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Other Games / Dwarfs!? - New casual indie game on Steam
« on: May 05, 2011, 05:56:00 pm »
While I normally ignore any game on Steam that promotes itself as casual, the fact that this one has the audacity to compare itself to both Lemmings and Dwarf Fortress drew my attention.  I downloaded the demo, but I only had enough time this evening to play through the tutorials and one unimpressive effort at the tower defense game mode.
First impressions: It isn't really a puzzle game, so the comparison to Lemmings falls short.  It seems like you could get a level of anarchy almost meriting Dwarf Fortress levels, but this is mostly because your ability to direct your dwarves is minimal, and the Dwarves themselves are considerably stupider than DF's own.  It felt like watching an ant farm where the ants don't care if they find food, enemies, or deadly magma.  Still, I haven't tried all the game modes yet.

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DF Suggestions / Improvements for slabs/memorials
« on: November 24, 2010, 01:21:32 pm »
First of all, I'm very pleased with having memorials available.  I found them quite useful at the end of my first winter when seven ice-skating dwarves suddenly plunged to their cold, watery deaths.  However, there are a few areas that could use some polish:

1. In the build menu, I'd like to be able to distinguish between carved memorials (which I want to place) and uncarved slabs (which should remain in storage).  Even better if I can select which memorial by name, so the soldier memorials go in the barracks, the mason memorials go in the work room, the hammerer memorials go in the dungeon, etc.

2. On the carve memorial screen, I'd like some way to know which dwarves already have at least 1 memorial already carved for them.  I carved memorials for Urist McIceskater 1 through 6, got distracted, then had to look at all the finished slabs to figure out the name of Urist McIceskater 7, which I had missed.  Maybe some sort of color-change system like with the room assignment lists would work.

*. For all I know this is already implemented, and my dwarves are too boring/engravers too green to show it - Memorials can include engravings of the memorialized dwarf doing something:
"There is an engraving of Urist McAxedwarf and a goblin.  The goblin is headless.  This refers to Urist's slaying of Snotbox Grumpypants the goblin pikeman in 354."
"There is an engraving of Urist McFarmer and a field.  Urist is laboring.  This refers to Urist becoming a planter in 356."
"There is an engraving of Urist McGemdwarf and Shinyrock the perfect large peridot.  Urist is holding Shinyrock.  This refers to the crafting of Shinyrock by Urist in 372."

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DF Bug Reports / [0.31.01]How-To: Using the Mantis Bug Tracker
« on: April 02, 2010, 09:59:38 am »
I thought I'd start this thread since the tracker seems useful, but it doesn't have a help page.  At least none that I've found.  If there is such a thing, just link here and we'll be done.  Until then, we build our own!

So you found a suspected bug?  Here is basic procedure on Mantis

Searching the bug list:
  • Try filtering by tag for any tags that seem relevant to you issue.  If your issue is just a typo, filter by severity:text.
  • READ the summaries.  Read the full descriptions on any that are not obviously unrelated to your issue.

Posting a bug:
  • Be SURE your bug has not been reported.  Once an issue is posted, we (reporters) cannot delete it.  This is why there are three issues reporting the gender-bending giants bug.
  • Fill out the bug report - severity, summary, description, and steps to reproduce are most important
  • Mention ANY mods, from changed raws, to tilesets/graphics sets, to just changing init.txt values.  GRAPHICS:YES appears to cause trouble, for example.
  • Add tags - look through the preexisting tags first, use those if you can.  We don't want four similar tags if we can have one.  It makes the searching easier.

Notes:
  • You can edit/delete notes. Huzzah!
  • To link to another issue use '#' immediately followed by the issue number.  You can leave out the starting 0s.  Ex: #31

Well, I'll call that a start.  If people find this useful/want more, I'll add to it.  I am also new to Mantis, so if anything here is wrong, let me know.

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