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Qc Storm

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Stuck in an empty pool.
« on: August 20, 2011, 01:19:06 am »



Basically, I was walking around the world map when it told me I was feeling uneasy. I spawned in this... place. With apparently no way out.

I can't fast travel because I am feeling uneasy, I can't sleep because I am feeling uneasy. And I don't think whatever's making me feel weird is coming to meet me.

What do?
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Eric Blank

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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2011, 01:33:10 am »

'S'neak. Always sneak. If your ambushers can't spot you, then they can't prevent you from escaping totally unhindered, as far as the game is concerned.
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2011, 01:33:56 am »

'S'neak. Always sneak. If your ambushers can't spot you, then they can't prevent you from escaping totally unhindered, as far as the game is concerned.

Woah thanks.
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2011, 10:23:24 am »

You can use ALT direction key to perform a specified movement. Will give you options in directions you can move. For example you can use it to get out of a murky pool, stream that has no stairs/ramps to get out of. This is also how you can enter these areas
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2011, 11:34:41 am »

Remember that one must have above-novice swimming skill (only by one point, but to begin your adventure capable of swimming you must have adequate skill) to climb out/not drown.
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2011, 07:16:55 am »

Excuse the thread-necromancy, but how exactly is swimming supposed to help with getting out of a dry pool? Last time I ended up in one, I couldn't alt-move out of it for shit. Am I missing something here?
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2011, 05:32:19 pm »

Nope. Without water, swimming skill or no, you're SOL if you get stuck in a pool.
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2011, 05:46:35 pm »

That's as I thought. Thankfully we're at least seeing important new features like guinea pigs and alpacas, so how bad can a few cringe-worthy bugs be?
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2011, 05:51:49 pm »

Definitely not as bad as pointless necroing. :)

(Though the necroing going on in the next DF release isn't pointless, mind you.)
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2011, 06:00:00 pm »

Seeing as how I was unsure about something here, hoping that I have missed something obvious and that dry pools weren't actually death-traps, I wouldn't consider this incident to be pointless necromancy.
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2011, 05:47:29 pm »

Is it possible to temporarily give your race the [FLIER] tag just to get out of the pool?
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2011, 12:16:58 am »

Is it possible to temporarily give your race the [FLIER] tag just to get out of the pool?
Oh, most certainly.  If you're into that kind of thing.  Which I am.
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Re: Stuck in an empty pool.
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2011, 03:45:30 pm »

Wait for it to rain, then alt out.

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