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Quote from: Kobold Troubadour on May 28, 2012, 11:05:05 pm

Quote from: Callista on May 28, 2012, 10:27:14 pm

Hmm... dwarven wheelchairs?

Wheelbarrows

Not nearly dwarfy enough.

how about if the dwarf has to pick up their wheelbarrow and carry it over their head? ^^

i wonder if you could make your dwarven railgun self-reload. what happens if a cart gets launched and slams into a wall... does it just drop onto stuff below, wheels down? (ie, will it land on a track?)

if so, you could design a long entry hallway, send a cart (or 3 carts, side by side, or a series of carts, 3 carts across, for a trade entrance), have the railgun opening at one end, and a hole at the other end, which can drop the cart onto rollers. the cart would then simply loop back around and up two stories, then drop down another hole into your acceleration track (onto another roller, of course).

of course, that will call for a few more windmills (or perhaps just use dwarven perpetual motion machines), but uhhh... self-reloading dwarven railgun sounds like it would be worth it. (also, depending on what happens with the corpses, you should either get a location where you can seal off the railgun to prevent it from firing, and loot the corpses, or maybe wind up with cartloads full of your enemyes' corpses that you use to crush your other enemies. what's not to like?)

of course, i haven't really tested any of this... but i can always *hope* it will work

you could try putting some weapon traps in the front to make the leader dodge off a narrow portion of land, drop down, get cage trapped, and include a path which leads to the leader's new location... and have that path to the cage traps below be full of traps.

you will likely need an abundance of training weapons of course.

actually, if you can find a way to make it drop water on them, you can have the water trigger a pressure plate, which means you can start up another sequence from it.

that said, you may have to settle for something that is alive and can't fly (i dunno, pig bombardment? traditionally i would call for a cow, but unfortunately the cow would probably starve to death and require reloading whether or not a kobold comes. maybe a zombie cow?)

Quote from: Abregado on May 05, 2012, 06:32:39 pm

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We have given creative control of the Houses and hivers art over to Suds, so feel free to fill his inbox with requests MUHAHAHA!

Shit.

I was just planning to make extra graphics sets for each of the Houses which can be switched out at the player's leisure. Though I don't know how well it would work thematically for House Cawdor to still get Redemptionist attacks.

if they're not redemptionists themselves, they're probably sinners anyways

Just what I always wanted! Fire spraying religious nutjobs!

Santa does exist.

there is no Santa. Santa is the guy who gives you presents if you've been good, and a stocking full of coal if you're bad.

there is, however, Phanta Claws. Phanta Claws won't kill you if you're good (this is generally considered to be more than sufficient reward), and will fill your socks full of your charred remains if you're bad.

there are similarities, but the two are decidedly different

Heh. I tried dumping a buncha kids in a volcano. I think one dodged when the bridge retracted, because I got several "found dead" messages.

did you dump them all at once, perchance? they may have "found" one another dead on the way down... or if they didn't burn away at the bottom before sending in the next one (that would be the drawback to the part where throwing a person into a volcano scouts the magma sea...)

babies can be separated from their mothers by forcing them to swim.

the best way to remove children is to atom-smash them, as i understand it. or dump them in magma. the key is to ensure that the body is never found, which will just leave them as permanently "missing" and prevents them from being considered dead by their friends and family, thus preventing tantrum spirals (iirc, children will mostly respect burrows, so if you make a burrow for them and designate a meeting hall there, you should be able to atom-smash them or drop them from a retracting bridge to a horrible firey death no problem. note that if you throw them into a volcano, they will also likely explore the magma sea for you a little bit. before they get to that horrible firey death part of things, of course.