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« on: December 05, 2008, 08:54:32 pm »
First things first, I'm not really a newb. I know how to work everything and I understand the ASCII art perfectly. That's not really the problem. The problem is is that I'm just stuck. I don't know what I should do. For the past couple of days or so, I've been looking for the perfect spot. To me, a perfect spot is a spot that is at least 50% mountains, has a magma pool, a brook but it's in the corner of the screen, no aquifers, and plenty of trees. And today, I have finally found that spot. But I don't know what to do. I don't know how I should design my fort. Honestly, I've never really worked with magma before and I don't know how to utilize it to it's fullest extent. It just seems like I hit a road block or something.
So first off, let me describe my fortress. There's a small brook at the top left of my screen by a small patch of mountains. Go down a little bit and that's where all my trees and soil is. It covers probably about 40 percent of the map. In the middle-right lays my magma pool. Go down past that a little bit lays the face of the main mountainside. It covers about 55 percent of the map. Any ideas of how I should design my fortress?
