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[Mikademus]

When immigrants arrive I generally assign them to whatever needs workers. That is, cheesemakers are put to cutting wood or whatever.

What I would like is a screen when immigrants arrive where I can quick-assign them to whatever. This would alleviate the sort of necessary nuisance that immigrants currently are.

As an extension, this (type of) screen could cover and be used to quick-assign all dwarves, but that would require some king of filtering and/or sorting capabilities in the interface.

[Keldor]

For what it's worth, immigrants are somewhat easy to tell on the unit list since they all come with "no job".  Of course, if you're running a slacker fortress, that's not much help.  But then, you might not be trying to give all the immigrants jobs...

[ April 12, 2008: Message edited by: Keldor ]

[Bricktop]

This would help a lot.

I have to make sure to re-assign immigrants the very moment they turn up and stop whatever project I'm working on at that moment just so that I can re-assign them the moment they get onto the map.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah. In order to tell my normal dwarves from the new comers, I end up nick naming everyone. Which is ok, but I really like the idea of a job designation screen. It'd be even better if you could give dwarves priorities on it. Like, tell a dwarf to do carpentry unless there are no jobs/wood, then go cut wood, then gather plants, etc. basically just a work importance system per dwarf.