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Title: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: nahkh on June 01, 2009, 12:46:27 pm


After the phenomenal success [1] of SparkGear I've decided to start a new one.
We totally owned the previous map.
After a humongous pile of adamantite, a dead king
and some UNFORGIVABLE ART VANDALISM
we were left with a map with unplayable fps.
But the masses hunger for more, as they always do,
so I present to you without further ado;


SparkGear 2
-Balls of Steel-


Yes folks, once wasn't enough. We're back.

For you newcomers, SparkGear is a bloodline game. But not just any bloodline game. In SparkGear, we don't play nice. We don't take our time, no one year turns. In here, we do it by the clock. One turn, one twenty-four hour period. During that time you can play as much as you want.
There is only one rule: Don't talk about If your save isn't ready for the next guy at 22:00 GMT [2] sharp, YOU FUCKING LOSE. The next guy will steal your save and all your hard work will be chasm'd. That's right. 24 hours. Except for me, I'm only spending two hours. I'm that awesome.

So, ladies, sign up is this way. First two weeks are open, we'll extend the time as we get nearer. All dates are June, of course.

       Day     Player    (Totally relevant notes)
       1.       Nahkh
       2.       abculatter_2
       3.       Marko
       4.       Yaddy1 (Marko extended his turn and Demonic Spoon started early)
       5.       Demonic Spoon
       6.       eerr
       7.       ArkDelgato (If you touch my pyramid I FUCKING SWEAR [...])
       8.       Cruxador   (no-show)
       9.       Nil
       10.      Brendan   (Fort too heavy for this lightweight contestant)
       11.      Fault
       12.      Abculatter_2 crash2455 BONUS ROUND!
       13.      Demonic Spoon
       14.      RavingManiac
       15.      whoever this is supposed to be.
       16.      Skid
       17.      Marko
       18.      crash2455
       19.      Yaddy1
       20.      Barbarossa the Seal God
    ->21.      Nahkh / Demonic Spoon
       22.      Katsuun
       23.      Demonic Spoon
       24.     
       25.      crash2455
       26.      nil
       27.      Nahkh
       28.
       29.
       30.
 
Here is a picture of the entrance in all its glory
(in other words before it's inevitably fucked up by incompetent nitwits)
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/nahkh/title.png)

Location:
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/nahkh/starloc2.png)



For those of you who HAVEN'T SEEN THE GLORY THAT IS SPARKGEAR, here's a link:
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=35238.0 (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=35238.0)


[1] = For a limited amount of success, and for a given definition of phenomenal
[2] = Don't know your time zone? Fuck you.
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-converter.htm (http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-converter.htm)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 01, 2009, 12:52:27 pm
Sign me up for whenever Nahkh. Also, lol.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 01, 2009, 01:54:24 pm
Within a tattered diary.

Herein are detailed the gruesome fates inflicted upon me, the illustrious Nahkh the Magnificent. 'tis a Most Cruel Thing, an artist like myself in exile. After they banished me from the mountainhomes I vowed to Show Them who's the greater artist. And I did so with flourish. The Skull of Sages at the entrance of SparkGear was truly a wonder to behold. Alas. After we struck that accursed adamantite my little kingdom was taken over by upstart "nobles" and "kings". BAH. They allowed those IMPUDENT FOOLS to wreck my great artistry. And when the last remnants of my great work collapsed on some hapless fool they had the AUDACITY to blame me. I can barely believe it. But it cannot be helped I suppose. To exile I go once more. This time we're located near the edge of a mountain range (I forget the name. Butt-end of nowhere by any measure), near a forest that's reputedly haunted. I don't hold much stock for such rumors, but my servants are getting restless as we near the place. I've overheard mutterings of The Great Horrors in the forest. Tsk.

Addendum: Damnation! Many of the servants have fled during the night! Now how are we going to move all this equipment? Blast. Well, we're pretty close to our destination, so the damage is minimal. Looks like I may have to do some menial work to prevent complete loss of morale. Woe.


Here's a rough rendition of our starting location, viewed from the perennial elfs-eye perspective.
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/nahkh/start.png)

As you can see, it's not much to look at. Yet. I've ordered the miners to entrench a nearby hillock for defense. This forest worries me.


The initial phases of the construction are going well, and I'm already forming a new vision of a masterpiece. A more lasting kind this time.
Hmm. It almost seems like something is moving in the woods. Must be my imagination.
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/nahkh/what.png)



EDIT: Fuckit. I'm gonna cheat. Save will be available at 22 GMT.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 01, 2009, 03:53:45 pm
I do have this nice little 3x3 map with a magma pipe and cave river if you want to use it.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 01, 2009, 04:16:58 pm
save: http://rapidshare.com/files/239741413/SparkGear2.7z.html (http://rapidshare.com/files/239741413/SparkGear2.7z.html)
map: http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5952-sparkgeartheballsofsteel (http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5952-sparkgeartheballsofsteel)
Goddamnit uploads :/

I have a 3x3 map with magma pool, underground river and HFS. Plus a haunted tropical forest.

Within a tattered diary

Work has been progressing well. We've laid the foundations of the Spherical Pyramid, as show.
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/nahkh/progress-1.png)

Later marking
Today our progress was halted by a group of marauding mandrills. I didn't hear of their presence until I saw this on my desk.
Attached is a piece of paperwork from the fort
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/nahkh/stolen.png)

(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/nahkh/mandrills-1.png)

I was furious when I found my way outside only to find the mandrills STILL PILLAGING. Only a True Idiot would observe mandrills stealing valuable fort goods, then calmly submit paperwork about it. Sounding an alarm might be in order? Damn these fools. Gods why do you curse me so?

Oh well. At least the miners were quick to dispatch the problematic plunderers.
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/nahkh/mandrill2.png)

Sometime after the traders had come and gone we had us some "immigrants". Do the bloody fools think I, I, wouldn't recognize them after a paltry year? It's most of my servants, who dared abandon me here. The wilderness wasn't to your liking? Well poor you. MAY LICE EAT YOUR BEARD CLEAN OFF.
I had them all grab stones and start building. With the added workforce the pyramid is being finished with great rapidity. The Twin Obelisks, made of the finest microcline, are also nearing completion.

Final entry
At last! My newest work is done! I must say, while it certainly isn't my greatest work it is, ehm, my greatest extant work. May it last for generations to come!

Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 01, 2009, 04:37:43 pm
sign me up for a new strike on the earth!, (or two, at this rate)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 01, 2009, 04:42:56 pm
magma

THIS MUST BE IMPLEMENTED:

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=30047.msg580078#msg580078
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 01, 2009, 04:54:37 pm
If you can do it. I don't recommend obsidian production though, it's a finite pool.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 01, 2009, 04:55:27 pm
Sign me up for 7.
I can't wait to fuck up that pyramid.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 01, 2009, 05:04:05 pm
If you can do it. I don't recommend obsidian production though, it's a finite pool.

I'll try to do it on my turn, but i think it's a bit too early...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Brendan on June 01, 2009, 05:51:20 pm
I'll take the 10th. I probably wouldn't get much done on the 8th or 9th.

Also: GMT fuck yes.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 01, 2009, 06:10:20 pm
*Within a near-by journal*

I've arrived to a fortress in a well-enough state, though it's rather sprawled and haphazard. All the stockpiles (most importantly, the food stockpile) are outside and the lodgings are minimal, both of which I'll need to fix. Also, the last leader had begun stockpiling wooden pipes for some reason...

I've added a new bedroom/food stockpile in the mountain.

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/1ahkbqks.png)

It needs a bit of cleaning up though...

One of the dwarves has begun calling himself "Brak Obama". Apparently, it's some kind of gag, but I think he's just crazy.

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/1absjbdf.png)

I've also begun work on our fortress' defenses. The main area will be easy enough to defend, but I don't know about that pyramid...

We need bauxite.

I've finished the wall and moat for the main area, the moat should fill up with the next rain.

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/1adwefr.png)

Elves. Of course, I have nothing to trade. Should I kill them and take their stuff, or let them go on their merry way?
I let the elves go... for now.

I've begun adding fortifications above the fortress walls and making it more secure.

Migrants. Let's see what they've got...

A dyer, a brewer, a potash maker, a metalsmith, a cook and 3 peasents. This brings our fortress' population to 22.

Construction of the fortifications is complete, drawbridges have been made and linked (all levers and drawbridges have been labeled and the note symbol matches on the levers that open the bridges), and the fortress is now a right and proper fortress. I've also begun building a few crossbows and bone bolts for training up a few of the peasants (and maybe that potash maker...).

I've begun exploratory mining, and have so far uncovered two wax opal clusters and two gold veins.

More migrants! Must be from the shittons of gold I just mined...

A peasant, an armorer, a baby cow, another peasant, a cheese maker, a wood burner, yet another peasant, and a fish cleaner. Our population is now 30.

we now have 2 full-time marksdwarves. I have an archery range set up for them, just need to make some quivers for them...

Found the underground river! ... and aperently it's infested with hordes of vicious monsters. Better wall that up till the marksdwarves get their quivers.

The wood burner has been possessed! Let's see what he makes...

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/1abcjsbcjsndksm.png)

Wonder how much it's worth...

I'm going to make a golden monument. What it'll be, I have no idea.

Hmmm... a strangler appeared and killed our legendary miner after he fell asleep right in front of it...
...
ZOMG MEMORY ALLOCATION ERROR! Good thing I saved! I need to go to bed anyway. I'll continue tomorrow then post up the save.

So, I'm going to begin construction of the big lava-spewing dragon on a convenient  ledge on the spherical pyramid. Problem is, I don't have enough charcoal, and making the charcoal is horribly inefficient anyway. So, I've decided to start using some of that magma and create a magma metalworks. With proper safety precautions, of course.

Outpost liaison! And this time, we have gold!

Construction of the metalworks has been delayed due to fire imps. They should be dealt with soon enough.

Well, the fire imps have been less-then-cooperative (who knew they were too smart to blindly walk into the waiting jaws of a cage trap?) so I've decided to simply make the metalworks with them still around. I've made sure that the only entrance they can use is covered with traps.

The mtalworks is complete! Now to begin gold production...

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/1abdjcbd.png)

An ambush! Curse them!

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/1aamkds.png)

The herbalist has been taken by a strange mood.

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/1abland.png)

Well, that's certainly unique. I wonder how he/she fit all that on there...

Well, at any rate, it's rather valuable apparently:

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/1anksd.png)

The ambushers have been killed or driven off by our two miners! They are now the fort's official Badasses! Though we lost four dwarves who were too stupid to just go inside.

OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD THE BOOZE IS GONE OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD

Another elven caravan.

Our marksdwarf is going on a tamtrum! Carp, we need booze!!

It's okay, everything is alright. The booze is now flowing freely. Yay booze!

The dragon head is nearly complete. However, we do not have the bauxite necessary to pump the lava up to it, so someone else will have to do that. I also lack valuable enough gems and a gemcutter to make the gemstone eyes, so I'm making the pupils obsidian instead.

More migrants! I don't feel like listing their professions, but they now bring our fortress' population to 39!

The dragon head is almost done! we just have to add a few more blocks and remove some of the scaffoldi

*The last letter trails off the page, and there are a few droplets of blood on the bottom*
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Brendan on June 01, 2009, 06:32:33 pm
Brak? My avatar sees what you did there.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 02, 2009, 12:42:58 am
needs more giant skull!

PS: if you two don't mind, leave housing to me, I'll make a nice efficient living quarters system the envy of all the realm.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: RavingManiac on June 02, 2009, 02:09:42 am
Sign me up for turn 14!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 02, 2009, 07:35:33 am
Nahkh, I just really need to know...the spherical pyramid?!   ???
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Katsuun on June 02, 2009, 08:12:25 am
I'll sign up for 8, assuming thats Sunday of this week. If not, don't put me down.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 02, 2009, 08:48:52 am
8th is Monday.

And Demonic Spoon, it's simple. Starting from the center, any wall is equally many steps away. See?

Edit: Also, unless my flawless 20/20 vision fails me the current ruler built the housing right where the moat is supposed to go.

<despair>Doesn't anyone look at the big picture before smacking stuff down?</despair>
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Cruxador on June 02, 2009, 10:44:02 am
It would seem that no, no one looks at your big picture :P
The moat can, however, be placed differently. It's more fun when it forms a hodgepodge anyway :P

I'd like to get in on this, btw. Barring unusual circumstance, any available day works for me.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 02, 2009, 11:30:38 am
needs more giant skull!

PS: if you two don't mind, leave housing to me, I'll make a nice efficient living quarters system the envy of all the realm.

Oh don't worry, I'll make the skull.

And it's going to be solid gold!

Edit: Also, unless my flawless 20/20 vision fails me the current ruler built the housing right where the moat is supposed to go.

<despair>Doesn't anyone look at the big picture before smacking stuff down?</despair>

The main area is only connected to the moat by a single 1x2 corridor on the level above it. Here, I'll get a picture...

wait a sec... How is the moat supposed to be there? It's so big, and the hill goes down...

unless you were going to build the non-existent parts artificially...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 02, 2009, 12:42:38 pm
Abculatter_2: You notice that hill with the pyramid? It wasn't a hill originally. We dug that hueg moat around it. and it was supposed to be dug one level down still, so that it would be on level with the forest floor, leaving the pyramid standing on a mesa. The front of the pyramid was supposed to be filled with two layers of battlements. But do what you want. That's the spirit eh?

Curxador: I'll sign you up on the first available day.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Fault on June 02, 2009, 01:53:42 pm
Are there any days on the weekend still available? I'd like to volunteer for one
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 02, 2009, 01:55:12 pm
Abculatter_2: You notice that hill with the pyramid? It wasn't a hill originally. We dug that hueg moat around it. and it was supposed to be dug one level down still, so that it would be on level with the forest floor, leaving the pyramid standing on a mesa. The front of the pyramid was supposed to be filled with two layers of battlements. But do what you want. That's the spirit eh?

