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Originally posted by Draco18s:
<STRONG>I think there's more evidence to a missile hitting the pentagon (and not a 747) than there is to that dog.  I've never heard of it before and the article states "no remains" so it's rather hard to prove.</STRONG>

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The dog story is well-known to people who care about Mars, though it is very much a just-so story.  Still, there's the car that got beaned.

Having snowstorms be actually dangerous would please me.

Meteoric events like the Tunguska event or Chicxulub would be unfun.  Nakhla would be amusing, but too rare to ever show up unless you turn the knob way up.

(Hmm... the killjoys at wikipedia dispute whether the Nakhla dog even existed)

Would be handy, for debugging.  At the moment what I do is zip up the save, then play, save; delete the save and unzip.  The 'save' takes half of forever (even on pocket worlds it's not quite instant), and the delete / unzip operation is error-prone.  I haven't accidentally deleted the wrong thing yet, but I've been using computers for too long to believe I won't do it in the future.

I could see making it an init option to add the quit-without-saving command, so that people don't accidentally hit it and weep at the loss of their entire season.

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Originally posted by penguinofhonor:
<STRONG>Ah, but what if your dwarves are communists and don't like this kind of thing? Or the leaders are just asses?</STRONG>

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Then everybody dies, except a couple who "don't care about anything anymore" and spend the rest of their lives building coffins.

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Originally posted by A_Fey_Dwarf:
<STRONG>2)A herbalist like ability to collect poisonous plants, with which the alchemist could make poison tipped bolts, deadly potions(to kill off dwarves you don't want), and maybe even poisonous gas's to kill multiple enemies(or nobles).</STRONG>

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Poison appears to be planned.  You can already buy it.  Can't do anything with it yet.

Water -> Thin Ice -> Ice.

Thin ice forms when it's about 0.
Ice forms when it's, say, -5.
Step on thin ice, it becomes water at 4 degrees, and the dwarf falls in.  Then the temperature system will slowly freeze it back up.  The dwarf had best get out before being entombed.

In deep water, you'd get ice on top of water.  So you can go ice fishing, and lose dwarves to thin ice / getting dragged through the hole by roving bands of carp.

And that's how they showed their respect for Urist Dwarfy
   That's how they showed their honour and their pride
   They said it was a sin and a shame and they winked at one another
   And every drink in the place was full the night Ur Dwarfy died

making mandates less insane.

Why?