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Conversations are a bit eh, currently. Everyone always recycles the same sentences, and I think there's a few ways to make it seem more natural:
Add some useless parts to sentences.
Instead of always just "it's for the best", how about:

• I think it's for the best
• It's probably for the best
• I think it's probably for the best.

And choose between these randomly (including just good ol' "it's for the best")Combined with the usual "It's for the best". Just add a few random adverbs to the reaction sentences to make them feel more natural.

So, I've had an idea. It seems fairly straightforward what this idea is about, it is about a crossover of Asimov's Foundation and DF.


If you haven't read the Foundation series, I recommend that you do, because they're great.


This idea mainly occured to me because the first book read a little like a DF succesion fort, in my eyes.


Sadly, I have no idea how to execute this idea. We'll have to wait until DF2014, that's for sure. History progressing is absolutely essential. I guess this would be more about the story than anything else, but one would also have to decide how closely we will follow the books, or only in basic premise.


Then there's the problem of generating a suitable place to embark, a dwarven civ about to fall.


Either way, is anyone interested in this?

It doesnt't even have a proper name yet. The folder is currently called ADVENTURE. I don't have (m)any ideas for a plot but probably sci-fi I guess.


Either way, I've promised myself that I'm going to write a text adventure game for several reason:

• Improving my C# skills
• Improving my writing skills (I have hardly ever written anything though)
• Actually coding a standalone project, all of my other coding ventures are for /tg/station.

And for (hopefully) impressing a girl <.<  >.>


So yeah. Today I have finally started with this. It's not much, but hey.


Current structure ideas: (laying in bed at night/in the morning, thinking about how to code~)
4 types of things:
Rooms, self-explanatory.
Entities, anything you can examine IN a room.
Doors, to transfer between rooms. (possibly a subtype of Entities)
NPCs, talks to you. (using simple conversation trees) (possibly a subtype of Entities???)


This is the first thing I'm ever doing in C#, so roadbumps everywhere, probably.


Todo:
set up a todo list.

So, I have a crush on a girl in my class. I just really don't know how to talk to her without being weird so I can't work up enough courage to talk to her, which is keeping me from talking about her which is just slowly tearing me apart.


I really really don't know. I can't even formulate a decent post.

So yeah, I've pretty much always had anger issues to some extent. I'm easy to anger and I'll start to cry and try to hit people and even spit on people etc etc. Generally make a fool of myself. Whenever I'm under stress, I tend to cry, too. It's one of the main contributing factors to the fact that I'm so scared of interacting with people that I don't know.
I just want to do anything about it, but I really don't know what to do.

So yeah, the adventure mode forum has one of these and it's really useful so you don't have to make a bazillion threads for every single question you want to ask. Seemed like a good idea to post it here too.


Pretty simple:
Ask question
Get answer

Profit!


These questions can basically be anything fort mode related, from asking wether you military is set up well to how you do a specific thing and more.


I'll start: Say that I have an aboveground fort thingie to keep goblins out, not on the edge of a hill, just a freestanding fort with walls and a drawbridge. On the second level there are fortifications. Can enemy archers shoot trough these fortifications if they get next to my wall?
Z-0
w = wall, . = floor, F = fortification


.w.
.w.
.w.


Z-1
.F.
.F.
.F.

So yeah, I've got a dorf named after a guy in IRC and he's an axedorf. He got injured in a goblin ambush and can't stand or grasp properly anymore.
Either way, one of his wounds got infected. Will this kill him anyway and should I drop him into the caverns for one last heroic stand? Or can this infection be cleaned away?