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I feel I'm a mixture of all three. I want to ACHIEVE. I want to build crazy stuff like an automated sewer flushing mechanism, and housing according to some brain-fart concept (Constructionist), but it's all meaningless if there's not some challenge getting in the way. I get bored if the game doesn't keep throwing challenges at me, even if it's simply something like how to provide enough food and goods to keep an ever expanding fortress happy (Gamist), while I build. And if the challenges prove to be insane, yet I have a tiny chance if only I play smart? Awesome; I'm winning as long as I'm not losing, but losing needs to be a possibility for me.

But a HUGE part of the fun is seeing stories/events unfold, discovering what the game has to offer and telling my friends about 'this crazy thing that happened in DF the other day' (explorer? Or Simulationist).

this is something I am interested in, and I even have a great gift to send, but I'm not sure anybody would be willing to send all the way to India.

I wouldn't be so sure. For many countries, sending internationally is the same rate wherever. I for example have only differing rates for national pakkages, EU packages, and outside-EU packages.

I like the caverns; the very idea that once you have your fort started and start exploring the underworld, you run into caverns filled with new beasties, threats and resources. It's a different place for wildlife to roam, for invasions to take place, a different place to set up camp, or even potentially finding other civilizations (seeing 'Unknown Olmman civilization' on my civs screen just screams potential).

And I like how there's much more action. Makes me wish the military was more (easily) controllable, but I never had sieges this dangerous come so fast, and in 0.28 I've never had a megabeast, now I seem to get them every year (which admittedly would be a bit too much if megabeasts were hard to kill, instead of too easy OR unkillable).

Usually I do the boring stuff:
-1 tile entrance into a hill side
-trade depot on the surface, eventually mostly surrounded by a wall
-3 tile hallways with rooms of the side (proper rooms with doors tho), or large storage areas with the workshops around it (again: in seperate rooms)
-legendary dining hall
-3/4 tile rooms not too far away. Try to always give people engraved rooms with coffers and cabinets, but now I get the 'rent' thing..
-barracks/dormitory next to hallway at the entrance
-shaft downward some way further into my fortress, but never straight down for too long, always mixed with a short bit of hallway to the next stairs every 5-10 levels for security reasons.

Last time however I got inspired by the idea of multi-z-level hallways, and wanted to do something like this (local for me) but with more levels. Storage rooms behind the workshops that were off the main hallway.

And I once read on here about a guy doing his low-status sleeping quarters like they were directly above sewers: a canal through which water flowed, topped by grates, and the low-budget housing would be all along the grated hallway. I did a multi-level version hereof. Gave me an idea for a refuse flushing system too.

Quote from: Egregius on May 19, 2010, 06:45:25 pm

Man...first time I got sieged by 27 emu birds and 20 jabberers, all ridden by goblins. And then 8 trolls which I at first didn't notice. Is it so part of the sieging force can arrive after the first 'wave'?

Oh, 4 casualties, and lots of blood. Half the invading force left luckily, don't think I could've taken them all unless the human merchants would help.

You modded in Emus? Badass.

Do you have Dropbears as Semi-Megabeasts?

Alright alright, Elk Birds..

Tbh I always make hybrids: I start underground, but because I like the route to the surface (farms/wood) to be as short as possible, I don't have much of a hallway of Doom. So instead I take to building something defensible above ground (eg entrance gate guardhouse). Or at least I get inspired to do so.

In v0.28 I once started in a human town to open a dwarf restaurant: my sole trade goods were cooked meals. I purposely took a map with a crossroads and no access to stone (due to aquifer), so everything had to be built out of wood. Because I took a 2x2 map for FPS purposes there wasn't much of a forest (legendary woodcutter got through it in no time), and building was SLOW. Making floors and roofs eats up a lot of wood indeed. Luckily, there were pre-made human buildings I could build my dwarf houses in between (saved at least the walls!) and I 'temporarily' borrowed the city hall for stockpiling purposes. Never got around to finishing a defensive wall around the whole town.

Man...first time I got sieged by 27 emu birds and 20 jabberers, all ridden by goblins. And then 8 trolls which I at first didn't notice. Is it so part of the sieging force can arrive after the first 'wave'?

Oh, 4 casualties, and lots of blood. Half the invading force left luckily, don't think I could've taken them all unless the human merchants would help.

What's Kraftwerk got to do with it?