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Johnfalcon99977

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Dwarves a greedy bas*ards.
« on: December 03, 2010, 11:20:45 pm »

I come across a site that could not be better. Raw mountains, volcano, river with no aquifer, nothing could be better, right?...
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But the (other) dwarves took it.

Has anyone else had a moment when they came across a great site, but it was already taken?
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Re: Dwarves a greedy bas*ards.
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2010, 11:22:56 pm »

Yea, I like to have low number of civs, low sites, the biggest map. The way the world feels more wide and open.

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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2010, 11:24:38 pm »

I found this awesome area where a stream and a minor river collided with a major river forming a waterfall on both sides of the river, flux, mountains, adamantine (obviously), no aquifer, heavily forested, it had everything a dwarf of my mental status description could ever want!

But the goddamn elves had a retreat over it.

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Re: Dwarves a greedy bas*ards.
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2010, 11:30:12 pm »

Sort of makes you miss the old days, when you could embark over towns, retreats and towers. It would make going from old fortress to shop in adventure mode a lot faster.

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« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2010, 05:37:08 pm »

I'm pretty sure you could regen the world with the same seed, but with a different history seed

that will make the same world geologically, but with different civs at different locations, hopefully not at that site
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Re: Dwarves a greedy bas*ards.
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2010, 06:09:49 pm »

Does Embark Anywhere let you embark over civ sites?
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Johnfalcon99977

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Re: Dwarves a greedy bas*ards.
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2010, 07:41:47 pm »

Does Embark Anywhere let you embark over civ sites?

Maybe, I don' know.
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Re: Dwarves a greedy bas*ards.
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2010, 07:42:35 pm »

I found this awesome area where a stream and a minor river collided with a major river forming a waterfall on both sides of the river, flux, mountains, adamantine (obviously), no aquifer, heavily forested, it had everything a dwarf of my mental status description could ever want!

But the goddamn elves had a retreat over it.

BURN THE RETREAT! THATS MUCH MOAR FUN!
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« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2010, 07:49:46 pm »

I found this awesome area where a stream and a minor river collided with a major river forming a waterfall on both sides of the river, flux, mountains, adamantine (obviously), no aquifer, heavily forested, it had everything a dwarf of my mental status description could ever want!

But the goddamn elves had a retreat over it.

BURN THE RETREAT! THATS MUCH MOAR FUN!

CLEANSE THE INFIDEL ELVES IN THE RIGHTEOUS PURIFICATION OF MAGMA AND FLAME!  BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
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« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2010, 08:26:09 pm »

I found this awesome area where a stream and a minor river collided with a major river forming a waterfall on both sides of the river, flux, mountains, adamantine (obviously), no aquifer, heavily forested, it had everything a dwarf of my mental status description could ever want!

But the goddamn elves had a retreat over it.

BURN THE RETREAT! THATS MUCH MOAR FUN!

CLEANSE THE INFIDEL ELVES IN THE RIGHTEOUS PURIFICATION OF MAGMA AND FLAME!  BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

*sniff*

Spoken like a true dwarf...
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« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2010, 10:25:33 am »

You'd let an elven retreat stop you? That makes the embark site even better as it lets you train siege operators.
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« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2010, 11:51:19 am »

I don't play much adventure mode, but can't you just go in and slaughter everyone and then come back in fortress mode?
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Re: Dwarves a greedy bas*ards.
« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2010, 09:19:26 pm »

My favorite embark ever was when I embarked onto a human settlement on top of an aquifer. I just moved into their little human houses and dicked around for awhile before moving on.
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Re: Dwarves a greedy bas*ards.
« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2010, 09:55:25 pm »

dwarves are greedy? they'll take a 2DB profit, while elves... 400 DB isn't enough? 1200?! what do you think I'm made of, gold? [bleep] straight I take your stuff...  :o
... Well, looks like time to mosey on out >_>
*insert elf style angry mob.

seriously, my bone and wood equipped army wont stand a chance, I barely have a leather/cloth gear industry working, and I'm sitting on a multi layer pond. should be fun times all around
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Re: Dwarves a greedy bas*ards.
« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2010, 10:24:19 pm »

My favorite embark ever was when I embarked onto a human settlement on top of an aquifer. I just moved into their little human houses and dicked around for awhile before moving on.
I remember in 40d I razed a large human city and made beds out of all the wood, dug a massive chamber and filled it with a thousand beds.