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I don't know if anyone has seen the previews (or indeed the movie... Australia tends to be behind on these things) for LucasFilms' newest addition to the saga, Clone Wars. Apparently it's fully 3D. Anyway, I just wanted to vent a few problems with it, and here seemed like an interesting place to do it.

Firstly, it's been done before!!!!! I've watched Genndy Tartakovsky's version on Cartoon Network so many times I actually almost got tired of it.

Second, not only have I not seen a single mention of this fact anywhere in the paper, but George Lucas himself doesn't mention it in his interview.

Thirdly, not only has the premise been copied, but seemingly also the art style, because the characters look (even though they're 3D CGI) suspiciously similar to Tartakovsky's rather unique art style.

Phew, that feels better. Questions? Comments? Flames? I'll read them all 

Yes, you will get artifacts, just far less than you would in a proper underground fort.

Just make a ton of stuff to trade with people. Every 200 or so items, your artifact limit goes up by one.

Then you have a ~48% chance of getting an artifact over the next month. So you should get one every season until you reach the limit.

For example, I recently had an adventurer with a halberd. He was my most successful to date. In fact, he's still alive somewhere in my world; I'm waiting for him to siege my fort (well, he was a human and a member of a civ that hates mine). Don't think it's going to happen though.

Meh, explosions are less about 'burn' and more about 'violent expansion of gas'. The actual burning is more or less ancillary. Awesome, but not a vital part of 'boom'.

Liquid fire would still be fun to fire in a hollow-point ballista bolt.

Indeed, in fact firing downwards from battlements at a fairly close range is about your best chance of making a hole through plate armour, not counting deflection angles or anything like that.. Of course, it's still not guaranteed.

With chain mail, you have about a 60/40 chance of the arrow bouncing off harmlessly/breaking a link. Then there's a reasonable chance it will pierce flesh (without quilted/leather armour underneath).

That's like asking why they sterilise the needles before lethal injections.

Somebody, somewhere, knows the answer. But damned if anyone cares.

Dwarf Companion had an explanation with it somewhere, and also had a counter that showed when the next artifact *could* happen; it was then up to the game (or the InstaMood button) whether or not a mood happened.

I believe it's a factor of time, as well as manufactured goods and mined space. So if you don't mine anything out, you should still (eventually) get an artifact or two.

Also it's up to the Random Number God to decide, even once you are due for an artifact, whether you get one or not. So if you're not on good terms with Her (personally I think the RNG is female... my opinion only), now would be a good time to sacrifice those goats.

And, providing you don't misinterpret 'service the leaders of towns'...