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RavingManiac

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Increase speed of deconstruction & drinking
« on: May 18, 2009, 10:39:53 am »

Deconstruction:
In the time it takes to deconstruct a single wall, an untrained peasant can build ten. The time it takes a remove a construction should be less than or equal to the time taken to build one.

Drinking:
Dwarves currently take longer to have a single drink than to finish a full meal. This means that many dwarves dehydrate or attempt to drink from a river(hence getting eaten by carp) simply because other dwarves are hogging the booze barrels. Dwarves should take a shorter amount of time to drink.
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Pilsu

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Re: Increase speed of deconstruction & drinking
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2009, 11:00:24 am »

Constructing walls is too fast more like. I agree with the drinking though
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Re: Increase speed of deconstruction & drinking
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2009, 11:38:30 am »

Keep in mind constructing walls has the additional time cost of hauling the requisite stone, and walls can be deconstructed by anyone.
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Derakon

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Re: Increase speed of deconstruction & drinking
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2009, 12:13:41 pm »

Also keep in mind that deconstructing the wall generates one stone again. I'd like to see you take a wall apart and rebuild it into a boulder. :)
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Fieari

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Re: Increase speed of deconstruction & drinking
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2009, 02:10:55 pm »

You need to really savor the flavor of your beer.  Some things just can't, or shouldn't, be rushed.
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DaveT

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Re: Increase speed of deconstruction & drinking
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2009, 02:29:55 pm »

And realistically each dwarf is probably having a rather large amount of said beer. Maybe it takes them a while to drink it all through their beard?
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Re: Increase speed of deconstruction & drinking
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2009, 08:55:52 pm »

They are letting the booze soak into their beards for later consumption.
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JohnLukeG

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Re: Increase speed of deconstruction & drinking
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2009, 09:41:33 pm »

They should add a "destroy construction" designation, that is as fast as construction but doesn't return the materials.
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Re: Increase speed of deconstruction & drinking
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2009, 07:28:19 pm »

why not just make it so only masons/miners can deconstruct walls or whatever and have the deconstruction time based on skill, arguably the easiest skills to get legendary mind you
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