Curxador: I'll sign you up on the first available day.

Oooooh. That would've been cool...

well, to make up for it, I'm making the dragon head on top of the platform with the statues. At least, I will be when these damn ambushers are gone.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Katsuun on June 02, 2009, 03:24:29 pm
Turn 13 should be Saturday then, right? Sign me up for then if it is.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 02, 2009, 03:27:08 pm
Abculatter_2: Save uploaded yet? And be careful with those statues, they're original Nahkhs.

Fault: Sure thing.

Katsuun: Fault nibbed it first. First come first serve. Do you want Friday 12th? Or would you prefer to wait until week three?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Katsuun on June 02, 2009, 03:28:23 pm
Eh... I'll wait till the third week. I don't play untill afternoons in Fridays...  :(
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 02, 2009, 03:29:16 pm
Sure thing. Saturday ok for you?

EDIT: And by the way, the Party says that the cutoff point has always been on 22 GMT. Anyone caught claiming it used to be 21 GMT will be tried for high treason for spreading such obvious enemy propaganda. England prevails!

EDIT EDIT: Some updates. abculatter_2 is having some difficulty uploading the save, but it's coming. Marko, if you're listening, it's your call whether or not you'll wait.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Katsuun on June 02, 2009, 03:44:46 pm
Sure thing. Saturday ok for you?

EDIT: And by the way, the Party says that the cutoff point has always been on 22 GMT. Anyone caught claiming it used to be 21 GMT will be tried for high treason for spreading such obvious enemy propaganda. England prevails!

Yeah, thats good. Thanks.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 02, 2009, 04:07:02 pm
EDIT EDIT: Some updates. abculatter_2 is having some difficulty uploading the save, but it's coming. Marko, if you're listening, it's your call whether or not you'll wait.

WAITWAITWAIT IT'S 40% DONE JUST WAIT
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 02, 2009, 04:08:55 pm
Goddamn 56k, eh?

Anyway, you'll work it out. I'm off to bed.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 02, 2009, 04:10:30 pm
Goddamn 56k, eh?

Anyway, you'll work it out. I'm off to bed.

No, DSL. It just doesn't like uploading for some reason.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 02, 2009, 04:12:48 pm
Stop routing it through ISS then? Also you should totally replace your ISP with carrier pigeons. I hear they don't drop too many packages.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 02, 2009, 04:22:26 pm
Current fortress:
http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-5955--sparkgear2

Save:
http://www.mediafire.com/?xrn0ty2jmy2

The levers and drawbridges are all labeled, and the icon on the notes correspond with what triggers what.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Fault on June 02, 2009, 05:32:24 pm
Abculatter_2: Save uploaded yet? And be careful with those statues, they're original Nahkhs.

Fault: Sure thing.

Katsuun: Fault nibbed it first. First come first serve. Do you want Friday 12th? Or would you prefer to wait until week three?

actually, I think I'm busy on that weekend (june 12th to 14th) :-\. Katsuun can have that time if he wants it. Are there any days available on the 6th or 7th? or maybe I could wait 'til the third week...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 02, 2009, 05:59:39 pm
Where'd that marko run off to, I wonder?

Also, if there's ever a day that nobody signed for, I'd be more then willing to fill in that day (or days) until the next person's turn.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nil on June 02, 2009, 07:26:28 pm
Can I get the 9th?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 02, 2009, 10:07:37 pm
(just barely got home from work, so you were quite safe :P )

*cracks his knuckles and downloads*

let's get this bad boy up and running, shall we?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 02, 2009, 10:40:43 pm
(just barely got home from work, so you were quite safe :P )

*cracks his knuckles and downloads*

let's get this bad boy up and running, shall we?
I pray for awesomeness, you are a member of the managerial elite
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 03, 2009, 02:01:11 am
(http://www.roomiescomic.com/pics/sparkgear2_1.png)
Awesome has been found  ;D
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 03, 2009, 08:43:02 am
Now we just need to find a way to synthesize it.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 03, 2009, 08:48:03 am
Now we just need to find a way to synthesize it.
See, you start off a new thread on the boards and start a bloodline game. Then you call it something fukken orsum and go for the adamantite.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Fault on June 03, 2009, 09:35:37 am
Have we found the underground river yet? I plan to reroute it into the demon pit...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 03, 2009, 09:43:04 am
I plan to make a massive underground forest.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 03, 2009, 11:48:20 am
You people and your plans. Haven't you learned yet?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 03, 2009, 12:17:52 pm
Have we found the underground river yet? I plan to reroute it into the demon pit...

Yes, but it's small and on the corner of the map. And there are probably plenty of crisscrossing exploration tunnels between it and the demon pits. It's also infected with all different kinds of [insert animal here]men and abnormally large underground creatures. Unless Marko has dealt with them...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 03, 2009, 12:28:57 pm
You people and your plans. Haven't you learned yet?

Look who's talking mister 'art'.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Fault on June 03, 2009, 01:43:29 pm
Yes, but it's small and on the corner of the map. And there are probably plenty of crisscrossing exploration tunnels between it and the demon pits. It's also infected with all different kinds of [insert animal here]men and abnormally large underground creatures. Unless Marko has dealt with them...

That's why you route magma through it first!
Also, I'm available on the 11th, if that space is still empty.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 03, 2009, 02:07:25 pm
Why yes it is!  ;D Aren't you a lucky guy?  ;)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: crash2455 on June 03, 2009, 02:24:41 pm
I'll take the 11th.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 03, 2009, 02:26:56 pm
Yes, but it's small and on the corner of the map. And there are probably plenty of crisscrossing exploration tunnels between it and the demon pits. It's also infected with all different kinds of [insert animal here]men and abnormally large underground creatures. Unless Marko has dealt with them...

That's why you route magma through it first!
Also, I'm available on the 11th, if that space is still empty.

We only have a finite pool of magma, it does not come back when used. I suppose you could do it once, but wouldn't they just eventually respawn?

I'll take the 11th.

Read the last 2 posts.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 03, 2009, 02:30:40 pm
but wouldn't they just eventually respawn?

No
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 03, 2009, 03:20:52 pm
Demonic Spoon: I meant that the only plans worth crap are the ones that you can make happen. And in this fortress, that's not bloody likely.
(And if it is, it's mercilessly vandalized on the next turn)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 03, 2009, 04:01:28 pm
turn's up... just got a project done right in the nick of time just to find out it doesn't quite work 100% (ah well) most of it works anyway...

file:
http://www.roomiescomic.com/files/SparkGear2_1.rar

map:
http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-5964--sparkgear2

my project:
http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1388-humapoweredspiketrap

A Human powered automatic spike trap! Sadly I ran out of time before I could polish it up, two of the spikes got interrupted by raiders and never got finished :( Also could be beefed up more if you put in some more spikes so they go off when the others retract... would be awesome... and incredibly deadly...

Oh yeah, the king arrived just as my time was winding down so I haven't done anything for him yet. You could either a: put together a nice royal suite for him, or b: seal him up in a room with a poor schmoe armed with a pick axe, and feed him to the spirit of fire!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 03, 2009, 04:56:40 pm
Wow. Just. Wow.

Now that is an awesome trap right there.

Kudos.

Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 03, 2009, 05:34:13 pm
if Yaddy is MIA can I tweak it a little bit to fix the two spikes that didn't get linked before my time ran out?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Fault on June 03, 2009, 05:41:27 pm

We only have a finite pool of magma, it does not come back when used.

If only we could get it to rain magma, then it'd fill back up like murky pools do.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 03, 2009, 05:42:18 pm

We only have a finite pool of magma, it does not come back when used.

If only we could get it to rain magma, then it'd fill back up like murky pools do.

Magma rain O_O oh the possibilities...

ps: put me down again for the 17th  :D
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Cruxador on June 03, 2009, 05:54:26 pm
So... what happens when that human dies?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 03, 2009, 05:56:29 pm
can be replaced with any captured enemy, just move their cage into there (there's two locked doors flanking the trap linked ones) and release them inside. You might to unlock then lock a door to coax them into starting the loop, but once they've started, they'll start wandering back and forth from door to door. The pressure plate on the right is currently linked to all the spike traps (minus two which I didn't discover until my turn is over) If somebody wants to double the lethality and make the entrance completely impassable, just add spikes in the open spaces, and link the left pressure plate to them. After you do that though... I wouldn't let the dwarves go outside anymore... (at the moment I marked all the spike traps as restricted, so dwarves zig zag through the trap unharmed, but enemies... and non dwarf allies... go right trough it without a care)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 03, 2009, 06:33:19 pm
Could you sign me up again for the 12th? Also, the eyes of my golden dragon head are supposed to be 2x2x2 cubes of aluminum with two smooth obsidian pupils. However, I ran out of time just as I was plopping down the last 2 aluminum walls, and apparently the work orders didn't get through. Could the next person fix that up for me?

Also, those ramps behind the eyes are scaffolding, and are only there to allow the dwarves to the 2nd level of the eyes. could you remove those too?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Skid on June 03, 2009, 08:03:47 pm
I'd like the 16th.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 03, 2009, 11:57:18 pm
Since Yaddy hasn't responded to the PM, I guess it's safe to assume he's MIA. Marko, fix that trap.
And if he doesn't show up go ahead and play until the end of his turn. With great awesome comes great demands for more.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 04, 2009, 01:57:05 am
I assure you this trap is fully functional and operation. Prepare to face the full wrath and might of SparkGear2!

Ha ha! HA HA! MWAH HA! AHAHAHAA!!! AAAAH HA! HA! HA! HA! HAAAA!!!!

-ahem-

Excuse me... got a little carried away there. The trap has been fixed and is ready to go!

Updated file:
http://www.roomiescomic.com/files/SparkGear2_2.rar

Oh and we got visited by some traders, it went REALLY well:
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1391-tradersvsautomatedspiketrap

and now... I'm off to bed, then work all day tomorrow, so you guys are on you're own for now ;)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: crash2455 on June 04, 2009, 02:06:47 am
Sign me up for the 18th.

Also, I predict that those spikes will fare better against the traders than they will any enemy.  I suppose that just makes them that much better.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 08:41:03 am
So are you done now Marko?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 04, 2009, 09:26:34 am
I would do more, but I gotta work today, so I'm all done ;)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 09:30:09 am
Okay, I'll start a bit early then now.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 04, 2009, 10:57:47 am
Hmm. The map seems somehow... smaller than before.
Nope, same as before. I could've sworn I had more space to the west...

Anyhow, here's a new picture:
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/nahkh/sg2new.png)


Ooh now here's an idea for someone: Make claws for the dragon head. Maybe grasping the obelisks?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 11:20:06 am
Gah! This place is a horrible horrible mess. And I'm too lazy to fix it  :P. And damn, I was hoping the end of the river with the bottomless pit would be here, drainage for my project will be more problematic now.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 04, 2009, 11:23:21 am
This place is awesome.
Fixed that for you.

Also, drainage problems? Just carve fortifications adjacent to the map edge.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 11:25:41 am
...  :o Thank you!   :D
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 04, 2009, 11:35:16 am
No problem.
But to thank me properly you of course have to build a fifteen-level high statue of me to commemorate this day. You understand.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 11:39:15 am
Can it be underground? To protect it from the horrible searing light.

Also:

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/Migrants.jpg?t=1244132876)

Ffffffffffffffffffffffff

I had a pleasant daydream about some population control:

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/PopulationControl.jpg?t=1244133542)

But decided it would probably be too effective.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 04, 2009, 12:11:27 pm
It's not dorfy if it isn't covered in vomit >_<

And that population control thing isn't such a bad idea actually.
Have all immigrants pass through "Immigration control", maybe reduce their numbers by half. None of your regular dwarves will give a damn, just some strange soapmaker guts spread over the halls.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 04, 2009, 12:23:45 pm
Could you please add the last two blocks of aluminum to my dragon head's eyes? It just doesn't look right without them. Also, remove the two ramps behind the eyes. They're just scaffolding.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 12:25:05 pm
What about blood? is it okay if it's covered in blood? I'm thinking a great execution tower. And sure. Just show me in game pictures of his eyes so I can find them.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 04, 2009, 12:41:12 pm
What about blood? is it okay if it's covered in blood? I'm thinking a great execution tower. And sure. Just show me in game pictures of his eyes so I can find them.

They're the two white squares of aluminum with a smooth obsidian wall at the very top of the dragon head. Just keep going up until you see something like this:

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/1acvfdb.png)

This go up one more z-level and you should see something like this:

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/1abjsd.png)

Just place two aluminum bar walls on the two empty squares, then remove the ramps.

Also, if you could make the executions on the teeth then you'd win +5 dwarfiness.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 12:44:59 pm
Oh dear, I do believe I may have a tantrum spiral on my hands :(. And to top it all off the goblins are sieging.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 04, 2009, 12:57:07 pm
You may revert at your own discretion. You've been playing on borrowed time anyway.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 01:01:00 pm
...WTF IS UP WITH THESE BRIDGES!! (Have found the cause of the mysterious deaths that were the bonfire starters.)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 04, 2009, 01:15:10 pm
I think I know how this goes.

...
...
...

