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41971
Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a god
« on: November 25, 2012, 01:34:46 pm »
Ah.
Once we finish this RG business, we need to get a beurocracy and army set up.
...Say, why are we even bothering this guy? Half of our actions have been to save an ecosystem that he made and was running into the ground.

41972
Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Salvation : A Spaceship suggestion game [Poll]
« on: November 25, 2012, 01:32:58 pm »
Or a xenomorph. Or zombies. Or werewolves. Or any movie monster. Or any monster. Or a plague. Or...
Absolutely nothing, and we keep waiting for the other shoe to drop...

41973
Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Raptor - Turn 21: Stolen Bread Tastes Sweet
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:56:53 pm »
He's about two-thirds as old as Ironhide. Whippersnapper.

41974
Roll To Dodge / Re: HERO CIVIL WAR/YOU AT FINAL BOSS: OOC THREAD
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:54:52 pm »
Quote from: misko27 on November 25, 2012, 12:36:57 pm
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on November 25, 2012, 12:35:03 pm
I stand for Good, as well. We just have different ideas on the subject.
A nickel says we're about to get into another debate about morality...
NIEN NIEN NIEN.
 
So I am going to destroy the other factions, get tim to leave, and then resume my plans.
You had plans other than defeating the lichette and Tim?
Also, I was trying to stop a debate from occurring. Success, no butting heads with a brick wall. Failure, I get a nickel. Win-win!

Quote from: miauw62 on November 25, 2012, 12:51:03 pm
AND I'M GOING TO CHILLAX WITH YOINK.
...Have fun?

41975
DF Suggestions / Re: Urist McMagma has died of burns
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:53:15 pm »
In my humble tries-to-be-humble opinion, it would be better for Dwarf Fortress to simulate the causes of 75% burnage causing death than to just have a certain amount of burnt body cause death.

41976
DF General Discussion / Re: If DF races were to speak RL languages...
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:51:24 pm »
Quote from: MaximumZero on November 25, 2012, 10:37:18 am
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on November 25, 2012, 08:35:21 am
Quote from: MaximumZero on November 25, 2012, 12:08:00 am
Humans: Midwest American-English (Neutral Accent)
I take it you're a Midwesterner?...That's actually a word?
Yes, sort of. I'm a Northern-Midwesterner. The part of the US that borders Canada, is surrounded by water, and is shaped like a mitten. And yes.
Well, I've got news: You have a pretty poor claim for having a "neutral accent." The best claim would go to someone in England.

Quote from: Talvieno on November 25, 2012, 10:46:36 am
I did a bit of research on a couple of these, actually. The elven language is actually closest to Spanish, while the ingame dwarven language is closest to German. Both sport a heavy English influence, though.
Cool.
I think that Spanish/German influenced English more than the other way around. Makes me glad the Brits got America before it seceded--the language is as much a melting pot as the country was supposed to be.

41977
General Discussion / Re: Bitcoins, e-currency or just fancy crap?
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:47:18 pm »
If their...whatever you call people you owe debt to accepted, say, golden pigeons or modern art to pay debt,they could pay debt in that and no one would care except the media (Breaking News! Company pays debts with buckets of paint slung at canvas! Successfully!)

The...debtees? accept dollars because they accept dollars as something of value. Granted, they'd have a hard time forcing the debtor to pay in modern art or whatever without a predefined contract, but that's not really important. The government only accepts dollars because that's all it's ever accepted; if Congress and the public all decided they wanted to, they could switch overnight from using dollars as currency to using, I dunno, purple coins with Richard Nixon's face on them with no repercussions except for economic chaos* and other countries being more certain that we're insane.
*And the economic chaos would not result from the fact that we were switching from a "good" currency to a "bad" one, but rather because of A. redrawing contracts and B. the new redistribution of wealth.
You really can't use the current economic system to justify using only certain kinds of currency; we didn't come into the economy with blank slates for minds and an infinite array of options, we came in with a decade or two of knowing no or almost no other way, with only one standard of exchange one could expect to be useable anywhere. If it wasn't for those "problems," all of these hypothetical situations could happen.

In conclusion, all that separates a worthless coin or whatever from one accepted as currency is that it's accepted as currency.

41978
Roll To Dodge / Re: HERO CIVIL WAR/YOU AT FINAL BOSS: OOC THREAD
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:35:03 pm »
I stand for Good, as well. We just have different ideas on the subject.
A nickel says we're about to get into another debate about morality...

