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What, swipe a key to open a lock? I'll stick with lockpicks for when I need to break into places.

Remember one of the reasons why the economy sucked so much? The stacks of one or two coins would eventually grow so numerous as to cause FPS to plummet. Imagine that, but with keys. The front door would need a key for every dwarf that would ever go outside, if you want to be able to keep it locked, and at least one for the people stationed to guard it plus one for the military if you generally left it unlocked. Repeat for every door. Yeah, it'd be easier just to abstract keys away and choose certain dwarves that aren't able to pass trough this door or, alternatively, ones who are.

Well, for starters, we'd need some way to control that one guy and keep him from dying. Humans don't have 150-year lifespans...
Also, we'd be putting our whole project into the hands of one guy with plenty of reason to hate us. I say, the self-destruct needs the approval of the head of the base or of two of the next level down, PLUS any AI or whatever stuck on the base. At a minimum. (This can be partially waived if some of those mentioned are not still alive. There's no use crying over every mistake.)

I think you make a random map, and we'll decide which one after a turn's finished.

I'm just glad the explosions didn't destroy anything important.

I'll probably try to get Caverncreot finished first, but I'm game once that's done. Let me know when the "I play next" thing is finalized.

Neat! What are our other options?

...10ebbor10 beat me to it. As with all groups, a few prominent ones make everyone think all of them are like that. Groups as examples: Politicians, lawyers, anythng with an amusing stereotype.

Well, varying it somehow would be needed for us to not consider the Pump Operator skill to be nothing more than a way to get military dwarves to stop complaining about being let off-duty. Something like having the amount of power they can provide makes perfect sense.