so i think i found out how random loyalty cascades are being started from small tantrums... it's again because of the vengeance group conflict system.
one of my elves has high stress vulnerability and anger propensity. he became haggard in a fort where 40% of the population was ecstatic. i planned to have him permanently sit in jail but before someone could even successfully report the crime i was getting announcements from citizens interrupting each other
my game in the current fort has very low FPS so i was monitoring everything closely. the elf punched a crocodile once and a armorer once, the elf was constantly changing his job from "start fist fight" to the purple version of "worship!" and various temple jobs since this happened in the temple.
the elf and armorer arent interrupting each other, but every citizen around them became vengeful and started fighting each other. there was no problem when he punched the animal but after punching the armorer once everyone around them thought it was world war 3
is there a way to disable intelligent creatures feeling vengeful(without disabling all emotions/stress), or joining conflicts due to vengeance, or a way to use dfhack to erase their current conflict information (i.e. who they're fighting) or change the level of conflict? i tried using gui/gm-editor but i couldnt find anything to change those. i know there is at least a timer for conflict from vengeance somewhere because it typically lasts half a day even not fighting anything (the combat log will display the dwarf as in combat over and over again until the vengeance conflict timer expires). but im not sure if gui/gm-editor shows all possible information you can change, or even if the latest version of that dfhack script is updated to display vengeance information
this is currently a game breaking bug because fist fights from tantrums are a job ("start fist fight") but the game is treating it like real combat and is making everyone kill each other. I really dont want to add the no emotion tag to sentients because i rather like FUN from tantrums