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Wait for the next release. I want usable mugs damn it!

55 (71.4%)

We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

17 (22.1%)

I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

5 (6.5%)

Total Members Voted: 77

[Splint]

Glad to see someone's alive to read it.

[Hanslanda]

I know. I feel like Spearbreakers is losing steam. Implement emergency time limits immediately!

[Splint]

Fuck it. I'll update the OP at once.

Storm, you have 1 day to update us properly or Paintbrush gets the save and we'll have to force Hasn and maybe Talvieno to do a bunch of backwards fixing of shit!

[bukitodinos]

CAN I HAVE MY THEORY PUT IN???


sorry for caps....

[Splint]

Mr Frog volunteered to do theory duty, so ask him. But don't get pestery about it alright?

[Hanslanda]

Fuck it. I'll update the OP at once.

Storm, you have 1 day to update us properly or Paintbrush gets the save and we'll have to force Hasn and maybe Talvieno to do a bunch of backwards fixing of shit!

Backwards fixing of shit? Oh god, you don't mean edit my stories to take out mentioning Storm and the corridors of doom do you? *Hans goes BSOD* So... So much rewriting...

If storm doesn't update us, then PBT better remake the corridors of doom. That's would be so much work to rework around... >.<

[Splint]

I was more thinking replacing mentions of Storm with Paintbrush with overseer transference stuff.......

[Hanslanda]

Ah, okay then. That's not so bad. I only mentioned Storm like twice.

[Splint]

What did you guys think of the BT armor? Think anything is too much?

[Hanslanda]

It looks pretty realistic to me. The railgun's trigger rather reminded me of a crossbow, which was jarring somewhat, but I should have expected that. Not all guns have pistol grips. The armor wasn't too overbuilt, so it would be both protective and light enough to actually wear.

[Splint]

I made the trigger a crossbow's on purpose, since it was desighned by dwarves, who only had the crossbow to thier name, it's make sense they'd make it with a trigger they're familiar with and not some fancy looking pistol grip.

[Mr Frog]

I'm thinking a week for an entire turn may be just a touch too short... I'm a bit dodgy about imposing a hard limit, since that'll encourage people to rush themselves, which will hurt the quality of the writing.

How about the following system:

• No more than 48 hours between each status update. You need to get at least something up, be it an actual story update or just a quick summary of your progress so far ('I'm about halfway through Spring', 'Got some/most of the writeup done', etc.). Note that the keyword here is progress. If you're obviously just backburnering it ('Didn't get much done', 'My dog ate my computer'), don't expect any sympathy. You signed up to play a succession fort, so play the damn succession fort or -- with all due respect -- GTFO. You made a commitment; please honour it.
• That said, if your progress is briefly delayed due to something completely unforeseeable (e.g. family crisis, zombie attack), the 48-hour deadline can be waived -- HOWEVER, you need to tell us how long you'll be delayed (and it'd better be a short time) and you'd damn well better get back on it as soon as you say you can.
• If you fail to make the 48-hour deadline and we haven't heard from you in a while, we'll wait 24 hours before officially cancelling your turn in case some sort of sudden crisis (e.g. health issues) struck and you couldn't tell us. Don't try to abuse this grace period, though -- any excuse you give us had better be good.
• If you feel that you won't be able to update in a timely fashion due to scheduling issues, avoid wasting everyone's time and ask to be pushed back a few turns.
• Please do bitch if you feel we're being unfair. That's how broken rules are fixed.

The general focus of this set is on density rather than speed. I personally don't care how long a turn takes as long as we get a steady trickle of updates.

[Splint]

I'm a bit out of it really. Been having stomache problems and I was just trying to, as wrong as this is, scare Storm into at least telling us what the delay is.

[Mr Frog]

*rereads*

Okay, three days is far too short no matter how you slice it. FPS, man.

[bombzero]

Oh hey spearbreakers...

158 pages? wow.

umm... so if I were to take my turn when it came around I would be doing so nearly blind...
anyone mind writing up a brief summary?