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Not sure what I think of this idea, but I do hope we can eventually reach a point where the game is primarily a struggle to produce enough stuff, not to dump all of the useless junk that is strewn about everywhere. (Although cleaning should remain a challenge.)The idea wasn't to make it easier to clean up, but to make more or more interesting type of Rube-Goldberg-esque devices.
With minecart, this shouldn't be too hard to program. Minecart rolling through water or magma will be filled with water or magma. (I haven't tried it, but heard people talking about it.)The idea was to suggest a similar idea, but which would let you drop stuff into minecarts instead.
I can't imagine a minecart full of items dumping them to a bin or barrel, though. This may become possible if we would have containers with volume, storing only as many items as there is volume for.I considered that.
...unless it hit a creature in the tile or the container is full.Currently, there's some concept of "This container is full," e.g. when yo try to fill a full waterskin in adventurer mode or put something into a full bag. Therefore, the idea of "Only goes in if not full" could work.
This seems arbitrary. After all, there have been MANY empires at various times, often overlapping, that ruled various parts of the world. Persians, Mongols, Macedonians during the time of Alexander the Great, Aztecs and Incas, Iriquois IIRC, Rpmans, etc. Many of these had overlapping times, and none had particularly notable common roots....What wold that do to help? Or at all? Would there then be only one emperor, in the entire world? Somehow I'm not sure about that...Maybe you mean one per entity, which already exists as a different tag?
Nope, one per world.
If there are, say, three human civs, they are all loosely ruled by one emperor, that belongs to one of the three entities. Should the Emperor pass away without an heir, the three civs might end up going to war in order to put their own king on the emperors throne (this, in fact, happened a lot throughout history, in Western Europe (the throne of The Holy Roman Empire), in China, and in Japan, and probably other places as well).
Or there could be a handful of emperors, ruling sort of "super-civs", consisting of multiple civilizations that may go to war over land, or resources, or anything, really.
Nothing should be set in stone in my opinion. This idea will become even more interesting when toady puts in procedurally generated races. Also, can someone link me to toady discussing why goblins have no-eat, and under what circumstances it could return? I mean, if nothing else they should raid, and if possible harvest some horrific fungus which grows where they live. Goblins and orcs are exactly the kind of race i can see murdering each other at the dining table in the worse cases.About NOEAT goblins, I think that, at the time, it was a way to get around goblins' inability to eat veggies, and the worldgen starvation it would have caused.
Dragonfire can destroy STEEL bridges, supposedly even COTTON CANDY. Dolomite does nothing.Dragonfire will melt most bridges, but no other creatures can destroy them.
Dolomite FTW
More like, "Oh, crap, they're throwing rocks BIGGER THAN THE ONE THAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS at us!"Ok, compromise: we make dummy colonies. They look like colonies, and when people from the decadent imperialist Earth Federation look at them, they think they're colonies, but actually they just house the shit-tier members of our glorious Martian society. Meanwhile our actual colonies are well... colonies.Using actual colonies, even evacuated, is a waste of the resources used to make the space station, which likely includes valuable computers and life-support equipment and such. Much easier, and just as effective and terrifying, to toss an asteroid larger than that which wiped out the dinosaurs onto Terra. Or, heck, at sufficient velocity even a satellite or something can be devastating.Yes, but DF dwarven lives are commodities one can obtain easily. Casualties on the Martian colonies would be difficult to replace, and also demoralizing to us while boosting the morale of the Terrans. Rube-Goldbergian devices are also wastes of resources. Overall, when waging a war (ESPECIALLY against a massively superior foe) or starting a colony (ESPECIALLY in an unknown type of region where any mistake has a high chance of death), you can't afford any kind of waste...and waddya know, our proposed project fits the ESPECIALLYs of both.You're forgetting something. Do you think anybody would want to fuck with a force that:
a.) can field stuff like literal swords of Damocles (i.e., POINTY SPEARS AIMED AT OUR ENEMIES' HEADS) and gigantic colonies and so on with ease?
b.) and this is the important part, would anybody dare fuck with a force that can so willingly throw away the lives of their countrymen just to ensure the death of their enemies?
We are talking about total war. When worst comes to worst, we will have to make decisions that would ensure our superiority. The Earth Federation will not win. Look, I may have been watching Gundam a bit too much, but I have a point here, dammit! We'll just throw a few colonies at them; aim it at their capitals. The force of the impact will destroy them and cripple their morale greatly. They'll be all, "oh my god! they're willing to do that? Game over, man!" and just surrender. How do you propose we fight anyway? Conventional means? Spacecraft? No. We have to escalate the war as quickly as possible until we cross the threshold and they lose their appetite for destruction. We win by hitting them where it really hurts: their morality. We are SPACE, dammit! SPACE DOESN'T LOSE.
If you're so concerned about something like "the value of life", then fine, we'll evacuate the colonies first. Not as fun, but if it pleases you, sure. But I'm still proposing that we throw down colonies.
Look, asteroids just don't have the same psychological impact. "Oh, boo hoo, they're throwing rocks at us. How scary. Nuke them." isn't the same as "Jesus Christ, man! They're willing to kill their own people! Clearly they are in the right about this. Let's just give up." With these dummy colonies, not only do we ensure that our enemies won't dare incur our ire, but we also get rid of useless space migrants, which, I'm sure, is something we're all familiar with.
Uh, hate to be a party pooper but "happy to be free" is the thought that they get when they are freed from the goblins. Kids do not get a happy thought from being kidnapped, they get a happy thought when let out of the bag.
