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TvTropes article on stupid AI descisions, of course. I loved literally every word of everything written. Then I read the avtual article on DF on tvtropes. It sounded so fun, and so complex... I resisted the urge for a while, saying "what about school", and "it sounds expensive", and "you'll just get bored with it like you always do." I have ADHD, and no matter how much I loved a game, If I played it for too long, I grew bored. Then I went to the sight, just as .34 had been released. 

I tell you, I havent gotten bored at all in dwarf fortress, partially because I'm allowed to work on, say, new things for my craftsdwarfs to do, then to the worn-out clothing problem, then to mining, and so on. I can suceed at some little task, then move on to the next thing, cause so much work is nescasary, I never run out of things that need work. It DOES have a problem with leaving some longer projects unfinished, but I can get to them when its needed.

Of course, the randomly-generated randomness is awesome. A giant jumping spider attacks a hunter, injures her and kills her baby. BUt, as it finishes the baby off, the mother suddenly springs into action, perforating it with bolts. Unintentional baby armor, i guess. Still, Jumping spider meat for all!

Granted. Its so pure, and amazing, that it jumps out of your hand, round-kicks you in the face, snapping the spine, jumps on a flaming horse, and kisses your girlfriend as it rides into the sunset.

I wish for a yacht.

Granted. It lights your butt on fire, and and you realize that you dont know how to use a jetpack. As your butt burns, you crash into a wall.

I wish I had telekenetic powers.

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When you order a dwarf to kill a merchant/diplomat from your civ, that dwarf will become an enemy to the civ, at which point everyone that is still a member of the civ (in the beginning it should be everyone) is an enemy. However, because he betrayed the civ government but not the local government, he is still a member of the local government and therefore killing him makes the killer a traitor of the local government and a hero of the civ government. This escalates uncontrollably, where dwarves are killing eachother left and right and becoming traitors to either the civ or local governments, and then those that kill another dwarf who is a member of both governments still will become renegades that have betrayed both governments, at which point it's legally safe to kill them. Members of the same faction (of which there are four) will be friendly towards one-another, and it is possible for them to continue living together.

Yes, this I know. I call the groups renegades, loyalists, seperatists, and citizens. Right now If you REALLY wanted to you could create a seperatist fort, by having a group of dwarves kill a caravaneer each, and then be somehow seperated from the local population. Then, everytime a caravan comes, repeat with new dwarves, and seperate them into new group, rinse repeat, congratualtion. Migrants would be problematic, but you could just lock them away until it's time to train them into members.

Also, a dwarf could and Should have differing levels of loyalty to each individual set so if a conflict were to arise, instead of the bizzare situation we have now, dwarves could "choose sides", so if a civil war DID happen, dwarfs wouldn't spotaneously decide to murder each other.

Civil war is a nice idea. I suppose you could manage that using your set system, with a dwarf in government belonnging to a specific faction, and if their ideals amd actions were too oposed, a civil war might spark. As of right now the king is universally beloved and everyone does as they are told

Quote from: crazysheep on July 06, 2012, 05:39:37 am

Quote from: RemusShepherd on July 05, 2012, 01:38:40 pm

So let's review.  Everything < Serrated steel blade traps.

Fixed.

Tbh it doesn't make sense because dragons are flying creatures, and I thought flying creatures wer- OH WAIT A MINUTE.. DRAGONS DON'T HAVE WINGS.

and, ironically, cave dragons, who in their description are listed as being twisted into not having fire and wings, DO have wings, albeit functionless ones.

So there's no other reason for an assumed name right?

The only reason I could think of is to avoid the forced migration to your death-trap of a fort. As this is post-migration, no.

Even more fun for my tantrum spiral, she's a speardwarf and a large number of my dwarves are military members in one barracks. (there's not a lot of sane adults left and I NEED a military)

Easy enough, as long as there is a justice screen, send her to be hammered, or at least convicted. A single dwarf wont be the difference between failure and temporary victory

They dont necsasarrily need to worship the god that cursed them. Who told you such a thing is impossible?  I've had atheist vampires, though how to not believe in god if he has personally cursed you is beyond me. No blood-suckers gve the same message as a vamp, it'll be listed in combat logs if it was.
Also, *grabs party hat, member sock of identification* Congrats, Welcome to DF, and the forums! Here's your sock. Don't lose it, and if you do, get it back by any means nescasary.

EDIT: Damn ninjas, editing for accuracy.