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[Charlemagne]

It punishes you for treating it like a video game. Every time I attempt something using videogame meta-logic something horrible and unexpected happens. I'll give an example:

Just now I had accidentally mined out an area I had intended to channel out from above, so the roof was still there. Rather than micromanage and safely remove the roof, I just channeled around the outside and let the rest fall. No one in real life would do it that way, but it seemed the fastest and I figured it'd be no problem.

Well it collapsed right down through the roof of my fort, all the way through down to the lowest level. Pretty much like how I should have expected it to if I had been taking the game seriously. It ended up crushing a guy who was calmly eating his dinner in the dining room on the lowest level. The table he was using must have been crushed into dust, because it's nowhere to be seen.

[Charlemagne]

Hahaha. Also it turns out that my best armorsmith is trapped in part of the fortress by the gap the cave in caused. Luckily he's trapped in the part with the primary food and booze stockpiles.

[Spoggerific]

A lot of the times, it's more fun to play the game haphazardly, without planning things out... then you have to deal with engineering disasters, like cave-ins or flooding. I've always found trying to block off flooding and save at least half your fort to be very fun.

[Creamcorn]

In my first fort I thought some goblins were nice, I was wrong.

[MMad]

Lol! Excellent story and summary of DF, Charlemagne.

[Snugglebear]

It punishes you for treating it like a video game. Every time I attempt something using videogame meta-logic something horrible and unexpected happens. I'll give an example:

Just now I had accidentally mined out an area I had intended to channel out from above, so the roof was still there. Rather than micromanage and safely remove the roof, I just channeled around the outside and let the rest fall. No one in real life would do it that way, but it seemed the fastest and I figured it'd be no problem.

Well it collapsed right down through the roof of my fort, all the way through down to the lowest level. Pretty much like how I should have expected it to if I had been taking the game seriously. It ended up crushing a guy who was calmly eating his dinner in the dining room on the lowest level. The table he was using must have been crushed into dust, because it's nowhere to be seen.

Did just about the same thing the other day.

On the plus side, my 10-level pit into magma is finished now.

I am short of miners, though.

[d3c0y2]

in another note I was shocked by the level of knoc on effects. having a relatively similar problem to you, expect wanting to destroy every floor below I carved every part of the edge of save onetile. Then as I wanted to save miners I built a support on this one; built a floor tile on top of that support hooked up to a lever and pulled. the floor took out the only connection to the side and the entire thing collapsed. it was pretty impressive.