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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 23, 2013, 02:02:24 am »
I think that, for story purposes, we should make sure that sapient creatures have some ability to vocalize. Things like pheromone communication seem like they would be difficult to write.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 21, 2013, 04:58:01 pm »
What do the Seqivet look like? Is there a description already?

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 21, 2013, 04:26:17 pm »
Are regular crossbows still effective? Or are they more a backup weapon now?

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 21, 2013, 01:32:59 pm »
A sacrifice of bacon is required for all military victories, it's usually eaten though, not set on fire and pointed at elephants.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 21, 2013, 02:20:41 am »
If I remember correctly, in medieval times armies would sometimes set dozens of pigs on fire and point them in the general direction of the enemy, they could be devastating to undisciplined troops, but skilled soldiers had no problem. I could be wrong though.

I have no idea what flaming elephants have to do with anything.



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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 20, 2013, 08:25:33 pm »
The real strength of dwarves, as in humans, is making weapons that say "F*** YOU" from very far away.

Actually, that brings up a question, how do vanilla elves and humans and goblins stand up? Without modding it seems like they will be severely outclassed. And (I'm pretty sure) we don't want them getting wiped out in world gen.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 20, 2013, 01:28:46 pm »
That random thought seems like a very good explanation to me. It certainly has a basis in human history, so it wouldn't be too difficult to write.

Part 2 of that random thought like it could be interesting to write. From that explanation it seems like the one thing the Seqivet would not expect would be a bunch of dwarves with railguns kicking down their front door.

Random thought of my own: perhaps the Seqivet "bible" also has something along the lines of "thou shall not fight" which, to careful interpretation, does not prohibit killing without a fight. (Which could be why their idea of combat is different)

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 20, 2013, 01:18:30 am »
Based on human history, I think the most likely explanation would be religious or ideological but an alien race might not think along those terms. Perhaps a cult of Seqivet objects to our messing with time, or they are enforcing some extreme version of the Prime Directive(From Star Trek). I suppose it could also be that, being an alien race, the Seqivet have such vastly different concepts of morality that friendship with dwarves is nigh impossible. It could even be that Seqivet don't recognize dwarves as beings that can be reasoned with, and as such, have no reason not to commence wholesale extermination.

I fell like I'm getting carried away again.

Edit: Changed "Seqiv" to "Seqivet" because the frog has declared it so.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 20, 2013, 12:50:43 am »
Is there any backstory for the Seqivet already?

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 18, 2013, 07:27:22 pm »
Neat.

I visited Spearbreakers as an adventurer, and the game immediately crashed. I'm not sure what that says about it.

Edit: I tried again and it worked, this place is an even more confusing mess as an adventurer. Should I write something up?

Edit 2: Made it to the second floor of the fortress before (I think) LFTON one shot me with his sword. I killed Asea, Olm, and Savero. (I marked the site as a lair, so all the dwarves and loot would stay put.)

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Museum: Adventure mode succession world
« on: October 18, 2013, 02:50:47 pm »
I've been really enjoying this thread, if turns are still open I would certainly like one.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 18, 2013, 02:14:45 am »
Are Scythoids alway going to be enemies? It seems to me, at least from the stories, that while Scythoids have a different set of morals, they could still possibly coexist with dwarves for a while. It also seems to me that Scythoids would respect battle prowess, which our dwarves seem to have in abundance.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 17, 2013, 06:54:26 pm »
I think the idea is that, with the multitude of new and powerful enemies, the dwarves have adapted the tech of ballpoint and parasol to better combat the new enemies. Dwarven railguns have more raw power, but are less accurate and much much heavier.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 17, 2013, 05:16:24 pm »
The navy is looking into using railguns on ships. Those will be able to fire two kilogram projectiles over 370 kilometers at about 2.5 kilometers per second. So yeah, cannons.


On a completely unrelated note, scientists are also looking into using railguns to induce nuclear fusion.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Spearbreakers - A Tale Of Depression, Pyromania, and Mugs. (34.11, finished)
« on: October 17, 2013, 04:53:10 pm »
I did some research on railguns, the main problem I see with our railguns is that there is no recoil. A railgun capable of the damage described would likely send dwarf skidding backwards.

Coil guns are also called Gauss guns, and I agree that the transdimensional companies are more likely to have Gauss guns than true railguns. Comparing a native railgun and a company railgun would be like comparing an assault rifle to a cannon. Which I think was the point in the first place.

Also, a heavier round would have more impact, with a corresponding increase in recoil.

All in all, heavy ammo for railguns sounds good.

Edit: I tend to get carried away when it comes to science in fiction, feel mostly free to ignore me.

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