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Dig while moving would make is easier. That'll work right away, and if there's a User-friendly way to make it better, it can be upgraded later.

He was a landlord on a quest to save the world. You can have whatever story; I'll just change mine to match, since there is no landlord.

Anything'll do. I'll be your sidekick 

Do the players' professions have to reflect their real-life ones?

I doubt it. I think only the physical and mental aspects should come close though. Although, I work as a Sales Associate right now, which is kinda like stealing.

So, should we try the "Pen-and-paper" playing of this game?

1) We'd need to determine the way combat is determined in an equation form
2) We'd need a way to determine energy gain in an equation form, as well as other energy-based jobs and skills.
3) We'd need a fortress layout.
4) Experience? How would that be determined?

I think we start with the most important and work from there. Basically, we start with 2, since most things would require energy.

Ideas?

Mine is that we gain a certain amount of energy each day, with a max energy of... say, three days. All actions (besides defending) would take energy.

I will now use a miner as an example.

Say, each day we get 100 energy, with a max of 300 energy. He hasn't logged in for 2 days, and so has 200 energy.

The miner has 7 levels in mining (Out of 20 [0 being Dabbling] like DF), so he only uses 2.3 energy (Say he loses .1 for each level [3 - .1(7) = 2.3]) each tile he mines (This is rounded up. So, selecting 10 tiles would cost 23, whereas selecting 1 would cost 3, and 2 would cost 5, etc.) Would that be possible to integrate?

Now, say he mines 20 tiles for 46 energy. He gains 10 xp / tile for a total of 200 xp. Assuming he was at 6700 xp in Mining. He now has 6900 xp, leveling him up to level 8 Mining (Technically, Expert Miner). Now, the next time he mines, he will use 2.2 energy.

So, eventually, he mines as much as he can, then he has nothing left to do. He goes to the food and drink stockpile. There is a barrel of Dwarven Ale and some Dwarven Syrup Roast. The miner can drink 5 point of drink, and since each Dwarven Ale is 2 point, he can drink 2. Each Ale gives 5 energy, and so the Dwarf gains 10 energy from drinking the 2. Now, for eating, he has 5 as well, but the Dwarven Roast costs 5 point and gives 15 energy.

So, he has gained a total of 25 energy from food and drink, and he mines 11 more squares for 25 energy (2.2 * 11 = 24.2 which is 25 rounded up).

He has now done all he can today with that dwarf.

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

[1]Force the Xenopross to pull off a colonization attempt on G7, to help protect the Xenopross Socialist Movement.
[2]Use the police force to crack down on criminals and ensure the Polls will not be tampered by the other Political Parties.
[3]Win these Elections.

Backstory to come later.

With an online game of over 5 players, turn based is really not an option.
On the other hand, action timers would give a good enough system that fast users would have little advantage.
Also, if combat was split into 30 second turns, with multiple actions per 30 seconds.
1: dwarf hacks at the human! The human dodges
2: the human counters the dwarf, but it doesn't harm him.
3: the dwarf slices at the human but is blocked
4: the dwarf chops the human's lower left arm off.
5: the human, enraged at his limb loss, charges the dwarf in a bloody rage and removes his lower right leg
6: the dwarf slices the human't gut
--end of combat--
Then they could either retreat or continue to attack after the 30 seconds are over.

I mean that each "attack round" would happen in between movement. All battles would not happen during the game. You would be notified during or after movement how the battle went. For an attack, you would be able to defend, and for every time you attack, your opponent would defend.

It's actually very akin to DF where you control no real aspect of attack except that you can run into an enemy and attack them.

And your idea is turn-based. The attack system you speak of is exactly like the Battledome in Neopets (Only thing I could think of). I never liked it.

Yes, using an offensive move in combat should drain more energy than a defensive one. Perhaps players should set 2 combat strategies : one that is used when they are connected and one used when they are not (whenever PvP gets implemented of course).

As for energy regeneration vs. energy consumption, humans need about 8 hours of sleep for 16 hours of "light" activity. We could use the same for dwarves : if an average dwarf (one with average constitution) sleeps 8 hours, then he can walk around 16 hours while carrying light weight (his clothes).

Of course doing anything other than walking consumes more energy, so eventually the maximum active time of a dwarf every day (without food or alcohol) would get somewhat closer to 4-6 hours. Which means that a player would need to play only that amount of time to empty his energy bar.

Obviously, as the dwarf becomes more resilient his maximum energy bar get higher so the 8:16 ratio gradually becomes an 8:30 ratio when maximal endurance is reached.

But that would assume real-time implementation of activities. We would want turn-based. Unless you want to spend 4-6 hours a day playing.

A couple of things are wrong with the map. I should have a certain number out of 9 on my colonies, as well as the colony established should have a few more than 1... If it was settled with 2 (I'm assuming that both survived) and the Cult of Storms gave +1 to all hexes, I should have 3...

As well, some of mine and the Serani unit totals are missing.