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Messages - kaenneth

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Life Advice / Re: Programming language conundrum
« on: May 27, 2011, 04:08:44 pm »
I use C# a LOT, but only on Windows, but my understanding is there exists a working open source project called "Mono" to allow portability of .net managed code.

a quick Goog... err Bing search http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

1817
DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Wall values
« on: May 26, 2011, 10:01:22 pm »
Do Both.

Make Adamantine weapons.

Load excess ones into weapon traps in the dining room.

Dwarves will admire the amazing trap, and if invaders ever make it deep enough into your fort to reach the dining room...

1818
DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Enemies hanging around open front gate
« on: May 26, 2011, 04:31:21 am »
For bait, would it work to have fortified windows?

Code: [Select]
═════════
.^^^^....
.╬╬╬╬....
.▓▓▓╬...g
..c▓╬...g
.▓▓▓╬...g
.╬╬╬╬....
.^^^^....
═════════

Fortifications to block building destroyers, Windows to block bolts/arrows, but allowing sight of the kitten, which has a path to it, leading past traps...

Maybe optimize with a pressure plate/hatch combo so that if the gobbos make it past the trap the path to the kitten is invalidated...

Then refined with that plate also opening a path to a different kitten-bunker, so they end up pathung back and forth over the traps?

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      outside
═══════O...O═══════
.╬..c▓╬...g.╬▓c..╬.
.╬₵▓▓▓╬...g.╬▓▓▓₵╬.
.╬*╬╬╬╬.....╬╬╬╬*╬.
.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.
═══════════════════

*'s being the pressure plates, while ^'s are weapon/cage traps. and ₵'s are hatches over pits, so when open they block the path.

1819
DF General Discussion / Re: What is Dwarf Fortress?
« on: May 26, 2011, 01:55:59 am »
I summed it up to my brother as "a mix of simcity and nethack, where I'm currently dropping kittens off this 15 story iron tower unto this floor patterned like a target, where my military recruits are training in order to desensitize them to death. It's even got a reasonable physics model, see how the kittens skull bounced up onto a higher level?"

1820
DF General Discussion / Re: A were-capybara wouldn't howl!
« on: May 25, 2011, 11:03:11 pm »
man, no other game spoilers please.

ANYWAY.

WereGCS. (not swallows)

And who says Humans are the only creatures to become weres? and do traits/abilities carry over?

Would a were-Dwarfbadger enrage?

Would a were-Goblintroll break down doors?

Would a were-Fluffywamblerdragon spew fire?

Would an were-Elfreindeer bring wooden toys?

1821
DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Most unintentionally hilarious notification you've gotten?
« on: May 25, 2011, 09:18:53 pm »
Quote from: Necro910 on May 25, 2011, 02:06:45 pm
Quote from: Deus Machina on May 25, 2011, 01:50:53 pm
(report) The goblin stabs Catten McSpeardwarf in the lower body, tearing open the gut!
(announcement) Catten McSpeardwarf has given birth to a girl!
Dwarven C-Section.
Just be glad it wasn't a snatcher...

1822
DF Suggestions / Re: The danger of world trading based on local supply/demand differences
« on: May 24, 2011, 10:32:15 pm »
Did the model take into account wanted 'luxury' goods? or only needed 'survival' goods?

Some trade is created by the desire for exotic goods, such as Coffee, spices, rare decorative gems, traditional handmade crafts, etc.

If the 'Nobles' in your model were only concerned with survival and efficency, and never made demands/mandates for things that arn't made locally just because they felt like it, it wouldn't match DF or Reality.

1823
DF Gameplay Questions / Re: uber dwarf discovered!this is normal?
« on: May 19, 2011, 11:11:17 am »
Quote from: Saiko Kila on May 15, 2011, 02:09:31 pm
Dwarfs don't need to be soldiers to be overpowered. I have an engraver who has agility over 2700, with racial average of 900. She runs one tile per 6 ticks (when hauling goblin bodies) which is as fast as they fall down gravitationally, about twice the speed of average dwarves. She won't kill anything, but will run away from it. Soldiers can have such agility after long training, but they are usually burdened by heavy armor, so they run slightly slower.

Sounds like she reached...

 8)

Terminal Velocity.

1824
DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Meat of syndrom carrying creatures.
« on: May 19, 2011, 11:07:49 am »
I have some anxiety over my huge stockpile of forgotten beast soap...

1825
DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What's going on in your fort?
« on: May 19, 2011, 10:52:14 am »
I have no intention of stopping the tamed grizzly-bearsplosion.

1826
DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The DF2010 Little Questions Thread
« on: May 13, 2011, 07:51:05 pm »
If I melt a metal onject, with metal decorations, are some fractional bars of the decoration material recovered, or tottally lost?

1827
DF Suggestions / Re: Reworked brain tissue(s) and effect of damage
« on: May 13, 2011, 07:34:10 pm »
If a Dwarf was brain damaged... How would you know?

Half of Zero is Zero.

but yeah, impacts to the skull with blunt weapons, or sharp weapons while wearing a hard helmet, might have some effect...

Concussed status might make the dwarf randomly forget what he was doing (flashing ? like when repathing) or somthing

1828
DF Modding / Re: Using Genes as Seeds for Worldgen
« on: May 12, 2011, 02:32:34 am »
Thats what I was first thinking, trying to use a genetic alogritm to breed sets of worldgen parameters until you get the best ones... problem is defining 'best'

1829
DF General Discussion / Re: Dwarf Fortress VS. Minecraft
« on: May 11, 2011, 08:41:03 pm »
Quote from: metime00 on May 11, 2011, 07:51:11 pm
Quote from: Devling on May 11, 2011, 05:54:01 pm
I think it's funny that this thread is kept alive by people complaining about it.  :o

I hate the meta, all it does is perpetuate this god awful thread :P

I hate people complaining about the meta, all it does is perpetuate this god awful thread :P

1830
DF General Discussion / Re: This game needs a tag line
« on: May 11, 2011, 08:38:38 pm »
Dwarf Fortress: A Sandbox game with Cats.

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