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I had this awesome fight with a Titan. My only companion was a drunk, he kept trying to wrestle the titan, and sometimes even took him to the ground with him, while I thrusted with my Iron Spear. Eventually I leveled the spear skill and pierced its limbs and killed it. Delighted by the awesome fight I took two steps only to have my upper body ripped by a giant cave spider... Thos buggers are broken.

Please Tamren, post videos of that trap working, that thing sounds awesome.
As for me, I did a single tile wide corridor, which was very long. About 5 spikes in every tile, plus a ballista pointing outwards.
Fun, but nothing spectacular.

I've brought my save from 33a, I have 70 dwarves and 3000 coins, the dungeon master arrived with the last wave of migrants. Am I missing something or do I need to create a new world in the current version ?

I'm building a sky city 10 levels above the surface. The tower leading to it is made of orthoclase, the platform is made of microcline (what's done of it at least) and I plan to do the city itself in gold, since it VERY abundant in my site.
Also, I've made a 5 level deep pit around the tower, with lots of spikes in the bottom, connected to a lever which will work in repeat if anything survives. I'm planning on doing intermediate platforms in the lower levels of the tower, and I've planned to build 4 massive dawrf-shaped statues in each corner of the city, which will act (if I can make it work, as giant fountain/sniper nest    
I still have a long way ahead though, the platfor for the city is barely 20x20 now, and there's just a little barracks on top... The spike pit is almost finished though, just some spikes left to link to the lever.    :p

[ November 20, 2007: Message edited by: Karl_Delacroix ]

I don't know if this has been mentinoed before, because I didn't know which string to look for in the forums :/

Anyway, since Toady mentioned at some point we will be able to "stop the clock" and start playing before year 1050, maybe he could put in a new feature: The counting of years starts from some very big happening that is randomly generated and marks the beginning of year 1. For example: Goblins fell a human capital, the kingdom fell, and humans from that big kingdom had to escape for the mountains.

Yes, I know, the example wasn't very exciting, but I think you get the idea. It wouldn't be a game-breaking implementation, but in my opinion it could add a bit of flavor to each new world, and maybe have consequences on the future of it.

[ March 02, 2008: Message edited by: Karl_Delacroix ]

About pocket worlds and today's devlog update: Maybe pocket worlds DO need stopping the world generation clock earlier.

Amphibious zombie whale men would actually be very awesome.