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I think there are special standing orders for that...No that wouldn't help,
tankers would just go to the nearest source of fuel, probably the place they just dumped their cargo at and refuel there.
fuel just needs some micromanagement.

In any case you do need to set your skymine as a tanker.
The best automation I see is setting a tanker(-fleet) to a cycling route, but set the speed of it so, that the amount of fuel transported is equal or lower than the fuel produced.
   

yep. Didnt realize it was a known bug.
I killed Siegmund with a hail of conventional high explosives that time.

Your Quickdraw-post also shows a pretty sequence of screenshots of an explosion as seen from the side,
in this example the ratio is about 7:1, could be the damping is exacerbated by the ceiling and roof here.
I assume different materials have different resistance to being blown away by weaponsfire and explosions, wooden fences to stone walls to solid ground.
 
You are right to have not too much vertical damage in explosions, better fits the x-com legacy.
(personally, I was pretty annoyed at this mechanic in X-com though. )
Having a HE pack go off in a barn and only searing the floor of the level above was just weird. (IIRC the top floors could end up hovering if the walls were all shot out, so...)

just thinking.
Would there be trouble with (rising) fireballs and/or animated mushroom clouds be for explosions? (fire damage only)

edit: Got seriously annihilated a several times in the last several hours. . .
I noticed I could block the movement of the big colossus, then it detonated!!
I know you wrote the aliens have no team-strategy nor team-vision yet, but it still feels like the enemy can see through walls.

Silent Death maybe? That was an online game, got taken down for infringement of creative content iirc.
escape velocity se.

Quote from: Knight Otu on December 17, 2011, 09:17:06 am

Quote from: Areyar on December 17, 2011, 09:11:24 am

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. . . It now keeps track of all the former positions of historical figures by start/end year . . .

Does this mean that items in an abandoned/killed fortress don't wander around the site when reclaimed or visited?
Even if it is just the corpses that keep their stuff/don't move around, that would be cool.

I think you are misunderstanding what Toady said there. He's talking about positions of people, not of items during play (and I'm not fully certain, but he might be talking entity positions rather than location - though the game already tracks the former, he might make it more clear in legends mode or something).

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's entity positions and not "Lived in Fishtown" per se.

He did also write he fixed a problem with adventurer equipment in the dungeons. . . I can't think of another problem besides it wandering away from dead adventurers on its own.

. . . It now keeps track of all the former positions of historical figures by start/end year . . .

Does this mean that items in an abandoned/killed fortress don't wander around the site when reclaimed or visited?
Even if it is just the corpses that keep their stuff/don't move around, that would be cool.

Decided to start a new fort to get that hilldwarf community going...
on top of a stream deviding a dense forest from a sinister mountain range.

I started out fairly prosperous with the standard team. one small home built, nearby lakes made safe with ramps a small strawberry farm and about to start smelting that limonite nearby.
Then a herd of skeletal Yak attacked.
reclaim- standard team. before the stream defrosted, another Yak invasion ended the fun, the pallisade only half finished.
reclaim- every dwarf now has mandatory basic combat training plus we got ten wardogs.
An undead badger army stampeded through the village, no problem but they are fast!
The carpenters refuse to build on the wall, there are goodies and corpses outside to haul in.
We have three ghosts haunting us now...that might also be a factor in the overall reluctance to work in the compound.

ed: I have some slabs and casKets in line, but those haunted socks are more intresting... at least the catacombs are ready.

I am planning on giving each dwarf (family) their own surface house with their own bed and table and other furniture and private workshops. cellars/lofts filled with food/drink stocks.

But first I have to revive my netbook that died... I suspect it is the CPUfan as it freezes after a few minutes (usually), even in safe mode.

We are digging off the top of a nearby mountain for its sweet, silky limestone and the vertical fortress shaft has struck magnetite, and the forges are working overtime producing steel, our only limiting factor the fuel our lumberjacks can cut from the surrounding forest. The evilness of the chalkmountain does not carry through into our steel, thank the Son of Fire and Moonshine.