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So, I recruited the president twice, and had two of the same president. That doesn't seem right...
I'll never accept the compliments of an Heretical worshiper of Chaos!...fuck
EDIT: Well, I suppose that counts as both my biggest regret and as the most hilarious thing I've done then
Read the entire thing then your Family Guy-esque reaction. Priceless, good ol' one liner "...fuck" is an awesome punchline on it's own, at least to me it is (reason I've watched Family Guy seasons uncensored).
...fuckMore a sad story than a moment of remorse : A month ago I made myself a new character; A human male who loved a good fight, but wasn't all that much interested in killing random people for fun, preferring a true challenge to a simplistic murder. I then recruited a random guy who worked for the local lord, and by talking to him, I soon realized he had almost the same attitude and morals. We quickly became friend, and we traveled the world far and wide, looking for strong opponents to challenge. He saved my life a few times, killing enemies who were about to deal me a lethal blow and preventing goblins and bandits from ambushing us during the night. One day, as we were invading a dark fortress so that we could challenge the demon living in it, we were having the time of our lifes; We laughed in joy as the demon proved to be a greater challenge then anything we had seen before. As I was about to deal the final blow, the fiend threw a spear to my friend, piercing his chest. Thinking it was nothing he couldn't survive (He had once been badly beaten up by a Bronze Colossus and survived without any lasting damage after all), I ended the monster, and went to help him back on his feet.Unless his left lung was also destroyed, he would have survived perfectly fine. I'm pretty sure you completely unnecessarily killed them.
I then realized he was dying. Rushing to his side, I saw that the spear had gone right through his steel breastplate and had punctured his right lung. I could do nothing as he struggled for air, and as he looked up at me, I knew that he would never allow himself to die like this. Offering him a more honorable (And quick) death, I stabbed him in the neck, mangling his spinal cord and making sure his death would be painless. A few minutes after he passed away, I decided to butcher him.
To this day (It's been many months in-game since it happened), I carry his skull in my backpack, defeating stronger and stronger opponents. I feel bad about not bringing him back to his family sometimes, but he was a warrior : He wouldn't have wanted to be buried in a cemetery, to be forgotten in a few generation; He would have wanted to be carried in battle, so that his afterlife could be spent doing what he liked the most : Fighting
To be honest, I can understand them not wanting to recruit people who have a history of mental health issues, considering the issues veterans already typically have with things like depression and ptsd.So can I, but the 'why' of that was...interesting.
I was just told that I couldn't get in the Armed Forces because I had a depression a few years ago.Wait, that's a reason not to get in?
Damn, that's rather not-nice. What country are you in?
My ability to sweep everything under the rug and having a near-perfect ability to act happy is the only reason I even have friends. The only time I've ever taken that facade down, all I got was disgust, pity, and contempt. I don't want any of that, least of all pity. So, I leave when I have to, and make sure what I actually think and feel never comes to light.
Due to a modding error, I once got sieged by an army of toads lead by a pyromancer. Not toadmen, not giant toads, but toads. The kind cats murder.I am currently being sieged by a large force that will no doubt kill all of my dwarves, consisting of...I was once besiged by a single goblin who was stuck in a tree surrounded by war dogs.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
It was funny.
Especially after the woodcutter got there.
If you don't like the interactivity of the game in its current state, stick around a year or so, and the next major version might have the ability to really influence the world through the capacity to actually build major structures or build up towns wherever you go.
If that still seems a little shallow for you, pop by a year later, and who knows, maybe we'll have merchants by then.
It seems like a glacial pace up close, but if you keep coming back to DF over the years, and remember where it was when you first walked in, you'll be pretty amazed at how far it's come.
That said, Toady has a habit of creating content that depends upon mechanics he hasn't built yet to make any sort of sense so that there's zero game balance. (For example, cows require large pastures to graze and give a tiny amount of milk, but poultry disgorges eggs at a rate high enough to feed your whole fortress on a couple species of bird eggs alone without requiring any food to survive...) Try not to mind the giant "Under Construction" signs while you explore.
