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haha Tamren, back in action.

While dwarves already menace everything they make with spikes, a crossbow bayonet is hardly a quantum leap.  It's effectiveness is what worries me.

If we are gonna discipline our dwarves, I'd rather my marksdwarves would grab more ammo and hold their post (if I forget to stockpile any bolts nearby, no one's fault but my own) like a good ranged unit should, instead of rushing into the fray.  If you'd rather have a single unit capable of both ranged and melee I like the idea of secondary weapons alot.

As it stands, if you do what the dwarven thing like Tamren suggests and make your crossbows out of steel while cross training your makrsdwarves in a couple levels of hammer, they will hit awful hard in melee.  And bludgeon damage is generally more effective against most threats (goblins and undead) where a melee attack with crit boost wouldn't be necessary.

And since we are waxing hypothetical, perhaps dwarven made xbows already have a secondary configuration.  I could easily image a release to fold away the arms transforming the crossbow into more of a hammer.  Which makes perfect sense considering current game mechanics.

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You keep trying to tell me to consider more factors such as terrain and whatever else but the whole point im trying to get across is that all else equal, dwarf and goblin, equal fighting ability, one on one, a dwarf with a crossbow should get obliterated 9 times out of 10 by a weapon armed goblin.

9 out of 10 the crossbow loses?  Hah, I can't image a situation where the goblin would beat a marksdwarve (ignoring game mechanics entirely) would beat a crossbow with nothing but melee unless our melee goblin had a lot of terrain to his advantage, or spawns right on top of the marksdwarf.  Ranged units historically trump infantry on any level playing field.  Need cavalry or an ambush/bad terrain to beat missile troops

I get mostly stone crafts too ... so maybe the odds of Stone/Bone/Wood are altered by what you've been making in your fort.  In my case, I make tons of stone crafts to tidy up the floors, no bone crafts except bolts and no wood crafts at all.

But hey, welcome Krata, and congratulations on the artifacts, first of many.

Pile of wooden logs?

omg stockpile hax

Oh wow. 

I've written parts of 3 new seasonal songs.  I think 1-2 minutes of each, but it's just a time constraint again.  They'll find their way into the game eventually.

Three new songs!  Hope you can maybe dust off some of those tracks in time for the next release?  It is incredible this original track still does the trick, I've never heard anything else like it.  I for one would approve a week's delay in development so you could finish even one more dwarf composition, three would be superdwarvenly cool.

Convert rock into stone blocks at your mason shop.  Stone blocks can be stored in bins.  Can no longer be used as raw materials for the mason shop, but blocks are great for construction.

Wood, just make your stockpile bigger.  If my terrain isn't very dangerous, I make a very large wood pile outdoors and a smaller one indoors near my carpenter.  You can set the smaller stockpile to take from the larger outdoor pile

Aquillion fighting the good fight.

If you want to move forwards at all with a change that offends nearly half the forum to one degree or another, you must provide a strong argument in its favor; "it does not bother me" is not sufficient.  And, likewise, if you feel that you are offering a fair compromise, you should be able to demonstrate it by actually achieving a strong consensus around that compromise; simply claiming that your compromise is fair is not a substitute.

That is the real gasp logic right there.  There has been no evidence giving support to the case that signature images will be in any way beneficial.  Plenty of, argueable, support that they won't be godawful, but no one has given a compelling arguement that they will in anyway positively enchance the forum experience.

And again, its been countered several times before, saying just turn them off is not an effective counter arguement and does nothing to suggest that sig images will have any beneficial impact on the forums.

They are just distracting.  Noone wants commercial banner ads interspersed within their favorite forum, even if they are ads for our favorite companies.  They take up space, waste bandwidth and distract from reading the forum.  From an operational perspective, I can't really define a difference between commercial banner ads and sig image banners.

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Shouldn't the conveying of information be the subject of our posts and not so much our signatures?

Think of the childrens!

Honestly, this line of attack doesn't even make sense.  "You shouldn't be allowed to communicate via a .sig.  You should only communicate via posts!"

Personally, I like to keep important links in my .sig.  That way, they're always available to me and a lot of posts on repetitive questions can be shortened to, "Yes - this works.  Check the link in my .sig for more information."

Information contained in a signature will by off topic to the thread by default.  Any important links and off topic information can be conveyed in 3-6 text.  If 3-6 lines of text is not enough, you should probably consider making a thread to convey that information, replete with images.  You could even make a text link to that thread and include it in your signature.

But milling just seems like fun.  If I just wanted quantity I'd cook more of that booze I mentioned.  Making a million bags isn't so much the problem, it is keeping them from getting seeds put in them that bugs me.  I had an older fort that at alot of quarry bush leaves and I had to be careful about where I put my kitchen in relation to where seeds were being produced, since an empty bag near a seed would soon become a seedbag.