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I might join.

are you still interested? we have a dragon ^^

Quote from: sonerohi on April 10, 2009, 05:46:26 pm

The whole point of this is slowly getting the size for features to be smaller. You're basically bragging about buying a candy bar for $1.20 when we buy it for $1.00.

Actually, he's bragging about buying it for 49 embark tiles, when I bought it for 16.

the size of it all is luck. i never play smaller than 6x6 anyway.. i like huge forts

oh, and i saw this once before but it was not filling with water..

i have found something like a circular cave or lair.. check it out here: http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Cave

anyone has an idea what it really could be?

It would be really really great and appreciated to see a maintenance release before a "stable" one - at least for the modding community.

I wonder do any of you think about the looks of your fortresses? Do you just dig corridors and rooms in the most utilitarian way and leave them like that? Or did you think about building tall entry halls (several z levels) with balconies along the edges, supports, some statues around? How about throne halls with some special features as a high throne? Or tall winding towers and menacing walls around your fort?

I know that none of this have any helpful impact on the game (are we sure about that? how about a suggestion discussion for things like this?) but I still consider having things like these for pure realism and own satisfaction. And it's always more fun to come back later and do some exploration as an adventurer in such places.

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In a game as complex as DF, we should not be looking at balance, but rather at motives. Balance is desirable, yes, but balance for its own sake is bound to feel forced and arbitrary. Instead, conditions in the world should encourage behaviour from both the player and AI to gravitate towards a balanced solution, Le Chatelier-style. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

This is actually quite true. Most games are balanced and thus losing the last parts of their realism while trying to give the player every possible chance to win. Since this is not always fun and "losing is fun" is a sentence we all know motivation is quite good. If it motivates a goblin force to attack your small village you just started it would be quite stupid to have them move on "due to balance". Accept the fact you'll die and start over (maybe somewhere close where you can then kill those goblins with your army (incoming army arc)).