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Personally, I like Dwarf Fortress without everything being made out of magic....How is elven-imported wood "everything"?
1. You're assuming that a random guy with a walkie-talkie actually knows how said walkie-talkie works.Perfectly so.I wanted to stay away from the technology analogy GreatWyrmGold because what Elves do is odd to us as a society and arn't using technology.The techhnology analogy is perfectly apt.
I was trying to explain how something that to us can seem like magic, could just be an ordinary everyday thing to Elves.
"Oh, my, what is this strange device which speaks, listens, and replies?" "It's called a walkie-talkie."
"Wow, how can you make such excellent wooden goods? It's like the tree was grown to form a sword." "It was."
"How is it made?"
"Well, first you slice the silicon boules into wafers, then punch out the chips and mount them, then make sure you have a constant operating voltage of 9V from a portable miniature pile like this one, then hook up a microphone and a receiver and a transmitter and make sure they're wrapped around something tall and metallic to intercept incoming radio waves, and you'll need some other circuitry as well but I've forgotten the basics."
"How is it made?"
"You do a little dance around the sapling ere the Autumn Equinox and the tree starts dropping wooden swords everywhere by the Solstice. Stop asking me about it."
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He doesn't exist in-game.Regardless of his grammar, why does OP think his dwarves are stronger than Armok? Armok doesn't exist!HOW DARE YOU UTTER SUCH BLASPHEMY! READY THE KITTEN CANNON!
Fear asteroids? Mars has no protection against them -- so you'd have to dig massively. A ring can move out of the way of anything dangerous.Mars has about the same chance of being struck by an asteroid as Earth--lower gravity, but closer to the asteroid belt. It's still pretty low, especially for anything that affects a single colony.
Want minerals -- either send a ship to shoot the stuff off of a planet (for the massive amounts of material factor) or the more subtle mining.And how is that better than having all the hematite you want at your feet?
Redundancy -- just build another ring.Or...another colony!
Energy -- beam it from Mars get it without a shred of dust to worry about.This makes no sense. How would dust get in the way of Martian power used on Mars, but not Martian power beamed to a space station?
I do think that Mars may happen because we seem to be planning for it. http://sciencefriday.com/segment/01/11/2013/simulating-the-red-planet-on-the-pale-blue-dot.html But I think that the benefits are less than advertised.It's better than space stations, though. Seriously, I can't think of any real benefit that a space station would do better than Mars. Unless you're really afraid of that vanishingly small chance of an asteroid hitting right next to your colony more than the rather higher chance of a solar flare or something...
Aww come on guys quit being silly.Good luck.
Okay. Hey, Tyrar, read my last post.Oh, and I'm GreatWyrmGold, not GreatWrymGold.Tyrar added your name in, not me.
Punch someone evil in the face[3] You punch Yog-Sothtoh in the knee.
Do the fish rain dance.[3] A bigger fish hits some eldritch abomination in the face.
Become neutral/unallied
"Okay, what the fuck. Seriously guys? You know better than to say da_nang's name; now he's here! And Yog-Sothoth: how did you get beat up? You are literally everything![1] You turn yourself into a star. This causes the eldritch abominations to glance at each other, swipe your metaphysical wallet, and wander away.
Ah well. Hey GWG. You the new GM?"
Fuse all the stars in the universe into one gigantic superstar. Charge a lazer with it's power and rip a hole in reality to the dimension my infinite children reside in.
REBUILD LICH. STRONGER, FASTER,[4] You make a robotic body for the lich.SEXIEREPICCER.
Create Faction: dragons[6] All nearby dragons are drawn to your faction. Disagreements break out...
Call dragons to join the Faction
>FUSE THE ESSENCE OF THE HEART INTO THE SWORD, MAKE IT POWERFUL[2-1] A fish hits you in the face! The fish is fused with your very form! So is the heart and the sword, making you a: Hearty Swordfish Monster! Ah ha ha!
>CONTINUE ASSAULT
BECOME LOVING PARENT![1] You create a massive castle surrounded by a moat of lava and guarded by Charizards to protect your daughter, and give her a pet Houndoom (those are Fire/Dark, right?) for company. [3] The mechalich gives you some more ice cream. Needless to say, your (still-nameless) daughter does not have a normal childhood.
ASK DEMILICH TO RESURRECT MOTHER OF CHILD SO FROSLASS CAN HAVE A NORMAL CHILDHOOD AS THE OFFSPRING OF A GHOST POKEMON AND AN ICECREAM CONE!
well that just had to happen didn't it[4] You have a...poorly-defined weapon! It seems to be some sort of ranged weapon which shoots four times! [6,1,3,6] You shoot TopHat twice, his hat once, and yourself once. The debreis and, um, radiation? from the shots merge with TopHat, making him a half-stone-golem. Who had his hat knocked off.
Bring out the ARMOR SHATTERER. Fire a salvo at TopHat.
Continue to summon mythological heroes.[1] You summon some mythological villains: Lucifer, Hera, and King Midas.
Equip the magic stuff.[4+1-3-1] You strengthen the Honor Barriers! [6] You summon 60 hostile beanies! You have no living minions!
Remove those honour barrier thingies.
Summon more hatlings.
Send current minions to sabotage creation of dragons faction
(EDIT) and send some others to sabotage Doomblade
Sabotage TopHat's Plans, stay in the Villains faction instead of the dragons faction.[3] You create a new Villainous Dragons faction!
Be an ancient being from before the dawn of game. Be Betty White. Play country music.((Glad you joined! How do you think the game is, so far?))
Join Lich with Squidward. Upgrade villains after joining.[6] You use Squidward as fuel for the Mechalich! Squidward's ghost appears and [6v1+4] takes over the MechaLich! He starts a new Sane People faction!
Imperial because Godwin's Law otherwise. TO GLORIOUS BAAAAAAAAATTLE.Good choice! [5] You slaughter some nameless mooks! And a fairly major antagonist: Cthulhu!
Um, not only do you not have hatlings, Doomblade doesn't seem to be doing that.Sabotage TopHat's Plans, stay in the Villains faction instead of the dragons faction.Also send other hatlings to sabotage Doomblade's plans to sabotage my plans to sabotage the creation of the faction.
