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My algorithm will work like this it will consider strength, elasticity and weight, if a single column of supports will hold up an entire fortress and there are 6 cells around each support, when a support is removed the supports over it will collapse and when enough weight is placed on a cell the floor will break.

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Originally posted by Quintin Stone:
<STRONG>The twist is that Steam won't validate your copy of Half-Life 2!</STRONG>

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I don't get it. I don't even have HL2.

[ November 28, 2007: Message edited by: Bien ]

But there's a twist! There might be a chance that the boiler needed to make the steam will explode, the machine might jam or explode, pipes might burst and boil unlucky dwarves, steam explosions will launch bits an pieces of what exploded and also some shrapnel, steam will boil creatures unlucky enough to get caught in the steam, and if a pipe bursts in a room with a locked door and there's a creature inside the room will turn into a pressure cooker and if the pressure gets high enough the door might get blown open or launched some distance, and if the structure with the burst pipe is outside, a wall or a window might get destroyed.

A menu that allows you to choose where you want to attack

And an option that allows you to control a cretain dwarf in fortress mode

[ May 16, 2007: Message edited by: Bien ]

For use when you really need something done but your dwarves are doing nothing or slacking off, press a key and you will have a menu to select a dwarf to control, kinda like adventure mode in fortress mode.

Hey, Robrtt, can you post that on the wiki, so my parents will stop complaining about me going blind?

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Originally posted by Ioric Kittencuddler:
<STRONG>Hey, that gives me another idea!  Why not make an indoor refuse stockpile with a lava flooding system?  Woot!  Burn it!</STRONG>

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Woud'nt the ash get mixed with the magma?

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Originally posted by Zemat:
<STRONG>This is related to what's already mentioned in the dev notes about secret doors but it would be awesome if you could open a big enough space and designate and entire section of wall or floor to slide into the open space from any direction (left, right, up, down, above or below) via a mechanism. This could be used for a great deal of purposes like acting like secret doors, trap-floors, elevators, etc. And anything that is over the moving floor or wall should move along with the section. this include statues, bridges, even workshops. The amount of mechanisms needed could be proportional to the amount of space that is needed to be moved. So that the amount of time and work needed for it's completion would be also proportional to it's size.

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Closed chamber:

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XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXX     XXXX
XXX     XXXX
XXXX   XXXXX
XXXXXXXX===X
XXXXnnnX===X
XXóX   XXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX

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X : Wall
ó : switch
n : statues or something
= : railway linked to mechanism

Open chamber:

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XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXX     XXXX
XXX     XXXX
XXXX   XXXXX
XXXX===XXXXX
XXXX===nnnXX
XXòX   XXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX

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All this would make fortresses more enticing for adventurer mode exploration.

I realize this would disrupt heavily the connectivity map but maybe the connectivity map could be expanded to hold information of the moving section on both states and only use the information of the current state. Of course I don't know anything about the connectivity map so maybe I should refrain commenting on it.

[ July 29, 2007: Message edited by: Zemat ]</STRONG>

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Your post reminds me of the tunnels in Fury 3, the tunnel walls try to squash you.