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[Lost Requiem]

Actually, I try to keep my dwarves alive as much as possible. It's only been due to things like the Dragon that has led to unavoidable deaths. During my narcoleptic episodes, no less. -_-

I've survived about 9 sieges in this fortress with only (As of now) about 2 or 3 deaths. Over 400 gobs have met their end here at my doorstep. We've also encountered two Megabeasts since our establishment; the aforementioned Dragon and the even greater feared Skeletal Dragon.

My population is now at 110. I lost 10 dwarves due to stupid shit in the fortress, mainly due to my negligence and falling asleep in the middle of the Armok-damn day.

[Itnetlolor]

225 MB each. O___O

I don't think that would be good for the bandwidth of DFMA

Is why you're s'posed to use the compressor first, silly.

Oh, another little item regarding the mapcompressor as well, if you have excessively long names for your forts (which ends up compressing only 1 layer of the map), search for a program called Rename-It!, it helps big time in trimming the filenames so that it can compress properly (of course, do this after converting them to PNG). I've run into this issue a few times with my project, so just a heads up if you have tons of long fort names, and tons of map screenshots you need to rename, and don't have the time to thumb through them all individually.

[Darkond2100]

Turn off temperature in the init when the freezing period comes. That'll make everything MUCH easier.

[ungulateman]

That sort of defeats the point, doesn't it?

[Darkond2100]

Say that your philosopher discovered how to keep the seasons still, and enemies at bay.

[Djohaal]

Then he wouldn't be a philosopher, he'd be a mage. An archmage perhaps.

[They Got Leader]

Then he wouldn't be a philosopher, he'd be a mage. An archmage perhaps.

Dwarven mages... Could be FUN!

[Darkond2100]

In medieval times, it was all that same thing. A mage/magician/wizard/wize man/philosopher was someone who knew things like when to plant and harvest, what was good to cure sicknesses and other ails, math and measurements to keep things organized, and how to make dreadlocks without rank 10 stinking hair or irreversible hair destruction (I'm getting dreads right now). They were the smart guys that dumb guys (dwarfs) couldn't explain, and everything they did seemed like a miracle.
Is that a good enough story?

[Sindain]

Pretty epic fortress so far, hopefully it will be beyond words in epicness once it's finished