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I would love to see flooding come about again. It would wreak havoc on above-ground forts sitting next to rivers. Tornadoes sound like they could have potential. Lightning, if done with any realism, would be too unpredictable and processor-heavy to be worth simulating.

Just have a couple of bolts strike the few highest points on the map during each storm.

Treat it like how whips operate now, but hitting organs instead of bones. You know, superhigh pierce and infinite sharpness that is 60,000 degrees that aims for the top of the body and can't be dodged/parried/blocked.

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WWII has NOTHING on dwarf fortress.

Hitler and Stalin executed millions of people because of paranoia, racism, and to crush any possible political dissenters.

Dwarf fortress players kill people(dwarves) for having the audacity to try and immigrate to their fortress as as cheesemaker or a clothier or whatever.

Or because we are bored.

Or because we want to perform !!SCIENCE!! on the long term effects of having your roomate explode into a pile of gore without warning.


This is getting off topic.

Dwarfiest person I know is myself. I am a Novice Lumberjack, Adept Goat-Farmer, Proficient Manufacturer, Competant Grower, Novice Butcher, Novce Cheesemaker,  Talented Shield User, Proficient Swordsman, Competant Armour User, Novice Spearman, and Skilled Swimmer.

So I am like a quasi-usefull immigrant that you don't QUITE want to atom-smash, but don't quite want to draft into the military either, because all those civie jobs means that I would bitch about being drafted.

Quote from: iyaerP on May 06, 2011, 09:19:49 pm

just don't let the obsidian get muddy and have plants grow on it, or otherwise, it shall turn into dirt itself.

It will?

Damn. I'm going to need a lot more magma.

its one of the current bugs.

It is really only a problem if you don't get the mud cleaned up before plants grow.

I like how detailed the combat system is.

Being chased by too many enemies for you to fight? Turn around and chop a foot off, and keep running. Repeat until the number is manageable, and then go back and finish off the cripples. 

For certain definitions of "know"..

CHUCK FRICKIN' NORRIS!!!

except not.

Everyone slowly back away from the noble.

Sllooooowly now, we don't want to spook it.


As soon as we are all at a safe distance, slam the door and activate the "Upper Society Event Learning Extra Swimming Skills   Now Only Be Leading Effectively!" lever

Go spend a few hours of real time murdering animals till you have a massive stockpile of meat, then just eat and sleep and eat and sleep in some human fortress so you are safe from the bandits/bogeymen.