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Urist: What the hell? Three arms? Five eyes!? NO BEARD!? *Starts to foam at the mouth, because of the sudden addition of a proboscis.*
And then you change their birth-rate to litter sizes of 100.
Terribly, TERRIBLY wrong.
Although if you tamed/cadged one, it could be a useful defense.
Atom smasher, flood, megabeast release, whatever.
Thats what I would do.
And Iron isn't too bad when it comes to weapons and armor.
Kogan McMayor: Now to open the doo-Holy moley! What is that smell!?
Urist McButcher: Uhh, dwarf-leather hat?
Kogan McMayor: You had a fey mood in there?
Urist McButcher: Yeah... Fey mood...
Really, you could probably kill anybody you want in a fortress as long as you start acting strange and make something from the corpse.
As for individual tiles of sand, I dunno. This is the easiest way.
[ May 12, 2008: Message edited by: Duke 2.0 ]
And ain't crazy theories what fortress design is all about?
For example, I want gobbos to be pushed into a pit that houses several tamed megabeasts. That or an atom-smasher. So with the flick of a switch the 3-tile wide hall turns into a one-tile wide walkway with many singular mace traps.
Really, nice things can be done with weapon traps.
Or a theory of mine: A trap that almost never gets clogged. Rig up a trap with a buncha weak pierce-style weapons, and wait for something to trigger it. At least one internal organ should be damaged, causing the thing that triggered the trap to die soon. Not when the trap is triggered, but soon after, several tiles way.
At least in theory.
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Originally posted by Sukasa:
<STRONG>You mean can't?</STRONG>
Dwarven Bureaucracy.
King: I declare that no dwarf shall settle in a land where they cannot access trees to piss-off elves.
Metropolis Manager: Actually, this is one of your better drunken-ideas.
King: Damn right! Now get me some adamantine thongs!
In the dwarven main city, there is a giant catapult with wagons attached to parachutes. Thus how they dwarves can land in stupid locations and why there are never any wheels.
With sandbox games, often players can't really imagine goals. They make a few, but then fall short of greatness. This would help them think of new goals.
That and play with a fortress in a different design than they are used to.
And animals can start crazy stuff. One map I tried had fiveteen-freakin-pages of skeletal carp, hippo and other nasties. AND a waterfall was somehow causing half the map to flood.
After the brutal ending I was thinking of seeing how far the waterfall could flood the map. Lo and behold, reclaim party with a large amount of dwarves.
It was still a massacre.
Damn, and I thought Dwarves were a bunch of drunks.
No bonus for multiple z-levels?
I hear flinging animals reduces the meat output, but increases the bone output. Thus if you want more bones that the last goblin attack could provide, resort to giant flinging tower.
Great for everything from goblins to kittens.
