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Don't worry guys, he teleported into the ceiling! Haha, good thing I'm putting off trying this till it's finished. This looks too incredible of a project to pass up in the future. I've wondered what it'd be like to come face-to-face with 895. I'm interested to see how they'll implement it.

That sometimes happens when you wish for something or edit your save file to add items.

I did just delete the entire save and start a fresh character on the new build, so I'm not sure if that's it.

Quote from: Lectorog on April 25, 2012, 08:54:48 pm

All sorts of new and fun things. Firstly, who is this:

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He shows up on the loading screens sometimes.

It's possible that's a Nobody, but since the game focuses on the SCP's themselves i think it's more likely that's SCP-990.

The Founder, perhaps? Such a vague picture could be any number of things, really, considering the universe this is in.

I'm seeing these circlejerk threads more often lately. Not sure what that means, if anything.

It just means new people feel entitled to spout off that they're better than x community. It's the cool thing to do on any forum.

Well, if we go by how long it's taken him to do what he's done so far.. I remember it took about a year to go from 2d to 2d+ [.23 to .27], and then it took 2d+ another year of development and optimizing to be ready for the nearly 2-year gap between versions .28 and .31, leading us to Z-axis [3d] DF. It's been a couple years since that point, and Toady has added huge amounts, so now the version is .34 and bound to keep going up in the near future as he adds main features (which are recognized with the first xx.00's of the version, if I remember correct).

So if we go by this rate, it'll be approximately 50 or so years. Maybe 35 if he hits quick bits of development near the end, but otherwise don't keep your hopes up. And as stated, it's an evolving project and the version numbers are mostly for Toady to keep track of his own devlog so one person's 1.0 could be another person's .1.

I mean, it's almost been 7 years now and I've only seen a good 5-10% of the game be completed.

The topic name speaks for itself, what was your first experience of complete and total FUN of a fortress?

My first time was embarking in the ancient v23 of DF. I spent my first few games fumbling around with the controls and dying to elephants on my second non-abandoned fort. But after I found out how to dig into the mountain, I was ajoy. Skip to about five minutes later and reading the wiki much more, I managed to reach the river and almost lost my original miner.

Now, this is where I thought 'Hey, I can just use this river as a moat, right?' And I quickly dug a 1-tile corridor to make the 'channel' I assumed would do the moat job. I managed to build the channel, killing a miner because I started from the LEFT going to the right. I attach a floodgate randomly to a piece of the channel which reached outside, but realize it's a bas position for some reason and decide to remove it.

Queue water flooding the whole world because the destroyed floodgate 'released' the water held in the channel. Goddamnit. *Abandons* I had just read Boatmurdered before that and now knew the meaning of 'fucking the world.' Albeit with more soggy doom than fire. I doubt I was the only one to have this happen as well! Magma/Water physics were highly dangerous before real pressures were implemented.

I still wait for the ancient Powergoal of Trollball to come to realization.