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Their whole family died, their god just fell out of god-hood and their parent civilization just crumbled? Meh, don't care about much anymore.
But yes, some balancing is expected. Hopefully soon.
I want my treeless scorching volcano-ridden hellhole!
I imagine it would be set like the dimensions of a world when generating a specific world.
Urist McDwarfy: Huh, the new hammerer has just jumped off the cliff. Why do they all do that?
But which time scale will you use? In adventurer mode there is actually time instead of rapidly changing dates. I imagine you could get a lot more done in a fortress if you just have your dwarves go into adventurer mode after designating a heckload of work.
Waterproofing: Makes it so a floor tile won't make a 1 depth water turn into muddy ground. Evaporation takes a while. Rain generates water on a waterproof tile it lands on.
Thus you can catch rain, but on regular rgound it is absorbed. On waterproof tiles it generates a little water.
It makes sense. In regular places if you can make a large area of rain-catching you can get quite a bit of water that way. And deserts in a rain-shadow don't get much water.
Waterproofing has other purposes. Making ponds and cisterns, making chanels and making a place easier to flood without puressure.
Basically, it would increase the chance of hitting specific body parts. Want to make the enemy prone? Aim for the legs. Want to take out their weapons? Aim for the arms. Just want to kill 'em? Aim for the body/head. This would get rid of he random appendage flailing done now.
Naturally it would be a chance, as the enemy is moving around and has body parts getting in the way. Units with high defensive stats would be better at steering hits away from wherever the enemy is aiming, and any hits not hitting the preferred appendages would be a bit weaker.
Now when I want to just slash the sleeping guards head off, I won't go chopping off his fingers.
Also, when dealing with the DF universe there are many things that can be made into chucks.
Swordchucks, Hammerchucks, axechucks, spearchucks, crossbowchucks and blowgunchucks.
What would be neat would have a computer controlled by two people(I THINK there is a program for that) with DF running on it. Then it would be an interesting game where you contemplate design ideas with others. Heck, there could be a REAL community fortress. All we need is somebody with a great computer and a program to see their monitor alongside a chat room.
I'd be cool with that.
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Originally posted by Inquisitor Saturn:
<STRONG>MMOs, by nature, sacrifice freedom for social interaction.</STRONG>
And oddly enough, cause their forums to be trashed.
- freedom
+ social interaction
- social interaction
= MMO
Thus a pile of diamonds can be hauled by a peasant, but a pile of rocks? Nah, impossible. This only helps with small light things that are annoying, but doesn't give any way of exploiting heavy things we are annoyed by.
And coupled with the suggestion of having a tile have a weight limit where going over would produce a wall of crap...
Another way to loose and doom a fortress. Although I like the idea of using swarms of bees for defense.
Gobbo McSpearmaster: Augh! They are bees! And are on fire! They breathe fire! What unholy god would have them breathe fire!?
Armok: Man, I never stop amazing myself with my ideas.
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Originally posted by Draco18s:
<STRONG>My only issue there is that 7 mugs aren't the same size as 7 beds.</STRONG>
Perhaps SOME mugs and beds.
Think of those large German tankards and small cots.
But I support this. I see it working like this:
code:
Side View
#S____ ######
######S__ WWW
#############Top View
z 1
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#######WWW#
#-___S WWW#
#######WWW#
######## ##
######## ##z -1
###########
###########
#S#########
#_#########
#_#########
#-#########
Just a bridge that can move things, but only if a dwarf puts it there or it falls on the beginning from the above z-level.
Creatures can take slopes up, but they would be slowed. Now if the surface is slippery, the creature has a chance of slipping and sliding down the slope. Now if you could rig a slope to release oil to suddenly make it slippery, that would be a great trap.
Imagine a fortress entrance with a long slope leading to the main gate. Enemies detected? Pull a lever and release some oil. Then any gobbos that try to climb up will slip, and fall into their friends. This will cause most squads to be stuck there. Then when everybody is trying their best to get into the fort, the drawbridge at the bottom opens up to a lava pit.
...We really should not think of deathtraps for EVERY feature. I'm sure if Toady were to put electricity in there, we would first think of a way of frying things.
That way technology isn't so much a tree where everybody can discover something for the hundredth time instead of somebody knowing the skill/upgrade coming to your fort. It's more of a skill.
Urist McSwordsmith: Bah! How the heck do I make these things stronger?
Kogan McTrader: Hey! Here is a book on swordmaking techniques. And some bloke just immigrated here with some ideas about putting some carbon-rich rose in a blade.
Urist McSwordsmith: Genius!
Immigrants can come with skills relevant to their job, and books can be sold by caravans(Expensively mind you), along with being available on the dwarf menu in the embankment screen. Naturally skills would be worth gold because these are trade secrets, and can only be taught to people skilled enough to understand.
Thats how I see technology.
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Originally posted by Neonivek:
<STRONG>DAMN You EA for doing EXACTLY what the Fans want... It is all your fault!!!Note: This sarcastic comment doesn't refer to the many OTHER complaints that EA deserves</STRONG>
I think I know a more fitting one.
"DAMN you EA for doing what OTHER people want! Do what I want and what I want alone!"
Note this is poking at the complaint, not the complainers themselves.
Actually, Spore seems a lot like DF. DF just allows more small things to be done. Then again, you need to look at who makes these things.
DF: One-man team. No obligation to finish this any time soon except for money constraints. Then again, money isn't much of a problem. It can come and go rather freely.
Spore: Made by a HUGE company. If they don't ship it out soon, crap will hit the fan. This won't hit as many users unless we cutify it? Okay, we need to draw in those potential customers.
Actually, you need to look at the core systems:
DF: One man's love-child with brilliance. A Dream, for a grand game.
Spore: Will Right's concept, worked over for many years before he got the creature editor to work on most everything. Probably resembled DF's earlier 2D versions, except in crude 3D.
The core is basically the same, but Spore shows us what DF could turn into if it is bought by a company.
