METALFRILLS
So the idea is we are going to do a succession game using the artifact quality LFR mod ( http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=84186.2640 ), but with one big change. Farming is undwarvenly and thus is modded out - if you want food you go outside and gather or trade for it. No more cowering underground like rock elves when sieges arrive, no more feeding 200 dorfs with a 4x4 plot and 2 farmers, no more leaving your caravan friends to die because you have infinite everything.
EASY MODE HAS BEEN DEACTIVATED. Also:
- LFR adds tons of goodies and baddies
- Cavern civilization attacks have been added (I think)
- More Mischief, more Buildingdestroyer, more Thiefing
- Pissed off wildlife
Current turn order is (I think)
1 - ^_^
2 - Megaman3321
3 - GreatWyrmGold
4 - Scruffy
5 - katana
6 - Man of Paper
7 - Imp
...
Year 1 o_O post1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=117853.msg3711065#msg3711065) | post2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=117853.msg3716395#msg3716395)
Positions still open! Dorfs still open! Lets see what happens, or die trying.
I'm taking a peek at the save, but I suspect that it was properly uploaded.
DF save folders are now huge.
If you look at the first 10 saves on wimbli's community games page, you'll see that though a couple are around 10 MB in size, the rest range between 30-40 MB, and several ARE in their first years of play, just like ours.... this save is 38.7 MB
Most of that size relates to the size of world during world gen - it's all there in that file. The smaller the world, the easier all future passing around of that file will be.
But I'm curious now, and I'll confirm that I can open the save or not, and if it actually IS larger than it has to be, I'll re-upload it in the smallest playable form I know how to give it.
Edited to add - Yes, we have no bananas.
Here's the trimmed save - note it's still 28.4 MB
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=7083
To use it - unzip it and place it into ANY 0.34.11 DF saved games folder. Note the file is currently called region4 - if you HAVE a region4 save already, rename one of them or save over your old one and lose it.
You do not need to have the LFR mod of DF running to play the save properly - just to create new games as LFR games. What WILL be different are any unusal init settings, as well as any specific graphics... Speaking of which, here's what two screenshots look like from the save currently, viewed with the graphics set used in LFR -
(http://i49.tinypic.com/30jqhwo.png)
(http://i50.tinypic.com/akjs.png)
Have fun with it! Cant wait to read our further adventures.
Any word, Golden?
edited to add: oh yeah, I have the save still, so I can give a (hopefully out of date) bunch of info to Man of Paper about his dorf:
(http://i48.tinypic.com/2po3x4l.png)
That was current as of when the save passed hands.
1.Go to your save folder, right click on the metalfrills folder, choose 7-zip and compress (i think its called that. I'm explaining from the top of my head)
Offering an alternate method, because my computer handles compression and uploads differently and Scruffy's method could not be followed exactly on my system:
Left click once on your saved game to select it (like you would if you wanted to rename the folder), then right click on it. You'll see a list of options:
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2rf78cg.png)
select 'add to archive'. You'll see a couple more choices:
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2w5pqna.png)
You have the option to rename the compressed file-to-be and choose between a zip or a rar format, and a few other choices that I've never toggled. The new compressed file is created in the same folder with its parent.
So your system's method might vary, but hopefully similar enough to Scruffy or my comps to help!