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Author Topic: How long have you been playing DF?  (Read 4329 times)

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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2011, 09:17:23 am »
I remember playing as far back as mid-40d.

I quit after a while and then came back and oh hey look .31 was release whoo!
I haven't been on the forums nearly that long though.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2011, 09:17:48 am »
Started palying like, three releases before z layers...so a few years.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #17 on: March 18, 2011, 09:38:09 am »
I've been here a little over a year. 

My longest-lived fortress was my first 40d fotress, before we kept getting all these updates that I did short-lived fortresses to test things out on...  I still go back to 40d to play that fortress whenever there isn't some project I want to use DF2010 for.

It's sort of an ugly hodgepodge because I never really planned it the way that I planned subsequent "serious" fortresses.  Still, I used fractal pattern bedrooms for the commoners, and built along the inside of a naturally occuring mountain spire for the noble bedrooms, shaping their rooms to the natural landscape.  And I eventually went back and made a really spectacular dining hall that was three stories tall, had four indoor waterfalls, and a moat around my captured titan and dragons, plus a zoo of every animal I could get my hands on. 

Oh, and a still-as-yet-unfinished plumbing system fed by an underground river that "flushes" into the bottomless pit.  I'll finish it one of these days, I swear.  Then I'll use its hydrological power to create some sort of crazy dwarfputer.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2011, 11:27:10 am »
Started mid april last year. So, been dwarfing almost a year now. God bless you tv tropes, linking the way to the sagas of Boatmurdered, Headshoots, and Syrupleaf. I joined pretty much after I finished reading all 3 of those.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2011, 11:28:37 am »
Quote from: rarborman on March 18, 2011, 09:17:48 am
Started palying like, three releases before z layers...so a few years.
I can top that. Started playing A DAY before the first 3d version. I stuck around with 2d to learn the ropes for a few days. I miss scripted events. :'(
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2011, 01:50:26 pm »
The first release I recall after I started was when dyes were implemented. Sometime in 2006 I guess.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #21 on: March 18, 2011, 02:32:01 pm »
First post on the forum  :D ..... I just started a week or so ago, 10 days max. Am totally hooked already.

Am used to playing games that are a bit more difficult. Am an avid player of Simutrans also.

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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #22 on: March 18, 2011, 02:56:19 pm »
The late days of 2D. Another Boatmurdered recruit.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #23 on: March 18, 2011, 03:55:42 pm »
Mid 2D days, I suppose. I'm not even positive exactly when, but I know that I played before I had regular internet access, so it was awhile before I even joined the forum.

I remember that my first few forts were plauged with problems, back when a room that looked like this was a very bad idea.

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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #24 on: March 18, 2011, 05:59:03 pm »
I first started playing like right before 40D came out. I then proceeded to forget about the game until right around 31.12, when I remembered and dove back in.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #25 on: March 18, 2011, 06:05:21 pm »
I found the game in February from TV tropes so almost 2 months
Edit: I look at my profile and it said I joined in December  :o I thought it was later so almost 4 months
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2011, 09:38:02 pm »
Since August of 2009.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #27 on: March 18, 2011, 09:43:58 pm »
My join-date says October 11th 2010, and I think the first release I played was 0.31.16. Not long, then. Boatmurdered and my brother constantly reading the wiki got me into it.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2011, 10:02:48 pm »
Heard about it in the Penny Arcade news post sometime in 2009, then once I finished a contract on March 30, 2010, I decided to try it out.  Was wondering why everyone was so excited about the update a couple days later.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #29 on: March 18, 2011, 10:24:59 pm »
I started with 31.12, when invaders were broken.  So I got to figure out how to set up self-sufficiency in peace and then started to wonder... "I'm ready... where the hell are the goblins?..."  Then I started reading the forums.
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