Hello forum goers!
I've recently gotten back into
Dwarf Fortress after... at least a year's break, possibly more. Even before the break I was a rather basic player, and tended to play my embarks very, very safe.
I'd like to learn more about the game - and what better way to do that than by playing new worlds and sharing my awful failures with the community...Live!
The idea I present is that I get World Gen files from members of the forum. I'll choose one, most likely at random and create a world using those parameters, then sniff out a few embark locations which I'll let you vote on to play/stream until the fort crumbles. Dwarf nicknaming, suggestions and such will definitely be encouraged - that's the entire reason I want to stream.
Most of my forts of old used to be relatively self-sufficient, but I've not dabbled much with military or engineering and I stopped playing before minecarts were introduced and worn-out clothing became an issue. I also tend to go through world gen after world gen to find the 'perfect' embark - volcano, water, trees, iron, soil... the works. While I don't feel ready to step into scorching deserts or haunted taigas quite yet, having one world that I MUST choose from will hopefully curb this habit of mine and help me learn to cope in other situations.
I'll be playing DF in ASCII mode using
Raving's square tileset from the wiki. The world (and Twitch) needs more ASCII Dwarf and honestly I can’t read graphical tilesets. I'm using the
Lazy Newb Pack PeridexisErrant's Dwarf Fortress Starter Pack for its useful bundled utilities - Dwarf Therapist, Quickfort, DFHack (for bug fixes) and such.
I intend to stream on a regular basis, for at least a couple of hours three days a week or so. I know a LOT of that time will be management, but hopefully there shall be hijinks too! I'll only play the fort on the stream, so there won't be sneaky goings-on in between when no one's watching.
Right now I’m thinking of streaming say… 7-9PM my time on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday to start with (unless I'm not available). Sessions always could end up going longer if I get into the game and people are watching, of course.
I’m Australian so the times will be a little strange to some, let’s have a look here. 7PM my time (+1030 hours since we’re under daylight savings until April) is apparently 4:30am EST so I apologise to those in the US. If I get enough interest I could try and make one of the weekly sessions at a more convenient time but that would have to be discussed later.
I'll be cross-posting highlights to threads in both the official
Dwarf Fortress forum and
BrokenForum and will of course allow namings and suggestions from those who can’t make the stream times! Major decisions will be discussed and voted on in between sessions to allow all a chance to have their say.
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Topic: Dwarf Fortress; Live! (Twitch Streaming) (Read 4875 times)