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gameslayer404

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How do I stop playing?
« on: April 07, 2018, 12:28:49 pm »

I just can't stop playing.
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Sutremaine

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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2018, 12:33:38 pm »

You can never stop. You might take a break for a few months every now and then, but you'll always come back. >:)

Alternatively, save your game and select the 'Quit' option at the title screen.
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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2018, 01:01:59 pm »

... select the 'Quit' option at the title screen.
Blasphemy!
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Skorpion

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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2018, 06:36:39 pm »

You never really stop. No matter how long since you've opened the game, you're still planning your next fort.
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A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The Raven has been knocked unconcious!

Elves do it in trees. Humans do it in wooden structures. Dwarves? Dwarves do it underground. With magma.

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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2018, 12:40:08 am »

Bring two thousand and eighteen cats on embark and the game will stop playing by itself.
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Damiac

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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2018, 09:03:09 am »

I just can't stop playing.
Well, you typed this out... so I'm going to say you did stop playing, at least momentarily.  Are you playing dwarf fortress if it's running in the background while you do something else? A question for the philosophers, I suppose.
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ThoMeuhGal

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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2018, 02:49:47 pm »

DF is the Vim of videogames
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Xyon

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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2018, 11:44:23 am »

hit the escape key to bring up the menu, then select "save and quit"
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batoonike

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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2018, 04:19:12 am »

Go outside, DF doesn't run on tablets / phones yet. Once it does we will lose entire generations to starvation and thirst.
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Starver

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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2018, 07:52:56 am »

On a calm desert embark, trade goods in my cart,
Warm smell of horses, given me from the start.
Up ahead in the map edge, I saw a few herding yaks,
I'd not brought food and I'd not brought seeds,
I had to hunt for snacks.

Hunter stood doing nothing,
Did he hunt? The answer's no.
And I was talking to myself,
"Wheres my bolts, and where's my bow?"
Then I changed my approach, set up Plant Gathering,
Made a tavern on a meeting-zone,
Half the dorfs then started to sing.

Welcome to the Fortress Celobfongbez,
You have struck the earth (You have struck the earth)
With your dwarves of worth!
Plenty of room at the Fortress Celobfongbez,
Thank you RNG (Thank you RNG)
That's "Roofpungency"

One dwarf gets craftwise-twisted, she picks a secretive mood,
She has a lot of petty, pretty needs, like logs of wood.
Good job you still had embarked, with a battleaxe,
No elves to dismember, fell trees to the max.

So I called up the Brewer
"Please brew me some wine."
He said, "We haven't got no barrels here. Apart from that, that's fine!"
And still those needs are falling, so unfulfilled,
All round the evaporatin' murky pool,
Idle dwarves just milled.

Welcome to the Fortress Celobfongbez,
You have struck the earth (You have struck the earth)
With your dwarves of worth!
They livin' it up at the Fortress Celobfongbez,
We need water first (We need water first)
To slake our thirst.

Vomit on the surface,
Remains of vermin underground.
And she said "There  are no cut gems here, they can't be found!"
And in the manager's chambers,
You assigned all the jobs,
To take the things that miners found,
And make all the thingamabobs.

Next time I'll remember,
Better prepare the embark,
"I'll have to pack the wagon up much better", I remark.
"Relax," says Toady One,
"It is *programmed* to aggrieve.
You can save-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!"


With apologies for a little dodgy scansion, at times. :P
« Last Edit: April 15, 2018, 08:04:56 am by Starver »
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FantasticDorf

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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2018, 08:43:07 am »

The journey of development is essentially Mr.Bone's wild ride, even when it stops there will be a rampant community modding scene.
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TomiTapio

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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2018, 11:37:29 am »

Eventually you will evolve into a modder, fine-tuning the files for a Better Dwarf Fortress.
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Re: How do I stop playing?
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2018, 05:41:58 pm »

Eventually you will evolve into a modder, fine-tuning the files for a Better Dwarf Fortress.
Can confirm