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This thread got stuck way too hard on teleportation.
Well, other threads got stuck on tunnelers/diggers.Also, the teleporting could be limited to just a few tiles
Yes, I absolutely agree. Maybe max. 8-10 tiles combined with ~2 teleportations/combat sequence.
You obviously haven't been reading any of my previous posts...
*An enemy has been spotted*
*Select Guard*
*Enemy teleports away from guard, moves to civilian*
*One wild goose chase later, only the guards, some tantruming, remain.*
Only the Teleporter doesn't teleport away fast enough and dies
BAMN!!!
That was easy
Obviously the Teleporter may do quite some damage but then again his power is Teleportation not Omnipotence.
Let me see here...
*An Enemy has been spotted in the base*
*Selects guard to attack*
*Enemy is killed*
BAMN the teleporter is dead. What is so hopelessly difficult here?
QuoteTeleporting is such an effective power: if it exists, there should be a watertight explanation why it isn't more common
I think your overthinking things here... Many enemies are going to have powers and abilities that will not offer any reason to as why it isn't more common other then "It isn't"
Why arn't there more enemies that have poison? Why arn't there more enemies with multiple heads? Why arn't there more enemies that fly? Why arn't there more enemies that make civilisations?
The answer is simply not everyone has it... It isn't a naturally occuring phenomina. You can't go over to your grandmother's house eat cookies and find out that you suddenly have the powers of teleportation... In the same way that you can eat a chilli pepper and suddenly breathe fire.
"Except fire can be dealt with very easily, either through water or channeling"
So can teleportation. stop attributing abilities to teleportation as if they go without saying.
I don't remember Nightcrawler ever destroying the free world... and he HAS the exaggerated version of teleportation that stops short of being able to teleport people's bodyparts off.
"So not a fortress-destroyer you say?"
Megabeast sets fire to your fortress... it burns down "Game Over"
Don't forget that Teleporting enemies used sparingly is just a challenge in the same way Megabeasts, even though they are largely supperior, are a challenge.
Sure they can teleport in your base and kill a few people... and thus will take a while to take down... but they are hardly fort destroyers.
As for Magic and Teleporting Civs, that is another story.
QuoteIt's not a point of "can we defeat them" but a case of "is this a fair fight?" If they have teleportation and you don't, its a cheap advantage you're giving to the computer to compensate for it not being able to intelligently siege using conventional methods.
Instantly negated by the genre your in. Dragons can breathe fire and spread it to your base. something your incapable of doing (or at least as easily)
The Bronze collosus and Ironmen are immune to organ damage as well as having large Damage block
You even have several advantages no other NPC has that is beyond their AI (Some which need to go away, some that the enemy should also have, and some to define the player)
I am not against teleportation as a whole. If you mean enemies instantly gaining teleportation for no reason... then yeah. (of course if the only way they could harm you is by having teleportation... then it makes sense that the only enemies that WOULD attack you are the ones with teleportation)
I want a giant chicken demon.
Something humiliating.QuoteA succubus is a demon, and as such it doesn't need to be species-specific.Actually that would be an awesome one. One infiltrates your fortress, acts like a regular dwarf, right until it sucks out the soul of your legendary marksdwarf. If you kill it before it escapes, you save the victim?
