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Quote from: Saiko Kila on June 21, 2018, 10:17:17 am

Forcing enemies to fall on platinum floors is funnier than on obsidian floor.

Isn't the general method around here to turn the enemies into the obsidian floor? Tis' what I recall from way back when.

All methods of introducing enemies to floors are viable.

Whips have a tendency to anhilate anything they impact. Picks are very similar, though I can't remember the specific data on them. I'd argue that a pick is more reliable as a weapon, since they don't deal with the V Slow modifier that whips do, though I don't know where you'd be able to notice the difference between a slow attack and a quick attack outside of going tick by tick. Morningstars seem to have the benefits of a hammer, with the contact edge of a dagger when it's used to stab.

I'm fairly certain that one of my dwarfs had a breakdown because he kept repeatedly saw a corpse of a rat which (I think) got exploded when someone closed a door on it.

So, they kept seeing the rat corpse in the stockpile, and they kept remembering about seeing it, and eventually went brezerk after a period of 6 years.

Puts two and two together. Ah... so NOT a legendary dining hall, but a true tavern eh? Hope someday adventurers will come by seeking quests and party members, as they are wont to do.

Actually, there's an idea. Build a tavern, and then build an adventuring town around it selling weapons, armor and all those other goodies.

Well... actually, you can get adventurers to move into your fort to slay monsters, do some philosophy, or kill each other over the proper use of socks.

You can't sell them your stuff yet (and in fact, sometimes they'll steal borrow your stuff).

Well the "social relations" part was mostly a joke.

But I can use adventure mode to scout out and generate embark areas? I've always played dwarf mode and never touched adventure mode yet. I always thought of it as a side show to the meat and potatoes of dwarf mode. I didn't realize I could use it to scout embarks out in person.

I'm pretty sure you can do that, though depending on your worldgen settings, and how well you fare in adventure mode (namely, not dying at night) the world can change by the time you go actually setup your embark.

Quote from: Miles_Umbrae on June 09, 2018, 08:06:17 pm

What are the pros and cons of an Inn over a Dining hall?

Tavern's attract visitors and encourage performances. Dining halls can be part of taverns, so no real disadvantage of having a tavern.

Well, except for the occasional bar fight that goes full lethal, and the alcohol poisoning that inevitably happens to those punt human livers.

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Quote from: Scarlet_Avenger on May 06, 2018, 10:04:40 am

The sheer amount of possibilities in the game world, and the limitless things you can do.
 
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And, with constant progress being made on the game by Toady, if you ever stop playing for a little while there will (usually) be a new feature to play around with when you come back.

Definitely these.

For me it's also not so much what happens on screen, but all the stories that pop into my head while playing (and even after that). The ASCII graphics is a bit like reading a book and imagining what everything really looks like, so basically DF looks much better in my head than any other game.

I can't think of any other game from the 2000's that has inspired me as much as Dwarf Fortress with my creative projects.

This is why I prefer ASCII graphics when possible. A brain is the best graphics card.

Agreed. Just Say No to tilesets.

Do I have a problem if my OS uses the CLA "tileset" by default? I've gotten used to reading things with periods represented as giant half filed in boxes as a result.

One trick I used to build a wall over an empty space was setting up individual wall pieces with a stairwell built along the outer, edge of the wall, since dorfs build walls piece by piece though, it can get complicated, and sometimes needs a constructed ramp built next to each wall piece first.