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alas, for my scanner has long since departed. i have allways thought it funny how you can store things like a stack of giant corpses along with all the left feet of an entire villiage inside one leather backpack.

have it hack off one of your burning limbs then throw that at it. it will totally work. it fixes the problem of your limb being on fire at the same time.

sounds like DF alright. when the goblins have passed the fortifications and are in the dining room playing pinata with the nobles children, the dwarf military is off sleeping or drinking.

so, ive been running this fort i have now for many many game years. ive just finally finished filling up a megaproject dam, which is 30+ z levels high. now its full, however, the top layer of water is slowly vanishing at a speed consistent with it pouring out the bottom of the dam somewhere. however, there are no leaks that i can find, anywhere. the brook is still hooked up with the dam, so it should be able to refill it, and water seems to be coming in from that direction, but still the dam is slowly being emptied. also, the first time i filled it the brook ran dry, and i can see no evidence of this at the moment.

this is deeply perplexing. does anybody have any ideas? i can post the map on the file archive or some pictures of the dam if people want.

my other problem is all the tame pets that are dropping dead of old age. for some reason they dont get buried. this is not for lack of available coffins with pet burials allowed, the dwarves either leave them where they fell or dump them in my outdoor refuse stockpile. ive even got a few dwarves with nothing but buriel turned on, and still the pets are allowed to rot indoors. right now this is not that major, but it is making some of the owners unhappy, and the dining room miasma is annoying. ive got a few champion guards who own hordes of very old cats, and when they start dropping problems may arise.

its better when you have been beating them senseless for years with a single champion armed with an artifact weapon, and the weapon starts appearing on all their armor and clothing.

this thread is making me think if the world of traps and attractions thread. it is a great idea, but is grinding along so miserably slowly.

my feeling is that most casual players can and will spend months playing an individual fort, and many of them will depopulate the worlds megabeasts and goblin civ leaders in the process. a check in and check out system sounds pretty good though, so it would still be great as an optional rather then forced thing. ie, the worlds are allways available, however, each one has a list of players who have used it and reuploaded it, with an option to view how many abandoned forts and living/dead adventurers there are in it.

you could, with some smart presentation, have all variations of the one world available on the one page, and when a player wants a world, they can browse to the page that has the one particular world, and have the link for the latest version of the world that has had the most players use it right in front of them, but with a few clicks they could check out how many versions of the world there are, who played in them, and sort by how many forts there are etc. idealy, you could also have a program that read the legends entries and threw up the number of megabeasts and civs, and what races there are present, allowing you to browse and search accordingly.

also, if you gave everyone a profile, you could create a voting system whereby worlds used by players who are perceived to have routinely created epic forts without killing off every megabeast and goblin weaponmaster can be easily found, and worlds used by several such players in succession float to the top of the reccomended list. this is something i wish was on the dwarf map archive, so you could easily find maps or players that other browsers generally recognize as awesome.

it would not be hard to also allow players to upload worlds that are rigidly controlled for succession games and the like, the initial uploader could add a list of players, and the world is only made available for download after the player before them has finished their turn, with the option of the organizer to skip anyone who stops responding, or simply make the world become automatically available again after a set time period with no updates.

anyways, ive ranted more then enough. hope i am coherant, it is late and i am tired. this idea is great.

yeah, i cant wait for new chasms and the underground, its going to be great. those spider fingers can be interesting though. i can remember in one of my very early forts the years long craziness as i tried different plans for getting some little outrcrop of aluminium that was in some really inacessible spot on the fingery end of my chasm.

i wasnt clear on how to do a good military at the time, so the chasm creatures were for me amazingly difficult to deal with.