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DF Suggestions / Re: The smart uranium suggestion
« on: December 02, 2012, 11:20:31 pm »
Well, what will we find that has a temperature between 2,072 and 2,865 degrees Celsius?
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DF Suggestions / Re: The ancient art of Golem making.
« on: December 02, 2012, 11:17:26 pm »
1. Dwarf Fortress does mean the fortress is made of dwarves. Guess what? The golems are also dwarven.
2. Um, rare minerals, several units of metal (surely enough to outfit a soldier with armor and weapon of the same material), lots of time, and sentient lives. Not too bad, if it's actually like you claimed.. Now throw in a good chance of the golem turning, unless you have a high-skill golemmaker (gained by making lots of golems, and therefore lots of rampages)...not really worth considering.
3. Yes, there's benifets. However, the arms and armor wouldn't actually be that much better than an axelord armed and armored with the stuff you could have smithed instead of the golem frame. Less vulnerabilities is the biggest upside, but when you consider the chance of that same golem rampaging through your fortress and killing your dwarves (less trained, armored, and possibly numerous than those goblins...) And your note about axelords taking out sieges on their own only further affirms my point. If conventional militias do fine and can't turn, why bother with golems at all?
4. Don't strawman me. I think that golem making should have costs relative to its benefits. Your proposed system does not.
2. Um, rare minerals, several units of metal (surely enough to outfit a soldier with armor and weapon of the same material), lots of time, and sentient lives. Not too bad, if it's actually like you claimed.. Now throw in a good chance of the golem turning, unless you have a high-skill golemmaker (gained by making lots of golems, and therefore lots of rampages)...not really worth considering.
3. Yes, there's benifets. However, the arms and armor wouldn't actually be that much better than an axelord armed and armored with the stuff you could have smithed instead of the golem frame. Less vulnerabilities is the biggest upside, but when you consider the chance of that same golem rampaging through your fortress and killing your dwarves (less trained, armored, and possibly numerous than those goblins...) And your note about axelords taking out sieges on their own only further affirms my point. If conventional militias do fine and can't turn, why bother with golems at all?
4. Don't strawman me. I think that golem making should have costs relative to its benefits. Your proposed system does not.
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DF Suggestions / Re: closing the gates of hell (spoilers)
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:59:00 pm »More like, since a path to hell has been breached from the surface, the demons now have a route out through which to invade other surface settlements. The army would have to take the site back to more or less turn off the hell valve.That's what I meant. Although now that I think about it, what's to stop demons from going through the caverns?
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DF Suggestions / Re: Human and Elf Statues
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:58:06 pm »I hate when people say that.Statues in Dwarf Fortress seem to be the classic greco-roman design. They're big, heavy and cumbersome. It doesn't make sense for a trader to drag these things from their homelands when they can just trade in regular trade goods like figurines.This is Dwarf Fortress. We don't need logic here.
Statues should have to be a custom order from an artist of that region. Custom made statues from other lands should be expensive to both make and import but they should be quite favourable among your population.
The game's still in alpha, guys. Anything you cite is probably a bug or underimplemented feature.
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DF Suggestions / Re: Elven Caravan Animal Guards
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:56:37 pm »These war chinchillas wouldn't be swarms, they'd be single, plucky, comic-relief sidekicks. Like Scrappy Doo, I guess.Neat idea. Presumably, this would be based on the AT_PEACE_WITH_NATURE tag.In one of my older forts, I trained a horde of war chinchillas. They absolutely massacred anything that stood in their path. Unfortunately, that included my FPS.
I'm not sure if it would be sad or hilarious if they brought chinchilla guards.
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DF Suggestions / Re: Should Dwarves Have Sexual Orientations?
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:54:58 pm »
Difference here is, with a title like "Should Dwarves Have Sexual Orientations," people on both sides are going to show up. People who don't like MLP are unlikely to come into a MLP thread to just say that they don't like the ponies, but a thread like this is different because it encourages both sides to share their thoughts. Indeed, the neg side might have stronger reasons than aff, like moral or religious considerations, which could shift the balance the other way.
I'm not saying the thread's not biased, I'm saying we shouldn't assume bias.
I'm not saying the thread's not biased, I'm saying we shouldn't assume bias.
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DF Suggestions / Re: The one thing that annoys me the most....
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:48:43 pm »
The problem is that walls can be made out of lots of different materials. There are solutions, which have been discussed on those threads you did not search for.
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Creative Projects / Re: The Bay12 RPG - Made in RPG Maker VX! - You can be a player!
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:47:24 pm »Was it.Yes.
The very presence of so much knowledge of how heroics work is part of the meta-based humor of the suggested plot.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Messianate
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:40:48 pm »Convert the EMPHRA to my religion.[3] He grudgingly accepts for the time being. [6] It's not very efficient, as you need to build a whole new government.
Overthrow congress/supreme court/all that. Instate theocracy with me as ruler.
[4] Mutants given weapons. [1] ...Children eat your mutants before they can be eaten. [5] Local economy stimulated, cash flow up to +$3,000/turn. [3] Weapons cleaned. [4] Influence on Southeast Asia.
ARM MUTANTS
ASSAULT CITY WITH SECOND WAVE OF BETTER ARMED MUTANTS ((IF I ROLL A ONE AND YOU GIVE ME AN "ARM" PUN, I WILL FORCE MY MUTANTS TO EAT CHILDREN))
TRY TO IMPROVE CASH FLOW
IMPROVE QUALITY OF WEAPONS
EXTEND INFLUENCE TO ASIATIC ISLAND NATIONS
Ask Coari for theThey've been talking about SPACE marines.navycoast guard. if given, take out the floating church. earn more money, repeat 5 times. andSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Anyways, coast guard not given, and [2v4] you are destroyed.
JOIN COARI SINCE THE EMPRHA SHOULD STILL BE VP! SUPPORT HIS ACTIONS!Check.
[4v2] Check and mate.Ask Coari for theSEND NAVY TO DESTROY ASEAHERU AND HIS RELIGION.navycoast guard. if given, take out the floating church. earn more money, repeat 5 times. andSpoiler (click to show/hide)
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Suggestion Game: You are a mutant.
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:35:22 pm »
Yell at the door? Maybe it's voice-activated?
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You Are In a Normal? Town
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:34:57 pm »
Fine, smartass.
Σθδδενλυ σταρτ σπεακινγ ιν γρεεκ λεττερσ.
Quote from: Same thing?
Eoqqevau otapt o3.14159eakivy iv ypeek...wait a sec, that's "Greek," so...
Yeah, screw it, go away.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: [D&D 3.5] A world asunder.
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:32:10 pm »
"Oh, for the love of--do you minesmashers not have memorial services? Or funerals?"
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You Are In a Normal? Town
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:12:41 pm »
Modern English suggestions only.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Create a Planet
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:12:21 pm »
1. It's still more than we've done in a turn.
2. Cutting off your leg so your arm can be a bit stronger?
3. B.S.
2. Cutting off your leg so your arm can be a bit stronger?
3. B.S.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You Are In a Normal? Town
« on: December 02, 2012, 10:08:06 pm »
...English suggestions only.