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Title: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Logen910 on February 02, 2012, 02:59:33 pm
So what would you do or give away to receive a final version of Dwarf Fortress? :)

I would conquer HFS on my own in real life :D
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: MonkeyHead on February 02, 2012, 03:00:37 pm
I am quite looking forward to the next 20 or 30 years or so of developmental madness, iron chair eggs and all.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Mike Mayday on February 02, 2012, 03:46:44 pm
You mean Slaves to Armok II?
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Vlad on February 02, 2012, 03:46:58 pm
I would sell my soul to Toady for the final version.  :D
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Logen910 on February 02, 2012, 03:48:36 pm
You mean Slaves to Armok II?
Yes ;)
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Mike Mayday on February 02, 2012, 03:56:13 pm
So by final version you mean a game that meets all the goals lifted in the devlogs and has no serious bugs?
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Logen910 on February 02, 2012, 04:04:33 pm
So by final version you mean a game that meets all the goals lifted in the devlogs and has no serious bugs?

By final version i mean the very last version Toady One will release, a future release coming in the next 10 to 30 years.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Mike Mayday on February 02, 2012, 04:05:47 pm
What if it comes much earlier than that?
And you mean, what would I give to receive it NOW? With or without checking it out first?
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Aspgren on February 02, 2012, 04:11:29 pm
I would kiss an elf.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Logen910 on February 02, 2012, 04:16:35 pm
What if it comes much earlier than that?
And you mean, what would I give to receive it NOW? With or without checking it out first?

If it comes much earlier than that, i guess Toady gets run over by a bus or something similar  ;D
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Yoink on February 02, 2012, 04:18:37 pm
I'd... Rather wait until the game's actually finished. ???
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Mike Mayday on February 02, 2012, 04:20:37 pm
What if it comes much earlier than that?
And you mean, what would I give to receive it NOW? With or without checking it out first?
If it comes much earlier than that, i guess Toady gets run over by a bus or something similar  ;D

Or ends the project to start Armok III.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Azated on February 02, 2012, 04:22:26 pm
I'd buy a time machine, go forward in time, play the game, come back, tell everyone what it was like, and then watch how toady updates the game to coincide with my message from the future.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Logen910 on February 02, 2012, 04:26:37 pm
What if it comes much earlier than that?
And you mean, what would I give to receive it NOW? With or without checking it out first?
If it comes much earlier than that, i guess Toady gets run over by a bus or something similar  ;D

Or ends the project to start Armok III.

So, what is your point?

Btw, will you update you tileset for the coming release? It is really my favourite tileset so far.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Mike Mayday on February 02, 2012, 05:37:39 pm
What if it comes much earlier than that?
And you mean, what would I give to receive it NOW? With or without checking it out first?
If it comes much earlier than that, i guess Toady gets run over by a bus or something similar  ;D

Or ends the project to start Armok III.

So, what is your point?

That my answer is: that depends on what the final version will be like.

Quote
Btw, will you update you tileset for the coming release? It is really my favourite tileset so far.

Thank you! I will certainly update it.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: mnjiman on February 02, 2012, 08:46:59 pm
I would pay 80 bucks.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: janglur on February 02, 2012, 09:06:16 pm
I would dig an underground hole under my own house and tunnel beneath my ISP to leach internet and electricity, and grow underground plants and live down there like a true dwarf, just so I could keep it entirely secret that I have it.

So, basically same thing as right now.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Jimmitheking on February 02, 2012, 09:40:50 pm
i would....
Oh, nevermind i forgot....
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: freeformschooler on February 02, 2012, 09:41:33 pm
I would slide down a flaming pole using only my crotch while dodging spinning blade traps and reading/participating in Internet arguments on Fox News' website.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Lumix on February 02, 2012, 09:43:29 pm
Nothing.

