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Author Topic: Things about adventurer mode that are really begining to put you off playing it.  (Read 4417 times)

Axe27

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1. Drowning even though I can swin, and got into the water properly.
2. Not being able to get out of the water, no matter what, once drowning.
3. Training up your character's stats for an hour IRL, and dying to a wolf, even though you're on godlike levels of power.
4. Sneaking being shitty if you actually want to sneak up on someone, even at legendary level.
5. Trying to train up weapon skills, as opposed to Wrestling, or throwing.
6. Grabbing elbows with your armpit.
7. No actual goals.
8. No reason to buy anything in the shops.
9. Becoming the enemy of the entire civ in half a second, even though noone saw you steal that dog bone amulet.
10. Ranged Weapons.
11. Spawning in an empty pool on an adventurer you've been playing with all day.
12. When in a Dwarven or Goblin settlement getting spammed by "Urist mc.Baby has been killed by cavecritter.
13. Elves zerg rush (No actually that's awesome ;D)
14. The inability to get booze at a human tavern
15. Super ambusher wolves that I only become aware of when I'm standing on them, and surrounded on all sides.
16. That one bug that means I can't wear two boots.
17. Ambushes in the dead of night where you cannot find the damned creature you could likely backhand into a tree.
18. The inability to Travel away from said ambushes.
19. The inability of water to put out fire.
20. Goblins not being hostile.
21. Attacking said goblins causing you to be hostile with your parent civ.
22. Giants roundhouse kicking you the first turn of combat into a cave wall on the other side of the world.
23. Goblin towers sunk into the earth, inaccessable except for jumping off of a 15 z-level cliff onto it's fortifications.
24. Wearing a kingdom's worth of jewelry on my Right Thumb.
25. [Obsolete] Having to travel and retravel to a mountain adjacent cave site, hoping I spawn on a z-level I actually get to the cave from.
26. Inability to fast travel over mountain ranges.  Mitigated by now being able to walk over mountains, which leads to-
27. Long ass pauses whenever I walk more than twenty steps in a row.  Seems to have improved.
28. Stop chopping off his fingers and aim for the freaking head!
29. Spending an hour playing a double-blind game of cops and robbers with an ettin in a cave that looks like an octopi orgy.
30. Conversely, trying to find an ettin at a "cave" that's just rotting crap scattered around a field.
31. Human pikemen.  I'm trying to entertain myself here, please don't mob me with the Childrens' Auxiliary and run me through on the first hit.  I'm Legendary dammit.
32. NOT BEING ABLE TO GET OUT OF POOLS AND PITS GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
33. Being able to DEPOPULATE THE WORLD. Not as awesome as you would think.
34. Strangling people with your armpit. Seriously.
35. Dodging INTO enemies.
36. Got a fortress with some gear you want to pick up? GOOD LUCK WITH ALL THE SCATTERED CRAP AROUND.
37. Armour doing nothing.
38. Godamm retarded followers.

39. Not being able to give items (weapons for example) to your followers
40. Dwarf fortresses that just consist of a huge number of empty rooms with an occasional dwarf running around
41. No shops except in human towns
42. Just having to enter Travel mode to get fully healed and not needing any food/drinks anymore

43. Not a damned thing, I love this game and am fine with it untill it gets updated.

44. Carp. Need I say more?
45. Why is it, this Elve's mother has mated with an 'unknown creature'. No really. Why, on earth, would they...*Fumes* curse you! You elves really are sick.
46. Giant Cave Spiders. The Horror!
47. Where is my sword?!
48. How you can become so awesome, only to fall in a horribly feeble fashion in bare seconds. Within 3-7 hours after achieveing such status?!
49. Elves. *Spits* I think most of us can agree, that you need no further explanation.
50. The birdmen! Oh noes!
51. Children and Drunks. You'd think if they were drunk they'd be uncoordinated, but they land strikes on the first hit on your head and bash your skull in.
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And thus did the dream of dwarven antigravity fade away, not with a massive explosion or a flood of magma, but with a whimper.

I'm going to be depressed all day now.

