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Hey all,

Outside of windmills and water wheels, as well as all the fancy things you can do with them..Are there any fancy power generation methods beyond those two?

Thanks 

I see people often branch into three group:

Group 1:
Those that want elves dead. Like the vanilla graphics. Like the clunky AI. Are sometimes snobby about the idea of how !FUN! they make the game for them self.

Group 2:

Those that see elves as a previously under developed group, and having been developed further, should be treated more fairly. Like to use several mods for more convenient gamplay. Think the abstraction of !FUN! more as a lack of existing features.

Group 3:

People who keep fix bugs and make mods.

If you had a name for these three groups, what would they be? Which group do you think you are most likely associated with, and what other groups have you noticed?

Hey all, I was wondering if after sending a group on a mission, if nothing is found, does that mean just they aren稚 good enough to find?

If you send them more than once, with better skills, will they find more likely?

It would be nice for designation or selection tools such as the k (view) icon to change colors if it passes over a similair colored tile. Especially up/down stairs.

Trying to view things on my large set of sand up/down staircases is pretty much impossible.

I don't know what's getting into people lately, but there's been a lot of threads about stagnant doomed dwarf fortress lately...

Where the hell is this coming from?

There's been times when DF hasn't recieved an update in well over a year! Ever since world activation, Toady has been active and updating DF at rates that most mod developers couldn't hope to keep up with.

Multi threading, x64, FPS death...All of issue with this stuff is pretty much mitigated if you're using a 1/2 decent desktop, and by the time we're in a spot to where decent desktops of today can't  run dwarf fortress of tomorrow, we'll probably have quantum computers by then and much bigger things to worry about...

Yes I admit, my craptop cannot play Dwarf Fortress past year 5 without some tricks. But that thing can't run 4/5ths of the old games from the early 2000's anyhow. My desktop though is 7 years old and have had virtually no problems. The user interface I'm aware is ugly, but by no means does it break the game.

The community is alive, Toady is very actively releasing updates, the game runs on almost any desktop, donations have been decently high over last year. This game has virtually no death symptoms from my previous experience with indie games (TONS of failed indie games, thanks steam Greenlight). Maybe America elections got people stirred up idk.

Do any players have reasonable agreement to games imminent damnation, or is this just an influx of randomly panicking escaped lunatics? Am I maybe turning blind eye to a bigger problem?

Hey all,

I'm playing with a Dnd group in the campaign Oota (out of the abyss 5e).
The DM isn't bad and we've only had a couple sessions, but I feel like I'm not really 'soaking in' the world like I should be. I understand mechanics well, but I have a really hard time roleplaying. I can't help but think of the NPCs as talking experience points that I have to keep pushing until they leak information.

What are some ways that help you engage in the world without feeling like you're pushing some agenda or initiative to progress things forward, and instead really feel like your being present? Everytime I do something with the environment, I feel like I'm just trying to nod some sort of quirk my character has and not truely interacting.

(I've only played dnd once through the campaign of mines of phandelver, so roleplaying isn't something I do often)

Hey all, I'm trying to make books but I can quite diagnose the issue.

I have the following in my library:
1. 2 Scholars
2. 2 Scribes
3. A stockpile with codices, paper materials, scroll rollers etc
4. 3 bags
5. A bookshelf
6. 2 tables and 4 chairs

My scribes though are not readers and writers, is that an issue?

I just hope I have the setup right and I don't just wait here for eternity expecting something when really I'm missing a key ingredient. Maybe if someone can tell me what those (desired) and other numbers are on the page that'd be helpful.

Like I said, I have a stockpile in there, and some EMPTY bags, but it doesn't say I have writing materials in the room (even though they are in the stockpile).

Hey guys,

I'm playing Masterwork Reborn, and I'm aware that this build in particular is light on the sieges, but I'm getting no biters whatsoever.
No thieves, no assaults, no beasts/titans, and I made sure to have a gigantic array of evil/do bad neighbors. Oddly enough, I set frogmen to civilized, and almost all of the civilized races I preset have visited me. There's been no FUN for the ~4 years my fort aside from me (out of desperation and dwarven righteousness) killing elven caravans.

This is the age of myth too, so I'd have thought something would have come by now, heck even a thief of some sort...Population of 60something, around 200k wealth.

Edit: Hmm, about a month ago another person seems to be having the same issue. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=150974.0