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[Eric Blank]

Don't worry, every community game loses about 50% or more of it's players. Your turn will arrive faster than you think

Actually the turn list needs to get occasional updates so we have a clue what's going on. I can't remember exactly who has and hasn't played. I know GIH, Loud Whispers, Oliolli, and now DS have, but did Spish? Or was his turn moved back to 12 as he asked?

Also, has anyone at all succeeded in exporting a biome+sites map of the world that we could use as a base for a map? I made one through a combination of the basic ASCII map and an elevation file, through photoshop. But that's still nowhere near as detailed as a proper biome+site map is.

[Oliolli]

By the time this gets to me, we'll be sending a flash drive via post.

By Gizogin's turn, we'll be sending an entire 1 Tb hard drive around...

[Poindexterity]

is this the flaw that will cripple the idea?
dangit, i'd hoped that if it happened, it'd be sum more dwarfy.

[Eric Blank]

Nah, filesize won't likely be a serious issue for a while. Won't hurt to use other host sites.

[Armeleon]

Look like I got back at just the right time! Where are you guys on the list? Do you have someone on top of things enough to be updating the list and files etc?

And does anyone know if minecarts will work with the succession? Or are we out of luck on that front?

[Eric Blank]

Well I thought Poindexter would be managing the list, but it hasn't been updated since it started...

It's DS' turn, at least he hasn't posted the save, and Babylon would be next, followed by you.

Alright, here's the updated turn list. As far as I know...

I just messaged Babylon, since he's up next after DS and PMing people beforehand is somewhat more efficient.

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Skipped, Completed, In Progress, In Waiting, Waiting for Return PM

1)   Poindexterity
2)   Girlinhat
3)   Loud Whispers
4)   Di
5)   Kassil
6)   starshard0
7)   Oliolli
   DS
9)   Babylon
10)   Armeleon
11)   A Spoony Bard
12)   Spish (?)
13)   Eric Blank (13 again! Woo!)
14)   Greatorder
15)   Vattic?
16)   clockout1
17)   ayoriceball
18)   Masta Crouton?
19)   Ghills
20)   Wannazzaki?
21)   DwarvenScience
22)   Rainseeker
23)   Cellmonk
24)   Lexx
25)   Monkeyfacedprickleback
26)   Pranz
27)   TomIrony
28)   Gizogin
29)   Vodrilus
30)   Shmadolf shmitler
31)   Elifre
32)   Scriabin
33)   Magma Mater
34)   Terra_Inc
35)   Epithemius
36)   Bragos
37)   JackOSpades
38)   Fluffkind
39)   Phantom of The Library
40)   Graebeard
41)   Shrimp
42)   Garath
43)   Ledgekindred
44)   Veetor
45)   Slowpokez
46)   Ferozstein
47)   Casino.doug
48)   Ab00
49)   Kofthefens
50)   Orius
51)   Brotato
52)   Vehudur
53)   bucketHoolave
54)   Yoink
55)   Scion-of-Fenrir
56)   Japa
57)   Deadmeat1471
58)   Crustypeanut
59)   Feb
60)   Talvieno
61)   Will_Tuna
62)   Edio
63)   khearn
64)   HugoLuman

[DS]

I was a tad tipsy when I made my last post - compressed file size is just over 100mb. Here it is.

[Babylon]

Should I update to .08?  I kinda wanna use minecarts.

[Eric Blank]

Sure. There's a lot of RAW updates that need to be made, though, I'm sure. I suppose I should make an attempt to figure out what those are...

MEGAEDIT;

Ok, Babylon, here are the fully updated RAWs. RAWs only.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8sz34q12s1dcs1r

Download that, and extract it to the data\save\[SUCCESSION WORLD SAVE HERE]\raw directory, and tell it to overwrite. Or delete the save's raw/objects folder then extract and it won't ask to overwrite. If it generates an errorlog (delete your errorlog.txt after changing the raws out and before loading the game, so we know the errors it's giving you are from after you implemented the new raws), copy/paste and post the contents of that errorlog for me.

Again, I didn't include the new [BENIGN] tags on the vaious birds and crap because they're already distributed to their respective biomes and that can't be changed post-generation.

[Armeleon]

I was just doing some research into the succession world and mapping out a rough sketch to see what it looked like, and I noticed that most of the Forts seemed to avoid the Necromancer towers.  Is this something that we are supposed to do or just what's been working for people?   (If you look at the image, there are a few purple flags (towers) next to the forts but not too many)

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[DS]

Very cool map.

Personally, I made conscious decision to avoid necromancer towers. The towers already pose a challenge to adventurers, so really the only reason a fort should be made in those areas is to somehow make necromancers more of a challenge. This is, of course, very doable, and I can see someone getting very creative in the process.

In light of the project's recent growth to a size no longer accepted by the DFFD, I went through and compared the size of the uploaded saves between turns. Below is a list of the saves and their sizes, as well as the implied added size of each fort. I was simply curious as to how my own efforts had added to the file's size - and, in light of these results, it seems inevitable that the file would have exceeded DFFD's 100mb limit eventually.

Original save: 41.38mb
GIH's save: 58.53mb (17.15)
LW's save: 76.06mb (17.53)
Kassil's save: 87.95mb (11.89)
Oliolli's save: 89.64mb (1.69)
My save: 103.21mb (13.57)

[Oliolli]

I feel a bit ashamed that my fort added only 1.69 mb 

[Eric Blank]

Oh, Kassil did get to play? Crap. He should be changed to 'completed' in the turn list, then.

[Armeleon]

Very cool map.

Personally, I made conscious decision to avoid necromancer towers. The towers already pose a challenge to adventurers, so really the only reason a fort should be made in those areas is to somehow make necromancers more of a challenge. This is, of course, very doable, and I can see someone getting very creative in the process.

This makes sense.  I don't see myself setting up some megalithic fortress that will out-power a necromancer, so I think I'll stay away from the towers and keep with the trend. I guess we all have to play with adventuring in mind.

[Babylon]

Wow, minecarts are complicated.  So far I've already wiped the fort because I was busy trying to figure them out and got et by a savannah titan.  Time to reclaim and get back to work with a little more defense I guess.