Zaloran

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51. Being able to set on fire an entire city without no one getting angry.
52. Being able to detroy the head of an opponent launching a firefly to him/her
53. Not having a way to know who is at war with your civilization.
54. Getting freezed in a pool without getting aware of it. (hmm... the water is getting cold..)
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Neoskel

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1. Drowning even though I can swin, and got into the water properly.
2. Not being able to get out of the water, no matter what, once drowning.
3. Training up your character's stats for an hour IRL, and dying to a wolf, even though you're on godlike levels of power.
4. Sneaking being shitty if you actually want to sneak up on someone, even at legendary level.
5. Trying to train up weapon skills, as opposed to Wrestling, or throwing.
6. Grabbing elbows with your armpit.
7. No actual goals.
8. No reason to buy anything in the shops.
9. Becoming the enemy of the entire civ in half a second, even though noone saw you steal that dog bone amulet.
10. Ranged Weapons.
11. Spawning in an empty pool on an adventurer you've been playing with all day.
12. When in a Dwarven or Goblin settlement getting spammed by "Urist mc.Baby has been killed by cavecritter.
13. Elves zerg rush (No actually that's awesome ;D)
14. The inability to get booze at a human tavern
15. Super ambusher wolves that I only become aware of when I'm standing on them, and surrounded on all sides.
16. That one bug that means I can't wear two boots.
17. Ambushes in the dead of night where you cannot find the damned creature you could likely backhand into a tree.
18. The inability to Travel away from said ambushes.
19. The inability of water to put out fire.
20. Goblins not being hostile.
21. Attacking said goblins causing you to be hostile with your parent civ.
22. Giants roundhouse kicking you the first turn of combat into a cave wall on the other side of the world.
23. Goblin towers sunk into the earth, inaccessable except for jumping off of a 15 z-level cliff onto it's fortifications.
24. Wearing a kingdom's worth of jewelry on my Right Thumb.
25. [Obsolete] Having to travel and retravel to a mountain adjacent cave site, hoping I spawn on a z-level I actually get to the cave from.
26. Inability to fast travel over mountain ranges.  Mitigated by now being able to walk over mountains, which leads to-
27. Long ass pauses whenever I walk more than twenty steps in a row.  Seems to have improved.
28. Stop chopping off his fingers and aim for the freaking head!
29. Spending an hour playing a double-blind game of cops and robbers with an ettin in a cave that looks like an octopi orgy.
30. Conversely, trying to find an ettin at a "cave" that's just rotting crap scattered around a field.
31. Human pikemen.  I'm trying to entertain myself here, please don't mob me with the Childrens' Auxiliary and run me through on the first hit.  I'm Legendary dammit.
32. NOT BEING ABLE TO GET OUT OF POOLS AND PITS GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
33. Being able to DEPOPULATE THE WORLD. Not as awesome as you would think.
34. Strangling people with your armpit. Seriously.
35. Dodging INTO enemies.
36. Got a fortress with some gear you want to pick up? GOOD LUCK WITH ALL THE SCATTERED CRAP AROUND.
37. Armour doing nothing.
38. Godamm retarded followers.

39. Not being able to give items (weapons for example) to your followers
40. Dwarf fortresses that just consist of a huge number of empty rooms with an occasional dwarf running around
41. No shops except in human towns
42. Just having to enter Travel mode to get fully healed and not needing any food/drinks anymore

43. Not a damned thing, I love this game and am fine with it untill it gets updated.

44. Carp. Need I say more?
45. Why is it, this Elve's mother has mated with an 'unknown creature'. No really. Why, on earth, would they...*Fumes* curse you! You elves really are sick.
46. Giant Cave Spiders. The Horror!
47. Where is my sword?!
48. How you can become so awesome, only to fall in a horribly feeble fashion in bare seconds. Within 3-7 hours after achieveing such status?!
49. Elves. *Spits* I think most of us can agree, that you need no further explanation.
50. The birdmen! Oh noes!
51. Children and Drunks. You'd think if they were drunk they'd be uncoordinated, but they land strikes on the first hit on your head and bash your skull in.
51. Being able to set on fire an entire city without no one getting angry.
52. Being able to detroy the head of an opponent launching a firefly to him/her
53. Not having a way to know who is at war with your civilization.
54. Getting freezed in a pool without getting aware of it. (hmm... the water is getting cold..)