It's a trap!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 01:20:05 pm
 ;) I'll stay with this save thanks Nahkh, I enjoy watching this place burn  :D.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 04, 2009, 01:34:46 pm
Just remember, if you leave the save unplayable the next player will use the old save. Oh and take pictures if the place actually burns.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 01:46:16 pm
I'm gonna savescum now, behold the carnage!:

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/Carnage1.jpg?t=1244141162)

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/Carnage2.jpg?t=1244141163)

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/Carnage3.jpg?t=1244141163)

And my project's were coming along so nicely too. :(
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 04, 2009, 01:59:48 pm
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/nahkh/Awesome2.png)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Yaddy1 on June 04, 2009, 06:18:48 pm
Sorry I was away on a trip! I would definitely like a day. Not June 8-10 and preferably a Friday.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 04, 2009, 10:40:39 pm
Wheres the save? this will put me behind.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 10:42:52 pm
 ??? ? It's still my turn.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 04, 2009, 10:48:32 pm
the last sparkgear used exact 24 hr turns(switch at 5pm).
I'm open to working something out though.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 04, 2009, 10:58:25 pm
I simply started early since Yaddy was late, my turn is still the 5th though.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 04, 2009, 11:05:33 pm
I simple started early since Yaddy was late, my turn is still the 5th though.
Oh, now that I think it through,-take an extra day.

In other news: I promise death during my reign!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 04, 2009, 11:46:59 pm
Eerr: Yaddy1 didn't show up on time. And since Marko had some bugs left in his new trap system we decided to let him continue for a bit. Then he finished at about 16 GMT, and Demonic Spoon started early. Not that it matter, he promptly fucked everything up and had to savescum. But yeah, your turn is the 6th (as it reads on the first page).
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Yaddy1 on June 05, 2009, 10:40:43 am
so when can I have a turn?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 05, 2009, 10:50:11 am
I already set you down for the 19th. A Friday, as you requested.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 05, 2009, 02:42:33 pm
The mountainhomes, they have grown stale. Many have forgottenthat our civilization is named the Chambers of Blood for a reason!
I shall go forth to a new outpost, still fresh and full of vitality, and from there I Demonic Spoon the Great shall set the world afire! MUHAHAHAHAHA haha *cough cough* ahem.

Later...
I arrived to today at this place, this horrible place, it seems the infamous Mad Architect Nahkh has had a hand in ruling here, the entrance to the fortress proper is through a giant sqaure pyramid (called the spherical pyramid ironically enough)! Also, upon my arrivla at the entrance I saw great spike trpas with the bones of amny innocent traders on them. I nearly joined the corpses there. Not wishing for this to happen to any of my slave workers I disabled the traps.

Later...
As I walked through the fortress I realized we had a serious wood shortage, so I drew up plans for a vast undergound forest.
Also, seeing that the previous rulers have not utilized the spiders near the cave river for mass silk farming, I immediately set up plans for the great silk farm.

Later...
Seeing the many corpses of fellow dwarves lying around I made a grand crypt at the lowest point our miner's can dig to.

Later...
The great silk farm has been completed, and cloak production set to max, however I fear I shall not be able to complete the undergound forest, the king went beserk the other day and nearly killed me, I'm making a few last orders from bed until the next ruler can arrive.

(OOC: Save still busy uploading and abculatter_2 , I can't seem to build those aluminuim bar walls, sorry.)

Save: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1075

What I have done:

Set up larger crypt
Great silk farm
Set up the foundations of a grand underground river and forest
Started the great execution tower
Made a proper garbage dump

To do list:

Organize the workshops and farms better
Complete cave river and underground forest
Complete execution tower
Make more housing
Set up a proper military.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 05, 2009, 04:21:21 pm
Mad? You would call me mad? ME? MAD?
(http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll243/davidispikachu/RageFace.png)
I've killed traders for less.
I'm not the founder of Crazedpants for nothing you know.

Also, WHAT IS THAT FAGGOTRY? TURN ON THE TRAPS YOU TREEHUGGER.


EDIT:
*looking at the dffd entry title* I see. A month-old save? Or did you perhaps mean 5th of July?

EDIT EDIT:
Eerr, could you name Azinfikod the fisherdwarf after ArkDelgato? It's the only dwarf Nahkh has a grudge with.

EDIT3:
Map: http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5983--sparkgear2 (http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5983--sparkgear2)
Go add some POIs people.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 05, 2009, 04:44:42 pm
(OOC: Save still busy uploading and abculatter_2 , I can't seem to build those aluminuim bar walls, sorry.)

Awwwww...

Well, I suppose they could be made of silver...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 05, 2009, 10:05:27 pm
I've renamed the fisherdwarf to arkbob,



on a very deadly note: the lack of human powered spike-trap cost us several dwarves. Armies of wrestlers and bowmen swarmed the front entrance at maximum speed. The goblins barely hesistated, laughing at our cage traps even as their bretheren fell prey. They made it all the way to the stone trap coridor, where hundreds of dwarves swarmed, trying desperately to reach the outdoor tasks in, knowing full well the dim blocked sun as soon as they set foot into the pyramid temple. only then did the citizens runaway, allowing the goblin siege to splat itself upon the rock traps. Sadly, three dwarves died that day, starting a new (possible) tantrum spiral.

Times are so bad, 'barack obama' solonzir  was elected(mayor died?)!
My lack of knowledge of the levers killed off several more dwarves, as many were trapped outside.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 05, 2009, 10:44:08 pm
Times are so bad, 'barack obama' solonzir  was elected(mayor died?)!

WHAT. Somebody better not have changed Brak Obama's name!

My lack of knowledge of the levers killed off several more dwarves, as many were trapped outside.

Press N. I labeled all my levers, don't know about anyone else.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 05, 2009, 11:12:40 pm
somewhere out there is a game where you talk to an npc, and everytime he says "times are tough". I'm sure I could ask any dwarf in the fortress, if they weren't all Insane, berserk, or suicidally depressed.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 05, 2009, 11:43:00 pm
can I get a: savescum approved?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 06, 2009, 12:11:36 am
*looking at the dffd entry title* I see. A month-old save? Or did you perhaps mean 5th of July?

Oops yeah, I meant July yes. And levers? What levers?  ???
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 06, 2009, 12:19:36 am
*looking at the dffd entry title* I see. A month-old save? Or did you perhaps mean 5th of July?

Oops yeah, I meant July yes. And levers? What levers?  ???
6 levers that control bridges.
still not sure on most of them, even with the notes.
the levers have far too many connections to use easily, and some appear linked haphazardly
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 06, 2009, 12:24:45 am
Added some PoI to the map:
http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5983--sparkgear2

Also Nahkh, it was like that when I got it.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 06, 2009, 12:40:46 am
6 levers that control bridges.
still not sure on most of them, even with the notes.
the levers have far too many connections to use easily, and some appear linked haphazardly

The notes I made have matching symbols with the bridge they activate. I made a central lever linked to everything that was meant to be a fortress-sealer in emergencies (however, because you reduced the number of entrances to one, such a lever is now redundant). I then made a separate lever for each individual bridge, in case you only wanted one to go down/up. Although, I have no doubt they've been tampered with since my turn, and I don't know if they've updated/changed the notes accordingly.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 06, 2009, 04:25:46 am


The notes I made have matching symbols with the bridge they activate. I made a central lever linked to everything that was meant to be a fortress-sealer in emergencies (however, because you reduced the number of entrances to one, such a lever is now redundant). I then made a separate lever for each individual bridge, in case you only wanted one to go down/up. Although, I have no doubt they've been tampered with since my turn, and I don't know if they've updated/changed the notes accordingly.
Ty

I officially savescummed (rather than wait for the tantrum spiral end, I uncorked the demon pits to mess around.)

now that I've started my turn anew, my plan is to release every single goblin captive upon the demons.

hopefully we'll kill em good.

support Brak!
Brak obama was elected again.


The fire demon vs goblin war failed, they killed one spirit of fire before they all died of burning(never left the pen)...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 06, 2009, 04:45:25 am
Yeah you never have to wait for me to say anything. I only keep tabs on whose turn it is.

Once you upload the save, it's canon (unless you deliberately leave it unplayable, or the save is corrupt). The next player can savescum as much as he likes, he's only wasting his own time. Once he uploads, the new save is canon and so forth. At the start of every new turn, the current player starts with the most recent canon save and does whatever he wants with it. Even if it's something silly like make a million cloaks.

I prefer having to do no micromanagement at all. I'm lazy that way.
As said, my only meaningful function is to keep the player list up to date, and play the occasional turn. You can safely ignore all my ranting and raving, it's totally nonbinding. The savescum approved thing was just my way of saying that "Ok, since you suck so much, I guess savescumming would be justified."
For all I care, you could savescum for no reason at all.

Also, demons vs goblins? Good times.

EDIT: Demonic Spoon: Yeah right.

EDIT EDIT: And if you think you need to SS, go for it. If you want the approval, post pictures documenting your demise.

3*EDIT: I updated your POIs for you.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 06, 2009, 04:55:17 am
Even if it's something sillyawesome like make a million cloaks.

Fixed  ;D
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 06, 2009, 02:34:55 pm
Just bumping the thread.

While I'm at it, I'd like to share some very special pain with you.
http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bt/the-sage/fanfic-theatre/5802-episode-4-root-her (http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bt/the-sage/fanfic-theatre/5802-episode-4-root-her)

Oh, and that link is probably not for children. Or those faint of heart. Or anyone else really.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 06, 2009, 03:29:23 pm
...the goggles! They do nothing!  :-X
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 06, 2009, 03:54:47 pm
Before I have my eyes raped, would someone mind telling me where that link leads to?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 06, 2009, 04:04:07 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 06, 2009, 04:20:42 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh god...

Some things should not be.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 06, 2009, 04:54:59 pm
Ahh, save up!
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1079

Be very carful, It only took like 5-6 dwarves dying to set the whole place off.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 06, 2009, 05:09:31 pm
Glad you enjoyed my own personal little hell.

But anyway, sounds like the fort needs more mist generators.

EDIT: XD I don't think you were supposed to build actual bars up there :D

I think he meant that you should make walls of aluminium bars :D
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 06, 2009, 06:57:36 pm
I think he meant that you should make walls of aluminium bars :D

Yeah. I meant walls of aluminum, not bars of aluminum.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Cruxador on June 06, 2009, 08:53:00 pm
FLY WITH IT!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 06, 2009, 09:26:47 pm
Oi, since this is only the save, is there any mods I should be aware of?

or should I just
FLY WITH IT!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 06, 2009, 09:57:29 pm
I didn't use any mods. And tbh if anybody is aiming to improve fort moral (what's the fun in that!?!?) I think they'd be better served with getting a really good brewer making a wider variety of alcohol, and a good chef producing some tasty treats instead of eating nothing but plump helmets... just a suggestion.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 06, 2009, 10:03:07 pm
Good morale takes the fun away.

Hairline trigger morale is MUCH more "fun".
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 01:21:12 am
The giant 'worm' thing was planned to be a future cave river. Also, where is the death we were promised?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 07, 2009, 02:48:33 am
Hairline trigger morale is MUCH more "fun".

"Fun" as in "losing is fun"?

EDIT: Also, it's unmodded as far as I know.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 04:21:25 am
Oh yeah Nahkh I forgot, sign me up for the 13th please.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 07, 2009, 08:17:31 am
Sure.

What the hell is ArkDelgato up to....
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 08:59:46 am
Most probably fucking up your pyramid ;P
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 10:57:54 am
IF I COULD UNDERSTAND THE FORTRESS LAYOUT I MIGHT HAVE EFFED WITH THE PYRIMID.

BUT SWEET ARMOK ALL THE EXPERIMENTAL MINING TUNNELS ARE CONFUSING.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 11:22:49 am
You mean the exploration mining tunnels right? Because I have no idea what 'experimental' tunnels you're talking about.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 07, 2009, 11:25:41 am
(http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj30/KickMyCunt/Iseewhatyoudidthere.jpg)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 11:33:01 am
(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/Pardoy.jpg?t=1244392373)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 12:10:07 pm
Oi, is the worm thing just supposed to be filled up with water.

'cause I'm about to do that.
Does it need pumps and the like on in?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 07, 2009, 12:11:03 pm
(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/whatthisdisIdonteven.png)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 12:23:05 pm
Go ahead with that if you want to, I can just turn it off later when it's my turn again. It's more like it's supposed to drop a further z-level into a pool and then fill after which it drains off into some fortifications at the side of the map. No pumps neccesary. And I prefer never to use anything that requires generated power, or pumps.

And I was hoping to achieve something like this:

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-4896-walledwar
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 12:31:15 pm
I cant understand how to do that, so I'll be skipping that project ;)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 12:33:31 pm
We have found the demon pit yes, left bottomish.

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/Parody2.jpg?t=1244395478)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 12:34:42 pm
But did all the demon unstealth, because I'm building a cave-dust cage trap and don't want an unfortunate surprise.

I only see two demons right now.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 12:35:53 pm
I don't know, sorry, they were sealed by the previous ruler when my turn started and I kept them that way.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 12:37:24 pm
Well, worse comes to worse we lose a peasent and the entire army.

WISH ME LUCK!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 12:43:15 pm
We have a army now?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 12:45:12 pm
6 legendary wrestlers that dabble at swords, yes.

PS. RIPPED A SOF TO SHREDS WITH A BRUISE ON THE LOWER ARM ONLY.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 12:48:59 pm
Btw, does has anyone so far found my grand cloth industry useful, even if only for trade goods...anyone?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 12:58:44 pm
Actually, the cloth industry wasn't cleaning the webs out of the basement fast enough, so I had to expand it of all things!

EDIT: OH HELL, JUST AS I TYPED THIS A CLOTHIER GOT A MOOD.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 01:03:25 pm
Woot! Success! But, usefulness?

Reply to previous edit:

Dwarvish Gibberish "Painful Crotch Gear"

This is a cave spider silk thong. All craftdwarfship is of the highest qaulity. This object menaces with spikes of cave spider silk and granite. On the thong is a image of a dwarf of a dwarf wearing Dwarvish Gibberish in cave spider silk. The dwarf is screaming.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 01:05:12 pm
Haven't got a caravan yet. :P
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 01:08:30 pm
I'm really hoping we manage get(aka seize) some sun berries from the elves before someone decides to do the dwarvish thing.

