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I'm glad my expectations weren't too high. Keep up the good work and Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

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Explain a difference between a flood and a cistern filling.

As I said, optional and the definition depends on the required fluids rewrite.

"Optional?"
And no, there isn't any technical difference between filling a cistern and a flood.

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But they require combat, which would have to be done in non-crisis mode...

As I said, it's more or less "when dwarves panic". They don't panic for tantrums.

You're not responding to the point I said that for.
I was pointing out that you would need non-Crisis-Mode combat for myriad situations.

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Hardly so. Few suggestions mesh worse with future developments than with current DF.

A CLAIRVOYANT!

Don't be so sarcastic.

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Again, we meet the issue of dangerous creatures being ignored until it's too late.

As I said, it's up to the player to decide whether to apply that mark or zone. Caveat emptor.

Problem is, precisely zero creatures can be trusted to not figure out a way into your fortress if they're capable of frightening dwarves. If the dwarves don't panic, the combat reports are the player's first sign that something's wrong...

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On the other hand, it also makes corrective methods (like putting up walls between groups and the like) effectively impossible.

Well, ask the police what they can do keep opposing groups of hooligans out of each other's hair: building a wall between them is not an option. It's a good thing that such gamey solutions become impossible.

What solutions become possible, then?
Anyways, it's more "keep angry people from ruining others' days" than dealing with hooligans. Walls make sense for that, and have been used to keep the happy happy before. The House of the Spirits has a good example that comes to mind instantly--the people pleased with the current administration were shielded from the others by a big wall to keep them safe from the less-happy masses. Replace the governmental issues with the things that make dwarves tantrum, and you have a DF situation.

No, I had super-brilliant idea, and it was acknoledged as such. Note, I AM avatar of the GOP. You know what my motto is?

"DEATH BEFORE COMPROMISE!"

People are supporting YOUR action. Cooperation is inevitable.

Quote from: Dirg on December 25, 2012, 12:20:42 am

See it as this then, right now all you guys have to face is Slowpoke, Morgan Freeman God, and possibly still Spiderman, a pretty hard task in itself without the minor annoyance of me overcome with grief, and boosted with the power of rage from my dead wife, and whatever power Morgan Freeman God has to spare, thus having 1 less person to help you guys destroy him, and 1 more person trying to kill you, and keeping you from him longer.

I.
DON'T.
CARE.
THE LICHETTE HAS BEEN A THORN IN MY SIDE THE WHOLE GAME, AND THE OBJECTIVE IS TO DESTROY HER. SHE WILL DIE.

Actually, it's to kill "the boss." Who is a "white-haired Southerner." Is the lichette white-haired or a Southerner?

Okay, lets divvy up tasks by individual perhaps.

Not a bad idea.

Us: Spend time with the child, split time between talking to him and practicing fire manipulation, hunt down some more advanced fire manipulation books. Thank our smith for his kind service.

I agree, except add "or teaching" after "practicing."

Cherlyn: Go out for a quick trip to get food.

Sure.

Alice: Practice flying and getting used to her form, perhaps read one of our introductory fire manipulation books. (Explain that you realize she doesn't have much interest in fire manipulation, but that given her form it may be prudent to at least dabble.

Make sure that someone is watching when she's practicing flight. She's new--quick response to a crash could save her life.

Gwen: Help take care of the baby while we are distracted, have the impromptu dining area put together. (I am not suggesting that she become a mere housewife, but somebody needs to do it right?

Yeah.

Jimma: Try out her new armor, patrol around the tower, keeping an eye for potential threats. This ought to help her get used to her body too.

Sure.

Kelpmier: Interview and talk to the child in our dungeon.

Agreed.

I'd help, but attempting to create all powerful IRAI (Insane Rouge AI). GWG, help?

I am, unless I failed to post.

By the way, Dirg: Thanks. This may be the first time that the Romantics and the Paladins have worked together since they formed.

All as planned.

Oh, right.

Watch Specisa develop with pride.