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Hey, if you still need he role for the other few migrants, you could have them as bodyguards for the Councilors. Out of pity or something they leave them with Lollerdwarf. Or something.

Anyway, great story so far. I really need to get back to DF.
One question, which tileset is this?

It's phoebus 31.08.

Allowing dwarves to go insane for no good reason would be horrible, as it would detract significantly from gameplay. Your ecstatic legendary armorsmith just snaps for no good reason? Thats not my idea of fun. Thats the game just doing things to spite you.

If Urist McArmorsmith's 10 cats all fell off of a cliff all at the same time and he becomes miserable and begins throwing tantrums then yes I can understand that. There needs to be warning signs. You can't just have a dwarf randomly go berserk and start killing people.

But, if this was something that only occurred in very specific biomes, then it would be a challenge for players who embarked in those regions, and not an inescapable part of the game.

personally, I've never used the hospital system, and the only time I breach the caverns is I'm heading for adamantine.

My favourite thing, though, would have to  the new military system- sure it's bugged to high hell, but once Toady works the glitches out in the next couple updates, it'll be a lot easier to use than past models.

Quote from: JmzLost on July 04, 2010, 08:21:44 pm

Oh, oh! Third option: use magma to create an obsidian border for your lake, because the answer to everything is magma 

I'm planning to do this to keep a 3 z-level deep pool of magma lava around my megeproject (when it's done), and I have a few questions:
(1) Can this be done on the extreme border of the map?
(2) Will incoming units spawn on the new obsidian wall, or not?
(3) Normally, things can go on brook tiles as if the brook was solid ground. what happens when magma meets a brook?

1. I don't think so.

2. I know that caravans will magically appear inside barriers, I don't know about enemies.

3. This is what test subjects dwarves are for.

Quote from: existent on July 05, 2010, 10:55:13 am

Can I interject, and suggest that PTDSD (Post-Traumatic Dwarven Stress Syndrome) be implemented in the game?

Other than the name, it kind of already is. I had a dwarf who lost his lower right arm in battle. He just sat in a corner constantly. He was always supposedly "on his way to individual training" but the only time he moved from this corner (in a stockpile, of all places) is when he needed food or drink, then he returned to the corner. I'm pretty sure he was on his way to madness, but I abandoned the fort before he got there, for unrelated reasons.

Well, what I had in mind was a little different. Whereas he was a heavily wounded combat veteran, I just want dwarves to snap when things go wrong in general- for example, at the end of Boatmurdered, the entire population should have been burnt out husks.

Can I interject, and suggest that PTDSD (Post-Traumatic Dwarven Stress Syndrome) be implemented in the game?

I've been hoping for some sort of doorway to alternate planes. The moons could be one of them.

*groan*

(That was the groan of knowing how much I would hate myself for still playing Dwarf Fortress if such a feature was implemented.

Quote from: existent on July 05, 2010, 05:53:49 am

Or, you could all switch to a pack none of you use, so that everyone is new to it.

This seems like it would be most in keeping with the spirit of succession games.

No, I think that the spirit of succession games would be to have everyone use a different tileset on purpose