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Or both at the same time!

It was fun but i'd much rather do it with company.  I'm up for doing it again later tonight if someone wants to join.   Have to do normal friday night social stuff first though.  I'll be back around midnight EST.  Does anyone have a good suggestion for a DF steam community to join?  Something we can post events to and jump on voice with?

I'm willing to try this..

• Every time you fail a mandate, take a DRINK.  From Vi Et Armis
• Every year (or season?) without a death, take a shot.  From Girlinhat
• Every craft possession, take a shot.  From Girlinhat
• Everytime you see your dwarves kill a dwarf take a shot. Everytime you kill a noble take a shot.  From TheeBaconman

Also, shots can be substituted for 1/4 a beer.  But i'd rather do something like this on Ventrillo/Teamspeak/mumble/steam voice.  Anyone else interested?  We'll pick an hour, ready some drinks & snacks, then embark.  We can even exchange world seeds if people would like to give a go at the same place & time.  Anyone interested?

Hey guys, gal, and lurkers.  This is my first topic post(please be kind!).

I recently had the CTD (crash to desktop) when {v}iew Units->{i}nventory was used on a military dwarf.  Some searching through the bug/mantis thing said it was a TrueType font problem.  Their solution was to turn off TrueType or wait for a fix.  I tried turning off TT but text scrolls right off the screen, i'm probably spoiled but it didn't look right. 

The solution is to replace font.ttf (located in /data/art/) with a font from here: http://www.fontex.org/download/Gentium-basic.ttf  I also replaced "default font.ttf" but i don't think that is the one used.

Further exploration of the original problem.  I recreated the problem and fix to make sure it worked.  The problem (for me anyways) will only crop up in a maximized window.  Default window size didn't CTD.  I'm also using Ironhand's tileset v0.57 for 31.25 located here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53180.0 and Fortress Defense mod (basic) from here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=62874.0

I hope this is helpful to someone here.  Even with seasonal saves, losing progress sucks.  Also, i wanted to ask if anyone has solved this with a different font?  Does anyone have different font suggestions?

I always embark with at least one soldier, usually an axe-dwarf with copper helm, mail, and boots.  The first thing after getting a farm & still up is a dodge-trap-pit.  Usually 10z deep with easy access at the bottom to scoop up loot.  But i rarely cage or use lethal weapon traps.  I'd rather the gobbos have a good chance to get inside and do some stabbing.

Just did my first embark with the Fortress Defense mod (so many people talking about it today).. the dodge pit is 4z deep and growing.  Hopefully it'll get done before the first siege!

Creating art of all the countless types of Forgotten Beast would probably be nearly impossible in any upgraded graphics version.  I'd much rather stick with a near infinite number of ascii beasts than a smaller number of beasts with actual graphics.

Yeah, it would have to be Spore-esque creatures.. the sheer number of possibilities would make static models almost impossible.

Please don't ruin a perfectly good thread with this AGAIN.  It's been suggested/demanded to hell and back, and then back again because we dwarves like our hell.

oop, sorry.  Didn't know this has been fought over.  Honestly i was thinking along the lines of chess over email or something.  Since trade caravans already come from the MountainHomes it seems possible to mod the caravan to carry specific items and so on.  Those items/guards could be "sent" from one fortress to another.  Anyways, my apologies for breaking this co-op taboo.  I will go back to lurking : )

Matters of computing power aside I thought of the single biggest reason Df can't ever have "modern" graphics. Or at least nothing better than sprites and isometric view.

If the game were to be rendered into full 3d "modern graphics" a problem of size of things becomes a big issue.

For example a dwarf digs a mine shaft that probably isn't much taller than the dwarf, how the fuck are you supposed to show a dragon or anything else large like that invading your tunnels?

I just thought I'd share.

Your thoughts?

I think the solution to that is scale dwarves down a lot.  A dragon will fill one "block" completely and a dwarf would appear small within a "block".