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Messages - Gavinfoxx

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Anyone ever made a fortress that takes its look from the prefab forts?
« on: September 12, 2010, 11:44:35 pm »
Huh, that's interesting... so how would one make a fortress actually inspired by this, and have it be workable and defensible and productive? What can be done, hmmm...

Anyone have a good seed with a great, extensive example of some of the pregen forts, which are very very easy to explore with an adventurer, or easy to extract with some program?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Anyone ever made a fortress that takes its look from the prefab forts?
« on: August 12, 2010, 01:20:37 pm »
If any of you guys like the idea of "taking as much of the original designs as is feasible, and making that the theme of your fortress, of course changing for defense and stuff", I would LOVE to see some posted images or uploads (like to that webpage that lets you scroll around the entire map) of that...

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Anyone ever made a fortress that takes its look from the prefab forts?
« on: August 12, 2010, 12:21:09 pm »
Guys, what about my original question??

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Anyone ever made a fortress that takes its look from the prefab forts?
« on: August 10, 2010, 09:21:35 am »
So has anyone ever managed to figure out how a nice/complete version of these pregen forts is SUPPOSED to look, fully?  And posted that online anywhere??

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Anyone ever made a fortress that takes its look from the prefab forts?
« on: August 10, 2010, 07:13:18 am »
What about putting the entrance at the end of one of those long halls?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Anyone ever made a fortress that takes its look from the prefab forts?
« on: August 10, 2010, 05:50:05 am »
Yes, I know the prefab fortresses TOTALLY SUCK, and the 'computer' is not playing the same game that dwarf fortress mode is...

...BUT...

has anyone ever made a WORKING fortress that takes the basic 'look' and some of the basic layout concepts from those prefab dwarf forts that you find in adventure mode? With some modifications, of course, but having a good, quality fortress that takes as much inspiration from the prefab forts as possible? Is this a worthwhile goal?  If so, has anyone posted screenshots of this sort of fort?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Finding good spots in Pregen .33f maps?
« on: December 17, 2007, 08:24:00 pm »
Well... go find or put a good .33f map up somewhere and get to it!

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Finding good spots in Pregen .33f maps?
« on: December 17, 2007, 06:09:00 pm »
Yea... worlds with places that are good on, you know, slow computers... which is why one would use a pregen map rather than a seed...

Also, some help with people actually building simple, efficient, low-dwarf-count fortresses in these places so newbies can get used to copying them to figure out how to do things...

[ December 17, 2007: Message edited by: Gavinfoxx ]


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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Finding good spots in Pregen .33f maps?
« on: December 17, 2007, 06:00:00 pm »
Hi, where can I find some good pregenerated .33f maps? The only one I could find was Tar Thran here:
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/worlds.html

Where is the best spot for a very very very new to the current version of DF on that map, and also, where are some other saved .33f maps and good spots on them? Thanks!


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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: A nice little seed
« on: December 17, 2007, 11:14:00 pm »
So what are the best non adamantine weapon/armor materials you can find here? Can you at least make Bronze? Iron?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Using Crossbows in Mellee
« on: March 11, 2007, 11:19:00 pm »
yes they use hammering skill...

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Road help
« on: March 11, 2007, 06:38:00 pm »
The idea of the road is to do a road to the trade depot, not a road to the rest of your fortress...

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Road help
« on: March 11, 2007, 02:12:00 pm »
what's to the right of the road? where is the trade depot? is all the stuff between the trade depot and the road smoothed?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Post your massive fort savegames here!
« on: March 16, 2007, 05:45:00 pm »
The road is supposed to go directly to the trade depot! Thats the only use of the road... to the trade depot, lol...

quote:
Originally posted by mikefictiti0us:
<STRONG>I usually abandon my forts within the first few years due to my dislike of the design and such.

My current fort is most definitely my "baby" though. I'm only up to summer of the third year, with 51 dwarves, but I've accomplished a lot of work in that time. I'm fixing up a castle for the "true" nobles and the King, so when they eventually arrive, years from now, everything will be ready for them. Haven't really focused on the economy or mass production yet, but that will be the next step I take once I get more workers.
I'll post the save once I've done more work on it.

       

[ March 16, 2007: Message edited by: mikefictiti0us ]</STRONG>


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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Post your massive fort savegames here!
« on: March 15, 2007, 02:39:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by qwip:
<STRONG>I've got a series of savegames from which I can try to post the fortress screenshots. It's not as pretty as some others' fortresses, but if you're really as stuck as you claim, this might help.

Also, check out my fortress planning template in Excel on the wiki. (And quick, because Toady's about to change the cliff face from vertical to fractal!) You can practice you layouts using the template, figuring out where to mine in the early years that will still support your grand designs later.

[ March 13, 2007: Message edited by: qwip ]</STRONG>

Qwip, go ahead and post whatever you have!  :)


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