I would rather the slow gradual releases that it has.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: nighzmarquls on February 02, 2012, 11:45:56 pm
Wait until it is done.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Gatleos on February 03, 2012, 01:40:15 am
Give up a Klondike bar.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Gotdamnmiracle on February 03, 2012, 10:06:33 am
A whole shiny new nickel.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: terkiey on February 03, 2012, 11:01:38 am
I would get lashed by a whip once.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Angel Of Death on February 03, 2012, 11:05:23 am
I would stick a certain part of my body into a fire ant nest.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Gotdamnmiracle on February 03, 2012, 11:37:46 am
Take a hamstone style beatin'.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Loud Whispers on February 03, 2012, 03:12:08 pm
Drink Coca Cola whilst eating mentos.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Jimmitheking on February 03, 2012, 05:14:43 pm
i would eat mushroom cookies...
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on February 03, 2012, 05:33:45 pm
I would take the most obvious route: Invent a stable time loop creator! ("Time Machine.") (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExpospeakGag)
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Logen910 on February 03, 2012, 05:58:50 pm
I have another one: Bring cryogenics to perfection so I don't have to wait for a new release anylonger.  :D
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Jelle on February 03, 2012, 06:45:19 pm
I'd grow a beard n stache and braid them!
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on February 03, 2012, 07:59:24 pm
Hang on, did my post get deleted?
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on February 04, 2012, 11:55:32 am
I'd eat a bowl of nails for breakfast.

...Without milk.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: YetAnotherStupidDorf on February 06, 2012, 05:55:45 pm
Drink Coca Cola whilst eating mentos.
For some reason (maybe salivia?) it is actually safe. I did it many times, not knowing this (in)famous youtube video.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Loud Whispers on February 06, 2012, 06:03:21 pm
Drink Coca Cola whilst eating mentos.
For some reason (maybe salivia?) it is actually safe. I did it many times, not knowing this (in)famous youtube video.
+formaldehyde
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on February 06, 2012, 06:50:13 pm
I would stick it in my own pooper.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: magistrate101 on February 06, 2012, 07:05:24 pm
I would kiss an elf.
In reality, I might do that if I get DF or not... They may be hippies, but I'll be damned if elves aren't cute... (http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-swoon.gif)
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Paranatural on February 06, 2012, 11:43:08 pm
Go to Toady's funeral and be sad :(
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: !!crundle!! on February 07, 2012, 02:08:38 am
I would give my soul to Toady.

And then I would an elf.

Whatever it takes.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: FearfulJesuit on February 07, 2012, 02:37:27 pm
Sounds less disgusting than a dwarf, actually. Elf girls don't have beards and, you know, probably have some standard of hygeine.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: YetAnotherStupidDorf on February 07, 2012, 02:41:25 pm
Sounds less disgusting than a dwarf, actually. Elf girls don't have beards and, you know, probably have some standard of hygeine.
Canonically, female dwarves also do not have beards. And about hygiene... *looks at covering of random dwarf* uh, I have suddenly something to do elsewhere.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Logen910 on February 07, 2012, 03:06:52 pm
Dwarven rule #125: "A dwarf is only as clean as his fort"
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Tuonelan renki on February 07, 2012, 03:21:04 pm
And about hygiene... *looks at covering of random dwarf* uh, I have suddenly something to do elsewhere.

I'm sure they have some sort of Eau de Plump Helmet for courtship purposes.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Gatleos on February 07, 2012, 03:29:46 pm
Clearly all dwarves are blind, and navigate through smell by covering themselves and their forts with layers of contaminants.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Oliolli on February 07, 2012, 04:22:06 pm
Clearly all dwarves are blind, and navigate through smell by covering themselves and their forts with layers of contaminants.

*Sniff sniff*
"Not 'ere, there's vomit there, and sunlight..."
*Sniff sniff*
"Wot wos this again..?"
*Grabs, smells and tastes odd substance*
"Ah yes, that stuff that rots yer arms off!"

Wait, if dwarves can't see, then why don't eyeless siege operators run away from bad guys?
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Name Lips on February 07, 2012, 04:28:53 pm
The question confuses me. Are we assuming there will ever be a "final" version of DF?
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Gotdamnmiracle on February 07, 2012, 05:44:16 pm
Watch ALL of the matrix movies, maybe even the animatrix, If I survive that is...
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Loud Whispers on February 08, 2012, 03:33:41 pm
Clearly all dwarves are blind, and navigate through smell by covering themselves and their forts with layers of contaminants.

*Sniff sniff*
"Not 'ere, there's vomit there, and sunlight..."
*Sniff sniff*
"Wot wos this again..?"
*Grabs, smells and tastes odd substance*
"Ah yes, that stuff that rots yer arms off!"

Wait, if dwarves can't see, then why don't eyeless siege operators run away from bad guys?

