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hinzerhaus

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Pet project
« on: April 03, 2012, 09:35:11 am »

I am trying to create a program that provides challenges for fortress mode. I started getting bored with normal fortress mode because i think to far ahead and if things are not going how i expect them to i abandon and retry, but that is not very dwarfy. so i set about making a list of challenges and i am going to put them in a program that can display them one at a time and give a series of small objectives. now i can only think of a few and hit a brick wall. I want to be able to give the program to my friends as part of an introductory package, so the objectives cannot be completely out their, but crazy enough to provide a very DF feel. for example one of the easier beginning goals is "create farms to feed your fortress without using plump helmets. a more advanced one would be something like create a dining room with a water fall in the center providing pleasant mist  to all eating (or partying) dwarves. so if anyone could provide a challenge they do or even a progressing chain of challenges it would be much appreciated
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Re: Pet project
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2012, 12:49:53 pm »

If you wanted to be really fancy, you could take all the tricks and challenges from those lists, sort them by difficulty, then make a generator that combines two or more of them in random ways.

Procedural dwarven stupidity.
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Re: Pet project
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2012, 03:13:29 pm »

Create a suicide panic room for your nobles, with magma steel walls!
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