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Behold: Boatveiled.

:O Holy crap. That's awesome!

Okay. I'm afraid, but I have to ask... Kittens of war?

Modding a [trAINABLE] tag onto the cats to make it possible to train War Cats, I'm guessing.

You still haven't answered my question, though. If it's a mandate, then gem windows wouldn't count because they're buildings, not items.

It was a mandate. "Construct window (1/1)". So yeah, probably working as intended, but it's still an issue because of the naming ambiguity. Which was what I had a problem with.

Come to think of it, maybe it'd make more sense to have gem setters construct gem windows in gem workshops, then build them, same as with glass windows.

Quote from: madrain on August 31, 2009, 02:46:15 am

(as an aside, please feel free to share worlds with interesting stories or topography so those of us who prefer that sort of thing can benefit)

Just posting here to later edit in the seed for a world with very interesting topography.

Imagine, a large central mountainmass ruled by dwarves, in the mountains is a large inland ocean(On top of the mountains I think actually), in the middle of that ocean is another island, also owned by the dwarves.
In the middle of that island is another ocean, and in the middle of that ocean is a mountain.

The only way to the first ocean is over dwarven roads.

Wow. I'd love to see that.

This current discussion is insanely off topic. Take it elsewhere maybe?

I suggest that the table model be made wider, such that groups of tables form a single cohesive surface.

I agree.

All of which completely fails to take into account the fact that in the games industry DF is a gigantic outlier. Attempting to apply standard marketing and development plans to DF is a complete and total waste of time, because it does not even remotely fall into the expected ranges.

DF is one of those one-in-a-million games that should never have even got off the ground and nobody expects will see completion. The fact that it's gotten as far as it has is Toady's triumph against massive odds.

I absolutely agree. I don't think anyone was talking about DF here.

I should also add that judging a movie by it's script is incredibly foolhardy. When DD's are made by big companies they tend to be fairly static (if they're done right), scripts on the other hand are incredibly fluid.

To the extent that this is true, it is only so because of games being harder to change late in the process. Removing or moving a scene in a movie is relatively straightforward in the final editing phase, while taking out, changing or adding features to a game weeks before GM is a scary proposition since it's very likely to cause bugs that you won't find in time.

But even then, many game companies keep changing, fixing, refining and reworking their games way past release, either to fix problems in response to player feedback or to add new content and mechanics to keep people interested.

Soon, by Armok I hope it's finished soon

A combination of making more changes than I expected, some of them taking a long time and me not having much free time (I've been reduced to getting up early before work to get some debugging in) means it's quite late. It's close though.

You rock.