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I'm going to be trying out something well beyond my skill level (which should be akin to a newborn learning to walk on stilts over a magma filled ravine during a hurricane of rabid seagulls). I want to know if this has been done before.

I'm essentially planning to divide my fort into two forts once I become self sufficient, trying to keep people who know each other in the same half-fort. Eventually I plan on having two almost completely autonomous (I think I used that word right) fortresses. I seek to accomplish this by creating barrows encompassing the two fortresses. I'll have my first seven dig out a small living area for both forts, and build up what the first migrant wave would require to occupy and build up the second fort. Each subsequent migrant wave would be given to the forts alternatingly.

Then, in standard dwarf fashion, I hope to build two militaries and have the forts engage in battle. This is assuming I can assign a kill order on a dwarf (something I've never had to try before). I'm not too sure how loyalty cascades work (as my forts are usually overrun by forgotten beasts and the elves), but I fully expect everyone to kill everything.

Even if that second bit is impossible to do, the first half seems like it will be producing plenty of fun. Mind you, I'm not that great of a DF player (after playing more than a year I just figured out how to use farms today, though, to be fair, it's the only basic thing I've never really done), so I'm posting this idea here to see if anyone else is willing to try it, as well as seeing if this has been tried already.

Oh, and yes, this idea was influenced by the Cold War-like situation in Syrupleaf.

I tell myself it's because the mineral is buried.

Drown the water in magma and corpses.

Let me just tell everyone two things before we continue:

I haven't been able to play, let alone keep up with the development of, Dwarf Fortress since just before Bees. Secondly, this all came to me in a heat-induced coma-sleep.

I was talking in a chat room in this dream I had, discussing the finer points of Dwarf Fortress. But the game the few of my dream buddies were discussing was a variant of the fun game we all know and love. It had two modes, like our DF. The first involved overseeing a civilization's trade routes, micromanaging what your couple caravans sold and bought, as well as making sure your guards kept well trained and well equipped. The second mode was this dream-DF's version of Adventure mode. You play as the leader of a single caravan, training yourself in various forms of combat and speechcraft in order to protect, then sell, your goods. You pretty much just traveled from village to village, fortress to fortress, fighting off goblin and elven ambushes and raids, and keeping yourself from being robbed at the various stops.

You may be asking yourself, "MoP, what's your point?" There really isn't one. I just felt the need to share what my brain threw at me.

I play as Richard Astley.

Spinfuser comment made my day (it's been a slow day). I'd like a deployable MG kind of thing, to where there may be like 3 per team or something (kind of like the automated turret thing cap in Tribes). And have them set up so you could aim over the block you were set up on, like this

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          |  .
          |    .

Where periods are the bottom line of the firing range. If you get what I'm saying. Something like aiming down the sights of the rifle, but forward a bit so you don't hit the corners of whatever thrice-damned block it's on.

No witnesses!