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Author Topic: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - V2 - 5 year Challenge  (Read 53286 times)

Meph

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☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - V2 - 5 year Challenge
« on: February 20, 2012, 11:40:36 am »

Hi everyone. I am the creator of the Masterwork Mod and would like to propose a little challenge to the gamers here. I cant play long testgames, and things like invader behavior, long-term balancing and caravan goods are hard to test for me.

I dare you to play a 5 year fortress of my mod. In the meantime, please note any weird things you stumble along, bugs, crashes, FPS drops, unbalanced features. Are you bored, too easy, too hard ? Is the mod easy to get into, or is the handling difficult ? As proof I only require some screenshots or an uploaded save in the end. You would play with the default settings and dont change anything in the GUI/Settings.

You can find the mod here: Masterwork Mod

>>>THE CHALLENGE IS OPEN<<<
>>>THE CHALLENGE IS CLOSED<<<

Previous winners: ItchyBeard. SAFry.
Honorable mention: Smakemupagus.
« Last Edit: December 21, 2012, 11:50:57 pm by Meph »
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2012, 12:00:30 pm »

Is the Ironhand graphics set working in your mod yet?

If so, challenge accepted, with all of the fortress defense monsters on, on an evil biome.
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2012, 12:01:44 pm »

might give it a try
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2012, 12:05:22 pm »

I'm tempted, but I'm still spinning worlds and doing some !!science!!y stuff, I might do it after this batch of embark tests.
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2012, 12:06:58 pm »

Ill give This a try, and ill extra challenge myself for you. Ill try and see if i cant survive above ground, never using the underground for rooms, just mining. Lets do this!
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2012, 12:18:12 pm »

Nice, thanks guys. Make it as easy (trap-corridor and danger rooms) or hard (aboveground and all FD races) as you like. Whatever suits you, the more different the playstyles, the more things you might discover.

PS: Seirously, dont use dangerrooms, they work slightly different in this mod. Just a friendly warning. 8)
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2012, 12:32:08 pm »

I did the standard Evil-glacier embark. After 3 years game crashes and I have no idea why. I can send a savegame if you wish with all the specified settings I have enabled. Only thing i changed in raws is changing the dwarf child to grow adult in 12 years instead of 5.

Does that count as finished embark?  8)

Starting a new embark today.

Also - mod is GREAT. Ha!
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2012, 12:33:25 pm »

If i get the time to do it, i will give it a try. Would be the first fortress that i did not abandon before i passed 10 years. But since i have regained access to my real PC and don't have to use a crappy 6-year-old netbook anymore, FPS won't be an issue :D
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2012, 12:49:51 pm »

Well, i just embarked and already have more skills then what I assigned. My supposed full time farmer is already a legendary Gemcutter. I JUST embarked. So yeah, that makes things to easy for me, especially since all my dwarfs started with one legendary skill, I have:1 legendary Gemcutter, a legendary diagnostician, a legendary farmer, a legendary axedwarf, a legendary fisherman, and a legendary woodcutter. This makes things Way to easy.
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2012, 12:59:19 pm »

Yeah, the castes are way to often in the current version. I already lowered the amount in my working version. But hey, wait for giants and automatons, before you complain about it being too easy :P Next version they will be about 50 times as rare.

And damn about the crash. Do you have any idea what causes it ? If you upload the save, I will have a  look if I can find something.

This is my changelog for the next version btw, if you are interested. Weapon upgrads, trees and kobolds are changed.
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2012, 01:02:05 pm »

Might try your mod as well.

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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2012, 01:06:30 pm »

I Accept this Challenge and I will try to make things as hardcore as I can possibly make it.

I'll just PM it
« Last Edit: February 20, 2012, 04:10:52 pm by Catmayne »
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2012, 01:26:31 pm »

Challenge accepted.
« Last Edit: February 20, 2012, 01:29:11 pm by gzoker »
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2012, 02:08:28 pm »

ill go for this one, always happy to help with testing. although when is 1.3 going to come out Meph?
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Re: ☼MASTERWORK☼ DF - 10 year Challenge
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2012, 03:13:28 pm »

i'll start tomorrow, since i'm not very confident even in vanilla i'll use the most cheap and cowardly tricks to survive and see if they're enough for this

i'll try a year per year report if i don't forget to write down whilst playing
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