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Mekboy

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Military oddity
« on: December 11, 2011, 02:17:37 pm »
I've been having some problems with my military. The keep standing on top of weapons/armour, with the job "Training session" or "Pick up equipment". They spend ages standing there, not actually picking the items up. They're not forbidden or anything, so I have no idea what going on. Ideas?
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Re: Military oddity
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2011, 02:21:37 pm »
On the Weapons part, do you have anything more than one particular weapon designated to each dwarf? And how are they scheduled?

When a dorf goes off duty he may change his equipment depending on your settings, and this could be something messed up in the settings causing the soldiers to get stuck in a loop of sorts.

(As an aside, I had a bit of a hard time figuring out all this new stuff as well. I still do, actually, but once you start to get the hang of it you realize how powerful it really is.)
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Re: Military oddity
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2011, 02:25:50 pm »
They've all just got the one weapon, a shield and full armour. Schedule wise, each squad is training for 2 months then off for 2 months. They remain uniformed during this time.

I generally haven't had that many problems with the new military system, apart from the usual problems with gloves and boots.
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Re: Military oddity
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2011, 06:37:35 pm »
The very first thing to check with military dwarves who wont wear gear, is whether they have the mining, woodchopping or hunting labors enabled. Those labors have a uniform of sorts which conflicts with the military uniform, resulting in unpredictable weirdness.

The other thing to do is to keep the uniform simple. You only need to assign 1 gauntlet and 1 boot, the dwarves are smart enough to know this means a pair of them. Assigning 2 will confuse them.
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