55. Not being able to acquire a sack (bag) to carry heads in without having to abandon a fort, and then having to hunt for the darned thing.
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Urist Mcsurvivalist has been accosted by edible vermin lately.

Goblins: The fourth iron ore.

Hoborobo234

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51. Being able to set on fire an entire city without no one getting angry.
52. Being able to detroy the head of an opponent launching a firefly to him/her
53. Not having a way to know who is at war with your civilization.
54. Getting freezed in a pool without getting aware of it. (hmm... the water is getting cold..)

What? these are all good things.
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Rather than having them directly force you to mine adamantine, I would suggest that they give you strange moods that require adamantine. "Dig out the adamantine or Urist here goes insane and dies" is suitably vicious.

(It occurs to me that you can probably get "Lovecraft" as the random name of your fortress. That's when you know you're screwed.)

Tibbles

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51. Being able to set on fire an entire city without no one getting angry.
52. Being able to detroy the head of an opponent launching a firefly to him/her
53. Not having a way to know who is at war with your civilization.
54. Getting freezed in a pool without getting aware of it. (hmm... the water is getting cold..)

What? these are all good things.
No, they're not. None of these things are good.
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GODAMMIT KOBOLDS

Hoborobo234

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But the firefly, his head, It works on so many levels.
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Rather than having them directly force you to mine adamantine, I would suggest that they give you strange moods that require adamantine. "Dig out the adamantine or Urist here goes insane and dies" is suitably vicious.

(It occurs to me that you can probably get "Lovecraft" as the random name of your fortress. That's when you know you're screwed.)

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Re: Things about adventurer mode that are really begining to put you off playing
« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2008, 07:45:26 pm »

53. Not having a way to know who is at war with your civilization.

It's not very hard if you know what parts of Legends to look at.
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The World Without Knifebear — A much safer world indeed.
regardless, the slime shooter will be completed, come hell or high water, which are both entirely plausible setbacks at this point.

penguinofhonor

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1. Drowning even though I can swin, and got into the water properly.
2. Not being able to get out of the water, no matter what, once drowning.
3. Training up your character's stats for an hour IRL, and dying to a wolf, even though you're on godlike levels of power.
4. Sneaking being shitty if you actually want to sneak up on someone, even at legendary level.
5. Trying to train up weapon skills, as opposed to Wrestling, or throwing.
6. Grabbing elbows with your armpit.
7. No actual goals.
8. No reason to buy anything in the shops.
9. Becoming the enemy of the entire civ in half a second, even though noone saw you steal that dog bone amulet.
10. Ranged Weapons.
11. Spawning in an empty pool on an adventurer you've been playing with all day.
12. When in a Dwarven or Goblin settlement getting spammed by "Urist mc.Baby has been killed by cavecritter.
13. Elves zerg rush (No actually that's awesome ;D)
14. The inability to get booze at a human tavern
15. Super ambusher wolves that I only become aware of when I'm standing on them, and surrounded on all sides.
16. That one bug that means I can't wear two boots.
17. Ambushes in the dead of night where you cannot find the damned creature you could likely backhand into a tree.
18. The inability to Travel away from said ambushes.
19. The inability of water to put out fire.
20. Goblins not being hostile.
21. Attacking said goblins causing you to be hostile with your parent civ.
22. Giants roundhouse kicking you the first turn of combat into a cave wall on the other side of the world.
23. Goblin towers sunk into the earth, inaccessable except for jumping off of a 15 z-level cliff onto it's fortifications.
24. Wearing a kingdom's worth of jewelry on my Right Thumb.
25. [Obsolete] Having to travel and retravel to a mountain adjacent cave site, hoping I spawn on a z-level I actually get to the cave from.
26. Inability to fast travel over mountain ranges.  Mitigated by now being able to walk over mountains, which leads to-
27. Long ass pauses whenever I walk more than twenty steps in a row.  Seems to have improved.
28. Stop chopping off his fingers and aim for the freaking head!
29. Spending an hour playing a double-blind game of cops and robbers with an ettin in a cave that looks like an octopi orgy.
30. Conversely, trying to find an ettin at a "cave" that's just rotting crap scattered around a field.
31. Human pikemen.  I'm trying to entertain myself here, please don't mob me with the Childrens' Auxiliary and run me through on the first hit.  I'm Legendary dammit.
32. NOT BEING ABLE TO GET OUT OF POOLS AND PITS GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
33. Being able to DEPOPULATE THE WORLD. Not as awesome as you would think.
34. Strangling people with your armpit. Seriously.
35. Dodging INTO enemies.
36. Got a fortress with some gear you want to pick up? GOOD LUCK WITH ALL THE SCATTERED CRAP AROUND.
37. Armour doing nothing.
38. Godamm retarded followers.

