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Colon V posted:I demand he roll a d20 numbered 1 to 10 twice. We're gonna do this traditional. I actually have some of those, but obviously they're at home. I didn't bring any to Canada. So instead I have used InvisibleCastle this time around! 1d10=10 Congratulations, JamieTheD, you are our next Overseer! Please use the links in my previous post to access and download the save. Also please contact me immediately (before you start recording your turn) so we can chat about things. I'm available via PMs or gmail (Leperflesh at gee mail dot com) and we can chat using google chat. I'm going to bed now but we can probably chat some time tomorrow, hopefully. If not we can at least exchange some messages for information transfer and guidance. The rest of you who didn't get picked, well, too bad! Sorry!
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PublicOpinion posted:Alternatively, what? no no no. Barrels and bins are brown, beds are white, and all other colors are consigned to fire. I'm totally serious. I won't trade for booze in non tree barrels and I won't make beds if I don't have enough tower caps. I even bring some on embark. And I haven't played since the hauling changes so I've always had to use the stocks screen to mass forbid and reclaim. Also you can't just live in dirt like that it won't smooth and is unfit for anything but farms. and farms aren't big open messes like that they should be self contained plots in small rooms and the cardinal directions should be single season plump helmets so that it works as a calendar and you can tell what season it is by which plot is sown. I may have a problem I may put in for overseer once my dwarf shows up
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Jul 4, 2012 05:08
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Dwarf Fortress, I haven't played DF since DF2010. This evil weather poo poo is insane.
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Jul 4, 2012 05:13
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Maldraedior posted:what? no no no. Barrels and bins are brown, beds are white, and all other colors are consigned to fire. Also all furniture will be exactly one color, all other colored stones will be converted into crafts. Also I will not be digging ores or gems that are in rooms and hallways if it fucks with the flow.
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Jul 4, 2012 05:15
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Man if you aren't making as many things as possible out of Tunnel Tubes than what is even the point.
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Jul 4, 2012 05:26
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I, for one, welcome our new Welsh UFO-playing overlords. Looking forward to seeing this.
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Jul 4, 2012 05:33
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To what extent are you staying at the helm, Leperflesh? You mentioned that you'll always stay in touch with the overseer, and I don't imagine you'd ever interfere in the actual running of the game, but will you exert editorial influence to keep the narrative going in the right tone/direction?
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Jul 4, 2012 05:38
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Leperflesh posted:Hey everyone! Would there be interest in manipulating the save and starting up a parallel game going? Maybe not necessarily an LP, but something happening in the same world just in a different region may provide some accidental but emergent tie-ins.
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Jul 4, 2012 12:33
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I think we should stop with the spoilers before we even properly begin.
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Jul 4, 2012 12:51
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Yeah, zero tolerance for spoilers.
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Jul 4, 2012 13:36
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It wasn't really a spoiler.  Just my experience with a dust zombie. But fair enough!
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Grumio posted:To what extent are you staying at the helm, Leperflesh? You mentioned that you'll always stay in touch with the overseer, and I don't imagine you'd ever interfere in the actual running of the game, but will you exert editorial influence to keep the narrative going in the right tone/direction? Not really. At a higher level, I may make requests of the overseer regarding the state of the fortress itself: mostly stuff like "please don't end the game yet, it's too early". But this is a true succession game, and I'm not enforcing a meta-plot. I deliberately made Leperfish's term have a conclusion that leaves things open, and while some of what happened in my year has been interpreted as foreshadowing, I tried to make sure I didn't start plot threads that needed to be revisited later. That's not to say I won't provide (potentially extensive) guidance if it is requested, though. If anyone wants help I'm the first resource to go to. But it's entirely voluntary.
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Right, got the save and stuff, downloading now to take a look, and should have a preliminary update up friday. In the meantime, have a fluff one! 1st Granite, 237 I would like to say I am one of the destined ones, but I really am not. I've been moving from fortress to fortress, hoping to find one to settle down in, but the earth has yet to sing for me, really. I'm heading to a new fortress now, Bronzestabbed (Kilruzdat to those unfamiliar with our tongue), and... [the entry trails off with a scratch, as if the author is surprised. It resumes in a slightly shakier hand]... Oh dear oh dear oh dear... I've been made an overseer of the place? The messenger literally caught up to us halfway there, just handed me the drat scroll and left. The queen orders, and there's something about a Noble Work, which a 'Leperfish' Kelkstaud will apparently fill me in on once I arrive. In the meantime, the fortress shall go on as normal until I arrive. I need a drink. Possibly many drinks.