P.S. See my edit reply to you're edit.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 01:14:32 pm
So I assume the spikes were on the inside?

And I think I understand the worm river now, does it call for smoothing the last tile on the map, then making it a fortification?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 01:19:10 pm
Yes (to both), (to second) but hopefully later after you've let it waterfall down a few z-levels.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 01:30:39 pm
So dig the worm shape deeper?
The miners need some work.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 01:33:21 pm
I'm busy with educational pictures, back in a sec.

Cave River Beggining
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cave River Intermediate
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cave River End
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There ya go

...Here you can see in in all it's glory my constant misspelling of from as form.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 02:08:22 pm
That make moderate sense :D
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 02:09:49 pm
What! It makes sense?! NOOOO!!  >:( Note at the first part of the already dug out sector of the river, you need only channel out the river, I was thinking 3 tiles wide.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 07, 2009, 04:55:02 pm
Hm.

WHERE IS THE SAVE?

AN HOUR LATE?

OFF WITH HIS HEAD
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Marko on June 07, 2009, 06:48:55 pm
Hm.

WHERE IS THE SAVE?

AN HOUR LATE?

OFF WITH HIS HEAD

that is totally getting sigged!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 08:53:25 pm
Oh hell I gmt'd in the wrong direction.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

save

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1085
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 07, 2009, 10:27:31 pm
The giant 'worm' thing was planned to be a future cave river. Also, where is the death we were promised?

All of the goblins except one died to a single spirit of fire.
I would post it, but it's hardly worthwhile, you can't see anything for all the smoke. ALL of the siegers we caught.

I only killed 1 spirit of fire, but the goblin room can't have many more than one.

also, there was a second unfinished cave-in (the goblin room is sealed, I was about to do part of the path from the demon-lair.)

Is the mandrill powered spike trap back online?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 07, 2009, 10:52:08 pm
There was no seige or anything, but the switch for the spike trap is set up (gnomes can flip pressure plates right?)

The goblin room only had one.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 07, 2009, 11:39:49 pm
All of the goblins except one died to a single spirit of fire.
I would post it, but it's hardly worthwhile, you can't see anything for all the smoke. ALL of the siegers we caught.

I only killed 1 spirit of fire, but the goblin room can't have many more than one.

also, there was a second unfinished cave-in (the goblin room is sealed, I was about to do part of the path from the demon-lair.)

Oh, I thought you meant DWARVEN deaths.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: eerr on June 07, 2009, 11:44:30 pm
All of the goblins except one died to a single spirit of fire.
I would post it, but it's hardly worthwhile, you can't see anything for all the smoke. ALL of the siegers we caught.

I only killed 1 spirit of fire, but the goblin room can't have many more than one.

also, there was a second unfinished cave-in (the goblin room is sealed, I was about to do part of the path from the demon-lair.)

Oh, I thought you meant DWARVEN deaths.

Ambiguity is more fun : P
---
I setup the mandril cage in the barracks, but a gnome should work fine.

Currently I think theres one issue with the exit to work out right now
With dwarves indoors during a siege, all the of the normal citzens will try to path outside while standing on the stone traps.

I think we need some  sort of inner barrier just in front of them. Just for emergencies.

edit1: I also fully believe some fake exits are in order.

Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Fault on June 08, 2009, 12:20:22 am
I have a question... how do I download the file so it's usable by my save folder? My save folder is using .DAT files, and whenever I've downloaded saves before, they ends up as .RAR files, which I'm a bit unsure of. will they work just like .DAT files, or do I have to convert them or something?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: crash2455 on June 08, 2009, 03:36:05 am
You just have to unzip it using winRAR or 7zip, at which point it will turn into a folder that you can place in your data/save directory.

Fake Edit:  I totally added the missing years to the SparkGear map archive: http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6003--sparkgear2
Go and add POI's now before I start adding ones for everything that kinda looks like a penis.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 08, 2009, 04:09:12 am
Added some PoI:

http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6003--sparkgear2

http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6002--sparkgear2
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Fault on June 08, 2009, 02:31:41 pm
k thanks, i'll download winRAR
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Fault on June 08, 2009, 02:52:28 pm
I don't get it.. I used 7-sip to compress the RAR file or wahtever, then I put the resulting folder in the DF/data/save folder, but the game won't read it. What am I doing wrong?!?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 08, 2009, 02:57:38 pm
Make sure you don't have nested folders.
it should be ./data/save/SparkGear2/files, not ./data/save/SparkGear2/SparkGear2/files
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nil on June 08, 2009, 04:03:27 pm
so is it me now?

not sure exactly how these dates line up
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 08, 2009, 04:26:58 pm
Yeah it's yours. And since Cruxador apparently is absent, use ArkDelgatos save.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nil on June 08, 2009, 04:52:37 pm
sweet.  already started.  damn near lost the fort when a legendary marksgoblin and his friends tried to take the back way through ark's palace, but sealed it up in time
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 08, 2009, 05:42:20 pm
I never did lock the door...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nil on June 08, 2009, 08:02:13 pm
I never did lock the door...
yeah plus those wooden fortifications weren't finished yet
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Fault on June 08, 2009, 09:48:15 pm
Make sure you don't have nested folders.
it should be ./data/save/SparkGear2/files, not ./data/save/SparkGear2/SparkGear2/files

yeah, that's the format I have it in. The folder has art images and lots of features.
 maybe I should try downloading it again... but I can't continue playing or start playing it either

EDIT: I dunno what I did but IT WORKS NOW so I'm good
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 09, 2009, 08:45:12 am
Did you have DF on when you extracted? It only checks for saved games on startup.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nil on June 09, 2009, 11:40:22 am
save up: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1092

it's a .zip.  if that's a problem I should have just enough time to fix it when I get home from work; don't know why it would be tho.  that's also when I'll add POIs to the map (http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6011--sparkgear2) and do a write-up.  short version--I built a luxurious residential sector, an outdoor party-tower, started training a squad of military dwarves led by my dude, and made some digs for Barry.  got a raw adamantine statue artifact too.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Brendan on June 09, 2009, 11:58:30 am
Is that your turn over, then? I'll take up the baton in a couple hours if so.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 09, 2009, 12:38:56 pm
Dibs on the statue.

EDIT: Wow, nice job there.

EDIT EDIT: Oh, and I see they've desecrated the cave river. To that I say:
NOW HOW DO YOU LIKE IT, BITCHES?
 BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: crash2455 on June 09, 2009, 01:40:45 pm
Sadness.  The file directory is down temporarily.  I suppose that as long as it's up in the next few hours, it'll be fine.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nil on June 09, 2009, 04:08:42 pm
File depot is working for me, altho it is slow.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 09, 2009, 06:33:22 pm
Dibs on the statue.

EDIT: Wow, nice job there.

EDIT EDIT: Oh, and I see they've desecrated the cave river. To that I say:
NOW HOW DO YOU LIKE IT, BITCHES?
 BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Check the POI's on the map.
And prepare to be angered.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nil on June 09, 2009, 10:53:16 pm
Chapter 9: The Reign of Nil (http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6011--sparkgear2)
A time of rebuilding
 
After Ark Bookfatal's costly and ultimately indecisive war against the horrors in the deep, the dwarves of Sparkgear hungered for change. They would find it in Nil the Deathbringer.  Nil's reign was characterized by the construction of large public works and an improving public mood, but was dogged by questions regarding his personal command over a military unit.  Others accused Nil's tenure of being "boring," claiming that "nothing happened."[1]



A new morning for Sparkgear

When Nil took over, the population of Sparkgears was on the edge of falling into complete chaos.  55 percent of dwarves polled said Sparkgears was "on the wrong track," and 64 percent had "fair" or "poor" expectations for the future.  Flashing red arrows were endemic.[2,3]  By the time Nil's reign ended, however, the average dwarf was writhing in ecstasy.[4]

Most scholars point to three causes for this turnaround.  First, Nil nationalized the fountain dining hall, which had previously included private sections for more privileged members of society.  Undivided, the hall became the stuff of legends. Second, Nil commissioned a tower to showcase Sparkgear's adamantine wealth.  This improved morale not just because it reminded them why they had fought the demons in the first place or because it would provoke envy in all those who heard of it, but also because it was a great place to throw a party.[5]  Finally, time and the ongoing pleasures of Sparkgear--the fountain, the decent food, the conversation--simply allowed the fortress to put their friends' deaths behind them.

The goblin war escalates

Under Nil Sparkgear was attacked twice by the goblin horde Usbu Ezru.  The first came occurred the morning of Hematite 13th, 306.  One of the three squads rushed the main gate, but the other two made for Ark's personal above ground palace.  It was not yet completely finished, and no secondary defenses existed.  Only a last moment effort by the masons prevented the goblins from pillaging the silk fields.  The defenders were led by Nahkh, who personally tore down two staircases, the last just moments before the lead attacker, Snodub Wraithcities, got into firing range.  Blocked, the goblins withdrew.

When they returned on Limestone 11th, they had no choice but to charge the main entrance.  Wraithcities was among those captured alive.  He was Usbu Ezru's last local leader.[6]

Nil creates the Deathbringers

In the aftermath of the first attack, Nil argued that the military was now far too weak and would not be able to defend Sparkgear from unexpected threats--and indeed, "simulations" showed that the hammer and marksgoblins would have tore up the lightly armored force of mostly wrestlers that existed at the time.[7]

Nil began training a group of seven other dwarves.  Known as the Deathbringers, they were under Nil's personal command.  Some objected to giving a leader direct control over a military force, and others objected to his pretentious sleeping accomendations, which were made from an abandoned mining vein.[8]  They were drowned out by the need for security.  Nil also used his newly expanded powers to commission a new residential district, just off the western shore of the magma pool.

Life goes on

On Sandstone the 22nd, Zan the mason went into a fey mood and created a raw adamantine statue. [9] The statue went on to serve as the centerpiece for the main tower chamber. 

Industry consisted mostly of furniture production, recycling goblin gear, forging training weapons, and crafting bone bolts and totems.  There was no trade with the outside world, and the spike trap at the entrance could not be reactivated.  Phantom spider webs were observed outside to the north.[10,11]

Zan Anamtirist died in a training accident on Galena 26th, 306.  Her baby was Sparkgear's first street urchin, somehow surviving while crawling around aimlessly.[12]

The end of Nil's reign

Shortly after the Deathbringers began weapons training, Nil stopped issuing orders.  When approached by his constituents, Nil was dismissive, and was known to have told citizens to "bugger" themselves on several occations.[13]  In his one public statement after the dedication of his last project, he noted that he had "the nicest bedroom in the fortress and enough muscle to keep it" and told the dwarves of Sparkgear that they could now "solve your own damn problems because I got all I need out of you."[14]  His term is not remembered fondly.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nil on June 10, 2009, 12:02:41 am
my one regret is that I didn't extend the cave river--I say we make it longer before turning it on.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 10, 2009, 04:04:25 am
That was my plan, waity for my turn and I will realize the cave river to it's fullest extent!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Brendan on June 10, 2009, 12:42:09 pm
Meh, looks like my computer can't take the resource load, skip me.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 10, 2009, 01:17:24 pm
Fault, feel free to start your turn early. Use nils save.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: Fault on June 10, 2009, 01:41:44 pm
Well, I'll see what I can do today, but I don't really have a lot of free time till tomorrow
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*)
Post by: nahkh on June 10, 2009, 02:26:31 pm
It's up to you how to spend your time. Just have the save for us at 22 GMT tomorrow.

EDIT:



Oh and ArkDelgato:




(http://ohermenauta.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/the-finger.jpg)


Although the damage is easy to fix.


EDIT EDIT:

Now someone just needs two add to steel spheres at the "pleasure tower"'s base.
DO IT.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: Fault on June 10, 2009, 05:26:00 pm
finished by tommorrow? Wait, do I get 2 days or one day? ???

also, whats a good program to take screenshots? I'm tired of using "export local image" and then trying to find what I'm supposed to be looking at...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-
Post by: nil on June 10, 2009, 08:08:17 pm
also, whats a good program to take screenshots? I'm tired of using "export local image" and then trying to find what I'm supposed to be looking at...
print screen and paste in to paint for cropping?  that's all I use
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 10, 2009, 08:21:11 pm
I'll take june 22nd.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: Fault on June 10, 2009, 08:23:00 pm
.... would using print screen show the windows of text to the right of the screen, where you make designations and read unit descriptions and such? If so, what button does that?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 10, 2009, 08:52:59 pm
Alt + printscreen (found to the right of F12)

No cropping needed.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 10, 2009, 08:57:14 pm
.... would using print screen show the windows of text to the right of the screen, where you make designations and read unit descriptions and such? If so, what button does that?

1. Print Screen
2. Open the image editor of your choice (MSpaint, GIMP, Photoshop)
3. Press "new" (or, if you're using an image editor from this century that doesn't suck (GIMP, Photoshop) click create > from clipboard. If you do this, you can skip step 4.)
4. Press ctrl+v
5. select the area you want as your image
6. Crop
7. ???
8. PROFIT!

If you still don't understand, tell me what image editor(s) you have access to and I'll see if I can walk you through it.


Alt + printscreen (found to the right of F12)

No cropping needed.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 10, 2009, 10:13:56 pm
I want to get my dragon head spewing forth boiling magma on my turn soon, and I have an idea on how to do it without bauxite. Don't know if it'll work though.

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/abculatter_2/Magmapump.png)

The tower of pumps is always running, preventing lava from stopping and burning up the pumps. The lone pump is hooked up to a separate power supply which is controlled by a lever linked to a gear assembly. Once the magma gets to the top, it goes sideways (I'm unsure about this part, I'm afraid it'll go back and burn up the top pump, causing a chain reaction of burning pumps) into a store of lava just behind the dragon head. This store is kept back by a metal door which can be opened at a moment's notice to let out a burning cascade of lava on whatever's near the entrance. The lava will then be drained back into the magma pool.

