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All I want is the ability to either tell the mountainhomes that we need no more fishery workers, but would like more metalworkers/warriors/etc, OR the ability to send migrants away (and I know I can just kill them, but a proper migrant disposal device and corpse/ghost disposal require a bit of effort, time, and space that I don't always have). This idea is not all that good; I want to have migrants without making glass when I lack glass, see. However, if you mean "Make X,000 ☼ worth of glass items for Y glassmakers," then yes, I like this idea, EXCEPT that I would need to make armor/weapons/etc to get smiths.

Quote from: Starver on July 31, 2011, 04:30:35 pm

Quote from: Jurph on July 30, 2011, 08:11:56 am

Wrong -- diagonal movement costs 1.4 squares of movement.

I've previously quoted that information, but others have said that there's no basis for this, so I don't throw this fact around any more and go with the apparently more provable "Modified Manhattan" distance.  Still, we can deal with it being otherwise.

a squared + b squared = c squared

Basic geometry of a right triangle.

He's reffering to that info needing verification in DF movement costs.

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I caved in the roof of hell, just as the wiki warns. The strange "magma flow" tile also created by channeling into SMR now resides on the slade floor, with a piece of schist lying on top of it. No trace of the block of unmined rock. I had expected it to be stopped by the slade, but it is gone.

[spoiler]Oh, dear. I hope that was your intent. If not...good luck for your dwarves' attempts at survival and your attempts at not killing your FPS.

Erm, channel into the magma sea where the miners can't fall in? Just dig a staircase to the sea and channel next to the bottom stair. I think that should work.

And if you want infinite metal, you need a really complicated setup, not just shooting at goblins. Although that can help.

Genesis mind flayer void masters come to mind, and I think most (or at least some) mind flayer castes in most mind flayer mods would too. Also WT blasts. Probably others, too.

Dwarven drinking contests result in forts with no booze left.

No, a dwarven drinking contest is "Who can drink the most water before his blood alcohol level drops too low?"

tallfred's stuff reminds me of the hunger games.
In fact, that should be the dorflympics. several gladiators have to survive in a giant arena untill all but one are dead.

One male and one female child from each profession, watched gladly by the nobility and less so by the rest, with the family of the winner getting a free royal bedroom and royal dining room and such in an isolated area, with a *<<+golden cornocopia+>>* in the center, filled with supplies and weapons, and the arena filled with traps and the occasional monstrosity? Awesome. The only problem is getting them to kill each other.

Another idea: Mining race. Two miners are locked into a mine, racing to mine to the end and collapse the ceiling on the other's head before the other does the same to him. Old arenas are used to house the poorest or dwarves (e.g. a dormitory) or to store prisoners before you drop in dwarves for another sport.