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Jul 4, 2012 14:28
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I'd like to petition for overseers to not abuse stonecrafting. It's so dull and utilitarian. If you're going to make crafts and instruments and things for trading, make them out of something nice, like precious metals and alloys, or high quality glass. Spamming rock crafts just to max out your caravan purchasing power is boring. (Also, I will hold in great esteem any overseer who makes pots and jugs out of glass and clay pottery/porcelain, instead of those drab, ugly stone pots!)
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super fart shooter posted:I'd like to petition for overseers to not abuse stonecrafting. It's so dull and utilitarian. If you're going to make crafts and instruments and things for trading, make them out of something nice, like precious metals and alloys, or high quality glass. Spamming rock crafts just to max out your caravan purchasing power is boring.
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Jul 4, 2012 15:23
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True. And now that smelting is way more fuel efficient, you can make a lot more fancy decorative metals without wasting all your coal. I wanna see entire rooms of black bronze and brass furniture. I guess what I'm really trying to say is don't just take the path of least resistance when it comes to crafting stuff. Fill your halls with fancy shiny pretty things!
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Jul 4, 2012 15:33
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Also blocks are now way more useful. Four per boulder, each one makes a wall section or an entire workshop that's not rough stone? And building things out of blocks takes less time then out of stones, even without accounting for how slowly dwarves carry raw stone around? Yes please.
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Jul 4, 2012 15:39
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We seem to be making a lot of demands of Overseers. I don't remember this being as much of a feature previously. Bearing in mind some overseers have attempted mass genocide, ozymandias-style Rube Goldberg machines and solitary confinement torture, I think it's nicer to give people free rei(g)n. Maybe 'Made in Bronzestabbed' becomes a stamp associated with lovely holiday rock gifts? So be it! As long as its written up in a fun way and the resulting stone shortage results in at least one hastily-dug cave in.
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Jul 4, 2012 15:59
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Guess were going to need to get that dwarven particle accelerator going now.  Higgs Urist pariticle.
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Jul 4, 2012 16:04
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Toady nerfed mining output? How so?
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Jul 4, 2012 16:09
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Stone now drops at a fixed, and lower, rate rather than at a rate dependant on the miners skill. It came in with the hauling changes to stone (You need wheelbarrows or minecarts to move stone easily). Ore is subject to the same drop percentages as stones. Gems are always collected.
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Jul 4, 2012 16:17
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Asehujiko posted:Toady nerfed mining output? How so? Stone now produces one rock every four or so tiles you clear (including economic and metal-producing stones), but to counter-balance it making blocks and bars now produces more of both (for the sake of production). The downside is, less big stones means less stone crafts/pots/etc.
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Jul 4, 2012 16:18
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Asehujiko posted:Toady nerfed mining output? How so? The chance of a mined out square dropping a boulder/ore is now a fixed 25%, regardless of the miner's skill. On the other hand, each boulder can be carved into 4 blocks, and each ore can be smelter into 4 bars.
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FinalSin posted:We seem to be making a lot of demands of Overseers. I don't remember this being as much of a feature previously. Bearing in mind some overseers have attempted mass genocide, ozymandias-style Rube Goldberg machines and solitary confinement torture, I think it's nicer to give people free rei(g)n. Maybe 'Made in Bronzestabbed' becomes a stamp associated with lovely holiday rock gifts? So be it! As long as its written up in a fun way and the resulting stone shortage results in at least one hastily-dug cave in. I'm not saying people shouldn't build whatever they want, I guess I'm just suggesting that if you go out of your way to make lots of cool things out of the highest quality materials available, it gives the fort more character. In comparison, just building twenty craft shops and putting rock crafts on repeat as a means of filling the trade depot seems kinda gamey, and gaminess is never good for the story. I dunno, maybe that's just a pet peeve of mine though
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A goon has issued a mandate! A goon has prohibited the export of certain items!
