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Zancor Mezoran

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Dwarves may work faster when they just awakened
« on: May 28, 2009, 11:49:16 am »
I have encountered something interesting.  My dyer dyes cloth about 2-3x faster when he just got up from a nap than when he's been working for a while.  I see him arriving at the workshop and dyeing like crazy, and then a while later I check back and he's doing it a lot slower.

This also seems to happen to my legendary clothier; but, I have yet to test it with any other dwarf profession.
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Quote from: Derakon on October 31, 2009, 05:56:09 pm
Anyway, I figure that the dwarves are only marginally less wasteful of metal than they are of wood. The moody dwarf's selecting only the best 5% of each bar of metal, and eats the rest to sustain him as he works on the artifact.

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Re: Dwarves may work faster when they just awakened
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2009, 12:09:59 pm »
Perhaps his workshop is getting cluttered?  While he naps the haulers clear it, then as he works he makes good faster than the haulers can take them away.
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Re: Dwarves may work faster when they just awakened
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2009, 12:14:31 pm »
Or simply your FPS is higher when he first wakes up because other dwarves are still sleeping and thus you have no pathing going on.
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Re: Dwarves may work faster when they just awakened
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2009, 12:17:37 pm »
Dwarves work slower without drink don't they? so it could be related to that (first thing they do on waking is normally drink). Or was it just that they take more breaks without drink.
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Re: Dwarves may work faster when they just awakened
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2009, 12:20:34 pm »
A. I thought about that, but it doesn't apply here, since this happens to my clothier as well and his workshop always has about 5000 socks in it.
B. All my dwarves go to sleep at random times, so there's no correlation between him working and others sleeping.
C.They have plenty of drink of at least half a dozen kinds, so I don't think that's the problem.  And yes, I do believe that they only take more breaks w/o drink.
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Quote from: Derakon on October 31, 2009, 05:56:09 pm
Anyway, I figure that the dwarves are only marginally less wasteful of metal than they are of wood. The moody dwarf's selecting only the best 5% of each bar of metal, and eats the rest to sustain him as he works on the artifact.

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Re: Dwarves may work faster when they just awakened
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2009, 03:26:04 pm »
w/o drink they take more breaks, but (slightly) more relevant is that thirsty dwarfs work more slowly.  So there is some precedence for different rates of work.

But this would need more research. Intriguing, but too many variables as presented.   This sort of observation is both how we gain more insight to the game, and how rumours get started.
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