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Now, I'm not about to read 51 pages of space, but I think we need needlessly complicated death traps. I'm sure this topic has been brought up. We need things like literal swords of Damocles hanging around in orbit. Hell, here's what I'm thinking: we make colonies, right? Fill them up with people and cows and shit. Make them real big; the size of moons. Then, when somebody wants to fuck with us- BAM! We drop a colony on them, all Zeon style.Death traps? If we're using them for war and not population reduction, good idea.
Someone looks at us funny? BAM! Colony for you.
Earth Federation all up on our shit? BAM! TWO COLONIES.
Is that a Gundam? Who cares? HERE'S A COLONY.
We need space colonies. People might die too. And cows. But whatever. BAM.
You can't limit jobs by caste, but you can limit positions to caste. I've forgotten, AGAIN, but there is a tag that allows you to restrict access to a position by caste alone.You can also modify skill learn rates and/or add natural skills by caste--say, red civvers are good at military skills except for sword and spear, as well as forging (and can also throw fireballs), but suck at woodworking of all sorts except burning; yellow civvers are good at woodworking, farming, and archery but suck at melee skills and anything to do with stone or metal (and also are a bit faster than average); blue civvers are good fishers and craftsmen but are bad fighters and don't like most burning-based skills (also swim); gray civvers are excellent stone- and metal-workers, as well as being as tough as their preferred materials and skilled at unarmed combat, but they just can't get good at weapon or armor usage skills and are both slow and bad at working with more delicate materials; white civvers are cowardly artisans and emit light; violet civvers are natural medics and nobles, but bad at menial work and martial skills, but have excellent minds and can even slow enemies by confusing their minds; maybe brown civvers should be the farmers, and also throw mud and summon plant vines to disable enemies' legs...green civvers are great rangers and othewr outdoorsy skills, but bad at melee and don't get along with people...black civvers are terrifying at birth and always hostile...need to think more about orange civvers...
A word of advice for whoever picks this up, dear LORD watch out for the giant hamsters.Oh, Armok, this is hilarious...
also, the only thing keeping this fort from tantrum sprialing right now is the fact that nobody has any friends.This quote needs to be added to the OP, along with the note that the dwarf who doesn't care about anything went insane.
In a fortress like this, you should never capture zombies in large amounts. Someone will let them out for sure.Elf...I am slowly being corrupted by the Bay12 culture. When I first came here, I never would have said that. Then again, I probably wouldn't have joined this fort then, either.
I fail to see why they'd be grumpy--not only do babies not need to work and get a free pass to see the world for a year (or at least the parts where their mother lives and works), but dwarven breast milk HAS to be at least 30-40 proof.now I'm getting overrun by babies. They're exactly like cats, except for they drink booze.No, babies can't drink booze. I think that's why they're grumpy all the time.
