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EmperorJon

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« on: March 21, 2011, 12:41:25 pm »
Tree are quite spread out, even in heavily forested areas. Face it, trees would be MUCH thicker, but with spaces of clearings and such. I think it could be an interesting idea to have huge trees, loads of trees, and maybe bramble like plants inbetween. So your dorfs would be scrambling around taking cuts whilst trying to fell hundreds of trees. And it'll make charcoal and stuff easier, which may be bad really. Dunno. Just wondering what people think?
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Re: Trees
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2011, 01:02:48 pm »
I support this, but not very much.  It would be nice to have thickets and clearings, but what we have now works, so there's no immediate need to go changing it.  It could work better with tweaks, but it still works.
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2011, 01:04:45 pm »
This is planned. Complex trees will happen eventually, giving elves something to do other than mill around.
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2011, 01:39:14 pm »
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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2011, 02:15:09 pm »
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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2011, 04:39:35 pm »
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« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2011, 01:26:26 am »
I posted these mockups in this thread with a more detailed explanation.





I agree that this kind of thing can wait, increasing the density of trees would work for now. I'd imagine the soonest we're likely to see this is when Toady starts work on elven forest retreats so we can visit them in adventure mode.
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