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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 23, 2013, 08:50:28 pm

Pause. How, in the real world, could one make a particular depression fill up with rain like a pond does?

In the real world you just dig a hole. It will fill up with water when it rains.
In DF rain doesn't actually turn into water unless it touches a pond tile.

What should happen is that every time a raindrop hits ground it should generate 1/7 water, and this should happen everywhere. This would allow ponds or rivers to form naturally, depending on the shape of the terrain. I think water seeping through soil is a bit beyond what the game engine can handle, but sprouting up 1/7 water on impact is already in the game engine. If this was no longer restricted to pond tiles then you could get very interesting weather indeed.

Flooding could become a major issue, and fortresses in damp climates would need to be built with drainage. This means building an above ground fortress in a swamp biome would need a great deal of drainage. Or water may pour down stairs and ramps into underground fortresses, and this could be very hazardous if this isn't planned for.

IMO, pond tiles should be done away with entirely. Rain should be much more natural, and it should cause water to appear everywhere it hits. Ponds would behave just like they currently do, and they will refill when it rains. Artificial bodies of water could be made simply by digging a hole so water can't drain off the side of the map and waiting for it to rain.

I am glad a webcomic was linked. Order of the stick ho!

Wanna look that up yourself?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 23, 2013, 09:07:19 pm

Here's an interesting question: How did mail delivery work in the real-world medieval world?

More or less the same way it worked back in Ancient Rome; slowly (compared to current time). Most often the messages were carried by couriers with horses. The requirements to become a courier was to be physically fit (strong and healthy) to survive the journey and know more than one language. In case of religious messages, the courier was required to have knowledge of Latin.
It usually was a freelance work, due the nature and dangers, and the couriers were usually competing against other couriers. It wasn't even rare to have situation where the courier was ambushed by another courier just to get the given task from the original one, especially if the message was important and the clients were wealthy and powerful enough.

I want to "work" as a courier in Adv. mode now.
Hell, I want to have any kind of actual work there, since there's basically nothing to do in the long run.

Suggested a lot before, dwarves have tag's that show dwarves believe slavery is unacceptable. With goblin fortress's or random ethic tag's you may see some slaves but I wouldn't be surprised if toady had ethical concerns that just kept them out forever.

yeah, but ethics tags can be modded.

i support prisoner labor, not slave labor.

Our new creation/Tallman/Jara creature is pretty excellent at scouting and probably assassination, so I suggest we think of things to scout for. Our main targets should probably be Maher and The Empire of Tranquility, with the Empire being more important to prepare for, in my opinion.

Tell him we were trying to create a new race to act as scouts and assassins for us but that we weren't expecting him to be born sentient.  Since he is though, we'd like him to live in our town and consider working for us.

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