40d Talk:Bookkeeper

My bookkeeper/carpenter won't do anything else other than update records... I can't get him to go do carpentry, even though that's his main profession! How do I get him out of his office? --Tarsier 18:27, 6 November 2007 (EST)

Never mind, figured this out... just had to set the desired precision level to one below the currently reached one.--Tarsier 23:10, 7 November 2007 (EST)

Quarters

(from article regarding quarters demand) Really? I've only had an office demanded. --Savok

At what point does the bookkeeper require quarters (if at all)? --Shagie 23:04, 4 November 2007 (EST)

My newbie bookkeeper does not require quarters. --Arrendek 00:26, 6 November 2007 (EST)

I believe that the bookkeeper's quarters requirement only comes into play when you have a mayor. Before that, all he (or she) needs is an office. The wealth of your fortress is irrelevant. --Chrispy 08:00, 25 March 2008 (EDT)

Most of the time, the Mayor and the bookkeeper are the same person, thus you need an office for that person.--CrazyMcfobo 18:52, 12 April 2008 (EDT)

Actually not, because mayor is usually the laziest dwarf around spending all his time gaining noble (talking) skills. Bookkeeper is this lonely nerd spending all his time counting numbers. Funny thing is that all this bookkeeping builds up huge muscles and awesome speed, thus making paperwork best pre-military training ever (for single dwarf). If it was possible to have multiple bookkeepers my entire army would be drafted from clerks.

Infinite Experience Corrected?

I'm using version 33g, it seems that at some point this bug got corrected, the bookkeeper will stop working once he reaches highest precision, and if I appoint someone else to the job that dwarf will also ignore it.

Now, all we need is some code that makes precision slowly decrease over time (personally I would make it a value equal to the amount of stocks the fortress has, and have it decrease whenever objects get destroyed / transformed / sold, and only goes up with bookkeeper work, capped again at the maximum stock level)

--Sergius 12:38, 5 January 2008 (EST)

Precision *does* decrease over time, assuming you're acquiring new objects. (i.e. attaining highest precision early in a fortress's life where there are few objects will have little bearing on how accurate it will still be much later on when you've got a couple hundred pages of stocks) If you're looking for a simple degradation without changes to the actual items being counted, I don't see it happening, as it doesn't make a lot of sense on it's own. Once a count is fully established, it shouldn't be too hard to keep track of a static amount ;) --Edward 19:57, 5 January 2008 (EST)

I have played a game for 4 years, got all my bookkeeping finished before the end of year one, and so far precision hasn't decreased one bit, I got the bookkeeper job off, the screen shows "the bookkeeper has done all the needed work for maximum precision" or whatever. And I've been trading like crazy with the caravan all those extra expensive bloody vomit-encrusted goblin giant spider silk socks, the fortress wealth is at least 3x what it was since the bookkeeping was done. --Sergius 14:09, 6 January 2008 (EST)

That's odd because I did similar (high, not highest, so I could track percentage to next level) and saw a gradual decrease with my precision. Did you keep a *very* close eye on the precision, and turn precision down to next lower level as soon as highest was achieved? --Edward 17:32, 6 January 2008 (EST)