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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Artifacts Sketched
« on: September 18, 2008, 03:26:31 am »
Dwarves are too cool for your human alloy colors.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: The most epic battle ever witnessed...
« on: September 18, 2008, 02:54:59 am »
I'm not a fan of the tileset either, but i love the way the fortress design works with the carnage. Has a proper epic feel to it. I think it's because the areas are discrete and widely seperated. So when you say "And over here is where the nobles died cowering behind their masterpiece furniture" it actually feels like a seperate area of the fortress that was overrun.
It's too bad you can't heap all the dead in a pile and burn them, would live up to your fortress name.
Edit - Is it just me or is there a security hole? It looks like you can get into the courtyard from the east hill. I assume this is a labor-saving measure done post-siege...?
It's too bad you can't heap all the dead in a pile and burn them, would live up to your fortress name.
Edit - Is it just me or is there a security hole? It looks like you can get into the courtyard from the east hill. I assume this is a labor-saving measure done post-siege...?
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DF Suggestions / Re: Realistic Mining Suggestion
« on: September 16, 2008, 05:07:39 am »
Leftover stone is already a big enough PITA that people exploit so they can stack it all in one square... is this really not enough?
Mining might be too fast but that's something you don't need to add game mechanics to fiddle with.
Mining might be too fast but that's something you don't need to add game mechanics to fiddle with.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Artifacts Sketched
« on: September 16, 2008, 04:29:05 am »
I'm curious, how long does the color take you VS. the sketching inking and so on.
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DF General Discussion / Re: DF on par with (or even better than) X-Com, Civilization, Ultima, and so on
« on: September 16, 2008, 04:23:37 am »Quote
DF is no match for X-Com. Period. Don't get me wrong, DF is a great game, but X-Com is one of the best ever. It's easily a match for all-time greats like StarCraft, System Shock, and Star Control 2, and not much from any genre can compete with the likes of those.x-com is nice and all, but there's a reason there's so many remakes rather than people just playing the original...having to redo inventory every mission is (by itself) a game-killing issue by modern standards. that was about par for course back in the day but it's caused X-com to age very badly.
even Dwarf Fortress has a higher useability standard than that, arcane keyboard interface or not.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: The much sieged
« on: September 14, 2008, 07:06:50 am »Quote
every single goblin carried a beak dog into battle,The goblins, they were doing it wrong.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Dwarven Socioeconomics!
« on: September 14, 2008, 04:58:58 am »
Awesome post, but what inspired you to write it?
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DF General Discussion / Re: Om nom nom.
« on: September 14, 2008, 04:51:47 am »
One of my squads was named Nòmmonom, "The Godly Papers". I'm using the name for some Spore stuff. 
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DF General Discussion / Re: DF finds it's way into Microsoft offices.
« on: September 12, 2008, 10:10:20 pm »
Microsoft has a pretty good record on games... Outwars, Close Combat, Age of Empires... no need to get all hot and bothered.
I love the way the world map works as a background in the pic though.
I love the way the world map works as a background in the pic though.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Name That Currency!
« on: September 11, 2008, 11:50:52 pm »
I love the idea that the base unit of Dwarven currency is a beer-unit. Heh. Beers are worth too much though. We can't use fractions unfortunately. I just think Value myself. I suppose coppers makes the most sense in terms of the Dwarven Economy...
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DF General Discussion / Re: A great Pennsylvania museum for DF enthusiasts
« on: September 05, 2008, 06:33:41 pm »
In hindsight, taunting people to just try and burn down your building isn't a great idea.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Exploratory mining macro
« on: September 01, 2008, 09:04:23 am »
Had to look up the AHK stuff.. heh
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DF General Discussion / Re: Hammers or Axes? Which is more Dwarf-y?
« on: August 30, 2008, 06:02:05 pm »
Maces are too dwarfly! They're hammers with spikes on em!
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DF General Discussion / Re: So who is going to PAX?
« on: August 30, 2008, 06:01:12 pm »X-play made a list of the 'top ten indie games at pax'. They were some of the most unoriginal crap out there, excluding the Sushi bar one, and even that is not a great game. No mention of Cortex Command or anything.I'll take your word for it, but I am thinking it's more like indie developers have a lot more trouble attending conventions than that they were barred from entry.
I mean I own Cortex Command...
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DF General Discussion / Re: So who is going to PAX?
« on: August 30, 2008, 03:45:49 am »Quote
It's a convention for popular, big-budget games. Not ACII-graphics PC games made by a two-man supergroup.Says who? It's organized by Penny Arcade, I.E. Gamers. Not the industry.