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HEY GUYS I AM ALIVE DID YOU MISS ME OR EVEN REMEMBER ME



everything is new and scary and different and I am intimidated, someone hold me

asfghn are you bussy with the fort.
is that the reason its taking so long

It's taking so long because my computer started overheating and shutting down periodically by itself yesterday, which made it really hard to play DF for any length of time.

seriously, it was awful—it would shut down with no warning or fanfare, just suddenly go black and dead—and if I tried to turn it on again right away it should shut off again within two or three seconds
[edit] any computer experts know what could have caused that? I thought it might have been a virus, but my disk scans clean, and it kind of sounds more like an overheating issue anyway... thoughts?

It's being good today though, so I should have an update ready and posted sometime this afternoon/evening! LOOK FORWARD TO IT, DESU DESU

Come on, start training militia! Don't forget it's Genesis you are playing, invaders come in the winter or in the spring in most cases.

You know, in the year or so I've been playing Genesis, I've never actually been sieged.
Granted, my forts usually only last about three years at the most until I lose interest, but I've definitely never gotten an invasion in either the first or second year Do I just have bad luck?

...but then I guess with this skeleton crew I should be knocking on wood 8<



Update tomorrow afternoon/evening (I'm on GMT -7, I think). I have some screencaps taken, but I have too bad a headache tonight to do a decent write-up, and a doctor's appointment to get up early for tomorrow. 

To heck with you Daff, I'm building myself the most pimped-out tomb ever! \m/




Nah, I kid. I'll do my best! T^T if my tomb isn't done yet it's up to you to finish it 'k

Also, is there anyone who still needs/wants dorfing? I say we ought to keep a list that maybe Slax can keep up on the OP for easy reference, in a spoiler or something.

Here is a very easy way to do it. It requires very little resources, it is quick to build too.

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...okay, Elone? You're awesome and I think I love you.



And I'm writing you a reply email and getting on MSN, so don't think I'm mad at you!

Also may I suggest a moat? We have a river => plenty of water.

Oh man, if Melkor doesn't get around to this in his turn, I'll give it a try in mine. I've never actually built one before, so it will !!FUN!! an adventure

Quote from: Conflict on April 23, 2011, 12:34:49 am

Melkor, do your best to keep poor Conflict alive.

Quote from: melkor on April 22, 2011, 03:05:58 pm

first succession here i come

I wouldn't count on that, Conflict .

I LOL'd.

KEEP US UPDATED, MELKOR
I HAVE TO KNOW HOW MY DORF IS DOING

I'm constantly mistaken for a guy anyway on the internets, having a male dwarf is no big deal

Raptors probably SHOULD have higher stance_strike than dragons, because they weigh far less and therefore will do less damage... but have a habit, not of swiping on you, but JUMPING ONTO YOU.

Demonstrated.

@Tomi: Are military-type skills separate from adventurer/production-type skills, then? Because I recall that in Therapist, Legendary whatevers read as a raw value of 15. I'm definitely not contradicting or disagreeing with you (it's so hard to convey tone over the interwebs :<), but like I said, I wanted my raptors to be ridiculously overpowered. I'm certainly not submitting these raws for use in the actual, public-consumption Genesis That would be silly! And, well... ridiculous. But DF is my way of cheering myself up when I have bad days, and kind of like infinite-ammo or invincibility cheats in other games, for my personal play style I sometimes like to have zillions of embark points or legendary raptors.

Really, I was looking for pointers on how to streamline the code and how to achieve some other stuff, like enlarging the third toe claw and involving that in STANCE_STRIKE (good to know, btw, that kicking isn't a stat! the mod skill names vs in-game skill names get really confusing). I really don't know what I'm doing when it comes to body parts/attacks/skills (so... pretty much everything? *shot*), but I really, really want to learn, and you're all fine brilliant modding folk I haven't found any pointers to modding... well, anything, except for the list of creature tokens on the wiki which doesn't go into much detail—but I might just not be looking in the right places, and I make new discoveries all the time (like that article I found yesterday that actually explained the advanced worldgen parameters!)

[edit] Also, is SKILL_RATE redundant? I notice that a lot of critters who used to have it don't anymore, just NATURAL_SKILL. Can creatures lacking SKILL_RATE still level those skills?