1. Time: The fort's starting to drag even on higher end machines due to the sheer amount of crap, dorfs, and animals. You'll want to make sure you'll have the time to compensate.
2. Read the fort: While not a strict requirement, we'd prefer you read up on the fort's lore (Or at least all the overseer updates) before applying. This isn't so much to avoid catastrophes as avoid dumb mistakes that can easily be averted.
3. Please don't use graphics packs if you can help it: Part of our defense is composed of color coded levers; many graphics packs don't really account for this (phoebus
seems to be an exception in recent times though.)
4. Unafraid to ask the rest of us for help: If you don't know what something does, don't worry, we probably don't either. But we'll try to help as much as we can.
5. Cheating: Variable but as a concession to the fort's slow speed, Fastdwarf and autodump are allowed. The only time it isn't permitted is during battle save to get troops into position quickly, at which point it must be disabled so that the fight is fair (as fair as a fight against living death machines in a rain of bone bolts can be anyway.)
6. Killing nobility: If it weren't for the fact you only get one until that gets fixed, no offing my dwarf for mandates. Because we won't get a replacement duke. Partially related, Simon Tam has always been mayor so take the steps to ensure this remains the status quo since it's really the only other job he's qualified for (if he gets voted out, a little secret ballad should see him reinstated.
) Unless he dies choking on a sweet pod seed or something.
7. Pics: Not strictly required. This one is more the overseer's call. We would prefer you provide them upon request though.
8. Sometimes fires start on the surface for no discernible reason. In accordance with 5, you can use DFHack to douse the flames. Just bullshit it as a bucket brigade. Alternatively, if there are no dwarves topside where they can get hurt, just let the fire rage and do its thing.
9. Constructions: Get it Ok'd with me beforehand. I don't mean to be a killjoy or something, but we have some scruples here. If it involves moving magma (especially since we had a number of unexplained magma related suicides/deaths) or picking a fight with the FBs that we've kind of adopted as mascots(Since The Master showed that is such a bad idea that it shouldn't be attempted,) it probably won't happen. Random commemorative towers, silver-porcelien zombie hands rising from the ground, monuments to favorite dwarves in the story who've died and such are fine, just not at the expense of a a substantial part of the population (mostly because we can't spare them as it is with all the shit that needs doing.)
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