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super fart shooter posted:I'm not saying people shouldn't build whatever they want, I guess I'm just suggesting that if you go out of your way to make lots of cool things out of the highest quality materials available, it gives the fort more character. In comparison, just building twenty craft shops and putting rock crafts on repeat as a means of filling the trade depot seems kinda gamey, and gaminess is never good for the story. I dunno, maybe that's just a pet peeve of mine though If you want to ace trading from the get-go, just have your carpenters churn out spiked wooden balls and en. wooden corkskrews, they have really high value. I know how you feel, but I'm sure we can count on the overseers commitment to entertaining us. Hell, I kind of enjoyed it when Vox Nihili (I think?) decided to churn out lovely rock crafts to finance Gemclods alcoholism and mad engineering schemes.
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mmm yes, very droll. four hammer strikes upon thee. 
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Fargo Fukes posted:A goon has issued a mandate! This is a statue of dwarves and the goon super fart shooter in microcline. The goon super fart shooter is issuing a mandate. The dwarves are refusing the goon super fart shooter. The dwarves are laughing. The artwork relates to the mandate issued by the goon super fart shooter in the summer of 2012. Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Jul 4, 2012 |
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Tias posted:If you want to ace trading from the get-go, just have your carpenters churn out spiked wooden balls and en. wooden corkskrews, they have really high value. That was me and I still maintain the sweatshops were a brilliant plan, even if it ensured no useful moods would arise for the remainder of the game.  In fact, if I recall, it was a direct usurping of Vox's plan to produce legendary armor/weapon crafters by having everyone spend a little time in the forge. 
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I was just about to mention that the sweatshops, and the reactions from the other overseers and dwarves, was one of my favorite moments in Gemclod.
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Bad Munki posted:That was me and I still maintain the sweatshops were a brilliant plan, even if it ensured no useful moods would arise for the remainder of the game. Too true! I love you, man I hope you return to the overseership with a vengeance, but I'm also stoked to see what will happen with the others <3
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Bad Munki posted:This is a statue of dwarves and the goon super fart shooter in microcline. The goon super fart shooter is issuing a mandate. The dwarves are refusing the goon super fart shooter. The dwarves are laughing. The artwork relates to the mandate issued by the goon super fart shooter in the summer of 2012. That's beautiful. I,ve got to draw that.
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If you don't like the stonecrafts, take the helm for a turn and throw them all into a particle destroyer, or better yet, use them as the ammo for the dwarven particle accelerator.
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super fart shooter posted:I'm not saying people shouldn't build whatever they want, I guess I'm just suggesting that if you go out of your way to make lots of cool things out of the highest quality materials available, it gives the fort more character. In comparison, just building twenty craft shops and putting rock crafts on repeat as a means of filling the trade depot seems kinda gamey, and gaminess is never good for the story. I dunno, maybe that's just a pet peeve of mine though True. I do see your point, but I don't want the Overseers (particularly new ones who might be (understandably!) daunted by taking over) to feel pressured. Also since you're mandating to forbid the construction of stone crafts, to be true to DF you'd now need to mandate their export, right?
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So is it ok to search the legends mode and post stuff about famous ancestors and such? I'd avoid spoilerific stuff like living vampires and werebeasts. "i poo poo trains"'s great grandmother Olin Hopebrass killed the titan that had killed the first king of Rare Ship.
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Kennel posted:So is it ok to search the legends mode and post stuff about famous ancestors and such? I'd avoid spoilerific stuff like living vampires and werebeasts. That's cool. I'd love to hear more stuff like this, as long as it's kept 100% spoilerless.
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Vox Nihili posted:That's cool. I'd love to hear more stuff like this, as long as it's kept 100% spoilerless. Yeah, a big thing with gemclod was a demon ruling the local goblins, I kept that to myself in case she showed up. She never did.  But stuff in places we can't interact with in Fortress mode and probably anything that's currently dead is fine.
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I started reading Gemclod a few months back, only recently got around to reading the last few updates and the epilogues. There's a great moment with the adventurer dwarf travelling to Gemclod who realises he's getting close, not from the smell or the road of skulls or the beak dogs, but because all the local human villages are loaded down with stone tat trade goods. Whatever crap you produce, Dwarf Fortress remembers.
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By the way, thanks for making full Lepermod file available through the posted save. I know it's going to be my go-to setup for general dwarf fortress games now.
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