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Or make the DM appointable by the mayor.

I've heard that doesn't actually work. You get the position but not the training ability. Confirm/deny?

Supports linked to a lever. Keep dwarves away when you pull it.

Battlefailed 3

... Whalecannon?

MMMM tutorials.

The ratio of building types in a supply chain varies by worker skill level, work ethic, supply path length, how many bodies you want to throw at production..... i.e. you'll figure it out as you go along. If supplies are short, build mroe buildings and assign workers.  In my experience, having too many workshops just mean some are idle, and idle costs nothing.

1) Hunting: If a dwarf has hunting labor active, a crossbow, a quiver, and bolts, and there is huntable game on the map, they should go shoot at it, and drag the corpse to a butcher (if a shop exists) or a refuse pile (if one doesn't). Butchering puppies is more reliable with less micromanagement and less risk of losing all that gear when McHunter tries to bash an elephant's brains in by mistake. Butchery: z-screen, animals, flag for butchering. someone with butchery drags the critter to a butcher's shop, chop chop, piles of organs, meat, bones. Bones and raw skins are either flagged for a refuse pile, or picked up by a tanner automatically. Unless you're trying to cull huge populations, a butcher and a tanner is enough, for me.

2) Every stockpile tile holds 1 bin, every bin holds 10 bars. A 10X10 stockpile full of bins should do to start. Magma's not quite a tap'n'go thing every time and banking on it immediately is gambling that nothing massive and hungry bumrushes your fort as you breach caverns on the way down. Yeah, you can wall them off, IF there's not a jabberer or GCS right by the stairwell. Best bet is probably to embark with enough bronze ore to outfit 3 soldiers in helms, mail shirts, greaves, shield, weapon, and burn trees for the first year.

.5) If it's JUST for soap, 40X40 should be more than enough. Bigger doesn't cost you anything extra though. The mushroom trees mature faster than surface trees; if I had to guess... in somewhere between a year to three years you'll have what you need. Lumber is really cheap to import until the farm is up to snuff.

3) Nobles care more about value than specific materials. Value can be increased by room size, room materials (building inside an iron, gold, or silver vein can help), engraving, decorations like statues or, say, a high quality marble mechanism used to make a trap or lever. Furniture made from expensive stuff is a good shortcut, but don't bother trying to stuff everything you've got in there right away.

I'm not sure what economy to grow your fort means.

So, I guess from here on has been taking place in a doomed offshoot timeline. Do you think that implies anything about Rose's death? Her duel with Noir took place in a different universe, considerably earlier from Noir's viewpoint, but Scratch has been rambling about circumstantial simultaneity and whatnot lately.

Now that I think of it, there's also a bit of a pattern with the corpses. John died, and Scratch said that it was blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain that he was going to come back to life. Terezi and Karkat died, and Scratch found the notion that they would stay dead downright silly. Now Vriska has died, presumably to never return. Has she really, Hussie?

We're still being narrated by scratch in one of his dark pockets. What amuses me is immediately seizing on one "truth" right after another has proved entirely fictional (w/regards to the alpha timeline). For all we know every event that's been depicted after the disc was scratched is false. And previously shown events don't all have a set timeline. How did Gamzee get Zillyhoo? For that matter, all the bunny weapons and the bunny itself that came from the future, from whom? There are hints but the questions remain unanswered. There's PLENTY more story to go.

Quote from: Darkmere on June 08, 2011, 03:30:20 am

Aradia said the explosion from Karkat running the Mobius double reacharound virus didn't happen on the alpha timeline.

Is that so?

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AA: in the alpha timeline this text was destroyed
AA: in an explosion caused by a computer virus
AA: this explosion did not take place on my timeline

I believe you may be very slightly misremembering things.

Ah, indeed, my mistake. I standby the whole universes about to re-join post-scratch tho.

Yeah, I went and fixed the end quote that I typo'd. You can fix your quote of my misquote and the error shall be purged from the universe forever.

I don't play with default graphics, but I can read them well enough. The thing here is options... Many people enjoy the default. Many people enjoy a graphical set. Why anger either group by neglecting support?

Options...

Besides, being able to understand default is very handy when different graphical sets don't match up, or drawing schematics on the forum here.

I don't understand the superior attitudes about using either/or... It's preference, and more options are always better.