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DF Adventure Mode Discussion / Re: Destroy THEM ALL
« on: September 04, 2006, 07:06:00 am »
quote:
Originally posted by Shador:
<STRONG>I've been waging an epic war against a town named Woodsound. (It's in a prefab world, so you might be familiar with it.) Legends were forged in that battle, and subsequently slaughtered. The town is covered with spilled blood, and the posessions of the fallen are scattered everywhere.
One swordmaster still stands guard there: Fanu Guardrules, the Zeal of Miles. So far, he has slain... let's see... 27 of my characters with his iron twohanded sword. He moves very, very quickly, deflects arrows in midflight, and has a lethal attack.
He also has a pike lodged in his left hand. I'll get him eventually...</STRONG>

Have you tried throwing mud at him?
How about a Monarch butterfly?

[ September 04, 2006: Message edited by: Upthorn ]


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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Awesome
« on: September 10, 2006, 04:08:00 am »
Or, you know, gif, since the game only has about 16 colors.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Do you need steel aquaducts to transport lava?
« on: September 07, 2006, 05:23:00 am »
quote:
Originally posted by ctrlfrk:
<STRONG>technically stone would withstand the heat of lava much better than steel would...</STRONG>

Considering that lava is molten stone...


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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Dragon fortress
« on: September 01, 2006, 11:19:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by PNB:
<STRONG>Thats right, I made dragons into a fortressing race!</STRONG>

HOW?! I MUST KNOW!

Oh, it seems you just have to swap the values under dragon in under the entry for dwarf in raw\objects\creatures_standard.txt.

[ September 02, 2006: Message edited by: Upthorn ]


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DF Bug Reports / Re: Value of coins
« on: September 12, 2006, 06:00:00 am »
quote:
Originally posted by RPB:
<STRONG>Ok, so what is your point? Platinum coins were useless for trading before, platinum coins are useless for trading now. What's the difference?</STRONG>

Regardless, a stack of platinum coins should be worth far more than a stack of copper coins. In any situation.

Also, just because it's a problem you don't care about doesn't mean it's not a problem.

...idiot.


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DF Bug Reports / Re: Lost masterpiece unhappiness
« on: September 07, 2006, 05:11:00 am »
I suspect that being in prison causes negation of all non-prison related unhappiness, at least for the duration.

Since your dwarf was ecstatic aside from the art efacement, being thrown in the clink would return her to that mood.


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DF Bug Reports / Re: Screen probally working right
« on: September 05, 2006, 10:50:00 pm »
Try updating your video card drivers. As I recall, dwarf fortress actually uses opengl to display, so if your video card has any issues that way, weird stuff could happen.

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DF Bug Reports / Re: Dwarves ignore their own skills when picking jobs
« on: September 04, 2006, 09:16:00 pm »
I was pointing out that he never said it does that. He said it would be nice for the player if it did, but he didn't know if it does.

IE, what's going on with you doesn't contradict Sporky's statement, just verifies which possibility.

(Mostly, this means that the "no" part of your reply makes no sense unless you misread the post, which is why I was trying to clarify

[ September 04, 2006: Message edited by: Upthorn ]


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DF Bug Reports / Re: Dwarves ignore their own skills when picking jobs
« on: September 04, 2006, 09:08:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Rollory:
<STRONG>Sporky: no, not really.

I am pausing the game, queueing up all the jobs at once, then unpausing.  I would expect at that point that the idling crafters would select the job they are best at.  They don't.</STRONG>

 

quote:
<STRONG>Naturally, if two dwarves are idle at the same time you'd want it to pick the one with higher skill, which it may or may not do currently.</STRONG>

Relevant portions italicized.

Edit: Oh, no underline on this board
Edit2: Oh, quotes are already bolded
Edit3: And I hit submit too soon by mistake
Edit4: And I typoed one of my BBCode markups
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DF Bug Reports / Re: Legendary Skilled take Forever in putting up furniture/c
« on: September 03, 2006, 09:39:00 pm »
It seems that there are a number of jobs that require two hands.

Artifact makers always carry there artifacts in one hand, and thus cannot perform many tasks (building a road, building a farm plot, etc...)

At least, that's my guess


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DF Bug Reports / Re: Peasants from thin air?
« on: September 03, 2006, 09:48:00 pm »
The metalsmith shows up with a pet, a (peasant) friend, or a (peasant) spouse.

There's the answer.


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DF Bug Reports / Re: My well is bleeding...
« on: August 31, 2006, 12:03:00 am »
quote:
Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>The smearing is excessive now -- the ichor probably came from a single cave spider that got squashed in a door.</STRONG>

Oh, okay.

quote:
Originally posted by Gakidou:
<STRONG>

That would be an EXCELLENT implementation of haunting, by the way. It would be especially good if bleeding wells result from dwarves that were drowned by floodgate "accidents", as it would give some reason for people to avoid drowning immigrants/nobles. (And a reason for other, more sinister people to keep on doing, of course.)</STRONG>

This is why I wasn't sure if the ichor was a bug or not. It would be great if there were unknown forces which could make wells leak ichor, so I was hoping it was maybe actually a feature.


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DF Bug Reports / Re: My well is bleeding...
« on: August 30, 2006, 06:55:00 pm »
Nothing has come out of the well, and I have not encountered any ichor bearing creatures.

And when I say the dwarves aren't cleaning it up, I mean that there have been no "clean blood" or "clean ichor" orders whatsoever since it showed up.


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DF Bug Reports / My well is bleeding...
« on: August 30, 2006, 06:25:00 pm »
The meeting hall defined from my first well is gradually filliing up with blood and ichor. (screenshot)
   

Now, I'm not sure if that is a bug in and of itself, (although I don't know where the ichor came from unless wells are actually supposed to bleed) but none of my dwarves are cleaning the blood and ichor up.

[ August 30, 2006: Message edited by: Upthorn ]


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DF Bug Reports / Re: Possessed dwarf went insane after beginning construction
« on: September 01, 2006, 07:48:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Cross:
<STRONG>My farmer was possessed, claimed a craftsdwarf workshop, began his mysterious construction, then went insane an hour after that. He never finished it. Is this ever supposed to happen?</STRONG>

I just got this with a mason. taken by a fey mood, picks up two stones, begins work, never finishes, goes insane.
Now stones don't degrade so it's obviously not that.
It seems like he actually started construction before gathering all the required materials.


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