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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Suggest me a challenge
« on: June 16, 2011, 11:54:12 am »
Try building the entire fortress inside an aquifer.

Quote from: ETV on June 16, 2011, 09:06:13 am
Quote from: thijser on June 16, 2011, 08:59:37 am
Try to survive using only stone-fall traps for defense. It should be quite challenging.

Ambushes make this hard to impossible.
Just chain a dog behind a fortification next to the entrance. That way it will spot them and not be able to help with the attacking.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Strange happenings in world gen
« on: June 16, 2011, 04:51:28 am »
OMG IT WAS HAEROBRINE!!11!!HE IS REAL!!1

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DF General Discussion / Re: Vampires and the Mountainhomes
« on: June 16, 2011, 04:47:53 am »
Maybe you could become known as the one place that stands against the king, and you start to attract more migrants who also want to see him dead.

Perhaps you could win the war simply by winning the hearts of his troops!

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What's going on in your fort?
« on: June 15, 2011, 06:17:02 pm »
Quote from: Naz on June 15, 2011, 05:38:01 pm
in the process of designating ALL the mining in my fortress' floor plan before I unpause the game after embark. I've got an awesome plan and I don't want to fuck it up.

Unrelated: Why isn't this thread stickied? It's got more pages of replies than this board has of threads. I think we passed the point of epic thread about 60 pages ago. We're solidly into "Legendary Thread" territory at this point.
I sometimes do that. It usually means I end up neglecting the farms for too long though...

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Because of Dwarf Fortress...
« on: June 15, 2011, 05:49:08 pm »
Quote from: Coco146 on June 15, 2011, 05:23:53 pm
...have begun to wonder why peoPle think dwarves are Scottish.  I mean I am a scot and my liver still functions as it should
You're clearly doing it wrong then.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Strangest Shit Ever
« on: June 15, 2011, 05:32:30 pm »
Quote from: NotPete on June 15, 2011, 04:29:51 pm
Quote from: Scaraban on June 15, 2011, 04:12:39 pm
Deon, I am officially depressed now. 

An odd combination of depressed and amused. That was a high quality non-sequitor Deon.
Nay, it was a masterwork!

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Strangest Shit Ever
« on: June 15, 2011, 04:03:55 pm »
Whuh...?

I honestly can't say I expected to learn about Cuba today.

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DF General Discussion / Re: YADFRT
« on: June 15, 2011, 12:32:43 pm »
Quote from: Gatleos on June 15, 2011, 08:10:21 am
Quote from: Tharwen on June 15, 2011, 07:13:50 am
From memory, the cargo bay you get updgrades from in Starcraft II is called 'Bay 12' (I think I got that information off this very forum, in fact). That could at least go under the possible references section.
It's almost certainly a reference to the Alien series, which I believe is what the name "Bay12 Games" is a reference to as well.

I've never seen Alien...

I mean... yes, Alien! I know exactly what you're referring to! In fact, I just finished rewatching the entire series so I'm about as knowledgeable now as I'll ever be!

I'll get round to it at some point.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What's going on in your fort?
« on: June 15, 2011, 10:26:05 am »
Let's play a game I like to call...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Somehow, an untrained woodcutter managed to make the ogre run away, and now it's being chased by my entire populace (of 6) around the entire map. It's just a shame I can't see where it is half the time.

EDIT: Wow, another ogre just came and beat a wrestler to death with a pair of trousers...

EDIT 2: Now a different ogre has spent the last three months getting bitten over and over again by about a dozen wardogs. It's seriously lagging up the fortress.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Strangest Shit Ever
« on: June 15, 2011, 09:15:13 am »
Woo, thanks :)

I suppose it was too much to expect it to menace with spikes of cat bone.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Strangest Shit Ever
« on: June 15, 2011, 07:53:12 am »
Quote from: Girlinhat on June 13, 2011, 03:09:40 pm
Girlinhat cancels Stay On Topic: Job Item Misplaced.

Since there's no topic to be seen for miles around, I might as well ask this:

What sort of hat is it?

I've been curious about that for ages...

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DF Suggestions / Re: Fixing the Water wheel/pump perpetual motion exploit
« on: June 15, 2011, 07:34:07 am »
The way to realistically fix it would be to make pumps require slightly more energy than a waterwheel can provide, but to be honest, I think it's a good thing for the gameplay to have things like this in the game. It's not exactly a simple exploit, so it's not making 'standard' energy systems redundant.

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DF Suggestions / Re: Glass barrels and Bins
« on: June 15, 2011, 07:30:20 am »
Quote from: Sir E Brum on June 15, 2011, 06:48:45 am
Everyone knows that glass pots function exactly like barrels, right?

*Nudge* This thread is three years old

I just thought you might like to know.

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DF Suggestions / Re: Dealing with the cliffs of Insanity, aka the learning curve
« on: June 15, 2011, 07:28:44 am »
Maybe there could be a simple fortress hardcoded into the download files with no world to go with it, and some basic instructions to guide a player around the controls.

Obviously that would be quite a lot of work, but it would at least ease new players in somewhat.

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DF General Discussion / Re: YADFRT
« on: June 15, 2011, 07:13:50 am »
There are more than the ones on that page, surely?

From memory, the cargo bay you get updgrades from in Starcraft II is called 'Bay 12' (I think I got that information off this very forum, in fact). That could at least go under the possible references section.

Umm... what else? I can't think of any right now.

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