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A Skeletal Giant Eagle? [LP in progress]

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Raneados wrote: »
    I can't really say

    last time I played it didn't have a third dimension

    but I had a friend come over while I was playing once and she did not know what the fuck

    she asked me if I was writing code

    it really gets to be like you're watching the matrix code
    you don't see the code
    just dwarves and the many deaths that befall them

    I think I'll watch those tutorial videos tomorrow

    I had someone ask me this when I was talking on IRC though

    it really is like the matrix code, even to people who know a bit about computers.

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Man Rane, it is roughly 9 billion times better now that it has the third dimension. You can do so much more.. so much

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    my aim is always to get a waterfall going through the dining room and bedrooms and then pumped back out into the river but I never get to there. Pumps and automated power are hard.

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    NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2009
    This game is excellent.

    My poor head brewer was shot and killed.

    I should do something to his apprentice.

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    T. J. Nutty Nub T. J. Nutty Nub Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    This seems like a bad idea for some reason

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    MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Man I am so angry I can't run this worth a damn on my netbook. So many hours I could be using to command legions of dorfs to make thousands upon thousands of rock baubles to give to caravans in exchange for...


    Wood? Sometimes?


    Maybe seeds for better booze? I don't really know why I keep caravans around, they don't really bring anything necessary for survival.


    Either way I am so angry.


    This angry: :x

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    BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    One day this game will actually use multiple cores properly.

    That day will be glorious, and also the be the day it will be used as the benchmark for all stress tests. Computers will no longer be rated in gigahertz but it dwarves.

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    man is it time to count individual kernels of corn for eight hours straight???

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    MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    man is it time to count individual kernels of corn for eight hours straight???

    Hey, at least you get Legendary Bookkeeping at the end of it.

    Getting buffed out by counting things is pretty damn awesome.

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    101101 Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    L|ama wrote: »
    my aim is always to get a waterfall going through the dining room and bedrooms and then pumped back out into the river but I never get to there. Pumps and automated power are hard.

    I once had a fortress with an actual waterfall in it.

    Built all my dining rooms and bedrooms around it, then promptly abandoned my fortress due to mass accidental deaths over the falls.

    Dwarves are dumb

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    BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    MechMantis wrote: »
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    man is it time to count individual kernels of corn for eight hours straight???

    Hey, at least you get Legendary Bookkeeping at the end of it.

    Getting buffed out by counting things is pretty damn awesome.

    The first leader of my expeditions always ends up a legendary miner, then later becomes a legendary bookkeeper once the bulk of the mining can be shifted away.

    One time he went into a fey mood and before I realized I didn't have what he wanted, he went berserk and killed everyone in the fort.

    Mining skill helps you when killing with a mining pick equipped.

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    ShabootyShabooty Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    every DF thread needs boatmurdered.

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    101101 Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I love that story.

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    FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    reading through that seems almost as tedious as playing dwarf fortress itself

    almost

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    BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Shabooty wrote: »
    every DF thread needs boatmurdered.

    They did another one Headshoots

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    JordanthehuttJordanthehutt Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    all this does is makes me want to play again. hurgh

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I might play this again soonish.

    Maybe

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    Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I am almost positive I caught my Art History advisor playing Dwarf Fortress. It wouldn't surprise me.

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I had a friend who always played dwarf fortress at work. Lucky jerk

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Hey guys just FYI there's currently a revision of the game available that's not on the front page of the site. This version is basically the same as the front page version except the graphics engine has been vastly streamlined, netting much higher framerates for most people. Also there's a few other interesting features such as being able to zoom the view in and out and resizing the game window on the fly rather than having to muck about in the files with notepad.

    http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=40349.0

    The improvements in this version are going to be incorporated into the main build when the next major release rolls around. Probably early next year. Probably.

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    NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2009
    They're in the middle of a third (might be fourth, actually, there are a few posts about a "Talllabored" thread) one, too: Syrupleaf.

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    TurnpikeLadTurnpikeLad Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    My favorite Something Awful DF game was Mountainbloods... good luck finding it though!

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    IpseDixitIpseDixit Treat me like a pirate And give me that bootyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    So I just got a message letting me know that my fortress didn't receive any immigrants this year. So another year with seven dwarfs I guess

    Going to go install this graphic set I downloaded

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    101101 Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I fucking hate migrants.

    Get everything all nice and tidy then 24 useless peasents turn up.

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I remember Hating those fuckers

    nothing wrong with sending them off to their deaths though

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    BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Just do it quick before anyone likes them.

    Or be sure to wait until you have some masterwork statues and doors and food. Then you can murder anyone and they'll be chill.

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    IpseDixitIpseDixit Treat me like a pirate And give me that bootyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Success!

    Game looks almost understandable now

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    except for those blue ?'s

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    NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2009
    Dwarves and tame animals occasionally flash that. I think it's intended to show that they're recalculating their path?

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    if I remember correctly, a white ? was used to show they are idle or confused

    blue ?'s means there is no graphic for that item/thing right?

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    ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    FAQ wrote: »
    reading through that seems almost as tedious as playing dwarf fortress itself

    almost

    FAQ, I love you, but I'm going to have to stab you.

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    NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2009
    No, with that graphic set my dwarves and animals occasionally flash blue ?s.

    I usually see it after changing an order, which is what led me to believe that it has something to do with pathing.

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    so that whole room is filled with dwarves and animals

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    and there are no other animals or dwarves in the rest of the fortress

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    and they've all been given an order at the same time

    yes I am sure that is the answer

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Meeting hall!

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    bullpies

    I stand by my belief they are items without graphics

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    NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2009
    Oh, you're talking about the water. It's normally a more watery looking image, but he has the init option that makes the water tile appear as its depth number (max per tile is a depth of 7)

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    So right now it is ? deep?

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    oh snap those are sevens!

    l

    o

    l

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