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If it didn't, it wouldn't be magic.Magic at least needs to follow its own rules, and ideally not have arbitrary rules. "Magic items must protect you from their downsides" would be a terrible rule, as it's arbitrary and almost impossible to enforce.
Very not true.Food is a huge issue, if you keep it realistic.
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Also construction and mining would have to be revamped. Many things players build would take years to build in real life, if you want to keep it realistic you can't have your dwarfs build a defensive wall or a bedroom complex in a few weeks.
I'm sure it's been suggested before but food-as-an-issue is a feature, not a bug, as long as trading gets rejiggered - goblin sieges actually become a thing that has to be dealt with. The "lock the door" method is too easy.
The time problem becomes less so if it's possible to speed up the passage of time. Speed up to focus on production and construction, slow down for defence and trade - but from what more program-savvy sorts have said that'd sort of require less focus on the individual dwarves in production-time unless you wanted to melt your processors.Problem is, you lose either plausibility or smoothness if you do that. Time speeding was discussed there, too. I'd imagine that, since we kinda like having our Fun losses before Hell freezes over, many of us would just keep it on fast-forward all the time. I know I would.
I don't get why everyone is getting so uptight about this but okay, geez. It's terrible that someone could be carrying a flag or something because that's unrealistic! Gameyness! AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaDF tries to avoid this kind of stuff. It's why there aren't hit points and why food doesn't accelerate healing.
First off, how do you fight while drumming? Second off, when a group gets large enough, organization is worth a fraction of a percent of your forces.Dropping the drum and running is neither drumming nor fighting.
Drop the drum and run
Also what's with this "organization is bad arghblargh" business, are we that adverse to real military organization or are we just unwilling to say that organization is important and they were right? Because discipline actually matters and tactics is a real thing. Even if you have like five people fighting off a large force, guerrilla fighters did not accomplish anything by bumrushing the enemy just like in real life. They were organized and they knew what they were doing - such terrible unrealisticness! Organization is weak!
Okay, poorly-phrased.That's something that will be changed once we can have a fortress of tens of thousands of dwarves without our computers committing ritual suicide.
In conflicts of a few dozen people, almost no advantage can be derived from having a drummer or standard-bearer or something.
Yes, but then this is the capital of a dwarven empire containing 200 dwarves because of computer limitations. Remember Skyrim's epic battle scenes with all those vast armies? And besides, maybe someone just wants to hold a goddamn flag and make their ancestors proud. A flag is how one side says that "this is mine and nobody is getting it without a fight". It's a symbol of who the dwarves are, not a bonus-giving manapole.
Yes, flags are so scary...That story wasn't about the flag, it was about the guy's clothes. And the fact that he was drenched in his enemy's blood.
I can easily imagine scarier things goblins could have than standards and drums. Like dead babies, or fire, or goblins.
So the issue here is that flags aren't menacing enough? They're cultural, not for shock. People will use actual dead babies if they want to be scary. And besides, here's a story about the flag of Austria, as told by Wikipedia:Nope. Flags are lame.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yeah, pronouns are important. That's why I'm trying to get that out of the way now.((True but at least in story(he does that, she does this)it should matter.Cat(A she.)Right, right. I meant to mention this a while ago. Gender doesn't really matter to Alpha Complexians. In fact, most of them barely notice gender differences. I've been assuming that you're all male for a while, but anyone else want to prove me wrong?
I think this fella will end up a bit like Hitler, with gobos as the jews, of course.
Solar pannel Efficiency (which will be less than 50%. Less than 20% if mass produced. Especially since you're reinforcing it*) and overheating errors will make it harder to do that. Just redirecting the laser with a simple lens is much, much easier.Okay, fine, I'll be less effective. After all, a lens can only be so big, so that means the drones would need to be much closer. Unless we wanted to completely remove the power generation, which I don't. We get paid more if a swarm of Bïfrost-I's get built to provide electricity in addition to the war fleets.
*Also, the power production of a solar pannel is not identical with the amount of light it produces. There's a max cap on what it can physically produce, unless you're making like foot thick pannels.
Well, lasers are light. And I modified the entry to mention that the solar panels were reinforced to stand up to lasers, letting them be able to divert more power to the lasers.Nah. That is only power transmission. The max strength of one individual laser is still limited by the laser strength of the drone. Besides, you'd probably destroy the panels.You could add some aditionall lenses in the design, allowing for the drone to recieve incoming lasers from it's friends and add their strength to it's own. Then it would really be a bridge of light.It could probably do something like that with the solar panels...
The plan is that far of drones could fire at closer to combat drones, which could then redirect those lasers, as well as firing their own. Allow far off lasers to contribute to the fight with meaningfull accuracy.
Why?You have absolutely no idea how much I wish that I could glare at you through the internet.Never said that they were nazis, I just used it because there is a large gathering of people listening to a speaker who is getting them worked up. The most well known example of someone who did that, and did it quite well, was Hitler.It may not even "working them up". In fact, it is even unlikely. My bet is more along the lines of "uh, guys, there's a problem: [insert here one or more amongst: food shortage, communication problem, political tension, local wildlife related problem, disappearance, they found out gobbos, this week-end concert is canceled...]"
and if "speaker = hitler" for you, you might have a problem.
Pretty sure most people agree that there was a Nazarene named Jesus, son of Joseph, who got crucified after spreading the seeds for Christianity. What people don't agree on is if he was "right."This assuming that Jesus did, in fact, exist. Martin Luther King might've been a better example, with no possibility of agitating people.Never said that they were nazis, I just used it because there is a large gathering of people listening to a speaker who is getting them worked up. The most well known example of someone who did that, and did it quite well, was Hitler.What, not Jesus? He also got people worked up.
There, two examples from opposite ends of morality.
God out of the machine?....Seriously? You don't know what Deus Ex Machina means?
As opposed to God is the Machine. Which is what Deus Est Machina means.
((Deal.))My attacks tend towards the unspecified if I don't understand where I am in relation to my foe. For instance, I thought I was already on top of the hadrosaur like you always see raptors doing.[/b]((I see. My intent was to state that you had mauled it's leg and then it shook you off, but I think the explicit reference to that got muddied in rewrites. If it's ever unclear in the future you can ask me where you are.))
