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I've had good luck with Steam as long as it is not a new release. If it's a new release, their bandwidth curls up and dies. After a few days things are OK though.

If I avoid Steam and buy the boxed copy instead I run into a different problem. It seems every time I buy a boxed game, the DRM keeps me from playing, or the game's required update server is down or slow and I can't play for a few days anyway.

So for me the choice is Steam except new releases, or boxed games that I won't be able to play for a few days because their DRM throws a hissy fit or the update server is bogged down and updates are required to play.


Every time I think about playing something besides Dwarf Fortress, I end up remembering the trouble I have with retail games.


Windows Live is a steaming cow pattie though.

Do you have the quickfort for this?

Unfortunately not, I've been designating it by hand. I haven't actually used any of the macros or anything before...

It looks complicated but it's 5 shift-squares, 3 of them overlapping, with some bits cut off.

I'll see about making a macro thingy for it.

Edit: Okay, how do I make macros?   Edit2: Oops thought you meant the internal recording thing. I see Quickfort uses CSV's, those are easy enough.

My third spiral design. #2 was too big, lead to degradation in FPS after a while.  Rotate 90 degrees clockwise each level down.  The large areas are rounded workshop rooms, hopefully the smaller size will help keep pathfinding costs lower.

Other than FPS, the primary advantages of this layout are that, depending on the rotation and state of designation or digging, you can imagine it as a heart, a smiley face, a pair of breasts, a pair of testes, or the International Space Station. Your own personal preferences may come into play too, for example, I see the ISS with a pair of breasts, but maybe that's TMI.

The "solar panels" are bedrooms or small workshop rooms, and the "breasts" are large workshop and stockpile areas. You could make each level a burrow with a small food and drink stockpile if you wanted, too. As you can see, I've made this level a cloth-related level. The stockpile is actually one big stockpile, then with notches cut out for the empty area, and small notches cut out around the dyer's shop for a dye stockpile. The bedrooms on this level haven't been decorated yet.

As you can see, I have a strange mood going on here. Let's hope it turns out well, and produces an actual good artifact, this fort has had precious few of those so far.  Edit: Got a pig tail left glove... Worth 25k.

I'd like to see the oldest bugs fixed first. Persistent bugs bug me the most.

I thought of a waterlock entry way design after seeing a decorative waterfall shove a grown dwarf through a fortification.  Basically a tunnel with fortifications at the end and floor grates just after that to let the water drain away. Set a meeting area at the end of the tunnel, when migrants you want to let in show up, turn on the water to push them into the fort.

I love the graphic for that one.   I can't think of any good achievements yet, when I get some, I'll post them.


Edit: Got one!

Yeah, exactly. Featherwood bins, barrels, and beds all rock.

The Administrator is very concerned that we get a conclusive analysis from today's sample. I gather I went to some lengths to obtain it.