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NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions went online a few days back, awesome useful of anyone doing heavy maths.

It seems the UK government want more young people involved in politics and they are looking for game designers to achieve this.

Tender: http://www.publictenders.net/tender/57433

# QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
# II.2.1)
Total quantity or scope

Design, development and delivery of a computer game that will engage and immerse young people in learning about democracy and the role of Parliament in scrutinising the government, representing the public and making laws.

Excluding VAT

Range between 250 000 and 350 000 GBP

I was thinking we could just submit LCS

In an effort to make the game hard (which was successful) I've been embarking without spending any points on either skills or equipment. I also have the Orc mod and the farming mod (which makes food worth less or take longer to grow) and am running into problems that tend to lead to excessive amounts of Fun.

My current start strategies are to harvest any native plants and grow them on farms. The starting wagon gives three essential wood that allows cooking, butchering (starting animals and bare-hand hunting) or fish cleaning and then being re-tasked to a trade depot in an effort to get either an axe or a pick or possibly just some more building materials.

As yet I've not survived the first year due to a combination of Orcish invasion and sober slothfulness so other than not attempting such suicidal embarks I was wondering if anyone had any tips. I could really use them

Please note that suggesting I start on a glacier as well would not help

Edit: Assuming I can survive the first year would anyone be interested in a community or succession game?

So I'm having problems turning salt water into fresh water.

I have pump above an aquifer which pumps into a clear glass floored, clear glass walled room. The pump itself is build on a clear glass floor and has clear glass walls as well. The room itself is the same level as the pump and has an open top (which the water doesn't get close to going over).

Four of the floor squares are glass hatches back to the aquifer in case I need to clear the room but other than that it's all walls and floors. But the water I pump in doesn't show as a water source so I'm wondering what I'm missing.

I was playing on a frozen map when it occured to me that I could actually have running water (due to magma) and pump it into my entrance tunnel where it stayed liquid. (clearly I was low enough down for that). However I'm pretty sure if I open that tunnel to the air it would all freeze.

So here is my defence plan.

First off a line of pressure plates at the entrance which trigger a gear connected to a pump to fill a square of water. This square of water is on other plate and so produces an always on signal once any hostile triggers the entrance no matter that it'll flicker on and off as people travel over it.

This second plate will be connected to another gear/pump system or maybe just a flood gate which will fill a small room, time to allow hostiles to get a fair distance down the hall way. Once that is full a 7/7 plate will open a gate shifting all that water into the hall way.

As the hallway is ramped at both ends it will fill up to 7/7 quickly at which point a plate at just off the far end of the hall, which is covered by a roof, triggers both a delay pump/room combination and the trapdoors/bridge/whatever that covers the hallway. All the water then freezes killing the hostiles.

Once the last delay pump/room is full it triggers magma to fill the a hall below the hallway and a floodgate to drain out the water, finally this magma is allowed to drain as well and the trap is reset.

Does anyone see any major flaws in this, other than the fact I will obviously miss something and end up pumping magma into my living quarters or something.

This is mainly to try and stop me getting RSI with strip mining large areas, but can you make it so we can have small patterns of which blocks are selected and which aren't that are used to fill the area we designate, rather than just the solid pattern we have now.

How much work would it be to split the tilesets so that the game uses one for the font and a different one for the game icons. It's just a shame a number of really good tilesets mean a lot of the text has letters replaced, and I imagine it's not a major change to fix this.

Would be nice and something not to massive to do I think