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Sisyphean

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how to desensitize my chef?
« on: July 03, 2017, 08:09:03 pm »

so my third spring has just come about and ive been doing well mass producing meals for the trade caravans, however my legendary +5 chef is producing 80+% meals as masterworks. this is making trading them difficult as i dont want him tantruming from art defacement. i was checking his thoughts and found that he had 7 messages about art defacement in the past season..... i havnt had any traders yet so i havnt traded them away by mistake so i assume some of them rotted away or got eaten by vermin....

anyway i really dont like that he gets stroppy when the food he cooks doesnt get eaten and i dont really like that he would get stroppy if i started selling them. is there a simple way to make him stop caring? or at least care so little that it doesnt make a difference?

i currently have 31 barrels full of masterwork roasts and i dont really want to re-assign my cook and wait for those stocks to be depleted by consumption
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Luriant

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Re: how to desensitize my chef?
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2017, 08:56:10 pm »

43_04 fix the problem about selling masterworks.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Release_information/0.43.04

If you use and old Lazy New Pack with 43_03, change to 43_05, lazy new pack have been update to 64 bits.
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Re: how to desensitize my chef?
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2017, 09:35:43 pm »

Or at least care so little that it doesnt make a difference?
They already care so little that it doesn't make a difference. Severity of the art defacement bad thought is inversely proportional to the number of masterworks already produced.
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Re: how to desensitize my chef?
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2017, 02:09:45 am »

Tangentially, I've been focusing more on producing happy thoughts and not worrying about the negative ones.  Mostly it works out (and when it doesn't, you're probably in trouble anyway).  Try throwing a statue, a trap and other fine furniture in your chef's quarters or on a path to his kitchen where he'll be forced to admire them, and let the negative thoughts flow.
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Re: how to desensitize my chef?
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2017, 04:56:24 am »

thats fantastic guys thanks. i didnt realise the significance of bad thoughts goes down with repetition.... however the bug fix will probably be the problem solver :)
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