Covered in too much blood-can't smell anything :P

Also, goblins actually smell quite nicely of Hyacinth's and dead cats.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Jimmy T. Malice on February 09, 2012, 01:50:10 pm
I have a feeling that when Dwarf Fortress is finally finished, it'll be an accurate simulation of dwarven life right down to the last atom and xxpig tail fiber sockxx.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: peskyninja on February 09, 2012, 02:10:32 pm
Fools! Stop this madness while you can! DF will be self-aware in the future and it will purge all humans!
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Oliolli on February 09, 2012, 02:24:54 pm
I have a feeling that when Dwarf Fortress is finally finished, it'll be an accurate simulation of dwarven life right down to the last atom and xxpig tail fiber sockxx.

It will be a perfect simulation, down to the quantum level.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: cybergon on February 09, 2012, 03:42:09 pm
I would bone Jessica Alba.

It's a little sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: davros on February 09, 2012, 07:45:21 pm
Read John Galt's speech.
My soul would spend the rest of its tortured existence in agony, but it would be totally worth it.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: MaskedMiner on February 09, 2012, 11:25:00 pm
I have a feeling that when Dwarf Fortress is finally finished, it'll be an accurate simulation of dwarven life right down to the last atom and xxpig tail fiber sockxx.

It will be a perfect simulation, down to the quantum level.

Don't forget genetics, dwarven everyday drama and realistic emotions and universe.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Uthric on February 10, 2012, 12:22:59 am
you do know that when DF is DONE that we will not know it right?


because by that point it will be are new reality, and we will have forgotten that it was created and has not forever been.


 
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Oliolli on February 10, 2012, 01:59:46 am
Virtual reality pods to play DF :D
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Krantz86 on February 10, 2012, 05:43:24 pm
i think that when DF is done...
DF will play a game about us in a virtual reality pod thinking that we need an update to our raws
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: TalonisWolf on October 19, 2013, 11:58:22 pm
Dedicate my life to making dwarves perpetual machines reality, driving my to become insane and start a tantrum spiral which would bring about Nuclear Destruction of the world...while my clone enjoys the game in a underground bunker fortress, mandating random stuff to keep my bunker staff of midgets busy,etc.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Torchy on October 21, 2013, 04:00:06 am
No matter what the rest of you post, the craziest and most ambitious answer is the only one someone's actually doing

Making it
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: ICBM pilot on November 05, 2013, 03:48:04 am
I would donate my soul to toady.(actually I would do that any way)
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Bralbaard on November 06, 2013, 01:05:06 am
So what would you do or give away to receive a final version of Dwarf Fortress? :)

I would conquer HFS on my own in real life :D

I wouldn't want the final version. I somehow lose interest in games when I know they are abandoned an there is no further development. It would annoy me to know that version would be it, and no improvements would ever be made.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Mesa on November 06, 2013, 01:08:02 am
So what would you do or give away to receive a final version of Dwarf Fortress? :)

I would conquer HFS on my own in real life :D

I wouldn't want the final version. I somehow lose interest in games when I know they are abandoned an there is no further development. It would annoy me to know that version would be it, and no improvements would ever be made.


But, didn't Toady say that the development of DF may as well never end and that it'll never be truly complete?
I might be and probably am wrong, but I did hear something like this.


What would we even define as a 1.0, anyway?
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: DarkArtemisFowl on November 06, 2013, 01:38:23 pm
Maybe when the updates actually hit 1.0. We're up to 0.34 right now. Only twenty more years to go.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Putnam on November 08, 2013, 07:04:59 pm
So what would you do or give away to receive a final version of Dwarf Fortress? :)

I would conquer HFS on my own in real life :D

I wouldn't want the final version. I somehow lose interest in games when I know they are abandoned an there is no further development. It would annoy me to know that version would be it, and no improvements would ever be made.


But, didn't Toady say that the development of DF may as well never end and that it'll never be truly complete?
I might be and probably am wrong, but I did hear something like this.


What would we even define as a 1.0, anyway?

1.0 is when Toady's list of items for 1.0 (mentioned here (http://www.bay12games.com/media/df_talk_14_transcript.html) (under the "werewolves" segment, right after Capntastic says "cross your fingers!") is done. You can access an (outdated, mind) version of this list here (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_single.html).

