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Author Topic: Flickeredchannels - Fortress for sale/Fun!  (Read 718 times)

TomIrony

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Flickeredchannels - Fortress for sale/Fun!
« on: June 13, 2011, 11:32:54 am »

What this fortress needs is some Fun.

I've been running it for a couple of weeks now and it's doing a good job avoiding Fun, with the population fluctuating between 100 and 120 dorfs, the military being anywhere between 10 to 60 strong, depending on who dies.  So while wondering how I could lead these dorfs to inevitable Fun, I realized it might be interested to see how others might bring about their Fun.

So here it is, Flickeredchannels (v0.31.25), for you to destroy. Document the Fun for all to see!

Here's a quick preview of the City of Flickeredchannels (we had a baron at some point, but no one knows what happened to him).

The basic stats:
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The entrance, which is a total mess:
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The arena, which is fully-stocked with goblins:
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The apartments (there's two floors of these). I like to build them rather large, and the noble quarters are at the very bottom:
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Food, crafts and clothes:
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The tragically under-staffed and under-equipped hospital, where most dorfs come in but never come out:
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An underground magma/pump project that was never completed due to constant Fun:
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The Mason industry:
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The Meeting Hall, with raccoons in cages for decoration and a working well in which no one has drowned (yet)!
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The haunted prisons and disgusting barracks!
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And finally, the underground expansion that never really took!
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A few notes:
  • These dorfs love to take off their pants.
  • The jeweler Rimtar is the oldest surviving dorf here. His lover is dead and he has a grudge against the miner (which he's had since they got here).
  • The water pressure for the well is controlled via two levers by the barracks. Flooding is an option.
  • There is a friendly Cave Swallowman among a group of angry Swallowmen somewhere undergound.
  • The elves don't really like us, but will apparently still trade.
  • The save file opens to a goblin ambush.
  • The fortress has no mods whatsoever, graphic or otherwise.
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Conan

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Re: Flickeredchannels - Fortress for sale/Fun!
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2011, 01:00:42 pm »

WTF LOL ONLY 5 PLANTS AND 173 DRINK

Why don't you grow some of those seeds? You know, at this point your fortress is already going to experience fun through starvation and insanity from lack of drink.

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Re: Flickeredchannels - Fortress for sale/Fun!
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2011, 05:39:55 pm »

WTF LOL ONLY 5 PLANTS AND 173 DRINK

Why don't you grow some of those seeds? You know, at this point your fortress is already going to experience fun through starvation and insanity from lack of drink.

Just because his plants are low doesn't mean he hasn't planted them. Planted seeds don't show up in the plant stat until they are done growing.

I think, I don't know.
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Re: Flickeredchannels - Fortress for sale/Fun!
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2011, 05:46:38 pm »

For 100-120 dorfs, that's very low either way. Especially booze.

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Re: Flickeredchannels - Fortress for sale/Fun!
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2011, 05:48:02 pm »

For 100-120 dorfs, that's very low either way. Especially booze.

Keeping food and booze up high gets harder with more dwarves, because planting tends to be done slowly and they drink it as it comes in.
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Re: Flickeredchannels - Fortress for sale/Fun!
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2011, 06:45:15 pm »

Seriously?

Planting for me is fast. I use the system "Enable all people with unnecessary or non-time consuming jobs (High Master Fish Cleaner, Weaver, etc) with farming.)

I run out of plot space really fast like that. And everyone's also an adequate farmer.

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Re: Flickeredchannels - Fortress for sale/Fun!
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2011, 09:05:47 am »

Starvation was one way to see it go, but I was hoping to see some more creative destruction.

What would be the quickest way to murder them all?
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Re: Flickeredchannels - Fortress for sale/Fun!
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2011, 11:16:39 am »

Starvation was one way to see it go, but I was hoping to see some more creative destruction.

What would be the quickest way to murder them all?

That depends on the water pressure. Because you're using levers instead of something automated, it would only take one berserk dwarf to run through and open all your floodgates. Of course, there also remains the possibility of HFS access somewhere in your caves. You could also seize all merchant goods you see until the fun begins.

EDIT: Which lever opens that floodgate?
« Last Edit: June 20, 2011, 11:28:54 am by Machinesquid »
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