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Quote from: Eldin00 on April 29, 2015, 01:10:55 am

Quote from: Diamond on April 28, 2015, 06:01:05 am

Quote from: Eldin00 on April 27, 2015, 02:16:46 pm

"DF multi-player" takes 2 basic forms. The community fortress, where a group of people make suggestions or discuss what to do, but only one person is actually at the controls. And the succession fortress, where people take turns being at the controls.

And then there is DFTerm. Few years ago we in Russian DF community had a lot of fun with it, though it has few problems and needs to be tweaked to work with latest version.

DFTerm (and similar things like webfort) essentially just provide a convenient way to do what are essentially succession forts without having to pass a save around.

There's a big difference between playing for fifteen minutes or less while other players watch and chat, and playing for a year each with no real communication beyond AAR type posts.

True. I also remember a (more recent) fort running around 20 real-time days with all pauses removed, with people connecting and doing stuff whenever they want, and contingency plan in form of a walled-in vampire and autobackups. It was quite an experience.
The only two problems were occasional griefing and backspace button not working.

"DF multi-player" takes 2 basic forms. The community fortress, where a group of people make suggestions or discuss what to do, but only one person is actually at the controls. And the succession fortress, where people take turns being at the controls.

And then there is DFTerm. Few years ago we in Russian DF community had a lot of fun with it, though it has few problems and needs to be tweaked to work with latest version.

They are the same in terms of weight.
Consider removing breastplates (if you have chain mails) and if you use metal shields replace them with wood (featherwood if possible), until your military is properly trained.

Well, iron bolts never were good against armor, especially steel and higher. Use silver or copper for better results.

Well, I upload best (most fun) fortresses to df map archive, and go through them once in a while.
There were some that died an FPS death, I feel kind of sad that I don't have saves left now that I got decent PC, though.

That's why you build fortifications.

Fortifications do not stop dwarves from going out anymore. Not even dodging through them, they just simply go through.

They climb down the walls to drink and/or wash probably. Or, if there is no alternative route and they have something to do outside, like plant gathering or wood hauling, they WILL try to climb and swim.