Alternatively, I can spend my turn having no idea what the hell I'm supposed to do as I have never played a fort for more then 2 years and have never had such a large population.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-
Post by: nahkh on June 10, 2009, 11:32:21 pm
Fault: You get the couple of hours extra that Brendan abandoned. At the time of writing it was "22GMT tomorrow."
Also,  what ArkDelgato said.

Abculatter_2: Needlessly complicated. Metal/stone pumps and the usual pump system will work just fine (you can steal my blueprints from here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=33837.0))

Barbarossa the Seal God:
Okey-dokey.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: Fault on June 10, 2009, 11:34:52 pm
soooo.. that's like 3:00 pm canada time?

doesn't seem like a lot of extra hours, I thought I get the day, not just the mornin
Oh well I'll make the most of it
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 10, 2009, 11:43:42 pm
Abculatter_2: Needlessly complicated. Metal/stone pumps and the usual pump system will work just fine (you can steal my blueprints from here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=33837.0))

I thought pumps could only be built out of stone, glass, or wood...

I now stand corrected.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-
Post by: nahkh on June 10, 2009, 11:49:45 pm
Fault: You've got ~26 hours starting from about when I told you it's your turn.
Dunno about Canada time. That's like asking what time is it on the moon.

abculatter_2: forge some metal pipes sections and giant screws. I think any metal will do. Also, it doesn't matter how fast or slow your pumping it, using wood in magma pumps is Bad Business.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 11, 2009, 12:02:11 am
abculatter_2: forge some metal pipes sections and giant screws. I think any metal will do. Also, it doesn't matter how fast or slow your pumping it, using wood in magma pumps is Bad Business.

But what about the blocks? Also, although the magma cannon is cool, I think it's simply too powerful for this. It would flood the entire valley with the burning blood of Armok. Which actually sounds pretty fun...  Plus, we only have limited magma, and would the magma cannon work in a magma pool?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: Skid on June 11, 2009, 12:05:56 am
You can build all wooden pump systems and leave lava to sit in them without anything burning down.

EDIT: And is the maturity warning really needed for a story about a game where babies and kittens are first on the menu for the goriest deaths ever seen in ASCII?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 11, 2009, 12:26:06 am
You can make blocks out of metal bars at the forge, also, wooden pump systems sometimes wear out whem used with magma simce magma raises the temeprature above what the wood can sustain.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: Fault on June 11, 2009, 12:49:52 am
UPDATE
The elven caravan showed up, but the Trader is off fucking around somewhere.
Typical.

(http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv120/pfat417/screendwarf1-1.png)

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Image works now
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 11, 2009, 01:13:03 am
Photobucket Site Maintenance

Maybe that has something to do with it?


Edit: Good and free the room and remake it to cancel the party
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-16)
Post by: nahkh on June 11, 2009, 02:49:35 am
wooden pump systems sometimes always wear out whem used with magma
Fixed that for you.


Skid: It's for the language. My language.


abculatter_2: Yeah it's too powerful for this. I'd empty the magma pool in seconds. I meant you can copy my magma pump system, not the cannon itself.
Also, yeah, you'd need to collect the magma after you're done, or we'd run out. Unless we *cough cough* cheat.

EDIT: Oh yeah, this thread is NSFW. Probably shouldn't be fucking around here at work, then.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-
Post by: nil on June 11, 2009, 11:53:05 am
Photobucket Site Maintenance

Maybe that has something to do with it?


Edit: Good and free the room and remake it to cancel the party
Or just flick "dwarves allowed outside" off, then back on after unpausing for a second.  The party area is above ground so that will cancel it
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 11, 2009, 01:08:42 pm
he party area is above ground so that will cancel it

Those poor mad pathetic dwarves! we must save them!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (Probably NSFW, at least PG-
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 11, 2009, 02:23:42 pm
he party area is above ground so that will cancel it

Those poor mad pathetic dwarves! we must save them!

I wonder what it would look like if that big dome thing came crashing down...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 11, 2009, 04:19:04 pm
Ah. The unmistakeable stench of fear, failure and late upload.
Goddamnit people, when do you learn?


It's been abculatter_2's turn for twenty minutes now. I'm looking at you, Fault.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Fault on June 11, 2009, 04:32:03 pm
oh shit man I thought I had an extra day
I'll get right on to uploading it

EDIT: here it is: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1099
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 11, 2009, 04:39:00 pm
oh shit man I thoguth I had an extra day
I'll get right on to uploading it

EDIT: wait, do I upload the "world" thing from the save file? cuase that's what I did

You zip up the save folder (which should be named sparkgear2) and upload it.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Fault on June 11, 2009, 05:00:11 pm
I built a dining room for the dungeon master. I wasn't really able to do anything else.. I think I'm in a really weird timezome compared to you guys, as I was sleeping during most of my turn time.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 11, 2009, 05:05:22 pm
It happens. Feel free to sign up for a new turn.
I guess your turn just began earlier than you thought.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 11, 2009, 05:11:33 pm
Downloading. Unfortunately, my brother's downloading things, so it'll be awhile.

Also, do traps melt under magma?

Hm. I have no idea what to do. Perhaps I should give this turn to someone more qualified? Or should I just fuck everything up and let you guys fix it? I've decided to fuck up everything and leave it for you guys to fix. Or at least, I'm going to attempt to...

Now, how is this cave river thing supposed to work?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 11, 2009, 06:55:36 pm
*On the next page of the tattered journal*

I found this old journal thrown in some forgotten corner of this fortress. Seems hardly used, so I thought I'd use it to document the happenings of the fortress.

Met with the traders. All they have is wood and prickle berries.

I've decided that this fort needs more magma. There WILL be more magma.

I've decided to make the two towers at the entrance spew magma, which will then fall back down into the magma pool in a magnificent magmafall. workers have begun chiseling away the holes needed to do this.

OH GOD LAG

I do not feel like playing this right now... you can pass my turn on to someone else, skip me, or whatever. I really don't feel like playing this right now. Or ever really.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Fault on June 11, 2009, 07:44:52 pm
I think you can use the refiller utility from DF wiki to refill magma pools
It says it will create 7/7 magma tiles if you can route magma into a murky pool
that could help
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 11, 2009, 09:18:44 pm
I can't believe we've got people signed up  almost to the 22nd turn.

of course, someone still needs to take care of the adamantium problem.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 11, 2009, 09:50:11 pm
Champions do a pretty good job if they don't melt.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 12, 2009, 01:29:12 am
I can't believe we've got people signed up  almost to the 22nd turn.

It's my awe-inspiring manliness and humility that draws people to me.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 01:31:38 am
Champions do a pretty good job if they don't melt.
Actually, our champions still can't face it.  I tested this (just for lulz), decking out our champions with as much adamantine plate as I could forge, and after half of our army ran off in fear, the other half was destroyed by 6 SoFs (taking down 4 of them) and it took militarization of the entire fortress to bring down the last 2.  During the tantrum spiral that followed, another SoF appeared and pretty much demolished the fortress.  9 dwarves remained: 1 guard, 1 deathbringer, and 7 children.

Also, if Demonic Spoon doesn't want his turn, I'll take it.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 12, 2009, 01:39:17 am
BONUS ROUND: Congrats, crash2455, you're now the current turn holder. Have the save for us at 22GMT.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 01:43:44 am
Thanks.  I'll also upload Fault's map.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 12, 2009, 01:55:35 am
I was thinking about abculatters plan to use the obelisks for dispensing magma. The problem is that the towers are too small for all the pumps. The solution to that would be to have a separate tower to pump the magma to the level of the obelisks, then use pressure to.... MAGMA GEYSIRS!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 12, 2009, 02:13:00 am
MAGMA GEYSIRS!

Sounds FUN!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 02:38:29 am
Ugh, does anyone know why I can't make adamantium wafers even though I obviously have tons of strands?

Also, we have a legendary peasant.  It made me laugh a little.

Hey, does anyone mind if I turn off temperature?  My framerate is suffering a lot.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 12, 2009, 03:35:52 am
Gah! I don't check the thread every second of the day and someone steals my turn(that hasn't even started yet)!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 03:41:53 am
That's because I mixed you up with abaclutter.  I'm taking his turn because he's taking a break from DF.

Also, the game's not letting me make any silk garments without first dying the cloth.  I have a feeling my raw files may be messed up.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 12, 2009, 03:42:48 am
kk,  ;)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 12, 2009, 03:45:37 am
That's because I mixed you up with abaclutter.  I'm taking his turn because he's taking a break from DF.

Oh no, I just wanted to play something that didn't average 16 frames per second.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 04:03:51 am
Ah, fair enough then.  I agree about the horrid framerate.  I think I'm going to have to play this on my tower to get enough power to finish on time.

Maybe we should set a dwarf limit on the next Sparkgear?  Something around 80 would be great.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 12, 2009, 04:05:27 am
I always limit my forts to 50 dwarves.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 12, 2009, 04:12:09 am
Go ahead and do whatever it takes to bring the framerate down. (Even, or especially if that involves identifying friendless dwarves and giving them magma baths, slaughtering all livestock and quantum stockpiling.)

The problem is that dwarf limits are defined elsewhere in the game folder (data/init unless memory fails.). So... maybe start uploading the whole df folder? (minus any unrelated saves?)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 12, 2009, 04:13:57 am
I shall make it my solemn duty to speed up the game, through whatever means neccessary.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nil on June 12, 2009, 11:30:20 am
Since when is 16 FPS that bad?

I don't start to say uncle 'til the single digits...

One really painless method that could give us some speed, tho, would be putting traffic restrictions on the outdoors and especially on the unused mining shafts (if you do that second one might want to nuke the stone stockpile too).  If the dwarves skip over areas they never use when pathfinding for food, drink, sleep and jobs it gives you more speed.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 11:42:19 am
I'll keep that in mind.  For the moment, I'm switching to my tower and turning off temp.  I'll try and add traffic restrictions on all exploratory tunnels.

Also, I think we're down to something like 7 animals at this point. I'll start looking for dwarves who can have. . . unfortunate accidents.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Skid on June 12, 2009, 12:09:09 pm
Might be time to start atom smashing extra stone?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 01:43:07 pm
I'm trying to set that up (along with a few catapults), but I'm presently trying to manage a tantrum spiral.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 02:16:21 pm
Wow, I don't think I can recover from this one.  Population is currently 86.  I'll try and play it through because at this rate, it's inevitable anyway.

Edit:  I'm pretty sure we're not recovering from this:  Population is 58.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 12, 2009, 03:12:10 pm
If worse comes to worst, reclaim. Or savescum, whichever.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 03:28:51 pm
Well, it appears that the tantrum spiral is coming to a close.  Total population is 48.  I just want to pull out of this so that I can see the engravings of people burning and starving to death.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 03:56:32 pm
I'm uploading the tantrum spiral save and the other save.  Of the remaining 48 dwarves, I think there's still something like 5 tantruming dwarves in the spiral, so take it as you will.  Also keep in mind that if you take the pre-siege save, the dwarves are on a hair trigger to tantruming.  Do everything in your power to make them happy.  There's also a lot of construction differences between pre and post-spiral forts.

Pre Spiral (http://www.savefile.com/files/2127628)

Post-Spiral (http://www.savefile.com/files/2127634)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 12, 2009, 05:14:44 pm
Ok... Demonic Spoon, take your pick of the two saves offered. If crash's save is unplayable, load the older one. Your call.

Also, a brief announcement, I'll be away for the weekend. You can manage without me, yes?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 12, 2009, 06:22:27 pm
Map and PoIs are up for both pre-spiral (http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6041--sparkgear2) and post-spiral (http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/poi-15639-thecarnage) forts.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nil on June 12, 2009, 10:41:32 pm
On the one hand, sucks that my dude died.  On the other hand, sweet, fell mood.  Don't see those very often.  And you sure solved the lag problem... 

I'd like to take another round if it lasts to the end of the list (the 14th is no good for me)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 13, 2009, 12:31:43 am
I shall try to rebuild from the ashes of the tantrum spiral. Go me! Also, remains don't make miasma outside btw Crash.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 13, 2009, 02:24:25 am
Also, remains don't make miasma outside btw Crash.

Well I know they don't make miasma, but it still goes from saying "Urist's Corpse" to "Urist's Rotten Corpse" and then turning to bones, but Goblins that died after them have rotted to bones and they're still fresh as the day they were killed.

Quote
On the one hand, sucks that my dude died.  And you sure solved the lag problem... 

Yeah, it started with your dude and moved to everyone's dude.  I think Brak Obama and Crash Stuntman are the only remaining PCs (though I'm not sure why).  Also, the framerate really didn't pick up that much for some reason.  Maybe another 5 fps or so, about as much as when I slaughtered all pets.  It might just be all the clutter (or the tantruming).

Quote
On the other hand, sweet, fell mood.  Don't see those very often. 

I got a macabre mood as well, but for some reason no dwarves would decay to bones, so he ended up going crazy.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Fault on June 13, 2009, 03:14:06 am
noooo
Don't tell me the philosopher died?
That was my guy!  :(
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 13, 2009, 03:23:37 am
The philosopher and the DM died.  Brak Obama and Crash Stuntman are filling any and all noble positions.  Also, Brak Obama's desk was destroyed in the riot.  He probably wants a new one.  I'm presently doing a rundown on all remaining PCs:

-Ingish Rimadfeb, BADASS
-Crash Stuntman, On-Site Foreman
-Minkot Stuntman, Worker
-Brak Obama, Leader You Can Trust

Also, somebody decided to give people profession nicknames that were their profession at one point or another.  It got really weird when they got new professions.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 13, 2009, 04:27:41 am
Brak Obama for Dictator!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 13, 2009, 09:29:56 am
Oh, well, Can we name a dwarf Gloaf? That'll bring it up to three and make it look like less of a disaster!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 13, 2009, 10:27:18 am
After my predecessors death, I Demonic Spoon the II have been sent to deal with this fortress once and for all! Upon my arrival I went to look at the local zoo...
Problem area number 1:

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/ImmolatingParties.jpg?t=1244906607)

Some idiot set up a bunch of cages above the magma pool and set each one as a seperate zoo, one even has a dwarf in it! Much crispy dwarf remains ensued as dwarf rushed lemminglike over the edges of the platform during their parties.

