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I have been employing pumps, manually operated in what I call a shunt position, near the pipe. Sucks up magma from the pipe and mold, and sends it out through a constructed walled hallway so it won't overflow as dangerously when the pit underneath is filled to 7/7. (I have had several levers melt, though.)

I think a better way to do all this is likely to create a standard sectional template, formed around 3-wide hallway positions, on all underground z-levels.

(Part of the whole process is digging out each level and sectioning it to be dropped in pieces, so that the calculations don't take all day... but it does take longer to build and link all that stuff.)

If I can combine the sections to drop with natural walls to form the molds, I could probably minimize and standardize fill time per level, as well as the large-scale stone removal (using Dig Deeper, so orthoclase doesn't get melted, sadly. But there's several magma-safe rocks, which is awesome).

I have 15 or more legendary miners, and a few more miners in training, but it does hurt my FPS to generate that much stone. Maybe I should check into dwarf manager/companion to make things more efficient RE: hauling.

By using natural walls, I'd be able to skip the wall building, and then I could dig them out as the middle of three-wide hallways and channel the non-obsidian wall for filling with magma.

That's probably the smartest way to do it. Any other thoughts?

The death happened, and the funeral was taken care of today. as such, I'd love to participate in the next SG, (after PAX).

Quote from: Shrike on August 21, 2009, 02:12:29 pm

Yep. I had a human diplomat squeeze out a baby during one season, which she then left at the fort.

Yikes. What happened to the kid?

She's still there.  Happily growing up in my lake basin, a child already... They grow so fast!

But they don't drink or grow beards, and I'm too busy to trap her.

Yep. I had a human diplomat squeeze out a baby during one season, which she then left at the fort.

"But wait, I have... AMNESIA!"

(lever pulled, magma and elves pour onto father of Urist McAllMyChildren's children)

If you had them training as wrestlers first (a good idea), they may still be carrying things that they grabbed off their opponents, and that will make them unable to fire their crossbows.

Check their inventories, see if they've got anything but crossbows/shields/gloves/gauntlets in their hands,and dump any items that don't fall into the above.

What I find most interesting/sad is how effective lying is.

All of the contention, stalling, and intentional twisting of facts is driving down public opinion. It's remarkably effective, and with the extremists who want to portray Obama as racist, and his administration as being akin to the third reich being 'entertaining' for the news, it only helps to perpetuate the lies and drag it down further.

People are scared, and started treating their healthcare like a sacred cow without understanding what is going on in the current system, and how they're being manipulated. By having a few loud idiots yell about wrong information, and the press deciding to use things like a man screaming at Specter for leaving before he could ask his question (not because he was upset about the bill), and looping it, it influences other people without any basis in fact. Of course the polls keep dropping. This is important, and the opposition is working to run out the clock, for profit or spite.



In short, there's a difference between what "The People" are saying, and what "the loudest" are saying. Sadly, the latter influence the former, because of how the "Lie-beral" media works (again, thanks to the free market). Sensationalism sells better than fact, and is easier to churn out because you don't have to do any research.