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[Khym Chanur]

I recently placed an artifact millstone in my meeting area in the hopes that it would be admired and generate happy thoughts, but the only way to tell if it's working is to periodically look at the thoughts of each and every dwarf, scanning for the word "millstone" and/or the artifact's name.  It would be a lot easier if I could just examine the millstone itself to see who has been admiring it.

[Devin]

This is a great idea.  I don't know how that information is stored; it's possible the database search overhead would be high.  On the other hand, even if the info is stored only in the dwarfs' currently, it'd be easy enough to create another data structure in the item and whenever a happy thought is generated add it to the dwarf's list and the item's list.

[eerr]

But, But that doesn't make any sense!

[Silverionmox]

But, But that doesn't make any sense!

Until it is written in stone which role the player takes, it is. One of the roles will be all-knowing spirit of the fortress anyway, so it will make sense sooner or later. It also opens up possibilities for metaphysical/sphere-related stuff (said millstone generating a sphere of joy because so much joy has happened around it, etc.).

[Mel_Vixen]

The problem is the memory overhead.In a dwarf the thought gets deleted after a while. While your idea would store the data for a eternety which a a serious number of objects brings df to a memory-crawl.

[Footkerchief]

The problem is the memory overhead.In a dwarf the thought gets deleted after a while. While your idea would store the data for a eternety which a a serious number of objects brings df to a memory-crawl.

Huh?  The thread title says "thoughts it generated recently."

[Silverionmox]

The problem is the memory overhead.In a dwarf the thought gets deleted after a while. While your idea would store the data for a eternety which a a serious number of objects brings df to a memory-crawl.

To be stored as a # of happy thoughts rather than the actual thoughts, in that case of course.

[Euld]

Since those happy thoughts vanish from the dwarf's thoughts, how about they only appear on the building/artifact/thingy as long as a dwarf has a happy thought from that object?  It would be nice if actual names were mentioned too, for OCD purposes.