• Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    For the same reason nobles in Dwarf Fortress were hated by players, because they are useless, demanding and abusive to actually useful dwarves.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The whole "justice system" usually gets this treatment from player too, since the traditional punishments in Dwarven society are flavorful and cool but extremely harmful if you actually carry them out and the assignment of blame for broken laws is fairly arbitrary. It's far more useful to the player to simply accept that minor crimes happen and just maximize happiness so that they don't happen too often than to try to find and punish law breaking dwarves.