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DF Gameplay Questions / A few questions...

« on: November 06, 2006, 01:23:00 pm »

How can I identify the rock in the corners of rooms so I can detail them?

What can I do about ore/gems in room walls as far as detailing? I'm not worried about getting them, necessarily, I just want to have a complete detailing job done. AFAIK, I can't dig them because there is currently no way to replace dug out walls. I would end up ruining the integrity of rooms.

Where is all the iron!? I've found TONS of platinum, the most valuable metal, but not iron (hemetite). I've dug all the way to the magma and I am currently doing major exploration between the chasm and magma, but so far no iron. I did, however, find a fair amount of coal. I am itchin' to use it.

Finally, should I have made my main corridors 2 or even 3 spaces wide? It seems like there is a lot of traffic and dwarves move slowly. Although I am not sure how much of the slowness is due to the extra processing power required for 45+ dwarves. Does the game slow down as the fortress gets bigger?

-yarnosh

DF Bug Reports / Lye buckets just sitting there

« on: November 18, 2006, 04:03:00 am »

Ok, I've read like 5 differnt reports on this forum about lye buckets that never get moved to barrels. It is acknowledged, but nobody ever seems to have a solution. I made about 6 buckets of lye before I realized that they weren't going anywhere. I have plenty of barrels and space on my food stockpile... so what gives? I have like 30 potential haulers (food/item) with no work, but they never pick up the job. In fact, there is no job in the "j" menu for the buckets. I dismantled the ashery and still nothing. The buckets just sit there.

I realize the I don't need to make lye first to make potash. I was hoping to use up some tallow for soap. Any solution to this problem? Or is the consensus that there is no utility in making lye to make soap at all, so don't bother? I have nothing better to do with the tallow. I mean, I've got more than enough food. Cooking tallow into yet more prepared meals that won't get eaten seems like a waste.

-matthew

Curses / LCS: Everyone left my group?

« on: September 28, 2007, 12:26:00 am »

One turn I have like 25 members and the next everyone leaves. Says the "lost touch with the Liberal Crime Squad" or something like. I know I wasn't exactly moving ahead quickly, but I did have a 99% public approval rating, so I must have been doing something right. What happened? Oh, wait, did I run out of food in my hideout??

Also, a couple of other questions... how do I find people with "disguise" skill besides myself. I find that I can only infiltrate a place with my initial character who has like 4 in disguise. In general, most anyone I recruit is largely useless for anything but soliciting for donations or selling brownies. Well, i did get some sweatshop workers to make clothes, but beyond that... Oh and hookers are good at dating. :-)

DF General Discussion / A whole new game...

« on: November 14, 2007, 03:20:00 pm »

Wow, i just downloaded the new version of DF the other day and was totally blown away by the changes. I haven't gotten a chance to play it too in depth and do anything fun, but so far it feels like an entirely new game. Congrats, Toady. I might actually get around to donating!

A couple questions though... I've started fortresses in several different locations so far and I have not been able to find any magma. I search through all the z-Levels and I just don't see it. Should it be visible, like water, on the large area map as I descend? Or do i just need to keep digging and hope I hit it, kinda like the old version? I guess, like water, some locations might just not have it. But so far I haven't see it in any locations. Flat or hilly. Do I need to go for a treeless mountain map?