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Yes

201 (86.6%)

Nope!

15 (6.5%)

What's HFS?

16 (6.9%)

Total Members Voted: 232

[Jackrabbit]

Oh hells yea. Well, not personally. This is my chance to be surprised but by god someone will.

[Bromor Neckbeard]

I didn't exactly spoil it for myself as have it spoiled for me.  I was first encouraged to get into DF by reading many of the more popular community fortresses, and a lot of those stories mention it in the OOC discussion.  Once I knew approximately what the HFS was, I didn't feel bad about looking it up and reading about it.

[Shurikane]

I didn't know what HFS meant at all, and it took me a while to figure out it was pretty much, well, all the Hidden Fun Stuff in DF.

I ended up spoiling it for me since I tend to play in flat wooded areas far away from mountains.

But ironically enough, right after I actually struck HFS on one of my forts, I abandoned it since I had chosen a local area much too large and my FPS was down to such a speed that I had to wait over two hours for a single season to go through.

Note to self: an Athlon 3000+ is not enough to play DF to its full extent.    It's too bad since I love sieges and those require a population over 100.  Can you believe I haven't even seen one troll among the gobbos so far?  Hell, it's a miracle of God if I can get the map to spawn a badly maimed Titan offered on a silver plate.

[Squirrelloid]

Despite reading about it before finding it, I don't consider it spoiled.  My first encounter with one was still unexpected, as was the flood of elven stoners who flooded out of it.  And then my miner blundered into a demon and soon i got overwhelmed by a tide of tentacle horror. 

My second encounter i probably over-prepped (especially as it turned out to be a less baleful variety), and utterly destroyed it.  But only because it killed me once.

[Puzzlemaker]

My epic thread:

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=15930.0

[Stofoleez]

Look... the fact of the matter is that unless you played the 2d version... You weren't going to find the HFC by chance

So anyone here who votes Yes who only played the 3d version is a Liar!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I found mine accidentally. It was the first time I used my miners to prospect using a 15X15 grid pattern on the lowest z level. I just drew the grid and let them do their thing. That was how I found my first magma pipe, which was exciting, and how I found my first HFS. I looked up what it was once I found it...and OPENED it...so it was almost a better experience because I had the OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT feeling of finding out what it was after I'd opened it. I managed to build a wall where I'd opened it, but greed eventually took over and I tried to use it.

That was the first fort I had where everyone died.

[Christes]

My epic thread:

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=15930.0

See folks?  This is why we use spoilers on everything related to HFS.

We would love another thread like that.

[AncientEnemy]

heh, i remember trying to make myself avoid the 'MASSIVE SPOILERS' in the "Mechanics of Thoughts" section of the wiki for a week or so before I gave in and went "oh, well duh, that's exactly how I thought they worked"

[inaluct]

My epic thread:

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=15930.0

This:

This thread contains more stupidity than almost any other I have seen in this forum. Not from Puzzlemaker, who seems to be doing fine, but from all the individuals who think "Ohohoho I'm so clever, I'll drop not-so-veiled hints about the <B>DEMONS THAT WILL COME OUT OF THE PITS</B> that anyone with half a brain could figure out, yet I'm not spoiling anything, no, this will be a glorious trainwreck."<P>If you really wanted him to be surprised by it, you should have kept quiet. Don't drop hints. Hints reveal things.   :roll:

Props to Bricktop, too, for telling people to shut up.