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Quote from: Gwolfski on December 01, 2015, 01:00:01 pm

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Quote from: Sanctume on December 01, 2015, 12:29:24 pm

3 Days?  I think I spent 2 hours alone before embarking planning what my first 7 will be.

1-year game time will not be enough to get magma into play for a dungeon. 

And there is also a chance for invaders to auto win a retired fort when a new dungeon site is create elsewhere in the map.

I think a strict 1 week real time may go well as long as there is a player waiting for their turn. 

Anyway, since my worldgen is just a test, I am not wondering how far I can go using fast dwarf to dig fast the layout, then I can focus on making traps and such. 

The issue will be obtaining a "great artifact".  I did spend time looking at Dwarf Therapist for item likes of each individual dwarves. 

For example, someone who likes War Hammer are given weaponsmithing, and I plan to give them their own forge and make weapons in hope that their highest moodable skills will make artifact war hammer. 

I've also played in the past to make specific stockpiles (platinum or gold) next to a forge and when someone goes into a mood, the game pauses in which time I forbid other forges except the one with the special stockpile.  But that's just extra micro-management and takes luck that a dwarf has weapon likes gets a mood.

you can force moods...

True, so a DFhack-enhanced fort with 1 artifact can be viable for a 1-year game time.  How much df-hacking will there be though?
I mean fast dwarf will help speed up digging, and smoothing.

What about just putting 1 tile magma for some trap--will that be acceptable, or will I need to use magma filled minecart and micro dump to fill a pit up to 6/7 magma?

Zero use of dfhack for those would be more acceptable for a community game; but at the same time, the time allotted to make a great Dungeon Keep will take more than one turn most likely, and many more turns to obtain great artifact for adventurers.

One possible dfhack-less scenario is to increase the starting embark points from worldgen parameter. 
It will not hurt to give +5 skills to the founders. 
It will not hurt to embark with food and drink for 1 year that can support 100 dwarves.
Embark with metal bars and coal and one can dedicate to training weapons or armor from day 1 to focus on making at least masterwork level "great" armor/weapons.

It would be interesting in the next version where people can wear jewelry, so artifact crafts would be a great enough reward for adventurers to come to the DKeep.

I think dfhack would be nice, but when will it be available for the new version of the game? and when you go adventuring, what is to stop you from "Adamantine this" "Adamantine that"?

Well, while we wait how about a little backstory.

Journal of Ryukan, 3rd of Limestone, 124
  Well here I am, sitting in one of these new taverns (I must say, the new design is somthing else). I bought this journal from a passing Dwarf caravan on my way to the southern mountains. I must say I'm rather lucky I found this tavern before night fell, I have lost a good many friends to the terrors of the night.

  The reason I'm in a tavern and traveling? Well, you see, I'm an adventurer... well used to be, till I took a freakin goblin arrow to the knee. After a few months in that butcher's shop they call a Hospital, I was allowed to leave. I thought my life was over, all I had ever wanted was to do in life was explore the world and slay the dragons. I managed to make a name for myself within our Kingdom, and one afternoon, as I lay moping in bed, a letter was slid under my door. I opened it, expecting another letter of condolence, and to my surprise, found a charter signed by the king telling me I was given command over one of the expeditions. I figured anything was better than wasting my life away, so I got packed and left.

  So here I am, two weeks later on my way south to meet up with the six other dwarves who will be under my command. I already know one, a chap by the name of Urlance Woolsbane. I figure he'l be a decent chap, I'm already writing correspondence to find out who the other 5 fellows are. I'll write again during the next stop, but for now, my tea and beef (I consider myself a more civilized example of our society) has come and I have to eat while listening to this local music.


I'll add more entries until the game starts, feel free to write your own entries to flesh out your character.

before I claim my spot, what version will we be using?

I won't start the game until 1- the new version comes out and 2- when a decent tile set becomes available (if this take too long I'll begin the game anyway)

Ooh, so we get to face the consequences of our actions, nine years down the line? Not a bad idea! Count me in!

Yup, I also added you to the list.

This is the Looping Bloodline game surrounding the fortress Iton Ral (The Halls of Silver). There will be 10 slots of overseers who, after the tenth overseer, the list will start from the beginning. I will start this Bloodline when all ten slots are filled.

   Rules:

• This game will be played in 1 In-game year turns, from 1st Granite to 1st Granite of the next year, after you save the game, upload the save to a file site and post the link.
• Do not Purposely destroy the Fortress (i.e. Flooding it with magma) IF you do, the save will be reverted and you will wait until the game loops back to you.
• If you are unable to play anymore turns, your spot will be handed to the next player in line.
• You can not purposely kill off another player's avatar.

Please post your applications below. May Armok help our poor souls.

1-TheImmortalRyukan
2-Urlance Woolsbane
3-Eritzap
4-Gwolfski
5-KingMurdoc
6-jwoodward48df
7-10terrapin01
8-Galena
9-Open
10-Open