Problem area number 2:

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/WTF.jpg?t=1244906606)

I have no idea what is going on here but who ever is responsible will burn for the idiocy.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 13, 2009, 11:15:38 am
Yeah, the cages over the lava were supposed to be jails, but for some reason the dwarves kept using cages that had creatures in them, so I really couldn't do much.

That second thing is supposed to be the atom smasher (If there were more pumps were there are huge gaping holes).
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 13, 2009, 11:18:57 am
Don't you usually use a drawbridge in a atom smasher?

I didn't really play much, but I gotta go sleep now, so here's the save:

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1103
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 13, 2009, 06:51:00 pm
Yeah, i didn't have enough time to build the drawbridge.  I was going to pump the stockpile towards the drawbridge and just keep doing pull the lever/r.

I was mainly trying to build this (http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/movie-350-automaticgarbagedisposial).
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 14, 2009, 12:54:26 am
STOP GOING CRAZY!  STOP BREAKING MY STUFF!  SHUT THE FUCK UP ASSHOLES! DAMN BABIES KEEP DROWNING!  STOP DROWNING ALL THE BABIES AND GET BACK TO WORK!

I shall be sigging this, if you don't mind.

Also, awesome that my character didn't die.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: RavingManiac on June 14, 2009, 02:23:27 am
Starting my turn now.

By Armok, this fort is a mess.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 14, 2009, 02:38:49 am
Yeah, sorry about that.  At least you get 2 days to do your thing, and if you can pull out of it, we'll be better off than Boatmurdered (and with way crazier engravings).
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 14, 2009, 05:40:44 am
Is it worth it if pulling out means waiting for the artifact makers and new immigrants to surivive the spiral?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: RavingManiac on June 14, 2009, 09:56:43 am
From the journal of Ravus Maniacus, Year 308


27th Granite

I have been sent to SparkGear as its new overseer, and even as I approach the fortress, I have already noticed something horribly, horribly wrong.

SparkGear's famed pyramid is not truly pyramidial.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Something must be done about this. All masons have been ordered to rebuild the pyramid.



28th Granite

I just realised that the fortress only has 33 dwarves, and there is one mason.

Fuck.

Did I mention that about half of them have horrific wounds?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

and that there are terrifying demons sealed within the bowels of the fortress?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Truly this place is cursed. I will nevertheless endeavour to make something out of this sorry mess.



1st Slate

I have designated all narrow clothing in the fortress to be dumped in magma. As of currently, they are nothing more than a waste of space.

The mayor, a certain Brak Obama, keeps insisting on conducting a meeting. With whom, I have no idea. Everybody else in the fortress is busy working.

I will not tolerate slackers in this fortress, especially when we teether on the brink of destruction. If he keeps up this behaviour, he is going to have a little accident, perheaps several little accidents...



4th Slate

A planter has created a legendary artifact!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Completely useless, but at least we got a legendary woodcrafter.

Expansion of the living quarters has been halted. The way things are going, we won't need any more bedrooms anytime soon.



5th Slate

What's this?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I hereby conclude the previous rulers of the fortress to be utterly insane.

In other news, Brak Obama just got thrown into prison for destroying the door to his own office. Serves him right, too.



9th Slate

Some migrants have arrived despite the danger - 15 dwarves, including the dungeon master and philosopher. Its not much, but we need all the manpower we can get.

There appear to be several mason's workshops scattered throughout the fortress, seemingly at random. All are set to repeatedly construct rock coffins. I will inquire as to which previous overseer is responsible for this.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 14, 2009, 11:26:12 am
Rename the dungeon master Demonic Spoon the II please. Also, I believe it was crash since the great need for coffins originated during his turn. Nahkh, gimme another turn please.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 14, 2009, 04:38:25 pm
I wrote in "Gas Mask Man!" over the picture, but someone else added the sweet 'stache.

And yes, I put in the order for rock coffins on every mason shop.  It's what happens when 100 dwarves die in one turn.  I didn't think I'd actually run out, but hey, that's what happens.

On another note, are the dwarves still tantruming?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Fault on June 14, 2009, 10:09:58 pm

Problem area number 2:

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/WTF.jpg?t=1244906606)

I have no idea what is going on here but who ever is responsible will burn for the idiocy.

Oh sorry man
I was trying to set up a spot for fishing but I ran out of time
I was gonna have grates along the middle of the bridge and walls around it
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 14, 2009, 11:22:29 pm
I added the stache  ;D. And no problem fault, I decided the entire area needed to be floored over. Oh yeah and btw, I accidently mined out a wrong part of the wall so there's water flowing out there, anyone see if the can fix it?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: RavingManiac on June 15, 2009, 12:26:07 pm
On another note, are the dwarves still tantruming?

When I started my turn, only Brak Obama was tantrumning, and he's currently bedridden. The mood of the rest of the fortress ranges from quite content to very happy, so the whole thing has pretty much stabilized.




26th Felsite

Turns out that due to the lack of jails, Captain of the Guard Crash Stuntman opted to instead beat up Brak Obama. With a broken hand, Obama is unable to carry out administrative duties. I have taken over the jobs of manager, hoardmaster and broker.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I have just noticed that none of the children in the fortress are wearing any clothes. They make up for this by being covered with many layers of vomit, mud and blood.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Eew.



11th Hematite

A human caravan has arrived!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As we're all too busy dumping narrow clothing into magma and sorting through the leftover possesions of the dead, I shall not activate the repeating spike mechanism.



16th Hematitle

A goblin scatcher attempted to kidnap the child Murul Idathnish. He was standing next to our champions when he revealed himself, and response was swift and painful.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Brak Obama has been reelected as mayor, despite being completely useless. I ought to dispose of him somehow.



19th Hematite

Goblins ambushed glassmaker Sodel Onulanam while he was outside hauling. Legendary miner Fath Asttan came to his rescue, skewering two of his attackers with his pickaxe while the military finished off the rest.



25th Hematite

Our dungeon master was rapidly depleting the fortresse's stockpile of caged mountain gnomes by attmpting to cage them, then being interrupted by them and beating them to death. Turns out someone had ordered all the mountain gnomes to be moved to a cage near the demon pits. For what purpose, I have no idea.

A deathbringer(the local term for some kind of elite pump operator) has been possesed, and has claimed a craftdwarf's workshop.



4th Malachite

The possesed deathbringer has created an artifact!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yes, yes, its pretty. Now get back to work.



6th Galena

Alas, I have reached the limit of my term. I hereby pass on the fortress to the next unlucky dwarf.




Save: http://uploading.com/files/PVWD7F0Z/SparkGear2.zip.html (http://uploading.com/files/PVWD7F0Z/SparkGear2.zip.html) (DFFD hates me)

NOTES
-The housing complex is incomplete, with doors and furniture of some of the bedrooms missing.
-The underground river still needs to be completely paved over.
-The dwarves are busy dumping all the narrow clothing into a dump zone in the magma forge area to reduce stockpile clutter. This may take a while. A very long while.
-If you are going to open the floodgates to the artificial cave river, remember to remove the rock at the bottom first.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 15, 2009, 01:00:22 pm
A couple things:
-I was putting all the mountain gnomes, goblins, and anything else we've captured and putting them in a cage right in front of the walled-off demon pits as our last line of defense.  I'll add a PoI on the map, and it still needs to be linked to a lever.
-The deathbringers (as their names suggest) should be soldiers, but I needed to demilitarize our non-champion dwarves to give us more workers.
-I couldn't upload my save to the DFFD either.  I ended up using SaveFile.


Also, I uploaded the map after DemonicSpoon's Turn.  Go and add some PoIs.
http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6075
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 15, 2009, 01:39:24 pm
Added some PoI

http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6075--sparkgear2
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 15, 2009, 02:39:24 pm
Just a quick update. My return to the boards is being delayed by the nastiest flu this side of the continent. Will be back once I can think, or breathe. Whichever.

DS: Sure thing.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 15, 2009, 02:49:06 pm
Thanks Nahkh, get well soon  :).
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: RavingManiac on June 15, 2009, 10:00:21 pm
Save uploaded.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 15, 2009, 10:34:04 pm
Map uploaded.  Add some PoI
http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6079--sparkgear2
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 15, 2009, 10:46:13 pm
I have a scheduling issue. I can either do the game on the 20th (or before) or the 28th (or after)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 16, 2009, 12:25:55 am
Ask one of the earlier poeple if you can swap with them then.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Skid on June 16, 2009, 12:42:02 am
So this is my turn, right? Who went on the 15th?  o_0
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 16, 2009, 12:53:29 am
I believe ravingmaniac used it as a extra day? And it's your turn yes.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Skid on June 16, 2009, 01:27:04 am
Well, the file download isn't working for me, says that my IP already has a file in progress.  I'm too tired to work on it tonight anyway.

Edit: Downloading from a different computer worked. Shall begin construction.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 16, 2009, 10:06:20 am
Crash or Katsuun or Yaddy, can I switch with one of you?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Marko on June 16, 2009, 01:33:11 pm
Whoever's going right now I'm stuck at work all day and won't be home until 8pm pst (don't ask what thaat is in gmt...) so if you go over a bit I won't mind
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Skid on June 16, 2009, 02:37:39 pm
Yeah, I'll probably take advantage of that.  I just had to save scum because a pack of bowgoblins wiped out our entire military and a few of their wrestlers found their way into the middle of the courtyard and took out two of the playerdwarves  An awesome defensible entrance isn't much good when there's multiple other ways to get into the fortress.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 16, 2009, 04:38:30 pm
All y'all: Keep up with the good work.

Barbarossa: PM me when you find someone to switch with.

nil: I'll check that for you.


EDIT: I have a request for you players. When you upload the save, could you post your estimate to the average FPS you've been getting? Along with a high/mid/low estimate of your computer speed. Also, the current year would be nice.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nil on June 16, 2009, 06:48:34 pm
Thanks Nahkh.

Hey Skid, if you can spare the manpower (dwarfpower?), put one of the remaining Deathbringers on uninterrupted pump duty? I want a buff veteran around for my turn, assuming it comes.  It's not a problem if he's wounded, and if you need him for some hauling or just in general that's fine too.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Skid on June 16, 2009, 08:35:17 pm
I think there may be a surviving deathbringer already trained up in that way but I'm having a hard enough time just keeping basic fortress systems running.  I've only had enough spare labour to mess around with one small trap for burning the forested half of the map with fire imps and fill in some of the holes in fortress defence.

Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Marko on June 16, 2009, 10:11:57 pm
I'm home from work, and demand file! :P
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Skid on June 17, 2009, 12:16:06 am
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1113

23 FPS average, mid/high level computer. Year 309. (I think.)

The imp trap didn't work out very well, even though flames reach vegetation or wood most of the time the fire doesn't end up spreading.  If you want to mess with it, imps are releases by that red lever at the back of the pyramid.

Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 17, 2009, 04:21:04 am
Heres an idea; to capture the spirits of fire, make one giant chamber maze with two diffrent levels.

place cage traps on top and bottom. Every tile.

setup lever-made cave-ins above, and marksmen behind fortifications.

I mean, it's not like we don't have enough mechanisms for it...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: RavingManiac on June 17, 2009, 04:50:27 am
Spirits of Fire don't get knocked unconscious by cave-ins due to [NOSTUN].

Its been tested:
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-927-trappingsofattemptfailure (http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-927-trappingsofattemptfailure)
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-937-trappingsofwithadamantiumattempt (http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-937-trappingsofwithadamantiumattempt)

I suggest equipping every non-military dwarf in the fortress with a crossbow and bolts, then stationing them behind your full-time military as the demons emerge.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 17, 2009, 09:46:33 am
Katsuun and I are switching.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 17, 2009, 09:56:21 am
I'll take your word for it.
Switching.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 17, 2009, 10:30:24 am
That's crazy.  SoF are like terminators.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 17, 2009, 10:42:53 am
Especially if you mod them to be even stronger :) Damblock, size increase, more damage, tentacles that do fire damage...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 17, 2009, 11:07:33 am
That would only be entertaining if you modded dwarves to [NOFEAR].  Presently they just win because legendary champions pussy out and run away.

Edit:  Map added to DFFD http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6097--sparkgear2

Also, I'm getting 13 FPS on a Pentium D 2.8 GHz (with priority set to HIGH).
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Katsuun on June 17, 2009, 11:51:05 am
Seems like I'm switiching my turn with Barbarossa, as he asked me to.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 17, 2009, 12:43:23 pm
Added some PoIs:

http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6097--sparkgear2
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 17, 2009, 03:58:22 pm
When do you intend on updating?
Two minutes left to the deadline.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 17, 2009, 08:44:07 pm
maybe we should start extending turn times?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 18, 2009, 11:16:43 am
I'll just take my turn if nobody else is going.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 18, 2009, 03:31:30 pm
I'll just take my turn if nobody else is going.
Go for it.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 18, 2009, 04:03:29 pm
My Turn so far

The continuing journals of Crash Stuntman, On-Site Foreman

17th Hematite
Apparently, the last immigrant wave brought a ton of peasants.  Since they have nothing better to do, I'm putting them on guard duty.  Also, somebody created an enormous furniture stockpile where I decided to place raw adamantium.  Also, nobody is on strand extraction, and we have far too many idlers.  Changing that now.

