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[Savok]

The incredible utility Dwarf Foreman is probably the only reason why I ever let the dwarf count get above eight. It speeds up labor assignments immensely.

I suggest that everyone who reads this post use it.

[Shadowslasher]

Wow, that's incredible!

[Turgid Bolk]

Nice! Very, very handy. Now I just have to get in the habit of using custom profession names.

[Minuteman]

I love you

[mickel]

It's nice, but it needs more to be really useful.

I'd suggest a screen with a listing of all your dwarves, where you can select which custom profile they have quickly, so you don't have to go through all the work of assigning custom job names from their profiles, etc.

Aside from that, a screen to create, edit and save custom profiles so you don't have to set them up more than once would be nice too.

Then we'd be talking handy.  

[Felix the Cat]

It... doesn't work. DF open, fortress loaded, I try to run foreman.exe and it flashes a black screen very quickly and goes away. Some sort of error.   :confused:

[Xenomorph]

It looks like it's trying to run 'addr2line' which, of course, is absent in Windows.  So it fails.

[Kagira]

Doesn't work, it just loads one profession the "grid" as unnamed that doesn't affect anything in the fort. Any way to fix this?

[mickel]

quote:Originally posted by Kagira:
<STRONG>Doesn't work, it just loads one profession the "grid" as unnamed that doesn't affect anything in the fort. Any way to fix this?</STRONG>

As it says in the readme, it can only read professions with custom names. So you'll need to go through all your dwarves and give them all custom names first, and then you can manage their jobs with this one.

...and when new dwarves arrive you'll have to go over all of them as well and give them custom job names, and so on.

In my experience this takes longer than just fiddling with the job settings in their profiles, one by one. And even that takes too much time and work.

[Kagira]

Yeah, this isn't time saving at all. Maybe in the new version we can disable all jobs for certain types of dwarf in the orders menu or something.

[mickel]

Well, once you've gotten started with it, and have all of the jobs represented among your dwarves so there's no more need to set up new ones it gets time saving. But I'd still appreciate the sort of features I suggested above.

Having it all in-game would be even more awesome, of course. I think there's been threads to that effect.

[Captain_Action]

This would make an awesome noble.

[Werdnari]

quote:Originally posted by Xenomorph:
<STRONG>It looks like it's trying to run 'addr2line' which, of course, is absent in Windows.  So it fails.</STRONG>

Is there a way to fix this or is foreman basically useless?

[Savok]

No idea, but it works fine for me, and I'm running Windows XP.

[BurnedToast]

I fiddled with it, and meh... like mickel said it's not really worth the effort of going through and adding 'hauler' as the custom job name to 90% of my dwarves.

Easier to just restrict workshops and turn off hauling for the specific dwarf you want to do work.