Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Topics - Zwerg

Pages: [1]
1
I still don't get it, beside Sites that get abandoned and more quests chances in Adventurer Mode, what are the differences you actually get to feel (mainly in fortress mode)?

2
DF General Discussion / Dwarf Fortress should have more Gunpowder
« on: October 26, 2012, 05:05:24 pm »
Sometimes I read comments of people who totally dislike the idea of having Gunpowder. WHY? Explosives/gunpowder are IMO worth a long discussion and I couldn't find one (link?). I see huge possiblities. I'm not that creative so I just say what comes to my mind:

Gunpowder for cannons, simple rifles and explosives. You can actually blast a hole into the earth or into you Fortress aswell. Finally a way to break in certain places (like a magma pipe) without a Dwarf. And FUn Fun FUN! I know it could make things to easy (like fighting armies and monster) but think about it to be difficult to handle and only long installed fuses can blast in the distance.

Explosives are generic to any kind of game like DF in some way or another, so why are these things are still missing and seldom spoken about?


3
I'm not shure where to post this. Anyway here is my little story: In my time playing Dwarf Fortress I have used many different tilesets but never was totally satisfied. Actually these days I always want to use the old fashioned, rough looking original curses_640x300. The problem is, of course I have to zoom in so much ingame that the tiles become so blurry that my eyes can't take it for long. I've gone through the tileset repository and tried out many versions but they either lag the genuineness of the original, or they are square, which I started to dislike.

I tried to make a scaled up version on my own but soon realised that this is not that easy. My knowledge of graphics or editing pictures is too slightly and I ended up having stripes where they shouldn't be or the tiles weren't sharp enough. I guess my only chance is to draw every pixel of it on my own. But before I start a project like this I'd rather ask If anybody had the same idea before and found a way. Maybe there is even a simple way that I didn't know about.

Too make it short: I'd like to see a large version (around 175%-200%) of the original curses_640x300. Sharp and not to distinguish from the original. I really would appreciate it.

4
Hi,

I want to play a little bit of 40d again, but realised soon that the last version got a big amount of bugs, like the crippled Adventurer mode for example. So does anyone know the last version with the best functionality.

Thanks in advance

Pages: [1]