Also, Brak Obama has been re-elected.

Since we have no jails, I'm re-establishing our dungeon over the lava pool.  All who disagree shall spend one night within its cells.

18th Hematite
There is not nearly enough adamantium being processed.  I'm setting stockpiles for other bars to be placed once completed.

22nd Malachite
A child has withdrawn from society.  Starts making things with jewels, logs, bones, and a lot of leather.  Makes "The Rose of Glades," an earring with spikes of cat leather and an image of adamantium in turtle shell

12th Galena
Interrupted by Elephant?  More cage traps are obviously necessary (must have elephant army).  On that thought,  I noticed that we've picked up an abundance of cheetas, lions, and alligators (wtf?), and decided to throw them in a pit designed to catch goblins.

20th Galena
Construction of the atom smashers is complete.  One more gear mechanism and we're ready to start cleaning.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 18, 2009, 10:19:31 pm
Why do we need atom smashers with a maga pit?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 18, 2009, 10:27:56 pm
Because dwarves are stupid and don't throw things in it.

Also, I got bored.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 18, 2009, 10:58:40 pm
Because dwarves are stupid and don't throw things in it.

Also, I got bored.
bored you say? well about half the other people have had "fun" so far. Crack open the HFS and make some aboveground workspace?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 18, 2009, 11:40:12 pm
I had enough fun on my last turn (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=36550.msg598774#msg598774).  I think I'll wait until my soldiers get full adamantium gear before taking on the SoF (as last time I did that, I was left with 10 dwarves).  Presently, I've been keeping busy dumping waste stone and vandalizing other people's constructons.  Also, my population cap of 85 didn't seem to work (probably because of children), and now we've got full-blown nobles.

Speaking of fun, the trade depot just burst into flames, followed by a goblin siege.  This turn is keeping itself interesting.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 19, 2009, 02:08:45 am
Okay, when did the King show up?  I just saw him in the deceased list.

Also, speaking of the deceased list, RavingManiac and I just died in the most recent siege.  Instead of running to a nearby door and seeking shelter inside, we decided to be dwarves and run around in circles until the gobbos separated our major organs from our bodies.

In other news, the trade depot's still on fire.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 19, 2009, 02:17:52 am
The king shows up whenever you strike adamantine so pretty early on I believe.

EDIT: After reading through the archives it appears he apeared at the end opf the third turn which was marko's, also if you wonder when he died it was during my turn, he finally went bezerk because he still didn't have a set of royal apartments..
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 19, 2009, 04:24:42 am
The king shows up whenever you strike adamantine so pretty early on I believe.

EDIT: After reading through the archives it appears he apeared at the end opf the third turn which was marko's, also if you wonder when he died it was during my turn, he finally went bezerk because he still didn't have a set of royal apartments..
And the kind wonders why he had to dress up as a peasant.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: RavingManiac on June 19, 2009, 09:53:57 am
Also, speaking of the deceased list, RavingManiac and I just died in the most recent siege.  Instead of running to a nearby door and seeking shelter inside, we decided to be dwarves and run around in circles until the gobbos separated our major organs from our bodies.

That was fast :(

If Obama has managed to heal from his injuries, reappoint him as hoardmaster, manager and broker. My dwarf was filling in for him regarding those jobs, and there is now a vacancy.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 19, 2009, 03:40:01 pm
Turn complete.

Save: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1124
Map: http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-6117

Framerate is around 20 on a 2.7 Ghz Xeon.

A couple of things:  I've set all non-colored stones except Rhyolite (our most abundant) to be dumped.  I have been noticing a slight increase in framerate as the stone continues to melt away (unfortunately, I did some mining so it went back down again).  This also means that there are never any idlers ever, and a number of people may be dumping stone instead of doing work.  If you want to have your workers maybe work faster (I dunno), undump the stone in the stocks menu.  I would be against that option, though, as it means that we're no longer curving the framerate issue.

Also, I've started a tower.  Continue it as you see fit.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 19, 2009, 04:04:10 pm
Why is my house filled with vomit.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 19, 2009, 05:10:24 pm
Why ISN'T your house filled with vomit?!

Recommend large construction projects. Pretty much the same amount of walking for dwarves, but at least you get a nice dorfy statue or giant tankard or something.

EDIT: Just took a look at the map. Wow. Just wow. Crash, you know your stuff.
Although some aspects of the fort make me facepalm and wonder what I've helped create.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 19, 2009, 05:29:11 pm
EDIT: Just took a look at the map. Wow. Just wow. Crash, you know your stuff.
Although some aspects of the fort make me facepalm and wonder what I've helped create.

Thanks, I was lucky to have a full day and a half to devote to this.  Also, you knew that a certain pair of structures was coming.

Why is my house filled with vomit.

Cave adaptation.  Also, the dwarves have decided that your house is the new second entrance.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 19, 2009, 06:24:33 pm
have the catapults on the roof been doing anything of late?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 19, 2009, 06:46:06 pm
I moved them inside so that it would be easier to dispose of waste stone.  Also, I think I accidentally ordered a catapult part to be dumped, so I need to replace that.  We should look into building more catapults.  They dispose of stone and build strength.  I dunno why I didn't think about it on my turn.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: RavingManiac on June 19, 2009, 08:49:08 pm
The low framerate is probably due to the sheer number of stone we have lying around. In the stocks menu, simply selecting "stone" causes the game to hang for several seconds.

If you have sufficient manpower, try dumping some of the stone in magma.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 19, 2009, 08:57:22 pm
Would it be safe (or FUN) to rig up the catapults to fire into the atom smasher, which is connected to pressure plates that are activated when the seige operator leaves the catapult to get more stone?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 19, 2009, 10:32:42 pm
QFE

A couple of things:  I've set all non-colored stones except Rhyolite (our most abundant) to be dumped.  I have been noticing a slight increase in framerate as the stone continues to melt away (unfortunately, I did some mining so it went back down again).

Additionally, catapults already destroy stone if it hits a wall, so we could use that instead of our pumps as a pasttime strength-enhancing activity.

Also, where's Yaddy?  This is supposed to be his turn.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 20, 2009, 03:31:31 am
He has not been active since the 16th, skip?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Yaddy1 on June 20, 2009, 09:39:01 am
No I'm here. Just remembered  :D dffd is being slow...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 20, 2009, 09:48:20 am
Ah, kk.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 20, 2009, 09:56:42 am
Yaddy, you should take a look at my map, since it details things I was doing and plans to continue them.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Yaddy1 on June 20, 2009, 10:49:17 am
Actually my computer is not good enough to play this. Sorry!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 20, 2009, 11:11:21 am
crash continue or barborassa start?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 20, 2009, 11:16:02 am
Whoever is quickest to respond.
PMing them both.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 20, 2009, 11:20:08 am
Lol, nahkh, 'gentleman andventurer'...right  :P
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 20, 2009, 11:21:41 am
What? Would you prefer "S/M club employee?"
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 20, 2009, 11:24:31 am
...Sadomasochism club employee?   :o
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 20, 2009, 11:26:41 am
Well that's what it means, does it not?

Although I'm even less of a one than I am a gentleman adventurer. But it makes a nice forum profile, don't you think?

And why would anyone believe me a gentleman adventurer? Nothing I do is... gentle.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 20, 2009, 11:31:24 am
...new signature too I see.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 20, 2009, 12:59:05 pm
Fallout 3 maybe?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 20, 2009, 01:10:06 pm
I'll hand it over to barbarossa.  I got pretty burnt out on this, though I'm moderately worried that if one person quit because of the framerate, a second one will as well. 

I'm going to propose that Sparkgear 3 start passing around a full game file and that we take 2 embark squares (also, maybe keep playing these games in the same universe, just for lulz).

Quote
Fallout 3 maybe?

It's a 2001 reference (fits nicely with the avatar).
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 20, 2009, 01:40:30 pm
Let's not start planning SG3 quite yet. I want to clear this current list of players before that happens.
We just got to get rid of all this excess stone. The FPS will clear up after that.

Also, glad someone caught it.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 20, 2009, 01:44:02 pm
I suppose if barbarossa doesn't want it today, I could just run DF unpaused (DTil) and let the workers clear out all the stone some of the stone.

Edit:  Yeah, I guess I'll do that and upload a new save later.

Quote
Let's not start planning SG3 quite yet. I want to clear this current list of players before that happens.
We just got to get rid of all this excess stone. The FPS will clear up after that.

I know it's a little early, but it's good to plan ahead.  I just figured that you were doing a new Sparkgear every month.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 20, 2009, 01:57:02 pm
Heh, more than likely.
Actually, it seems like a good marker.
I'll go and open up some more slots.

As for planning ahead... I suppose we can do that.
As long as we don't lose sight of the current game.
I was thinking of using the Dig Deeper mod next time around.
Why did you want two start squares, though?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Skid on June 20, 2009, 01:59:37 pm
If we're taking suggestions for the next one, can it be a nanofortress?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 20, 2009, 02:02:41 pm
I'll be keeping it rather compact, yes. Probably not a bona fide nanofort, though. Actually, I have a fort location in mind already. But please, FOCUS people. SparkGear 2 is still going on strong.

EDIT: Oh yeah. One new rule I've been thinking about. Don't leave a huge stack of stones lying around. You dig it, you clean it.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 20, 2009, 02:03:39 pm
Until I activate my cave river that is nahkh  :D Muhahahaha!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 20, 2009, 02:16:42 pm
I have complete faith in the cave river being a colossal fuck-up that will flood the fortress. So I'm not worried.

So this is the mod I've been thinking of publicly endorsing.
clicky (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=35736.0)
It contains among others awesome true and semi megabeasts, orcs, new stones and metals and all-around goodness.
Simply put, Nahkh approves.

The problem with nanofortresses is that it's so damn hard to find HFS and magma pipes in a small-enough area. I'm taking suggestions. This round has definitely shown that infinite supplies of magma are a must. What of HFS? If we use the DD mod we should have plenty of challenge without I guess.

Opinions, please. What makes an embark site a SparkGear site? Magma? Pitchblende? Overall insanity?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 20, 2009, 02:26:55 pm
Cool, I just got a siege that triggered my animal pit.

http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1416-goblindeathpit

Also DemonicSpoon, I'm pretty sure your river will only partially destroy the framerate.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 20, 2009, 03:58:04 pm
Heh, beautiful.

I wonder if Barbarossa is around.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 20, 2009, 04:03:44 pm
PICK ME!!! downloading.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 20, 2009, 04:11:06 pm
Wait, let me upload my new save.  It's a few hundred stones lighter (also has catapults).

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1131

Also, I'll take the 25th.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 20, 2009, 05:12:52 pm
Is that the only difference? Because I'm already building a castle and reviving the drink industry.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 20, 2009, 05:14:01 pm
Barbarossa: Yeah. He just let the stone-clearing operation run awhile.

Crash: Done.


Let's keep this fort going until the end of the month.

Also, orcs are fun. A siege of sixteen orcs in the autumn of my first year. Half of those are bowmen.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 20, 2009, 05:30:13 pm
I was hoping to catch you before you were an hour into construction, but now that you're already working it's cool.  I will ask that you keep working on the HFS funzone (http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-6117) as you go.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 20, 2009, 11:50:51 pm
I'll have the save up in an hour or less- leaving surprisingly early tomorrow...

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1133 (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1133)

GO NEXT PERSON, GO!!!

All I did was fix the drink industry, build the floors (not walls yet) of my castle, and start flooding the new river path. (I prevented the accidental leak springing)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 21, 2009, 02:40:52 am
That was surprisingly... quick.
You do know that you still have some thirteen hours and twenty minutes left of your turn, right?
If you don't want to play it, the first person to respond gets to play the extra time.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 21, 2009, 02:58:38 am
Map: http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6143

Also, it's like 3am here.  I can run the game unpaused while I sleep, but I fear that a goblin siege will destroy our fortress totally and utterly.  I'll take it if you don't want it tomorrow or if nobody else responds in the next 7-8 hours.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 03:42:26 am
Ooh! Ooh! Extra time! :D Pick me! Pick me!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 21, 2009, 04:34:23 am
Looks like Demonic Spoon wants to actually play. Fine, you have the rest of the turn.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 05:02:38 am
As my parent has died under mysterious circumstances, I Demonic Spoon the II have decided to lead Sparkgear to glory! To ensure this I have drawn up plans for a great tower to appease the blood god, patron of our civilization, The Chambers of Blood! It shall be a great testament to his glory! From it's top the sacrifices shall be catapulted into his great blue maw(called by the lessers as the sky) to feed his neverending appetite. All other construction is to be halted until this is complete. Execpt for the completion of my parent's genius, the great cave river. Soon I shall be soothed by the gentle flowing of the water form my new apartments, (some guy called Brak had to be kicked out).
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 21, 2009, 05:11:29 am
... maybe I made a mistake in letting you play.
Too late now.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 05:13:15 am
Muhahaha!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 21, 2009, 06:48:56 am
Huh. It was apparently my turn all along.
Well it turned out fine. I'm away from home until quite late so go ahead and play DS.
I'll let you know once I get home. I do want to mess around the fort a bit today.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 07:47:17 am
Project Stairway to Heaven is proceeding quite nicely. Also there was a goblin ambush or something but I decided to ingore it and concentrate on more important thinghs, like refurnishing my new apartments! :D Also, have continued with another of my parent's grand visionary projects called: 'Fuck you dead poeple' with involves dropping several tonnes of solid rock down onto our crypts to ensure that they don't turn into undead and kill us in our sleep. Project Cave river is nearing completion, just a few last floodgates that need to be linked up. Also the dwarven caravan arrived or something, I gave them some goblin clothes (which I don't want to know what they want with( though i fear it's for fetishists))  for a few cats to stock that brilliant fire imp battery some sorta wise previous ruler installed. Speaking of which I'm linking the cages to a lever, soon I shall burn the world with fire!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 21, 2009, 07:50:29 am
Finish my tower?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 07:53:55 am
I predicted it would take to much time that could better be used to make a execution tower, so I canceled it, ask nahkh to do it.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 01:26:34 pm
Project Destroy Crypts was a completed, and there doesn't seem to be a tantrum spiral in the making, I name it a rousing success! The cave river project is just about complete. The Stairway to Heaven project is complete and progress on the Sparkgear Space Program is coming along nicely.

