Bad news gentlemen.
I don't remember if I mentioned it, but a couple of weeks back my curiosity got the better of me and I used the DFhack "prospect" and "reveal" commands to get an idea of how much salvage I had on the map.
As it turned out, the game trolled me horribly.
The map (and caves) are nearly devoid of high quality salvage.
I'm not kidding. There is like 100 high quality salvage logs on the entire map.
For comparison there is well over 1500 low quality salvage and less than 400 medium quality.
What does this mean?
That, for starters, the surface is the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen in my time with Lycaeon's mod.
It is infested with ghouls that murderize everything and everyone caught outside for more than a few minutes, and its basically all low quality salvage, completely pointless and way too dangerous to even be remotely profitable.
There is zero incencetive whatsoever for me to even try and attempt to retake the surface for any reason at all.
What it also means is that my clever idea of making expansive tree farms is also totally a waste of time, because for some reason worldgen gave be the middle finger and there is barely any medium or high quality scavenge at all down there.
What I am trying to say here is that there is no endgame on my map, no point in attacking the surface and expose myself to enemy civs, no nothing.
Just infinite low tech bunker boredom in which I am stuck forcing myself to write the same kind of crap every time.
After I get farming going for real there is virtually nothing really interesting to do and no dangers to deal with, I don't have to go anywhere because there is nothing to gain from it.
Pineapple doesn't lead anywhere.
Because of this, I am shutting Pineapple down.
Sorry guys, but it's just not really worth it anymore.
I'll write one last epilogue entry before I close it and let it die.
From there I can do two things:
1. Put any community games/stories on ice for now and try to get a little more involved in Lycaeon's thread/testing new versions.
2. Start over (assuming there is still interest in this*).
*In that case, I'd consider Pineapple to have had a peaceful end in story terms and you can "transfer" your character to the new stable if you'd like (purely for story purposes obviously).
Also, I'll switch to a different format the next time around and not do a continuous story from start to finish like I do now.
So yeah, that's that.
I'm giving you guys two days tops to voice your opinion on this.
Are you interested in a new run?