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I'm guessing "Violence" is equivalent to Fun in this case, xarit.

no, challenge is equivalent to fun, violence means you run your fort in a violent manner. Having a military does not necessarily make a fort violent, but overkilling or extending enemy's suffering usually means you have a violent fortress. Other things such as if you have dwarven daycares/child smashers also determine if you run your fort violently. A standard example is my old-fort's map-wall-in system (that is not yet built in my current fort due to delays caused by huskifying fog). A system consisting of raising bridges surrounding the whole map that can completely cut off escape should goblins try to run away. A less violent fort might instead simply have walls and fortifications with marksdwarves that shoot goblins, who promptly retreat after taking some casualties.

i think the purpose of the monarch is to purposely incite rebellion from the player and make the player think of ways to get him killed, before carrying out his execution. There is a reason menacing spikes have such high value, its to force players to place it in the monarch's room to increase the value of the room to the monarch's liking. Mechanisms are also worth quite alot and would make fine additions to the monarchs room as well, particularly if attached to the spikes in the room and to a repeater.

5 mandates is just crazy, heck i find dealing with the mayor's one mandate to be alot of fun because i tend to leave mandates to the last minute to limit the amount of mandates they make (if you complete it, they'll just make a new one). And sometimes i forget about it and my dwarves end up beaten by my unquestionable weak captain of the guard with his featherwood training swords. Very flimsy dwarves may still get hurt occasionally so its annoying.

On the plus side it'll be like a dwarfy version of the french revolution, hopefully there is not a negative consequence of killing the monarch.

my god, my fort is never like this, what a horrifying story. My captain of the guard is in his lone squad, he is the weakest dwarf, and dual wields wooden training swords so he cant even use his fists. There are also no jails at all in my fort, no hammerer either, and i am ultimately the one who decides actual punishment should any laws be broken. The mayor's mandates are broken at will, he has his royal throne room/dining room/bedroom to offset his minor happiness loss.

my fort is also designed around security and safety, so dwarves almost never engage any hostiles. This goes for the military too, who are only marksdwarves. Mining, wood cutting, and plant gathering in the caverns are stopped as soon as any hostile creature is dangerously close to the working area, before any potential encounters. I think the food in this story is portrayed too negatively too. I mean typical food in my fort usually is 256 (stack) masterwork forgotten beast roast with masterfully minced cheese and valley herbs and dwarven syrup.

my fort however, has other horrifying aspects like liberally atom-smashing and slabbing children/popular dwarves that are otherwise useless. They are slabbed though so no ghost appears, and my dwarves just accept this as a regular normal occurrence of being spirited away.

this is a interesting story though, i hope to see asen going insane/being zombified and dumat tearfully putting him down. I want to see all her innocence get washed away in blood and tears and see her become a hardened soldier, her emotions and values a husk of what she used to be.

well in my biome the dead rise so i need to smash the corpses, which results in un-slabbable caravan guard ghosts (some of which are violent). I guess if you want it all for free then just flood the depot room with water or something and drown everyone, then you can just claim the area and have dwarves haul it in.

i tend to avoid hydro-transport of items because working with water costs your fort in fps.

Honestly though, i dont think its worth the trouble, you can duplicate steel by making and melting chain legs and i had enough masterwork silver serrated discs by the end of my second year to buy the entire caravan anyway.

i threw a bolt at a dragon, which chipped their toe. The dragon proceeded to give into pain after walking a few steps, i went up and stabbed it's brain.

Quote from: Catsup on April 19, 2013, 09:47:46 am

apparently if you dont capture all the spawned animals in 1 cluster, and allow 1 of them to escape, then there is always the chance that a new cluster with a full squad of the animals respawn. This doesnt work for some creatures like giant cave spiders with only 1 per cluster, but i tend to let my spiders revert to wild and then release them after i hatch some spiderlings.

so conservation attempt might work after all for some species atleast who arrive in groups, HEY wait a minute GCS don't reproduce!

modded them to lay a low number of eggs so i cant mass them, but most creatures in my modded worlds can reproduce. Dragons also grow up in 30 years or so, which is 3 times the lifespan of my typical fort.

apparently if you dont capture all the spawned animals in 1 cluster, and allow 1 of them to escape, then there is always the chance that a new cluster with a full squad of the animals respawn. This doesnt work for some creatures like giant cave spiders with only 1 per cluster, but i tend to let my spiders revert to wild and then release them after i hatch some spiderlings.