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Anyway, I think you'dve easily done it if not for the zombie hoard. I'm hoping to get a formal update up later today, just took a quick look at the fort. I've got some studying to do for an exam next Wednesday so I can't play JUST yet.Wait, he had a zombie hoard? Like, a bunch of valuable zombies locked up in a vault?
First off, protecting an adamantine mechanism with bronze is a bit dumber than protecting an artifact steel axe with tissue paper. Second off, check the raws. No mention of adamantine, no mention of any kind of mechanisms, no mention of internal structure at all.Forum ate my post...I'll reiterate most of what I said.How do you know that a bronze colossus has "no adamantine in it"? It could very well just be a robot made of adamantine with a bronze shell to protect its mechanisms. But other than that assumption, I agreed with everything in your post.
For the love of Armok, bronze colossi are not dwarven cyborgs.
It's ludicrous that adamantine would be required for a colossus that contains no adamantine, and to think that you could control a massive rampaging bronze statue that evidently the wizards of ancient times couldn't.
If the cost is one part dwarven lives and two parts "Why kill the goblins at the gates when there are dwarves to kill right here?", then it could be balanced, especially since, as McDwarfEater poined out, BCs are a lot more adept at absorbing damage than dealing it.
So if something isn't steampunk it can't have robots?...Is there a facepalming smiley?
And if you were to melt a bronze colossus, the adamantine gears or whatever that are inside could just mix in with the bronze, couldn't it?Seeing as adamantine has a higher melting point than the surface of the sun? I doubt it.
The game never explicitly says bronze colossi are bronze all the way through, so by claiming that you're making up your own lore. Non-canon lore shouldn't be used in an argument.From the description:
Fixed that for you.So if something isn't steampunk it can't have robots? And if you were to melt a bronze colossus, the adamantine gears or whatever that are inside could just mix in with the bronze, couldn't it? The game never explicitly says bronze colossi are bronze all the way through, so by claiming that you're making up your own lore. Non-canon lore shouldn't be used in an argument.Nope, different melting points and such. The adamantine would stick out, mostly unscatched.
Btw, I'm not saying that that they ain't adamantine robots, but it makeslessno sense for them to be.
Primarily to show just how unbelievably stupid current enemy AI is. Also, I like TV Tropes. (Fun fact: I wrote out all of those links from memory.)I think he was saying something like "If all of the bandits get scared and run off when you cut off one guy's head with a single blow, it gets too easy." Which may or may not be true, but it's certainly realistic for people not to charge into combat against a demigod adventurer with a hundred kills, including many megabeasts, a masterful steel battleaxe, and legendary status.
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GODDAMNIT. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO THAT. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE SO MANY OF THEM.
Dwaves already haul a stack of plump helmets at a time.Making 20x as many plump helmets would leave one less thing to keep track of* and allow stock screens and such to make sense more easily.If you're going to increase production like that, you need to increase hauling ability just as much...
*Stacks of items don't cause lots of lag, or at least not nearly as much as they would if spread out into smaller stacks.
You would also need to make 20x as many plump helmets grow in one tile, or your farms would need to be 20x bigger.That's what I was initially saying...
This is why multiple interoperating but different time scales are bad. Toady's struck a delicate balance, and any change to anything affects everything.Also a point I had made...no offense intended.
Damn guys, now I'm super excited for features that aren't even in the game yet, and some that may never be. ;~;The time-skip is the only feature brought up that I'm particularly interested in, and it's almost certainly going to be added.
metal crafter because you should have to craft each part individualityWouldn't the skill that lets you forge mechanisms, furniture, statues, etc, make more sense?
bone doctor because you should have to remove and replace each part of the dwarf, one at a timeEven assuming that's how it works, bone doctors heal broken bones.
[Found carved into the wall near a small, circular cart track covered in multicoloured bloodstains:]
The Overseer would like to remind his personnel that attempting to clean the cyclotron while it is in use is counterproductive for multiple reasons.
