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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: is it possible to have a game with no other civilizations?
« on: July 16, 2009, 05:00:24 pm »
it's possible to gen worlds with no other civs. I've had one where the only civs were 7 dwarven ones
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Limit on how much stuff you can trade?
« on: July 16, 2009, 01:43:23 pm »
most likely one of the merchants took his sweet time getting there. Happened to me once, where a single wagon took a month to get to the Depot and as soon as he got there they left.
Must have been all the metal and stone I ordered...
Must have been all the metal and stone I ordered...
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Question regarding specific negative thoughts.
« on: July 16, 2009, 12:09:36 pm »
it was a single bolt! it would be less making a pincushion out of them and more the marksdwarves running off to find more ammo, or worse, attempt to bludgeon the dragon to death.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Question regarding specific negative thoughts.
« on: July 15, 2009, 07:04:03 pm »
single masterwork defacement is one of the largest. Had a legendary weaponsmith almost kill himself when I melted one of his masterwork iron bolts down. The horror!
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Wooden weapons?
« on: July 15, 2009, 11:46:33 am »
when you live in trees, you can't really forge anything. They need something to fight with or every Elven war would devolve quickly into slapping sessions
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Animal shortage?
« on: July 13, 2009, 04:56:58 pm »
limit your hunters to 1 or they'll hunt everything to extinction in very short order
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Human siege help.
« on: July 12, 2009, 03:43:01 pm »
tunnel up from underneath them
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Dwarven forest retreat
« on: July 12, 2009, 03:41:02 pm »Elves are usless hippies. So are enviormentalist IRL. The dwarves taking over elves is good for all us players(my wood industry will not be drawn back by some tree huggers!)
useless? they brought me a breeding pair of jaguars!
I fully intend on having fleets of war jaguars roaming the fields outside my fort!
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Funny Times on DF
« on: July 12, 2009, 02:20:59 pm »
I recently added orcs to my game since I wasn't satisfied with the "threat" that gobbos provided. Needlessly to say, my first few forts were smashed to pieces.
My latest fort has a pressure-activated retracting bridge over a pool of water. When the first siege came, it wasn't ready yet. The pit's next to a brook and I hadn't enclosed the area yet, just built the 3 walls to put pressure plates on. So orcs would come barreling up, onto the bridge, it'd give way and they'd fall. Took no damage, so they got back up again while the rest just hung around at the ledge, watching them. Well sometimes a leader would fall. And then the whole horde would leave the bridge entrance and flood down to the pit. They'd get their act together and then come barreling back up again, and then fall. All the meanwhile, I am cackling.
I'd say they went at it like this for a good month, until eventually one or two of quicker ones made across or went flying into my open doorway when the bridge fell. They then decimated my very green military. Unsatisfied, I savescummed.
Took me 3 or 4 reloads to get past that siege. I eventually resorted to making some crossbows and bolts, equipping my wrestlers with them and letting them go to town on the ones that hadn't fallen into the now completed pit.
On the plus side, the assembly is now complete, and thins out their numbers very nicely. Nothing like dropping a bunch of orcs into a cistern to let them drown. I'm just disappointed in how poorly water pushes things.
My latest fort has a pressure-activated retracting bridge over a pool of water. When the first siege came, it wasn't ready yet. The pit's next to a brook and I hadn't enclosed the area yet, just built the 3 walls to put pressure plates on. So orcs would come barreling up, onto the bridge, it'd give way and they'd fall. Took no damage, so they got back up again while the rest just hung around at the ledge, watching them. Well sometimes a leader would fall. And then the whole horde would leave the bridge entrance and flood down to the pit. They'd get their act together and then come barreling back up again, and then fall. All the meanwhile, I am cackling.
I'd say they went at it like this for a good month, until eventually one or two of quicker ones made across or went flying into my open doorway when the bridge fell. They then decimated my very green military. Unsatisfied, I savescummed.
Took me 3 or 4 reloads to get past that siege. I eventually resorted to making some crossbows and bolts, equipping my wrestlers with them and letting them go to town on the ones that hadn't fallen into the now completed pit.
On the plus side, the assembly is now complete, and thins out their numbers very nicely. Nothing like dropping a bunch of orcs into a cistern to let them drown. I'm just disappointed in how poorly water pushes things.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Iron ores and volcanism (world gen/need a map)
« on: July 12, 2009, 02:10:04 pm »
i don't mean there were a lot of rejects. There were only 9 or so rejects and then it just chugged along slowly for the rest of the gen.
Legends took a good 10-15 minutes. Went to year 300 and the only civ left were dwarves and there was 7 of them. I found that odd since I added Orcs and they're tough bastards.
Legends took a good 10-15 minutes. Went to year 300 and the only civ left were dwarves and there was 7 of them. I found that odd since I added Orcs and they're tough bastards.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Iron ores and volcanism (world gen/need a map)
« on: July 11, 2009, 11:57:51 am »I've never had many rejects jacking up the number of volcanos. I think my last world was 6 rejects.
I just tried this for kicks and dear lord is it taking a long time to gen.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Puke City
« on: July 11, 2009, 11:27:06 am »
Urist McDwarf has been comforted by a vomitfall today.
Urist McStupid has drowned in vomit.
Urist McStupid has drowned in vomit.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: catless vermin solution?
« on: July 09, 2009, 08:54:31 pm »just atom smash them
You have to build new traps then
and?
trapper skill is trapper skill
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: catless vermin solution?
« on: July 09, 2009, 07:16:19 pm »
just atom smash them
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Buildings List & Food Stockpile Question
« on: July 09, 2009, 01:43:51 pm »
take a look at the red building with the q menu and a white one and see if there's any notable differences. you're venturing into uncharted territory here!