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I assume that, as an adventurer, you'll be able to lead an expedition to a new fortress and issue orders from there. And I sadly can't remember the exact link, but I'm 90% sure it was some FotF thread reply.I missed the optional part.
Time I spend IRL watching a caravan cross the wilderness is time not spent watching my outpost bloom into a fortress.
But, I don't see the point of what you're saying. It's not like you would just watch the caravan move from A to B, you would be given messages like "Your caravan is crossing through the Forests of Aching. This forest reeks of death and vile torture. You see a blah blah blah". The journey could happen off-screen. Eventually, there would be a situation when you have to cross a river or fight a bear Jeremiah Johnson style or other such wild traveller things, or maybe an ambush or whatever. One of your party could become sick and you have to hunt for medicine for them, who knows. If you don't want it, you'd have a choice because it's an optional feature, just... don't choose to follow the journey. It's not like you have to. The fact that it's optional means that there's no point in complaining about it using up your time.
Now let's get into better detail. IIRC, Toady said that the player is supposed to represent the leadership of the fortress or somesuch. What could the player, in that position, do to affect the caravan or even know about it?
That contradicts with what Toady has said about his ambition (as far as I know) to seamlessly integrate adventure mode and fortress mode together. I would also like to hear exactly what he said about what the player represents, because that's the first I've ever heard about that.
It is also quite simple, if what you say is the situation. The leadership of the people taking the journey to build your fortress are the same as the leadership of the people who run your fortress - quite literally so, considering the expedition leader of the caravan is the same guy as the expedition leader of your fort.Oh, I thought we were talking about caravans being sent to our fortress.
Sounds like a poem about that world's Twilight, actually...Something along those lines.Hey, I once found a book in legends called the book of glittery.So it's a poem about a book about a promiscuous weredeer?
Here's the post I made about it in a funny name thread.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
DF is never normal.
I would, but I KEEP DYING!Misko, could you help me with taking over Aperture Science? Having an ally who controls the facility must be useful...Fine. But get back to work eventually, m'kay? Invent a anti-lich thing, i don't know.
Where would you like to aim, though?Probably...I'll try to chop off limbs, that worked well last time,
Okay.Anyone know any good dwarven curse words?Elf
Emphasis added. Titans don't teleport past bridges.But... but... JADE TITAN SILK!dude i just got one of those webbing titans so i quickly trapped it in my depot entrance with raising bridges. Now i'm constructing a silk factory, but i have to work out how to get the titan to stand still on a certain hatch to drop it into the factory.I think titans may be too large for drop traps to work. You can try baiting the titan with a chained kitten at the factory, then pulling the lever to trap it. I usually do this with FB's. Also know that silk from FB's are worth as much as regular cave spiders, not giant cave spiders.
