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Yaddy1

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Making workshops like rooms
« on: October 16, 2008, 05:08:33 pm »
It would be cool if workshops were like rooms, where you had a furniture requirement. Then you could see it get cluttered up and they wouldn't be
un-realisticly small. It would also make them look cooler.
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scribbler

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Re: Making workshops like rooms
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2008, 05:12:06 pm »
I like. And you could make a less well equipped workshop for specific needs or overlap them for uncommon equipment. And dedicated in/out stockpiles, I always felt workers should at least move their creations out of the shop without enabling hauling, especially if there was a stockpile next to them.
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Re: Making workshops like rooms
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2008, 05:17:51 pm »
Quote from: scribbler on October 16, 2008, 05:12:06 pm
I like. And you could make a less well equipped workshop for specific needs or overlap them for uncommon equipment. And dedicated in/out stockpiles, I always felt workers should at least move their creations out of the shop without enabling hauling, especially if there was a stockpile next to them.
Workshop tech upgrades?
And realism... num num num...
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scribbler

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Re: Making workshops like rooms
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2008, 05:22:47 pm »
Or we can get nasty and have legendary artisans demand a private workspace and specific equipment.
Cranky McChef refuses to prepare lavish meal. Demands exceptional cheese knife.
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Re: Making workshops like rooms
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2008, 05:28:44 pm »
Quote from: scribbler on October 16, 2008, 05:22:47 pm
Or we can get nasty and have legendary artisans demand a private workspace and specific equipment.
Cranky McChef refuses to prepare lavish meal. Demands exceptional cheese knife.
No, just, no.

They'll just request lodgings in their Customized Workshop ( with beds, statues, and the lot of shit they mandate, I mean request ) ...
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Re: Making workshops like rooms
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2008, 05:35:11 pm »
Diamond grindstones! How can I make waterskins if my scissors aren't sharp!
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Re: Making workshops like rooms
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2008, 05:55:15 pm »
You mean, like a cross between Evil Genius and Dungeon Keeper rooms?  So instead of just placing a 3x3 workshop, the player uses one core 1x1 item (an anvil, or whatever) to define a room, then places other items that are needed for that workshop to function in that room?

I like it.  It allows for more creativity in workshops.  Not only that, but then you could allow additional items that expand a workshop's function, or make it run faster/better.  Adding more items could also let a workshop support more dwarves working on different tasks (basically, it would be multiple workshops in one.)  You could put tables, chests, cabinets, weapon/armor racks, coffers, etc in a workshop to hold the things it produces without clutter.  You could place other things (beds, wells, food/drink storage, storage for materials the workshop needs, etc) and they would be used by people working there to speed up production, so they don't have to walk as far.
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Re: Making workshops like rooms
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2008, 06:23:08 pm »
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