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How often do you use macros?

I am constantly using macros, to the point where most of the game is Ctrl + P
- 0 (0%)
I often use macros for typing intensive activities like exploratory mining
- 31 (40.3%)
I learned how to use macros and forgot soon after
- 10 (13%)
Macros? What macros?
- 32 (41.6%)
Macros suck and you suck for using them!
- 4 (5.2%)

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vjek

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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2011, 09:14:48 pm »
I use them for laying out/placing:

apartments/rooms
beds for apartments
doors for apartments
making ownable bedrooms out of non-owned rooms

I haven't found a need to macro anything else, those are just the repetitive tasks that I end up doing with every fort, so ... easier to macro them.
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2011, 09:48:09 pm »
Quote from: Necro910 on October 08, 2011, 08:05:45 pm
I ended up with no clothes, and outside the town I was in  :-\

Sounds like stories from my Navy days.
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2011, 10:15:40 pm »
Eh. I prefer to do everything by hand, it feels more like I'm actually "playing", instead of just watching.
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #18 on: October 08, 2011, 10:22:19 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on October 08, 2011, 08:58:24 pm
Depending on how small, it's a stress ball.

 Lol.

Quote from: Necro910 on October 08, 2011, 08:05:45 pm
Yeah, I tried it with throwing and I think the game may have glitched. I ended up with no clothes, and outside the town I was in  :-\

I'll have to give it another shot  :D

Once I somehow ended with my shoes/socks off. I normally try to get sandwiched between walls before doing a long string of macros in case I did something wrong while typing it in.

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Quote from: Girlinhat on October 08, 2011, 10:27:58 pm
Of course, the most fun with adventure mode is still to make a throwaway fort with some steel/candy armor and a danger room.  Macro . repeatedly to just stand on the spikes and enjoy the free level up!  Proceed butcher the world~

 You post this, and I post a topic on the same thing the next day with similar wording without having even read this. O.o
« Last Edit: October 09, 2011, 05:15:22 pm by JDF117 »
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #19 on: October 08, 2011, 10:26:57 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on October 08, 2011, 08:58:24 pm
Depending on how small, it's a stress ball.

Strictly speaking elves have stress balls too.
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #20 on: October 08, 2011, 10:27:58 pm »
Of course, the most fun with adventure mode is still to make a throwaway fort with some steel/candy armor and a danger room.  Macro . repeatedly to just stand on the spikes and enjoy the free level up!  Proceed butcher the world~

Quote from: Wannazzaki on October 08, 2011, 10:26:57 pm
Quote from: Girlinhat on October 08, 2011, 08:58:24 pm
Depending on how small, it's a stress ball.

Strictly speaking elves have stress balls too.
HA!
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #21 on: October 09, 2011, 08:56:26 pm »
Quote from: Patchy on October 08, 2011, 07:50:07 pm
I use them mainly for designating long 20+ z-lvl staircases.

I used to do that, then I found this trick: You can use the mouse to designate. just hold down left click and Z-down till you get to the level. You'll designate those staircases in seconds.
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #22 on: October 09, 2011, 09:05:38 pm »
Quote from: Wannazzaki on October 08, 2011, 10:26:57 pm
Quote from: Girlinhat on October 08, 2011, 08:58:24 pm
Depending on how small, it's a stress ball.

Strictly speaking elves have stress balls too.
*kneeslap*
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #23 on: October 10, 2011, 01:32:31 pm »
I'm learning to use macros for repetitive tasks. Like my cellblock housing. 80 dwarves with minimal amnemities. Done. And I use it for certain favored trap layouts that take a long long long long time designate by hand. Instead of a one tile walkway across a 10 lvl pit, I use a checkerboard. It makes pathing across the area easier and prevents bunching up by dwarves or caravans while remaining just as lethal. The only way to get a checkerboard is to channel it out...piece by painful piece.
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #24 on: October 10, 2011, 02:35:13 pm »
I was going to use macros for digging a magma pump stack, but I discovered that DF doesn't seem to recognize the ctrl key on either of my linux machines. None of the ctrl keys do anything, so macros are kinda hard to use. I guess I could change their keymaps.

I did open a bug for it: http://bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=4905

Can anyone with a linux system get their ctrl key to work?
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #25 on: October 10, 2011, 03:49:00 pm »
I've finally learned quickfort and that was great, now my fort is like this: 'welcome UristMcUselessMigrant 144 ! Please proceed to a cell I mean room 64 sector C and prepare yourself for work, you should fulfill order for 30 cloth bags by next week. Be aware that failing that would be considered treachery and punished by magmafication'
Seriously, that stuff saves a lot of time and you can even prepare your designations without pausing your fort. And some preloaded blueprints there are magnificent. As for chromafort, Paint isn't good for creating those bmp's and last time I tried to use it, I got broken SCV file.
I must admit I've never thought of using macros for trade agreements, silly me.
Considering macros usage in general, for me the game isn't about manually designating a luxurious room for every Urist, it's about firing balista arrows at whales and with that there's still plenty of handwork.
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #26 on: October 10, 2011, 04:12:01 pm »
I would probably use them for mining or stair building, But I'm too dumb to use them anyway :p.
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #27 on: October 10, 2011, 04:36:22 pm »
It sounds like people are using multiple macros. How do you do that? Thus far I've just used one at a time, because when I hit ctrl-r again it wipes the old one.
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #28 on: October 10, 2011, 04:37:37 pm »
ctrl s to save it, with a name.  ctrl l (lower L) to load a previously saved macro.  DF\init\macros contains a file for each saved macro.
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Re: How often do you use macros?
« Reply #29 on: November 24, 2011, 12:27:31 pm »
Quote from: khearn on October 10, 2011, 02:35:13 pm
I was going to use macros for digging a magma pump stack, but I discovered that DF doesn't seem to recognize the ctrl key on either of my linux machines. None of the ctrl keys do anything, so macros are kinda hard to use. I guess I could change their keymaps.

I did open a bug for it: http://bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=4905

Can anyone with a linux system get their ctrl key to work?

I think I may have figured out the problem (if you are using a non-QWERTY keymap). Please see my comment on your bug.

-Harry
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