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That sounds more like a settlement logic than a distant outpost logic. If people only settled on roadsides, and roads are only built between settlements, where did the roads come from?

If a tunnel ends prematurely then it should have a sign mounted outside that talks about a collapse or worker ambush or simply that the work isn't done.

Quote from: Zara on June 19, 2008, 04:59:53 pm

Quote from: Misterstone on June 19, 2008, 01:12:01 pm

Tunnels are a cool idea.  But it's gonna be funny when you are walking around in a tunnel and you come across exposed diamonds or platinum nuggets something.  I guess there needs to be something in place to prevent this?

That shouldn't be to hard to implement. The pseudo-AI that designs the NPC fortresses needs to learn how to dig out ore veins anyway. (The current generic design is just boring.)The game only needs to check if ore or gems were exposed during the creation of the tunnel, 'dig' them out, check again if ore or gems were exposed, etc. Also the obvious way to implement: Bloat218, VEIN MINING OPTION, (Future): Ability to designate a metal vein for digging. They'd keep mining out the same kind of metal in adjacent squares as they uncover them. 

That's a better idea than dwarves "hiding" exposed veins during tunnel construction.

made with the demo so it's not quite the way i wanted it to be.

Just as an aside, this poll would have worked better if you'd split out the two parameters. E.g.:

For text signatures, I would prefer:
* Nothing
* 1-2 lines
* 3-6 lines
* etc.

For image signatures, I would prefer:
* Nothing
* Only images shorter than 60 pixels
* Only images shorter than 100 pixels
* etc.

It's nothing you can't figure out after the fact, but I don't want this to be a situation where e.g. the no-images-at-all people "lost" because they split their votes on how big of a text signature they allow, when the image signature people all chose the same thing.