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I find Genesis mod is pretty fun too. The numerous added races really adds a lot of potential siegers, resulting in a lot of more fun. It really depends on your playstyle though, since breaching the caverns really quickly, and digging deep can unleash a lot of fun cavern monsters and Forgotten Beasts.

Or yes, make titans show up as soon as dorfy-ly possible.

I get murdered every year by Beastmen(I like using Halberds, so my Dwarves aren't all that great with their weapons before the Sieges,) so I designed something new for me.
My Fortress is completely weaponized. Anything that steps in there, shall do it with the full knowledge that they are about to die. And it won't be slow; it won't be painless, it'll be slow, agonizing death. Those siegers will have to continue on as their brethren fall to trap upon trap; gallons of water, falling on their heads. Hallways, trapping them in and flooding with Magma. And when finally, they reach their destination, twenty angry, drunken Dwarves with Halberds.

How it is that dwarves always arrive at the location at the exact same season no matter how far away they are?

Quote from: Grumbledwarfskin on October 03, 2011, 10:49:07 am

Doesn't ammo always get destroyed if it hits its target? That might negate the effectiveness of babies as ammo. Especially if you give your marksdwarves training targets.

You could mod in a training baby ammo. It would require bones and leather to make.

Um, I don't know what version of the Game you're playing, but if the ammo hits the target, it doesn't get destroyed.

My only OCDness is that I want to create a Fortress dedicated to building a giant Beard. From natural Rock.
And then calling it the Beard of Armok, and launching it straight at Hell.

Now, if only we had a way to mod a Crossbow to shoot babies.

My god..
..What if we linked EVERY computer-system in the world to an Android..
..And then made all of their software compatible with one-another..
..We could use Dwarf-Fortress coding to build ANYTHING!!

Quote from: Necro910 on September 30, 2011, 07:59:03 pm

The AI Singularity is nigh! All bow before The Great Machine!

Yeah up until some guy tries to run DF on it and the whole thing melts into a giant pile of goop due to the processing power required.

"Hey, we've invented a supercomputer capable of running everything in the world!"
"Let's run Dwarf Fortress on it!"
*Two hours later*
"Crap, we've got HFS spilling in, a siege invading, and all of our 200 Dwarves hiding in seclusion from both of us! On top of that, there's an army of Badgers outside, and at least 30 waterfalls running!"
"We'll be fine, it's a-" Crash "-Super..Computer."

Quote from: Necro910 on September 29, 2011, 09:47:03 pm

Death: Indeed. You're going to die anyway, why not have it mean something?

But this is the thing that so many people fail to realize these days is that with current technology rates death is no longer a set in stone thing. With the current trends for advances in not only medical technology but across technology as a whole, the current younger generations (teens + early twenties, maybe all of the way up to the early thirties if they live right) can actually live to reach the point where technology is increasing their lifespan at a rate faster than 1 second per second. This would then result in a pseudo-immortal life, where it is impossible to die of old age. I know that it sounds crazy and many of you are going "but what about this?" But please hear me out before you judge me. Currently trends in technology ranging from computers to medicine to rockets are all showing the same thing, that not only is the level of technology increasing, but the rate that the level of technology is increasing as well. The trends are all quadratic!

Unfortunately for humans however, we have always had rather linear minds. When a person is trying to hit a target with a spear or a gun, they track a linear distance ahead of the target and fire. When a person thinks in terms of advancement this same restriction applies. We think that "we got this much done in 10 years, so hopefully we will get the same amount done in the next 10 years as well", a thought that while usually helpful, is dead wrong for the trends in current society. Instead we should be thinking like "we got this much done in 10 years, using these new advancements we should be able to get at least double this amount done in the next 10 years". And it's proven true so far. Currently knowledge (as measured in scholarly papers) is showing this doubling trend in just about every field out there right now and is expanding exponentially.

The crazy thing though? Most of these trends still continue even if you trace them as far back as the 1800's, sometimes even farther. The only reason that people thought that knowledge growth was linear then was that the increases were still so small at the time that the doubling was occurring much slower. The ideas sound crazy but if you manage to think past your linearly-programmed mind and realize the quadratic equations that apply to reality you manage to absorb so many crazy facts like that in 2045 we manage to invent a computer that is smarter then we are (give or take 10 years to account for errors, TIME magazine ran an article on this if you don't believe me). Combine that trend into the current trends in the medical fields and you get the pseudo-immoral life I was talking of earlier, where death becomes a thing that only happens with accidents or choice, and it's going to happen well within the lives of many currently alive today. (I can cite sources for most of this if you really want me to)

Anyways sorry for the big blocks of text. Pirates are cool and all that though I'm not sure how well a government of them would apply to large groups of people (Arson, pillaging, murder, and arson!).

Edit: On that last note though, I think that having a greatly increased average lifespan would also greatly increase our hatred and bias towards murderers. If you imagine the average lifespan of a human being 800 years instead of 80, that means that your average murder victim (average age for murder victims circa '98 was ~29) goes from being a younger adult into being the somewhat equivalent of a 2.9 year old. How do you think it would make you feel if every single murder was the killing of a 2-4 year old kid? I think that that should help cut down on some of the killing at least should the world dissolve into chaos.

I'm sorry, but my Linear mind states to me that Time magazine has been lying to me for the past TEN years, and PROBABLY won't stop in the NEXT ten years.