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) could come in handy.So, what's criteria for best fort? I'm tempted to join in, but I'm not going to if it's simply monetary gain or best trap hall.Judging will be done by the community at large via Poll. The purpose I had in mind is to get the most advanced fort to show what an experienced player can do in 10 hours, as a contrast to someone brand new who might be only able to build a still. If that takes the form of a mega-project, 3z of traps, lava fun, or creating 2000 socks it is up to you.
This may give me an excuse to finally build me green glass pyramid.
Also, are we using any embark? Is there to be a standard?
How about we have 2 different divisions? 10 Realtime Hours, and 10 Game Years. That should minimize some confusions, as well as any bickering about the rules between the groups. Submissions should include preferred FPS settings to be listed.Sure, if we have enough submissions then creating divisions for the voting sounds fair.
Let's not forget, some people play at different gameplay rates besides FPS rates as well (we have planners, CODs, Project-oriented, and etc. that might sign up for this).
Well. That last entry is a bit concerning.lol, I agree this has plenty of potential for fun.
At 100 FPS, 10 hours is just shy of 9 years.I see your point. We could modify the rules so that 10 hours is the absolute maximum, but participants can submit a fort sooner. If there is amazing progress after only 2 hours a short fort may even win the crowd.
Because everyone plays at a different FPS, I'd say to change it to a 9 year limit, with shorter times allowed, as most people die within 3 years or so.
I see no reason to limit embark or worldgen either. Just as long as it's Vanilla DF with or without a Tileset. 10 hours, 10 years, whichever is less, or whatever you feel like as long as it doesn't exceed that time frame. My whole point was to illustrate that, in the same 10 hours she spent beating her head against the game, a moderately experienced and somewhat informed player (Me) can make a viable and fun fort.
We should put ourselves on the clock, so that it's not "10 hours unpaused" but 10 hours played, which includes time worldgenning, designating things, planning, etc. I'd say the only time it doesn't include would be preparing the write-up, as that will take a bit longer.
))As a side note, I could have a pretty freaking awesome fort in 10 hours of play.!!CHALLENGE!!Start at worldgen and make the best fort you can in 10 hours, including some documentation of events. We vote on best fort+writeup of those who accept, and post on some website and link as response.Maybe one of us should make a 10 hour fort with a write-up and send it to the author of this article?I'm tempted to do it.
Yes, this has been done:!!SCIENCE!!We find our own n00b and get them to play 10hr and document progress with the tutorial as reference (it helped me in the beginning too). Part 2 of the experiment would have a different n00b uses only TinyPirate's book for the 10 hours. Bonus points if the subjects are female + college graduate + working in the media.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=31928.0
It's a dated version, but the basics are very similar. I used it to first get involved in the game.
Sounds good! I will most likely be able to get good and drunk on wednesday night-thursday morning (I work at night, so I will be drinking at around 4 AM XD)Ha, Good Times
So basically, no sober practice on an unrelated fort? Just dive in drunk with some rusty knowledge of an outdated version of DF....I LIKE IT!
