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Dr_Pylons

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Upright *Cotton Candy Cane* and fort value.
« on: December 05, 2010, 12:37:19 pm »

Does having an upright *spoiler* increase your risk for invasion since it adds so much value to your fort outright from the beginning?
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Re: Upright *Cotton Candy Cane* and fort value.
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2010, 12:42:36 pm »

Yup.

And no, there's no explanation for how either your dwarves or the gobbos knew it was there in the first place.
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Re: Upright *Cotton Candy Cane* and fort value.
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2010, 04:24:55 pm »

Yup.

And no, there's no explanation for how either your dwarves or the gobbos knew it was there in the first place.

Don't goblin civilization have clown leaders?
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Re: Upright *Cotton Candy Cane* and fort value.
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2010, 04:34:50 pm »

Yup.

And no, there's no explanation for how either your dwarves or the gobbos knew it was there in the first place.

Don't goblin civilization have clown leaders?

No, but they can have demon leaders.
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Re: Upright *Cotton Candy Cane* and fort value.
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2010, 04:37:36 pm »

Yup.

And no, there's no explanation for how either your dwarves or the gobbos knew it was there in the first place.

Don't goblin civilization have clown leaders?

No, but they can have demon leaders.
Thank you.
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Re: Upright *Cotton Candy Cane* and fort value.
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2010, 06:14:28 pm »

Does anyone else think that it's odd that you can attach those to a lever as an upright spike? (That's actually how I found out where mine was, despite it still being obscured from sight.)
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Re: Upright *Cotton Candy Cane* and fort value.
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2010, 06:18:52 pm »

Does anyone else think that it's odd that you can attach those to a lever as an upright spike? (That's actually how I found out where mine was, despite it still being obscured from sight.)

The reason for this is that when you embark on a map, everything that is not in the hands of a creature is considered "yours" (which is why the deconstruction of the trade depot will make all of the goods yours, as they aren't held, but were under the trade depot's tasked items).  The cotton candy cane (h8ers gonna h8) is technically an "upright spear trap" with a sword as the trap component, and as no one is holding it and it isn't forbidden, it is the property of your fortress.  That's also why you can deconstruct it.
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Re: Upright *Cotton Candy Cane* and fort value.
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2010, 10:28:42 pm »

I'm still using !!SCIENCE!! on goblin prisoners trying to make them talk on how they know what lies in the depths of our fortresses and how they know how much it's worth. We've run out of test subjects.