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[Uthric]

it looks as if a legend  engraver  likes art he will do far more historic engraving than say a dwarf that has no prefrence to art or at least thats how my two engravers are working out that was in .10 im in .12 now and havent gotten a dwarf that likes art yet 

[Toady One]

Their skill level makes them do more historical engravings, but I thiiiiink the personality facet doesn't influence it.

[Uthric]

ok, who knew i was thinking it might of been something new.

[dennislp3]

Their skill level makes them do more historical engravings, but I thiiiiink the personality facet doesn't influence it.

lol Toady...has your creation gotten bigger then you? I think it is starting to develop into a sentient being o.O

[leftycook]

This is an engraving of a giant toad and dwarves. The giant toad is cowering. The dwarves are striking a menacing pose.
This engraving relates to the growth of dwarf fortress to sentient being during the overthrowing of ToadyOne in the year 2010.
The giant toad is screaming.

[Keldor]

This is an engraving of a giant toad and dwarves. The giant toad is cowering. The dwarves are striking a menacing pose.
This engraving relates to the growth of dwarf fortress to sentient being during the overthrowing of ToadyOne in the year 2010.
The giant toad is screaming.

The giant toad has croaked?

<.<

[Hokan]

This is an engraving of a giant toad and dwarves. The giant toad is cowering. The dwarves are striking a menacing pose.
This engraving relates to the growth of dwarf fortress to sentient being during the overthrowing of ToadyOne in the year 2010.
The giant toad is screaming.

Must.... not... sigg.....  nuaaaaaa!

[Glech]

Their skill level makes them do more historical engravings, but I thiiiiink the personality facet doesn't influence it.

But it would make sense, right?
A person who likes art would naturally want to get better at it.

[Tyrius]

You really need to make sure you have a big shiny 'kill' button Toady. Just think.

 Skynet (or the anti-Skynet, not entirely sure what John Henry's supposed to be) started out as a Chess program. Dwarf Fortress creates thousands of entities with wants, needs and desires. And the capacity for callous cruelty and sadism fostered onto it by it's players...

[Aspgren]

I, for one, welcome our dwarven overlords.

[Agamemnon]

Is there any effect/ benefit of making someone with taste for art or a vivid imagination into an engraver?

[Hokan]

Is there any effect/ benefit of making someone with taste for art or a vivid imagination into an engraver?

You should be more concerned about getting yourself a decent room after the dwarven overlords take over. I heard that most rooms are only enough to hold a single bed!

[Thadius]

The toady one made the dwarves to learn of programming.
They learned right back and leaked into our world.
There are many copies...

[Uthric]

well i only posted this because while the guy that liked art was doing all these epic history carvings and 2nd one that had the same skill was still making masterwork engravings of CHEESE and Rings

[NW_Kohaku]

This was for 40d, but I did a dwarven science experiment on this subject (regarding personality), and found personality had no statistical signifigance.  Of course, Toady may have potentially changed this at some point since 40d, or may do so later, but there was no evidence of personality having an effect in 40d.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=49576.msg1040420#msg1040420

As far as I can tell, it is quality level, not the direct skill of the dwarven engraver that matters when engraving, and you tend to get shapes and such when you are only getting normal or fine engravings.  I believe at least superior quality is required before you get "historic" engravings.