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Originally posted by Scribble:
[QB]I rather feel that obsidian swords are a little too good at present and might be better being downgraded to 'iron' strength instead ... and maces.

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1. Obsidian weapons are too good right now because they dont break. The greatest asset of Obsidian is that it's capable of sharpening itself with each cut. However, this is also it's greatest weakness; it will eventually sharpen itself down to nothing.

2. It's volcanic glass. Any excessive compression (or was it tension, when dealing with glass?) will cause it to shatter into useless (and dangerous) pieces. Thus, maces of obsidian would be as useful and as long-lived as a glass vase /lamp in a melee. Maybe not immediately, but eventually it would destroy itself; without a chance to reuse the peices.

[ November 20, 2006: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

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Originally posted by RubberDuckofDoom:
==Alchemy: I definitely want to see Aqua Regia ... (Hydrochloric) ... Nitric Acid ... Oil of Vitriol (Sulphuric Acid)

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[As well, alot of the stuff you suggested is probably aready in the lifecycle, magic, and other arcs. But still, it's always nice to have them suggested.]

[ December 18, 2007: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

That way you can designate the spaces over your tables as "restricted" and the spaces over your chairs and other furniture as "low traffic"

It shouldn't be too hard to allow the game to give you the option in the init folder to set at what weight a tile will automatically designate itself as a different traffic flow level...

[AUTOTRAFFICDESIGNATE:NO]
[HIGHTRAFFICWEIGHT:0]
[MEDTRAFFICWEIGHT:250]
[LOWTRAFFICWEIGHT:750]
[RESTRICTEDWEIGHT:1250]
[BEDTRAFFIC:NO]
[DOORTRAFFIC:NO]
[PILETRAFFIC:YES]
[FURNITURETRAFFIC:YES] //anything that isn't a door or bed
[CORPSETRAFFIC: YES] //like loose bodies, parts, bones, etc, outside a stockpile
[RESOURCETRAFFIC:YES] //as above, but for stone, ore, bars, gems, wood, etc
[FINISHEDGOODSTRAFFIC:NO] //as above, but for finished goods, arms/armor, clothing, etc
[OTHERTRAFFIC:NO] //as above, but for everything else

Settings like that, which allow the game to precisely monitor and respond to weight changes in an area, and auto-designate with the proper traffic setting.
[Obviously, creatures shouldn't count, otherwise you'll end up with an absolutely horrifying situation when the dwarf picks up a chainmail and plate armor...]

[ August 01, 2007: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

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Originally posted by Tamren:
1 is a blade for a microtome
2 and 4 are "blades" for industrial cutting tools
3 is a surgeons scalpel

None of these have anything to do with a sword blade. 1 and 3 would do jack shit against a metal plate and can be broken with a pair of pliars.

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Lets also not forget that the majority of the "Diamond blades" out there arn't actually blades, but are instead peices of steel which have been impregnated with diamond powder. There are two types of cuts. Cuts that are made by grinding material A against material B, and then there are cuts that are made by pushing pointed/edged object A THROUGH object B. Since it's already been established that if you try to do the former, the gemstone will snap and/or shatter into peices like a cheap peice of glass, so that the only remaining way for a diamond to "cut" is to GRIND its way through the object.
IE, like a Chainsaw, not a sword

Also, this is one step away from being a transit-system suggestion because of the rails.  :p

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Originally posted by Tallim:
And then Pumice can float lol

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"Oh look! A rough pumice stone floor!"
{step}
*glub*

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Originally posted by Toady One:
My main concern for the release is to avoid outpost placement in areas where death by dehydration is inevitable, at least without a warning.

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This would make every accessable map tile viable, so long as the player can survive long enough to dig downwards, and once he does find the tile and open it, the job would then begin of setting up the system to allow for farming... If nothing grows 10 levels below the surface, then the player would have to set something up to pump (or drag with buckets) that liquid up to that minimal
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As well, having an infinite source of water or lava or trash disposal should come with the obvious price of combatting whatever crawls out from those sources. As well, the obvious downside to using pumps is that they can be destoryed, and can only provide a limited amount of liquid at a time. It may eventually become necessary that the player setup specialist military squads for the express purpose of protecting the pumps, and the people that replace them. "Going downstairs to fix the water supply" could become a very hazardous but ultimately necessary venture for the player to perform possibly every season...

Something like in the Day of the Dead movie, where the missile silo apparently has a huge tunnel system which has a barricade constructed on the silo side, for the express purpose of selectively collecting the zombies that remain in that area... Only that now instead of a rear exit, there'd be a natural fresh-water spring, and where the ravenous undead zombies were, are now equally ravenous water/lava/chasm creatures.

[And of course, any 3 of the above floor types would also relate to a specific demon pit type, so any attempt to even get a infinte source of liquid or infinite drain would be dangerous. Damp floors = Demon frogs. Warm floors = Fire demons. Cavernous floors = Tentacle demons, or any combination of demon.]
[Edit 2 - The chasm could also be pre-filled with water or lava, allowing a bucket of the stuff to be hauled up (though you'd get double the trouble as water/lava AND chasm creatures B_ F_ you)]

[ July 27, 2007: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]