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Actually, I found a perfectly usable seed on my very first try.

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If you follow the mountain range south-east, the second to last Tower has an exposed magma pipe right next to it, an aquifer for water, about 40 gobs led by a master lasher, and if you select a 4x4 area, the wagon spawns on an outcropping that shouldn't get immidiately shot to peices.

What do you think?

If you can actually find a goblin tower next to a magma pipe, epicness will ensue provided you don't die in the first year.

Sign me up for slot three.  Oh what fun we'll have.

It's the THLawrence design from the wiki.  I use it myself, expanded out to 3x3.

Just had an idea, can't be bothered to try it.  Anyone know if this works?
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I'm not sure if dwarves can use a bedroom that can only be reached by walking through another bedroom, or what effect it has on the inbetween guy.  I'm sure it works fine and no dwarf thinks twice about it.  Though I'm not sure what to do about the staircase...

Quote from: Torak on July 11, 2008, 07:05:57 pm

"An open mind is like a fortress with it's gates un-barred and it's walls unguarded"

The most epic quote a unit has ever said in a game, ever.

I don't know, some of the GLA units could pull some hardcore lines.  Sure, a bit of zealotry from a hero unit is great, but it was really inspiring to order around the crappiest unit in the game and hear things like, "No cause is too great!"

And in any game ever?  Please.  Let me go fire up that part in Planescape where you argue a guy out of existance.

I rather like to imagine that the dwarves and everyone else, though bumbling idiots with no sense of ration or perspective, are completely genre savvy about the bizare world they inhabit.  Though that does raise the question of why no one but adventurers guided by mysterious forces bother chucking stuff at people as a weapon.

Anyone ever gotten a good look at a tantruming dwarf throwing stuff?  Is it as absurdly destructive as adventure mode?

The main ideal was that the god guarded the valuable metals and ores of the mountain and cave-ins and equipment failures and other calamities where his way of getting back. Proper sacraments and rituals would please the god and he would grant rich ore seams to the miners. Part of these sacraments included the construction of idols that would be placed in alcoves around the mine and granted gifts of small gems, cigarettes (which would be put in the mouth of the idol and lit), alcohol, and meat.

That's the most DF like real life thing I've heard of.  Awesome.  We so need functional gods in DF.

IIRC, a lot of early Mesopotamian religions were like that.  More like buying "insurance" from organized crime than asking for favors.

I was just thinking about that in response.  The one I remember in particular was the Babalonia god Nargal, lord of war, plagues, pestilence, and the fierce summer sun.  I'm hardly a scholar, but I given what else we know of ancient mesopotamians, I'm guessing people weren't worshiping him out of pragmatic suplication.

And yes, Games Workshop appropriated him into Nurgle, since in twenty five years of writing they've had about three original ideas.

You know, that raises even more questions, though they would really be addressed to the great and powerful RNG.  I get worshiping a god of food and fertility.  I get worshiping a god of wealth.

But how do you get a good of wealth and blight?  What sphere connection is in there?  And who would worship a god of blight?  That's what I love about this game.  Trying to come up with rational narrations of DF's random insanity is the best writing exercise possible.

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