Movie of crypt destruction, this allows the same space to be used over and over for the crypts:

http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1417-destroyingoldcrypts
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 21, 2009, 01:48:57 pm
Home. Although I'm too tired to even think about playing. Take the last two hours as well.

I seriously hope Crash Stuntman wasn't alive when you crushed those tombs. What, fourteen masterworks destroyed?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 02:10:51 pm
Yup, and it would appear that he is dead

The Sparkgear Space Program seems to be ready for action, however after some testing by our noble volunteers there seems to be some kinks in the system to work out.

Attempt 1:
It appears attempt 1 is too big to  upload, and I'm too lazy to edit it, so imagine it if you will. There catapulting action did not succeed.

The last steps of the cave river are dragging along.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 02:18:23 pm
Attempt 2:

http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1418-sparkgearspaceprogram
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 02:33:50 pm
Cave River ready! All systems activate! Also, apparently, some idiot made a addition to the cave river, planned to flood the HFS or something, this let it take longer to fill the cave river.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 21, 2009, 02:45:26 pm
Crash has been dead since my last turn.  Also, I think fault planned to flood HFS (long before we found out that nothing stops them.  Nothing).  I'm assuming the Space program ended up using all of our nobles, in which case someone else gets to live in Testicle tower.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 02:49:35 pm
I'm still busy killing the baron and the hammerer actually, also, just after I activated the cave river, a dragon attacked! wooh! I ordered everyone inside and hope the dragon can survive our weapon traps and get caught in a cage trap.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 21, 2009, 02:59:45 pm
I dunno.  Dragons are pretty weak.  I've heard of one that died after hitting a stonefall trap.  If it lives, tame it and dump it in my animal pit.

Also, what's your framerate now that the cave river is in full swing?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 03:01:44 pm
Still the same, 13, and it's not in full swing, it's still busy filling and muddying the banks for a towercap farm.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 03:30:16 pm
The cave river was a complete succes, not a collossal fuckup like some poeple predicted. >:(

The save:

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1136

P.S. There seems to be the beggining of a tantrum spiral going on, nothing unsalvegable if you act fast though.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 21, 2009, 04:48:19 pm
Well, we've recovered from one tantrum spiral, we can probably take another.   Curious though, how did it start?  I thought I had engraved everyone's rooms enough to avoid unhappy thoughts (unless they really liked the nobles).

Map: http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-6151--sparkgear2
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 21, 2009, 05:46:46 pm
A dragon you say?
I hope you didn't recruit the dungeon master for the SparkGear Space Program.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 21, 2009, 11:23:32 pm
I am the dungeon master, and I believe it was the two children that accidently volunteered for the Space Program and the fact that I ordered everyone inside so they couldn't bury them.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 22, 2009, 12:20:21 pm
Looks like that elf-hugger Katsuun is a now-show.
Start her up early if you want.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 22, 2009, 12:28:24 pm
Lol, two turn after each other = fun

no man should have this power!

You pm'd katsuun?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 22, 2009, 12:37:40 pm
Hours ago. No response.
The thread was almost down to page two.


My reaction:

(http://www.poster.net/simpsons-the/simpsons-the-scream-4900914.jpg)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 22, 2009, 12:38:59 pm
Why does no one want to join in our game of madness?

I mean, I'd go again, but I'm already going in 3 days or so and I really have no ideas at this moment (aside from fixing up the gauntlet that DemonicSpoon seems to have put on hold).

How's the tantrum spiral coming, by the way?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 22, 2009, 12:39:36 pm
They are overawed by the sheer awesome.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 22, 2009, 12:43:18 pm
I guess he's just absent. Maybe he'll sign up again.
I don't know which of our monstrosities is scaring prospective players more. The mega-projects? The tantrum spirals? The FPS? The huge group of SoF's? The testicle tower?

I guess I'll sign up for one more day myself.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 22, 2009, 12:49:57 pm
Damnit, I was hoping I wouldn't need to be the one to deal with the tantrum spiral. I have no experience with these things! Even after causing several.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 22, 2009, 01:22:42 pm
Preparation. I always bling out my dining hall as much as dwarvenly possible. That seems to work.
For an ongoing one... Maybe engrave everything and make much mist?

Keeping dwarves isolated from each other is also good. But it's hard to set up if you already have a tantrum spiral going on.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: eerr on June 22, 2009, 01:26:57 pm
fortress guards take care of rioters very quick if you have prison cells.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 22, 2009, 01:30:56 pm
There seems to be a disease spreading through the peasantry, the name of this plague? Tantrumanium. Fortunately dwarven medical science is the most advanced in the world. We have long ago realized the universal ruth of medicine long ago. If there's something wrong, amputate it, or in this case catapult it into the sky! I have assigned all non essential personal to be 'volunteers' in our new space program...Why the heck won't the sqaud go up the tower? They just mill around at the bottom.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 22, 2009, 01:34:24 pm
O_o
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 22, 2009, 01:39:31 pm
Nvm, got them on the bridgeapult  ;D.

The results:

http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1420-tantrumspiralcontrol
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 22, 2009, 01:43:20 pm
Mad with power.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 22, 2009, 01:45:04 pm
And loving it  ;D

Also, this is a dwarf to my own heart, look upon her happiness during the carnage:

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/Dungeonmaster.jpg?t=1245696295)

Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 22, 2009, 01:47:22 pm
Dare I ask what god is Momuz of?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 22, 2009, 01:58:21 pm
Hehehe:

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/Slaughter.jpg?t=1245697049)

She just gets more awesome by the second:

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/DeathGod.jpg?t=1245697094)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 22, 2009, 03:03:31 pm
If you run this fort to the ground, do it with fire. I don't think anything else will wash away the filth.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 22, 2009, 03:08:51 pm
At least I can say that I did the historic event of starting the cave river.

PS: Is Barbarossa Rushedroads, "Wise Guy" still alive?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 22, 2009, 03:12:19 pm
At least I can say that I did the historic event of starting the cave river.

PS: Is Barbarossa Rushedroads, "Wise Guy" still alive?

What? I started the cave river. And a Barbarossa extreme asskicker is still alive.

Also, more amputation was neccesary:

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/Dwarf%20Fortress/Slaughter2.jpg?t=1245701529)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 22, 2009, 03:14:24 pm
WHAT?!

must have not saved... I passed it on right after I saw the first dribble of water enter the river... And I had renamed the Philosopher's profession ot Wise Guy...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 22, 2009, 03:22:37 pm
You know how you've never solved a tantrum spiral?  Well. . . actually never mind.  At least you've got a way to make sure we're done by July.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: abculatter_2 on June 22, 2009, 04:19:02 pm
YOU KILLED BRAK OBAMA!

YOU... YOU MONSTER!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nil on June 22, 2009, 10:12:50 pm
You killed the Deathbringer veterans!?  Bastardo!

The ghost of Nil will haunt you forever...  and by 'haunt' I mean 'shoot you with a damn crossbow.'  Only not really forever, just an hour or so ought to be sufficient.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 22, 2009, 11:40:00 pm
Feel the love!  ::)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 23, 2009, 06:41:45 am
You killed everyone off yet?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 23, 2009, 08:59:25 am
Hey, if nobody minds, I'm gonna start an alternate HFS ending.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 23, 2009, 12:42:04 pm
What?! Suicide ending only!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: ToonyMan on June 23, 2009, 12:47:28 pm
This fortress is crazy.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 23, 2009, 01:08:41 pm
Some of the peasants have been muttering something about killing the 'raving maniac' so I ordered Fluffy to be my bodyguard. Also, the purging continues.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 23, 2009, 03:14:15 pm
I have decided to retire to my apartments and leave the ruling of the fortress to someone else, before this turns into a full scale rebellion

Save:

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1139

P.S. It would seem there's a turn up for grabs, who will claim it? Stay tuned as we find out in the next exciting installment  of Sparkgear! We got Tantrum Spirals!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 23, 2009, 03:25:14 pm
I'll see if I can work on it later tonight, but anyone else is welcome to do it.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 24, 2009, 05:58:00 am
Well, this fort is definitely in its terminal stages.
I'll take a look at the current status once I get home from work, then either curse you all to hell and ragequit the forums, or start preparing for SparkGear Balboa.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: RavingManiac on June 24, 2009, 08:07:27 am
Some of the peasants have been muttering something about killing the 'raving maniac'

:(
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 24, 2009, 08:13:03 am
...the other raving maniac ;)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 24, 2009, 04:46:25 pm
I'm still working on a proper ending to Sparkgear.  A non-suicide one.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 25, 2009, 01:20:41 am
Ah all is well then.
When I got home I was like "OMG NO INTERNETS. I gotta let them know I'm not online. Wait."
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: ToonyMan on June 25, 2009, 11:08:35 am
Ah all is well then.
When I got home I was like "OMG NO INTERNETS. I gotta let them know I'm not online. Wait."

You don't have any internet?!  I'll fix that just listen to my advice.

*talk* *talk* *talk* *advicing* *advicing* *blarg*
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 25, 2009, 11:42:14 am
Woah, that's some great advice ToonyMan.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: ToonyMan on June 25, 2009, 11:44:31 am
nahkh should be able to use the internet now, watch.  I'm amazing with my talking skills.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 25, 2009, 11:54:47 am
They're at legendary I assume?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: ToonyMan on June 25, 2009, 11:58:08 am
Legendary +∞
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 25, 2009, 01:29:33 pm
Nope, can't read that ToonyMan.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: ToonyMan on June 25, 2009, 02:15:03 pm
Ah shucks.

*teleports away*
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 25, 2009, 05:31:48 pm
So, how's the fort holding up, crash?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 25, 2009, 06:56:14 pm
I left the accidentally left the save at work, so it's going to be some time before I can get back on it.  It sucks too.  I was nearly done setting up.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nil on June 25, 2009, 08:14:39 pm
so now what?

woah there are a lot of bodies in this save..
glad to hear I don't have to deal with that mess...
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: crash2455 on June 26, 2009, 12:16:33 am
Okay, I got the save back.  It turns out I had three different saves on my flash drive.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*inquire within*) (NSFW, language)
Post by: nahkh on June 26, 2009, 06:11:59 pm
I'm officially declaring this fortress to be no longer active. Crash, feel free to take as long as you like cleaning up the map, then upload the save for posteriority.

I'll be posting plans for SG3 tomorrow.

Post site requests here!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: crash2455 on June 26, 2009, 06:52:49 pm
Yeah, I've finished the gauntlet, but now I've discovered I need something to lure the stupid SoF down it.  Hopefully I'll be done before tonight.

I'd suggest Dig Deeper to give us a bit of variety, but it tends to be unwinnable once you get to around 30 dwarves.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: ArkDelgato on June 26, 2009, 06:55:14 pm
A major river would be fun.

Like one of the 16 tile wide rivers.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: nahkh on June 27, 2009, 03:29:33 am
Au contraire, mon ami. Dig Deeper is totally playable. All you need is a nice army sized trap for the orcs. Also, it tends to keep the dwarf population down to manageable levels, which should do wonders FPS-wise.



EDIT: SG3 is now open for registration.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: Heron TSG on June 27, 2009, 09:08:21 am
We should get one of them HUEG waterfalls.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 27, 2009, 09:59:41 am
I demand update!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: crash2455 on June 27, 2009, 03:24:37 pm
Ah, I thought that Orcs had trapavoid.  Are you talking about something like a drawbridge over lava?

Also, I should be posting the final fate of SG2 soon.  It was a lot less epic than I anticipated, as SoF aren't really that motivated.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: nahkh on June 27, 2009, 03:35:53 pm
Yeah they probably looked over the remains of the fort and were like "Bitch please."

But orcs do have trapavoid. I was thinking of a floodable maze or something.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: crash2455 on June 27, 2009, 05:08:57 pm
Video (kinda lame): http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1490-theendofsg2

Narrative (slightly less lame)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also, some final pictures of the fort:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: ToonyMan on June 27, 2009, 05:20:16 pm
SoF are my favorite demons too.  Why so lame SoF?!
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on June 28, 2009, 01:15:32 am
Hey! I executed all the Deathbringers! Why'd you have to go and ressurect all the dead poeple? That's always trouble that is.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: crash2455 on June 28, 2009, 03:19:09 pm
I didn't resurrect them so much as I completely ignored your ending.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: Urist is dead tome on December 11, 2010, 04:52:53 pm
Is this fort still open for volunteers?
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: nil on December 11, 2010, 05:42:02 pm
heh well the last post was a year and a half ago and there were at least 7 new sparkgears after it, so not really. ;)

Check out http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=70344.150 , it looks like it's trending towards defunctness but it was ran by the same Sparkgear rules and was active just a couple weeks ago.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: Urist is dead tome on December 11, 2010, 06:13:10 pm
Ya didn't have to make me look stupid. Although frankly I walked right into that one.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: nil on December 11, 2010, 08:10:34 pm
no insult intended!  we've all been there once or twice.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on December 11, 2010, 08:20:45 pm
Actually, there were about twelve SG's after this one.
Title: Re: SparkGear 2 - Balls of Steel (*deader than a ... something really dead*)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on December 12, 2010, 05:08:40 am
Ahahaha! Anyway the save is still here somewhere so feel free to play it.