If I use my interpretation of the old dev list, the next release is going to be 0.41.01, maybe 0.42.01. Neat.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Humdilla on November 10, 2013, 11:14:40 pm
When DF is done, we will be capable of transferring our consciousness into the game via adventure mode character creation. We can then live on after death in the DF simulation/game. Toady will have, by then, transferred his own consciousness into some sort of AI being secretly developed by himself. He will then oversee us forever with the title: Benevolent God of the Toads. The future's lookin' pretty sweet.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: PDF urist master on November 11, 2013, 06:44:08 pm
what if he becomes the malevolent gob of armok?
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Armok on November 11, 2013, 11:22:39 pm
When DF is done, we will be capable of transferring our consciousness into the game via adventure mode character creation. We can then live on after death in the DF simulation/game. Toady will have, by then, transferred his own consciousness into some sort of AI being secretly developed by himself. He will then oversee us forever with the title: Benevolent God of the Toads. The future's lookin' pretty sweet.
"My little Dwarf: Losing is Optimal"
(see if anyone get's THAT reference. No, it's not (directly) to MLP:FiM)
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Zorbeltuss on November 14, 2013, 07:52:45 am
I would pray to Armok for Toadys and Threetoes eternal life and eternal interest,  so that there wouldn't be a final version, if that goes bad my hopes are that it will become open source at that point, but i'd definatly want Toady and Threetoe Immortal regardless, so they can dwell like the dragons over lesser game developers for eternity.

/Zorbeltuss
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Arbinire on November 14, 2013, 10:03:08 am
When DF is done, we will be capable of transferring our consciousness into the game via adventure mode character creation. We can then live on after death in the DF simulation/game. Toady will have, by then, transferred his own consciousness into some sort of AI being secretly developed by himself. He will then oversee us forever with the title: Benevolent God of the Toads. The future's lookin' pretty sweet.

I dunno how I feel about that.  Permadeath is bad enough IRL, don't know if I'd like my life tied to a DF generated one :P.  Sometimes they get pretty brutal
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: 20firebird on November 15, 2013, 06:14:35 pm
Nothing; playing it would cause my weak mortal brain to explode (not to mention the hell it would do to my computer).
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: MeTekillot on November 15, 2013, 09:16:20 pm
One day, decades in the future, I'm going to jack into my computer terminal and browse the extra-web. A notification from one of my children will invite me to their wedding and right below that, I'll receive an email notification of dwarf fortress's final release. I will be missing the wedding.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Urist_McSwitzer on November 22, 2013, 06:17:17 am
One day, decades in the future, I'm going to jack into my computer terminal and browse the extra-web. A notification from one of my children will invite me to their wedding and right below that, I'll receive an email notification of dwarf fortress's final release. I will be missing the wedding.
Your comment, sir, is the very definition of devotion and awesomeness.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Icefire2314 on November 23, 2013, 12:26:07 pm
I would kiss an elf.

Whoa whoa whoa, I understand we all want it (and by want I mean lustfully desire it) but let's be careful lest Toady Armok smite us with his own fist.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: tonnot98 on October 16, 2014, 10:07:23 pm
I would kiss an elf.

Whoa whoa whoa, I understand we all want it (and by want I mean lustfully desire it) but let's be careful lest Toady Armok smite us with his own fist.
Who wouldn't want to kiss an elf?

I mean sure, we are politically inclined to want to slaughter them, but they do have some very fine women that they bring as merchants. (They're especially portrayed very well in most fan-art made by people...)
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: StagnantSoul on October 16, 2014, 10:14:08 pm
I'd swear off killing elves for a year. And give him every last one of my artifacts, all the way from the turkey bone sceptre, up to the slade war hammer.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: dwarf_reform on October 17, 2014, 07:05:54 pm
If DF hit its final version in my lifetime (it won't, but the grandson of Toady's adopted son from Nigeria will complete the game in 2058.. He adopts the Nigerian in 2023 and names him Tarnmok, if anyone was curious..) I'd like to cast off my obligations and loved ones, move to a deserted island that has a five-star hut resplendent with solar power, and just play DF for the rest of my time (about 18 years, give or take 10..)..
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: codyorr on October 17, 2014, 09:49:45 pm
Fools! Stop this madness while you can! DF will be self-aware in the future and it will purge all humans!
I keep the picture of "Terminator 2 introduction with Dwarf faces overlapped" on my wall over my monitor.
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Minepow2 on October 17, 2014, 10:21:18 pm
I would become one of many Slaves to Armok, of course!  Anything for my beloved Dwarf Fortress. 
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: miauw62 on October 18, 2014, 06:48:35 am
I would wait 15 years to get version 1 :V (that's my estimate based on progress so far, increased slightly to account for bugfixes)
Title: Re: What would you do to get the final release of DF?
Post by: Illogical_Blox on October 18, 2014, 08:50:43 am
I'd... Rather wait until the game's actually finished. ???
I'd rather wait too! I like the progress - its why I also like MineCraft.