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lowbart

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Building your own adventurer party using retiring and unretiring
« on: September 06, 2014, 07:48:48 pm »

Has anyone managed to retire and join up all their previous adventurers yet? I've been doing that today, I retired them all to the same town, but I'm having trouble finding them again. They've all met the lord and some people that hang out at a local tavern but they've never heard of each other so they can't ask for whereabouts.

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Re: Building your own adventurer party using retiring and unretiring
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2014, 05:28:44 am »

The game treats retired people in the usual bizarre fashion. All your adventurers are probably stacked into one or two houses in the outskirts. There is no way to easily find them without cheating. That's why, if you want to find someone afterwards - retire in a small village.

Adventuring parties were quite fun in 0.34 (with some minor tweaking to allow giving companions proper armor and weapons). But stacking your previous selfs into one party is too easy. Try properly raising a bunch of NPC to be immortal bloodthirsty killers instead.
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Re: Building your own adventurer party using retiring and unretiring
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2014, 05:32:26 pm »

Has anyone managed to retire and join up all their previous adventurers yet? I've been doing that today, I retired them all to the same town, but I'm having trouble finding them again.

I did this back in one of the 2D versions.  Finding the adventurers was a problem even then, and the towns were not very big.  I think I had about 7, and it was a real hassle.

I recommend retiring in as small of a location as possible.  Can you retire in Lairs?  That might be best.  Or maybe a tiny fortress site that has been clear cut and leveled, and some very small structures to denote the center and perimeter to make it easy to search.
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Re: Building your own adventurer party using retiring and unretiring
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2014, 12:05:34 am »

I recommend retiring in as small of a location as possible.  Can you retire in Lairs?  That might be best.  Or maybe a tiny fortress site that has been clear cut and leveled, and some very small structures to denote the center and perimeter to make it easy to search.
I don't think you can retire in lairs. You can retire in abandoned towns. (And if it's not abandoned then you should be able to make it so in the newer versions.) You could probably make one of your retired adventurers lord/lady of the town.
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Re: Building your own adventurer party using retiring and unretiring
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2014, 04:00:01 am »

you can also retire in camps.
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Re: Building your own adventurer party using retiring and unretiring
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2014, 06:02:11 pm »

The game treats retired people in the usual bizarre fashion. All your adventurers are probably stacked into one or two houses in the outskirts. There is no way to easily find them without cheating. That's why, if you want to find someone afterwards - retire in a small village.

Adventuring parties were quite fun in 0.34 (with some minor tweaking to allow giving companions proper armor and weapons). But stacking your previous selfs into one party is too easy. Try properly raising a bunch of NPC to be immortal bloodthirsty killers instead.

That would be fun but it's too difficult to teach them to swim.
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Re: Building your own adventurer party using retiring and unretiring
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2014, 08:54:16 pm »

You can try to create your own dwarf fortress, at the location you want and after retiring it, treat it as your base of operations for adventurers that you would retire there.
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Re: Building your own adventurer party using retiring and unretiring
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2014, 07:05:48 pm »

That would be fun but it's too difficult to teach them to swim.
When you attempt to walk into a companion while both of you are standing, you switch places instead. This works across z-levels. You can lead your companion to the tile next to the water, hop in the water yourself, and then exit onto the patch of dry land your companion is standing on. Now you'll be on dry land, and your companion will be drowning in the water. From there you can set up a short macro to repeat the switching, and leave it running until your companion no longer turns blue upon entering the water.
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Re: Building your own adventurer party using retiring and unretiring
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2014, 02:30:57 am »

That would be fun but it's too difficult to teach them to swim.
When you attempt to walk into a companion while both of you are standing, you switch places instead. This works across z-levels. You can lead your companion to the tile next to the water, hop in the water yourself, and then exit onto the patch of dry land your companion is standing on. Now you'll be on dry land, and your companion will be drowning in the water. From there you can set up a short macro to repeat the switching, and leave it running until your companion no longer turns blue upon entering the water.

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Guerilla Burialgears absently tucks the child's rock into his pack and turns to leave for good; his head hung low. His words trail behind him as he disappears over the ridge. It is a haunting whisper, quickly stolen away by the wind: "All burn..."