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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on July 25, 2012, 09:11:18 pm

Another question: I can't think of a good way to sorta go around this lightly, but our ability to survive kinda requires a decent female:male ratio. How many women, girls, ladies, etc, are there compared to those of the male gender?

You didn't read through the whole thread, did you Wyrm?

Um, nope, sorry. That's why I missed the test-tube babies stuff...

Going over previous records, I'd say not great. Demographics thread lists the vast majority of us as being between 15-30 males. Honesty is not required, so it may be better then current expectations, but by and large, its a sausage fest. Thats why we went onto cloning. test-tubers.

Not ideal, but meh. If we clone wisely, the issue will sort itself out in a generation.

Anyway, If nesasary, we can set up 2 outposts, one of mars, and one on the moon. We always expected to control the moon anyway. HOWEVER, and moves on the moon must be soon, as some US military chief plans a military base on the moon, which would complicate matters.

And remember, we don't need to be self-sufficient from the get-go, instead we can grow self-sufficient. This way we enjoy trade with earth, without giving up our dreams of a pan-solar empire.

Hm, so...I call a spot on the Lunar outpost.

Quote from: King DZA on July 25, 2012, 09:23:00 pm

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on July 25, 2012, 09:11:18 pm

Another question: I can't think of a good way to sorta go around this lightly, but our ability to survive kinda requires a decent female:male ratio. How many women, girls, ladies, etc, are there compared to those of the male gender?

You didn't read through the whole thread, did you Wyrm?

The fact of the matter is, Wyrm, that the majority of Bay12ers are one of three things:
Male (majority)
Gay/Bi/Other male
Gay/Bi/Other female

I don't think I've actually seen a straight female posting here, which is somewhat odd. Anyone know of one? Surely we have one straight female amongst the 5000 ish people that play DF?

...Yeah, let's invest in cloning. Either that, or get some of the "gay/bi/other women" to have a bunch of artificially inseminated babies. They would, of course, be excused from heavy labor or military action if we did this.

So, this is all just a thought experiment, right? We don't actually have enough organization or funding or permits or anything to do this, do we? If we do...where do I sign up for real?

Who uses minecarts for mining?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on July 25, 2012, 11:10:10 am

Why would you need to change 300 values? Just change the dwarven BODY_SIZE to be slightly smaller.

Because I want to 'fix' it for all creatures, not just the dwarf.

I thought the idea was to get the pressure plate to trigger for non-dwarven friendlies (elves) but not dwarves.

Right now, totems are just prettied-up skulls. Religious symbols WOULD scare off the undead. Totems as they are right now? Nope.

Also:

...Why totems? It seems that decorating your place with skulls would ATTRACT necromancers...

Second post in the thread.

Quote from: wolfwood296 on July 25, 2012, 12:19:19 am

i think this is a good idea, evey single religion (that i know of) had some sort of artifact or sign to repulse or destroy the undead and evil forces. why not in df.

Well, skulls are the only religious icon we have right now, so hold your rutherers until we have the dwarven equivalent of a crucifix or a Star of David or...the equivalents for non-Judo-Christian religions.

Quote from: RenoFox on July 25, 2012, 03:47:24 pm

This is one of the most unambiguously great ideas in the history of suggestions! Just placing a properly prepared totem on a slain corpse to keep it from rising seems no more supernatural than the corpses rising in the first place.

Perhaps, but it doesn't make sense. "I'll put this skull, a symbol of death, on a corpse to prevent the powers of death from working on it!"

Post right before yours.
See, the way I'm using "totems" means "totems as they are now." What you're thinking of as totems is what I call things like

...religious icon...the dwarven equivalent of a crucifix or a Star of David or...the equivalents for non-Judo-Christian religions.

I think what we have here is a failure to communicate.

MrWiggles beat me to it.

If you don't like dwarves hauling stuff from construction sites, don't let dwarves haul the items or don't build in areas where stuff's being taken away from. That's control. If you don't like not being able to control every litle thing your dwarves do, play another game.

Setting construction above hauling would have at least as many problems as setting hauling above construction does now.

The only problem is that dwarves are idiots with minecarts, and that can be mostly averted with some cleverness. Or not using minecarts. Overall, there's not really any downside, and a thousand or more uses that make up for that and then some a thousand times over if you're dwarfy enough.

Independent necromancers raising corpses, then realizing that, since these corpses were "Independent," they were his enemy! Repeat until necromancer dies.