Bay 12 Games Forum

are you kidding my fortress has a mandatory dress code, jeans and tshirts for the guys and short skirts for the gals. come to think of it i probably should make some blouses...

alright enough kidding around. frankly enough i don't think i've made a single article of clothing besides armor in the entire year that i've been playing this game...

what'd be extremely cool is if when you put a mirror up say in a 2x wide corridor and a dwarf walked past it and there was undiscovered stone behind it i would show just a dwarf appearing in solid rock to you. and maybe be able to handle the infinity look when you put two mirrors across from each other... kickin idea.

practically though even with polished bronze, steel, [metal of some sort except adamantine] the light would diffuse after changing direction only 2 or 3 times, i'm pretty sure myth busters did a thing on that, something about the quality/quantity of light diminishing after covering a portion of the room.

now if the water was going against the force of gravity somehow then it would really be dwarfy!

but why limit a computer to being simply a logic machine, for instance i am extremely analytical, to the point where i had trouble learning to drive my car because of it. and no r and R aRe not in fact the same symbol, they have the same RepResentation to a degRee, i mean how faR would you get wRiting a book if every loweRcase R you put down an uppeRcase R, but stating that they are both the same is like comparing a river to a brook or a stream, one is small and allows for people to easily cross it while the other is big and most likely has the dreaded carp.

you can be logic driven and still understand something, it's just a different point of view, i'm going to be nerdy here for a minute but data from star treck was logic driven, he was more advanced of an a.i. that we will probably have for a while but he still understood.

and now it brings to mind how we as humans understand the world around us, we see in colors and in 3-d. put a ball in front of us and we know it's a ball, we know how much it's going to hurt if we kick it and it's made out of concrete just by looking at it, most of the time. but how do we know how much it's going to way just by looking at it? simply by how it acts can we deduce that the ball is hallow? and if the ball is bounced don't you think you would be able to tell what it was made out of without even touching it based on prior knowledge and experience? how is that any different then what a computer would/could do?

so i was reading simple.wikipedia.com about computers, when i read "computers do not speak english but instead speak a multitude of different languages. anyways i'm probably am going to be slapped in the face by many programmers for this but why can't we teach computers english as a programming code?

i mean the diversity of the english language alone is enough to properly explain what i would believe to be most if not all of a computers action, and then there are languages like Chinese which has over 4000 characters.

so why can't we just build a terminal that can decide what code is needed to follow through with the english command? it would probably make programming a lot more easier for newbies but i would imagine trip up the more weary of us.

i guess i would just rather tell a computer to "make an emulator, now make it dual processor compatible." then actually tell it a long list of codes to first make the emulator then make it multi processor compatible. i can't wait for freaking A.I.

i probably do underestimate how much it takes to make an mmo, but at the same time i don't need you to shoot me down the second that i even bring up the idea.

sure the game's content would stagnate but name one mmo that hasn't over it's time, i mean even WoW is stagnating and people are moving on. but at least this way it would have a chance for the players to create something new and then show it off to the world in a way that isn't a recorded video.

at some point no matter what toady does this game will become too big for just him, i would rather see him implement a bigger set-up at a stage where it won't be too much trouble for him in the long run. i mean as is how many suggestions that are original, and aren't already in the plan, are actually implemented into the game.

even if the game doesn't morph to be an mmo or even multiplayer compatible it will stagnate sooner or later, then what's going to happen? make another chapter? it'll be extremely hard to top this as is.

i second this, i usually have to have 20 dwarves trained to be marksdwarfs just to get atleast five to cover the main gate at all times. the others are usually indulging in sleep, food, and beer, i mean really who needs crap like that.

and with the water skins and backpacks to carry food i could see this actually becoming a very reasonable implementation in the future.

i really liked the zoom feature and the easy resizing, i could see it being used just take a quick look at what you've made fortress wise...

 i had a little trouble with the designation menu but i found this could be fixed by clicking the menu bar (the one outside of dwarf fortress with the windows start menu) so maybe that could be causing something to go awry, idk what though.