39. Not being able to give items (weapons for example) to your followers
40. Dwarf fortresses that just consist of a huge number of empty rooms with an occasional dwarf running around
41. No shops except in human towns
42. Just having to enter Travel mode to get fully healed and not needing any food/drinks anymore

43. Not a damned thing, I love this game and am fine with it untill it gets updated.

44. Carp. Need I say more?
45. Why is it, this Elve's mother has mated with an 'unknown creature'. No really. Why, on earth, would they...*Fumes* curse you! You elves really are sick.
46. Giant Cave Spiders. The Horror!
47. Where is my sword?!
48. How you can become so awesome, only to fall in a horribly feeble fashion in bare seconds. Within 3-7 hours after achieveing such status?!
49. Elves. *Spits* I think most of us can agree, that you need no further explanation.
50. The birdmen! Oh noes!
51. Children and Drunks. You'd think if they were drunk they'd be uncoordinated, but they land strikes on the first hit on your head and bash your skull in.
51. Being able to set on fire an entire city without no one getting angry.
52. Being able to detroy the head of an opponent launching a firefly to him/her
53. Not having a way to know who is at war with your civilization.
54. Getting freezed in a pool without getting aware of it. (hmm... the water is getting cold..)

55. Not being able to acquire a sack (bag) to carry heads in without having to abandon a fort, and then having to hunt for the darned thing.
56. The glitch that doesn't let you take artifacts out of bins they're in.
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Granite26

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InstaFreeze water, animal ambushes starting you off surrounded and killing your heavily armoured character, and the shear amount of crap laying around your old fortresses that makes it impossible to find the good loot.

Eurus

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The only thing that bothers me is the weird and clumsy way the inventory works. Most of these other things don't really annoy me at all.
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dizzyelk

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Hmm, time for swimming practice... lets check the sun. Low in Eastern sky, cool, got all day...

*Splash* 5 min later... Sun sets in East, water freezes, and I'm dead.

Oh, and why can't my legendary thrower hit anything I aim at?
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Dwarf Fortress - Bringing out the evil in people since 2006.
Somehow, that fills me more with dread than anticipation.  It's like being told that someone's exhuming your favorite grandparent and they're going to try to make her into a cyborg stripper.

Untelligent

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Oh, and why can't my legendary thrower hit anything I aim at?

Are you throwing at "allied" creatures? You won't hit something unless it wants to tear your spleen out.
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regardless, the slime shooter will be completed, come hell or high water, which are both entirely plausible setbacks at this point.

dizzyelk

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Oh, and why can't my legendary thrower hit anything I aim at?

Are you throwing at "allied" creatures? You won't hit something unless it wants to tear your spleen out.

Nope. I chunk rocks at every monster I come across sneaking through caves looking for the big baddie the mayors want me to kill. I just seem to hit once every 25-30 throws. Not very legendary in my opinion.
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Dwarf Fortress - Bringing out the evil in people since 2006.
Somehow, that fills me more with dread than anticipation.  It's like being told that someone's exhuming your favorite grandparent and they're going to try to make her into a cyborg stripper.

MathijsBuster

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Nope. I chunk rocks at every monster I come across sneaking through caves looking for the big baddie the mayors want me to kill. I just seem to hit once every 25-30 throws. Not very legendary in my opinion.

You don't happen to be missing an eye or something?
I don't always hit, but even at novice level I hit more than once in every 25-30 throws.
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Deadmeat1471

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'47. Where is my sword?! '

The bitch of it.
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