthest away, depending on their own mood and inclination toward company or solitude.
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Re: bench seating
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2015, 12:32:31 am »
Sounds like it might end up OP compared to chairs. What if benches didn't have quality levels to balance it out? Then dwarves sitting on a bench would only feel stress-relieving pleasure if the bench was made of a material they liked/of high value. Also, IIRC dwarves socialize every time they're idling next to eachother anyway, a row of chairs shouldn't change that.
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Re: bench seating
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2015, 04:08:30 am »
Why even bother with justifications like time and resources? Just add benches and be done with it.

They make sense for statue gardens, meeting halls, waiting rooms, taverns, temples and for seating dwarves around a pit as they watch a host of captured goblins take on a forgotten beast if you manage to make that happen.
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Re: bench seating
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2015, 06:34:53 am »
Isn't a pair of adjacent chairs practically a bench for all intents and purposes?
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Re: bench seating
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2015, 10:42:21 am »
Yes and no. You can sleep on a bench so maybe dwarves could too. Other than that it's merely an aesthetic difference. In a garden or meeting area, it'd be weird to have individual chairs around.
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Re: bench seating
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2015, 01:30:03 pm »
maybe have beds double as chairs then?
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Re: bench seating
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2015, 04:35:20 pm »
I think benches should be built like axles are: a single building oriented either north/south or east/west, one material per 3 tiles, but with a minimum length of two tiles.
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Re: bench seating
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2015, 05:04:27 pm »
Benches are exactly like a row of chairs, except not. They're more economical to produce. You may even recover some resources per tile by shortening them later, but lengthening them would be so inefficient that you may as well produce another.  Also, chairs could be anywhere within the space of their tile, bench seating is necessarily shared with the next person over, so creates an intimate space between them. This can make friends closer or strangers hate each other, depending on their sociability and current mood.
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