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Your only 4 years into it, what do you expect, goblins dont come till at least year 10..

Modders... psh... toady designed this game, he updates it. Anyone elses updates/mods are heretical and they deserve to be burned! This is not how the game was meant to be played!!   :mad:

Perhaps it is -you- who has created the problem. Perhaps there are too many boots to choose from, and he is in an endless loop of deciding and redeciding which pair he wants... Way to go... your soldiers are going to all become gays and women by the end of the week   :p

Nobles are, for the most part, a liability. The only nobles that are even slightly helpful are the ones that let you see what things are worth, and the one that lets you chasm and melt things directly. Everyone else is just... there... and if they die, you lose immigration waves. The sherrif and hammerer are equally useless. 95% of the time, they imprison (AND OR BEAT TO NEAR DEATH) dwarves for milk-spill accidents that you otherwise would have dismissed or not even noticed. Not once in my 40 combined game years of governing fortresses have i EVER seen a dwarf recover back to normal after being hammered or hit from the sherrif.

And the 5% of the time they arrest someone dangerous, you probably could have brought them down your self with your personal army, and faster too since you can directly choose which of your dwarves would do it.

Even when they do arrest a dangerous dwarf, it doesn't matter, because if they've gotten so unhappy they are a danger to the community then imprisoning them is only making it worse (difficult for dwarves to sleep on rough stone, dwarves late on delivering food and water, depression from imprisonment).

All in all, you might as well declare the "Golden Age" of dwarves -over- when you see that first, purple happy face pop up on the far west side of your kingdom.....

[ March 26, 2007: Message edited by: ColonelTEE3 ]

I started a new fort where im not allowing any digging whatsoever, and so our homes are made out of wood.

The base first floor of the structure is a simple rectangle. But when i was constructing the second level, it gave me the option to build wooden floors hanging over the edge, where there were no walls to support it, only the floor adjacent?

What is the extent to which i can build floors without supports, hanging in the air? Is it the same 9x9? Could i theoretically fill the entire sky with support-less wooden floors??

Do you mean outside of the mountain? Like the waterfall is hiding the window from the rest of the mountain and the baroness would look out into the waterfall?

That might be cool, i kinda thought it would be neat if it was clear though, because then she would be looking over my city, governing it, from high above in her place of power.

On a side note, the game crashed after a long time of playing, i lost alot of progress >.<

I'm making a very ornate room for my baroness' throne room thats going to be 2 stories tall. And by that, i mean that, if a dwarf were to look up, they would see the ceiling at the second z level above him, rather than immediately above him. I have continuing supports going from 1 z level on the same space as the second z level. It's being build at the edge of the inside of a mountain, and breaking through a little, where im going to put gem windows, which brings up my first question:

What workshop creates windows made of gem? It wasn't in the glass or magma glass furnace or the jewelers shop.

Another question i had is that if i channel out the top Z level's floor, so that the 2 Z levels will be connected, will it cause any problems?

As for my gem window- will it matter which order of z levels i build them in? Can i build the gem window in the open space breaking out of the mountain on the second story, then build one below it, without anything collapsing or failing?

Does anyone have any advice or see any foreseeable accidents that might occur (am i missing something) ?

Heres a pic of it and a legend

a = second story gem window
b = second story supports
c = first floor supports
d = first floor gem window

First floor http://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gemwindowgs2.png
Second Floor: http://img182.imageshack.us/my.php?image=secondstorymd2.png

[ January 15, 2008: Message edited by: ColonelTEE3 ]

[ January 15, 2008: Message edited by: ColonelTEE3 ]

I had an incident where my well was temporarily out of order, i won't go into details save for the fact that i was determined to save that war dog.

Anyways, they all became super thirsty while waiting (we had no beer   )for it to get fixed, and i saw them start to drink from our muddy brook that used to supply our well. When i got it back up and running, some of them still wouldnt drink from the well, and i got orders of "cancel give water; no water source".

Is this temporary?