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Author Topic: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?  (Read 11981 times)

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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #60 on: December 21, 2012, 09:26:01 am »

What's not to love about it?
Glitches.
I'm serious, that is like the only thing taking my enjoyment from DF. Sometimes bugs are not hilarious at all and are just plain annoying.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #61 on: December 21, 2012, 06:23:13 pm »

What's not to love about it?
Glitches.
I'm serious, that is like the only thing taking my enjoyment from DF. Sometimes bugs are not hilarious at all and are just plain annoying.

I haven't checked to see if it's already been Mantisified, but the one that gets me right now (latest version, but not noticed in any prior ones) is dwarves cancelling building jobs because there's a creature standing on the building site.  Mostly on the top of walls, but with a clear standing space next-door.

I just cancel the job, assign other (non-blocking) walls elsewhere then reassign the wall job.  Or if I see the builder come up to the job with the building materials and stand over the spot the wall will stand for a few ticks then I just pre-emptively cancel and redo it to avoid the notification.  Eventually a dwarf will stand on the tile next to it.

Annoying, but not insurmountable.  (I find the switch to traps blocking wagon access more annoying, needing some workarounds to circumvent, but fully understand the nature of that particular nerf.)
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #62 on: December 22, 2012, 09:02:45 am »

What's not to love about it?
Glitches.
I'm serious, that is like the only thing taking my enjoyment from DF. Sometimes bugs are not hilarious at all and are just plain annoying.

Hi everybody, long time no see.

This man has a point... I wish for one time in history there be a stable version of DF, where masons build walls, haulers haul properly, marksdwarves shoot and items dont get claimed all over the place and their owners ignore them.

This is my fifth year of df, and its only getting better every patch. And as a game designer i must say that toady is the number one inspiration! Its hard playing an alpha for 5 years though x) I really hope he makes a quick run for the bugs soon
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #63 on: December 22, 2012, 02:46:08 pm »

When it's finished, it will be the game, ruler of all. Any other game will crumble upon its majesty.

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One game to rule them all, one game to find them,
 One game to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
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