41979
DF General Discussion / Re: I want to like this game
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:34:01 pm »
Want help relating with the dwarves?
Read over each of your Starting Seven's personalities and such, and give them names. This miner likes cats and is fat like Aunt Bertha, I'll name her Bertha. This guy likes demons, I'll name him [insert name of politician you dislike].
Every so often, pause and look around. What's Bertha doing? Oh, she's sad from not having a bedroom. [Politician] is sleeping in the same tile as her, that's probably part of it.
Make up a story as you go along.

Eventually, it'll happen without you thinking about it. Then you can watch a story you create with the help or hindrance of those little smiley faces unfold.

41980
DF Suggestions / Re: Defined Equipment In Creature Raws and other things
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:29:58 pm »
Quote from: darknessofthenight on November 25, 2012, 10:54:34 am
I think that the blood transformed into snakes on contact with air.
Wow, that would suck. The snakes would probably need to be pretty small, though, or else the blood vessels would burst near the cut and let more blood come in contact with air, and so on. Gorgons aren't so scary if a little cut makes them explode into snakes.

41981
DF Suggestions / Re: closing the gates of hell (spoilers)
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:27:02 pm »
Probably the same as archers. I think the issue might be related to a bug where they need to be able to path to fire balls.

41982
DF Suggestions / Re: Urist McMagma has died of burns
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:25:59 pm »
Quote from: Owlbread on November 25, 2012, 10:02:41 am
I don't know if the game simulates magma accurately enough though, seeing as a lot of these guys who fall into the magma simultaneously drown and bleed to death. In real life, wouldn't you basically land on top of the lava and float, bursting into flames with all your skin burning to a crisp and falling off? You would die extremely quickly.
Yeah, buoyancy is yet-to-be-simulated.
One day, we'll be chucking goblins into the volcano and they'll just float over, climb out, and set stuff on fire.

Quote from: Dansmithers on November 25, 2012, 10:06:12 am
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on November 25, 2012, 08:47:27 am
So, 74% you're okay, 75% you're dead?
That's not DF, that's, I dunno, Final Fantasy or Minecraft or something.

Dwarf Fortress cares about not just simulating it well, but simulating it right. And for a game in alpha, it does pretty well.
More like, 75% and you'll definitely die, it's not totally exact.
But why is 75% the definite cutoff? Why should 75% coverage of 1st-degree burns be worse than 40% of 3rd? Wouldn't it be better to simulate WHY 75% burnage is lethal, rather than just say that it is?

Quote from: AutomataKittay on November 25, 2012, 12:21:13 pm
Quote from: Owlbread on November 25, 2012, 10:02:41 am
I don't know if the game simulates magma accurately enough though, seeing as a lot of these guys who fall into the magma simultaneously drown and bleed to death. In real life, wouldn't you basically land on top of the lava and float, bursting into flames with all your skin burning to a crisp and falling off? You would die extremely quickly.
I think it's because mechanically, the flesh and stuff don't have melting/boiling point. However I've not twiddled with raw relating to it! That and buoyancy's not implemented, yet, but the not burning to death's a bit more noticible :D
I think it's due to bugs in how damage is tracked, and that melting adipose tissue lethally exsanguinates one before one can perish of other means.
Exsanguinate is such a good word...

41983
Roll To Dodge / Re: HERO CIVIL WAR/YOU AT FINAL BOSS: OOC THREAD
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:20:25 pm »
Sorry to triple-post, but how else am I going to be answered? This is on the second page!

Anyways...misko, why is your faction the only non-superfluous one and which weren't you at war with yet?
Oh, and Cassandra has no bonus last I checked.

41984
Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: The Last Night Troll
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:16:01 pm »
First off, we have a limited number of mates; I'd rather make sire we've got a good-quality one before transforming her.

Second, what makes you think that a mate will take us closer to freedom than an elven family that's glad we didn't turn their matriarch? I'm sure that they'd be glad to help us if we asked for some other favor...

41985
Roll To Dodge / Re: Perplexicon: Magic is Confusing (Now accepting characters)
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:14:16 pm »
Anyways...I've thought it over, and decided I wouldn't attack anyone who doesn't either attack me/cast a spell on me with hostile intentions or try to take something of mine. Such as the sword. Conversely, I'll work with anyone else and forgive anyone who asks for it.

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