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Martin: Does the no turtling include having a trap that destroys my entrance... and the surrounding area, or is that allowed?

You'll need to have another entrance open almost immediately. I'd advise the same approach as Kipi with his drowning chamber.

Resources shouldn't be an issue at all on this map, even at embark.

Yeah, the profile is altered a bit as there were some items in the last one that weren't terribly useful. People will still hate it, but if there's anything that's clear from reading the forums the last few years it's that there is nothing resembling consensus on embark profiles.

Drowning chambers are fine so long as there's no extended path blocking to the fortress. Your design sounds fine.

Yes, no other changes to the rules or projects.

DFM3 Map #2 is now available here: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2361


No undead and some nice new features. I think people will like this map a lot.

Main post updated.

Hehe did he forget who I am? 

I did. My apologies. 

I'm no expert, but wouldn't it be a semi-bad idea (from a consumer standpoint) to make most of your heat dissipate through the most important part of single-piece product?

Although not extensively, that sounds like it would significantly shorten the life span of the product.  Not the internal parts that cause the gadget to function, maybe, but the only actual part that the user ever interacts with...

Of course, it's very likely that I'm wrong and there could be no problem whatsoever, but one of the basic things I know about computer parts, is that higher heat in a part means several different things that all end up pointing in the direction of a shorter lifespan on the specific part, and I don't know why this would be any different.

The MacBook Pros are milled from a solid hunk of aluminum. The heat is vented along a 10" or so long section where the screen hinge is (the hinge is very long). The heat is sufficiently dispersed that it's not hot, just a little warm, and the product is really a very impressive hunk of engineering. Remember that the way that Macs are designed, there are far fewer independent and moving parts than in most laptops, which means there's a lot less to wear down, misalign, etc. That gives them quite a bit of room to engineering around a little added heat.