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Frag_Dad

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« on: January 30, 2008, 05:00:00 am »
I just started a new fortress, and as I was stocking up on my items to take, I wondered why I could take so many more supplies than normal. As soon as I pressed 'e' to embark, I remembered I hadn't given my dwarves any skills, but it's turned out to be an awesome starting position. Anyone else done anything stupid like that?
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Kagus

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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2008, 05:09:00 am »
Sure.  Sold the anvil and both axes and some other random stuff to get extra points, and then set off without spending them on anything.  Including food.
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Frag_Dad

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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2008, 05:30:00 am »
Ouch...
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martinuzz

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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2008, 08:37:00 am »
Not giving your dwarves skills isn't too bad. They'll learn in time..
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Psyringe

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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2008, 11:44:00 am »
Similar to one of the posters above, I spent over 4 hours hunting for an excellent location, finally found one, sold all my stuff, gave my dwarves the skills they needed, and then embarked without a single item in my pack.

In my current game, I was wondering why my Carpenter / Wood Cutter didn't start felling trees, so I took a closer look at him. Turned out I hired a proficient wood *crafter* instead of a cutter. Very useful if you don't have anybody to actually *produce* the wood he could make his crafts from.

But luckily I had an axe, and wood cutting trains quickly, so it wasn't a problem in the end, and my wood crafter was soon churning out crafts. Of course, trying to sell these crafts to the elves on the assumption that "they like nature, they'll prefer wooden stuff over stone" wasn't a terribly smart move either ...

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Hamenopi

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« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2008, 04:17:00 am »
I have accidentally hit e on several occasions. Enough times for me to request adding an 'Are you Sure?' Prompt when embarking.
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numerobis

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« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2008, 12:33:00 am »
My last fortress I deliberately set off with very little food and no skills.  I also forgot to bring stone on an aquifer map (i.e. no glass production), forgot that untrained planters destroy seeds (i.e. no plump helmet spawn or pig tail seeds left after a couple seasons), and had sparse vegetation to draw on, which I mostly brewed because I had no freshwater to drink.

I survived largely because the caravan's axedwarf guard hacked a half-dozen warthogs on the way in.  It's not like I could afford to buy much anything from them.

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