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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / embarking on an arctic volcano island, any advice on how to prepare?
« on: August 26, 2013, 06:45:06 pm »
what skills should I give them, what should i bring with me? (this is a reclaim after an abandon because i don't think I brought the right stuff with me.) After that, what should I do? Also, will there be caravans for me, because the sea is frozen, or will I have no traders and migrants after the hardcoded waves?

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DF Gameplay Questions / embarking on an arctic volcano island, any advice on how to prepare?
« on: August 26, 2013, 06:32:31 pm »
what skills should I give them, what should i bring with me? (this is a reclaim after an abandon because i don't think I brought the right stuff with me.) After that, what should I do? Also, will there be caravans for me, because the sea is frozen, or will I have no traders and migrants after the hardcoded waves?

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DF General Discussion / coincidence or intended? SCP 788 is magma carp.
« on: August 20, 2013, 04:54:32 pm »
yes.
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DF Suggestions / food chains
« on: August 20, 2013, 12:34:48 pm »
Instead of having the spawning, that is cheating much like HP, in worldgen we could have limited numbers of creatures, and animals can die out if to many are killed. Instead of having population caps we could have actual food chains. This is probably never going to happen though, but population caps are kinda cheating. :)

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General Discussion / Another cool webapp
« on: August 19, 2013, 07:39:21 pm »
Hunting arrows. You protect your swarm of elves (colored arrows) form dwarves (black arrows).
http://open.adaptedstudio.com/hunting_arrows/
the dwarves ( blacks arrows) will eventually get smaller and smaller and wither if they cannot sink their arrow points into the flesh of the colored elven horde.

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DF General Discussion / How big is a tile? well..... much bigger that you thought.
« on: August 17, 2013, 10:22:06 am »
Some people think a tile must be the size of a dwarf, because they take up a tile. Well, so does a giant sperm whale, the biggest creature in the game. So we must assume that a tile is as big as one of those. But how big is a giant whale in real life terms? In df terms, the sperm whale is 200000000 adult body size. So, Let's compare that with a real number. An ant's adult body size is 1. in real life, ants have different sizes, But we will assume that dwarven ants are not the 3mm type. Instead, these ants will be about 3cm in length, so let's assume for some reason that a df metric of 1 adult body size= 3cm. A giant sperm whale is 200000000, so 3 cm multiplied by that, obviously, is 600000000 cm. A tile is 600000000 cm, which translates to 6000000 meters. So a single df tile is 6000 km. (maybe i shoulda gone with the 3mm ants :D) Conclusion? dwarves have superspeed and game time is sped up. Or maybe the game is lying about body size, huh, I really should have gone with the common ant species. :D :D :D :D :D

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / When will you be able to march against other civs?
« on: August 16, 2013, 09:40:01 pm »
I embarked on a peninsula with a bunch of elf towns. I imagine that if i were to fight, the forest retreats would never be destroyed? I imagine that having endless waves of goblins come at you and not being able to stamp out the goblin fort behind the invasions must be annoying? It's kinda like a strategy game only half done.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Miner won't mine. I have mining as the only task, and areas designated to be dug
« on: August 15, 2013, 03:45:44 pm »
what the title says. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

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DF Gameplay Questions / Can't change z levels
« on: August 15, 2013, 12:57:34 pm »
i am using lazy newb pack keybinds. I use phoebus. To change z levels, you supposedly press (,) and (.) on lazy newb pack. I've tried pressing shift (<>) but that doesn't work. Halp plz?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Can't save game (???)
« on: August 14, 2013, 09:18:57 pm »
I haven't tried saving before, and then i embarked on of my first forts, tried to save it, But when I saved and closed dwarf fortress, loaded up lazy newb pack, clicked play dwarf fortress, and the save wasn't there. >:( (Possibly me being dumb plz halp)

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