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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / When it rains, it pours...
« on: November 26, 2012, 09:54:38 pm »
On my 4th or 5th fortress now and it went absolutely splendid. 270+ population, over 1.4M wealth, huge, sprawling fortress chugging along at ~40 FPS... regardless of what I'm about to tell you happened next, I am was very proud of this fortress. My one and only gripe in this playthrough is that there wasn't a whole lot of Fun being thrown my way, so I did what any self-respecting dwarf does... I go look for it. I found some in the caverns and that definitely started spicing things up. But I'm sitting here thinking, "Wow, nearly 1.5 mill wealth, I've gotta be attra..." <Sassafrass the Unpronouncable the Dragon> has arrived! *gasp* Me first dragon! Zounds! Raise the alarm, bring in the hounds and set the children loose! Er, maybe do that the other way around.
Long story short, I end up with one dead dragon, 12 dead dwarves, and one completely incinerated mass storage area! But hey, I survived! So what killed my fortress?
Well, just as my dwarves get back from their dragon encounter, licking wounds and dead-in-arms, a posionous cloud-breathing Forgotten Beast from below shows up. *sigh* Send more dwarves in (I started with a military of ~100, but I'm still a noobtard, so the only dwarves with impressive skills were in the 8-10 level range and most of them died fighting the dragon.)
Somehow, miraculously, I manage to kill this toxic fuck bag with minimal losses. So what killed my fortress?
Well, just as my dwarves get back from their forgotten beast encounter, still wiping dragon blood off them, I started getting spam that children everywhere in the fortress are "randomly" dropping dead from suffocation! What in the f'ing H?! So I zoom to one, and it jumps to my hospital where the dwarves who survived the dragon encounter are unconscious and recovering. And littering the floor around them is a pile of their suffocated children who were waiting for mommy and daddy to wake up from the dragon attack (or the Forgotten Beast attack now, whatever.) And standing over this horrific pile of dwarf-chub is a cackling, vengeful ghost, just daring another dwarf to enter this death-hospital; one of my own who slipped through the cracks. Maybe literally? I don't even remember it happening or would have made his slab awhile ago...
I eventually get his soul put to rest. Phew. So what killed my fortress?
Well, as my dwarves dust themselves off from all this, I do a headcount and go white. My burgeoning fortress of 270+ dwarves had dwindled down to the 160's in less than an hour of real time. I now got to experience what I believe you guys call a "tantrum spiral." Children turned on parents, doctors turned on patients, pets turned on each other... It was as hilarious as it was sad. I didn't bother to sit and watch the whole thing take over, but I realized that 270+ dwarves sharing the same space for years on end tends to bring them together. I guess losing half of their entire community in 3 encounters in a span of a week was too much for them. Softies.
So what killed my fortress? Not the dragon, or the Forgotten Beast, or even the homicidal-child-smothering-ghost. ALL OF IT. Last time I ever complain about it being "quiet" in one of my games
Thanks for reading.
Long story short, I end up with one dead dragon, 12 dead dwarves, and one completely incinerated mass storage area! But hey, I survived! So what killed my fortress?
Well, just as my dwarves get back from their dragon encounter, licking wounds and dead-in-arms, a posionous cloud-breathing Forgotten Beast from below shows up. *sigh* Send more dwarves in (I started with a military of ~100, but I'm still a noobtard, so the only dwarves with impressive skills were in the 8-10 level range and most of them died fighting the dragon.)
Somehow, miraculously, I manage to kill this toxic fuck bag with minimal losses. So what killed my fortress?
Well, just as my dwarves get back from their forgotten beast encounter, still wiping dragon blood off them, I started getting spam that children everywhere in the fortress are "randomly" dropping dead from suffocation! What in the f'ing H?! So I zoom to one, and it jumps to my hospital where the dwarves who survived the dragon encounter are unconscious and recovering. And littering the floor around them is a pile of their suffocated children who were waiting for mommy and daddy to wake up from the dragon attack (or the Forgotten Beast attack now, whatever.) And standing over this horrific pile of dwarf-chub is a cackling, vengeful ghost, just daring another dwarf to enter this death-hospital; one of my own who slipped through the cracks. Maybe literally? I don't even remember it happening or would have made his slab awhile ago...
I eventually get his soul put to rest. Phew. So what killed my fortress?
Well, as my dwarves dust themselves off from all this, I do a headcount and go white. My burgeoning fortress of 270+ dwarves had dwindled down to the 160's in less than an hour of real time. I now got to experience what I believe you guys call a "tantrum spiral." Children turned on parents, doctors turned on patients, pets turned on each other... It was as hilarious as it was sad. I didn't bother to sit and watch the whole thing take over, but I realized that 270+ dwarves sharing the same space for years on end tends to bring them together. I guess losing half of their entire community in 3 encounters in a span of a week was too much for them. Softies.
So what killed my fortress? Not the dragon, or the Forgotten Beast, or even the homicidal-child-smothering-ghost. ALL OF IT. Last time I ever complain about it being "quiet" in one of my games
Thanks for reading.