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I just don't get where this sudden hatred for clown came from. It's like it popped up over night, and it all seems rather pointless. It's not like we're trying to be funny when we call HFS clowns. It's just a way of avoiding spoilers that's been going on for a long time. Don't see what the problem is.

Also, Mr. Kraken, where's that LP you spoke of? Gotta read that.

It's one I'm just starting, and I haven't actually posted it yet. I'm going to be running it over on the Escapist since one o my goals is to introduce new people to Dwarf Fortress. I'm aiming to get the first update done today though. I have the introduction and prologue finished, by writing about the game is probably going to be the most difficult part.

Quote from: Internet Kraken on November 14, 2010, 11:40:50 pm

Spartans? Is that what we're calling them now? I prefer clowns.

Seriously spartans doesn't make any sense.

Really? I prefer demons.

Well obviously when we're trying to keep things from being spoiled, albeit somewhat pointlessly.

Was it walls or fortifications? Never actually seen dwarves dodge through either before, but I guess fortifications they might be able to. I guess another solution if you have a spare reaction, is a swimming training reaction. Afterall your dwarves are living on the ocean it'd be reasonable to assume that they'd spend some time learning to swim.

Solid walls. Not sure why but they don't do shit when it comes to dodging, so fuck em. As for training swimming, I was considering modding in some way to do that but never got around to it. Currently the only methods I've found to train it in vanilla DF are unreliable at best and a source of fun at worst. When I tried to make a swimming room in Townbrush I flooded the mines and caverns, so I'm not exactly keen on the idea of trying again.

Spartans? Is that what we're calling them now? I prefer clowns.

Seriously spartans doesn't make any sense.

"Likes Griffons for their strength"

Never seen that one before, and now that I look through the custom Refuse options I see Griffon, Centaur, and Chimera. A portent of things to come?

Those have been in the game for quite a while, reaching back to 40D I think. They always had the [DOES_NOT_EXIST] tag so I don't think Toady has any plans on making them real. If he wanted to he could quite easily.

Now that I think about, procedurally generated Chimeras would be pretty damn cool.

Well Townbrush is still technically alive, but it's basically dead to me. If I ever do go back to it, all I'm going to get are two dead Dwarves over the course of the next month. So I've decided to move on.

Since I'm also starting an LP, I have to play two forts at the same time, which is something I've never done before. Of course, I'm only going to recount the details of non-lp fort; Granitepainted.

I generated a rather interesting world. Right in the middle was a massive terrifying ocean. Biggest one I've ever seen, and it stretched through multiple different biomes. I was having a hard time choosing were to settle. I was debating settling on the terrifying desert, but I didn't want to go into absolute murder so soon after Townbrush. I settled on something much calmer; a serene swamp resting next to the terrifying ocean. So I'll get a mix of wonderful creatures of nature and abominations of darkness.

Thins have not been going well, as I've already run into multiple problems. First, I can't cut down trees as I accidentally brought along one axe. I guess I forgot to replace it with a training axe, as I was trying to free up points to take along more Earth Golems. So I couldn't cut down trees, as my soldier is holding the axe. I figured it would just be as simple as having him chop down trees, but for some reason he refuses to do so. So fuck it, I'll have to do without wood until the caravan arrives and brings me another axe. Second problem is that the ocean has no fucking fish in it. This must be a glitch, because it makes no god damn sense. This is three embarks I've been on in which the ocean was depleted of fish in less than seconds.

Aside from that, this fort looks to be faring much better than Townbrush. Even my lp fort is in a more dangerous area. It has zombie conchmen and hippos living in the river. The only wildlife I've seen at Granitepainted are adorable little snailmen. I must admit I have a soft spot for them, since they were a common animal in one of my first "successful" forts. That was back when I actually embarked on mountains and lives underground.

I find that often migrants will come with some pretty solid military stats, so I recruit those with and leave those without to hauling duty
perhaps you should try turning down the population cap

I always just lowered my pop cap when I got sick of migrants. Creating elaborate traps to kill them seemed pointlessly cruel.