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My vote goes towards the "Surveyor" noble. Once he/she arrives, you get a new designation in the menu: Survey. This is placed on visible wall spaces and from there can see a few spaces in to the mountain.

Sounds interesting.  :)

The thought of spear-armed dwarves riding armored elephants is oddly appealing to me. But armoring dogs and cats is way overdoing it.

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4. GRS (gnomish rail system) Put gnomes in the game. Once trade is established with the gnomes you can buy recipes for all the parts you need to build a fully functional rail system. Construction of the rail system would be very expensive in terms of the amount of steel required, plus it runs on coal and/or firewood. Also since it is gnomish it tends to spend about half its time being repaired, but when it does work it can carry virtually limitless amounts of freight between specially made depots allowing you to get that huge pile of food from next to the farm wayy over to your new dining hall on the other end of the map. The depots would be configurable so that you could specify what goes on / comes off the train at each stop. Example: depot A lets dwarves pile food there, when the train comes along all food goes on it, at depot B the food is dumped off and ore is loaded (it acts as an ore pile) Depot C is configured to unload the ore from the train and load up ammo, which is then dumped at depot A.  

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Uhhh... no? Do we really need another cliched fantasy creature in this game? Oh, and handcarts and such have already been suggested and are on the dev list.

[ May 19, 2007: Message edited by: Gaulgath ]

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Originally posted by Capntastic:
<STRONG>Pretty sure he's joking, guys.</STRONG>

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I considered that, but then decided that it would be so unfunny if he actually was joking that it had to be serious.

Looking back, I guess I was wrong. My point still stands, however!

I'm going to have to give this idea a thumb down. It just seems... pointless. And I can't imagine being able to combine two artifacts of different items together to create something that would be any more useful or interesting. You mention dwarves creating jewel encrusted rocks to fix this, but that just makes things even worse. I would be severely disappointed if a fey dwarf made something like that, regardless of whether it could make a mega-artifact. Not to mention that that is pointless in itself. If it essentially another component in an artifact (except decorated) then it really isn't worth the effort to add.

[ April 07, 2008: Message edited by: Gaulgath ]

[ April 07, 2008: Message edited by: Gaulgath ]

I think the main problem with this (it's been discussed before) is that it will need some kind of pathfinding rewrite to work. Of course, I could be completely wrong, in which case Toady or some other more informed poster will correct me.

I think you definately should be able to at least try to fight the demon in fortress mode. It would have to have some dramatic introduction or something, too. Like, you're happily mining adamantine when suddenly:

A great fire is spreading through the tunnels! Flee!

And we're talkin' a wall of fire engulfing your mining operations. This would merely set the stage for the big fight, however. Once the demon is spotted:

A mighty demon has been unleashed from it's prison! All is lost!

Obviously, it starts annhialiting everything in sight. I think the demon should be made more powerful altogether, really. So even your best dwarves don't stand much of a chance. If you do fail to stop it, it should start unleashing hell on the overworld. Sending out minor demons and such, and this could make adventure mode seriously interesting.

Just my $.02.