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[Girlinhat]

Regular embark, with "Embark Now" option.  If we're collecting the most destructive best dwarven minds of the forum, then drop us on a temperate conifer forest with a brook and nothing amazing, and give it like 3 years to explode into an orgy of metal and stone thrusting to the sky and below the earth.  We don't need a fantastic setting.  We're undergoing a collective mood here!  You don't need adamantine to make an expensive toy boat, a piece of granite and some green glass gems will double the fortress wealth with one artifact earring!  Likewise, give us naught soil and stone, and watch creation itself unfold!

[SRD]

I live in BFE. I am lucky to even GET DSL.

It will be 4 hrs or so before I can speed test. I am at work at the moment.

Your place is covered in circles.

[KodKod]

KodKod, you should specifically retry that test with a US Server.  Perhaps Atlanta or Houston would be a good choice.

Axe, and ye shall receive.

Atlanta and Houston. Certainly doesn't do me any favours, but it's difficult to get much worse than what I'm already stuck at. A cat on fire travels faster than my internet.

[SRD]

Have you ever set a cat on fire? They would go pretty fucken fast.

[wierd]

Those are wheat feilds.

Zoom out.  Zoom out again.  Zoom out some moar!!

See the lake to the right? That's the municipal reservoir.  To the north is the "mighty" metropolis of Hutchinson.  South and east is Wichita.

I am an hour drive away from either, doing 70.

My internet is deh suck.

[KodKod]

Have you ever set a cat on fire? They would go pretty fucken fast.

Not for very long.

[acetech09]

Ok. I'll eat dinner and then work on a bit more segmented OP. Take one can be 7 maniacs with a barebones embark and no clue what they're doing, I guess.

[wierd]

Depends on how much oil you pour on the cat first.

[SRD]

completely coat it and everything around it, so even after death, it still slides around :3

[Bihlbo]

Edit: For some strange reason this didn't appear until much later than when I posted it, so now it's pointless. Don't bother reading.

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This devolved from the best fort ever, with a goal of it being a showcase of how the finest DF minds go about working their magic, to a fancy PvP game. The original idea was great, and the fancy PvP idea isn't even close to the same thing. If you're going to do fancy PvP, do it, but the original idea sounds way more interesting.

Why can't it be both? A year can be a long time in dwarfdom, more than enough time to pull off an fancy fortress with an interesting challenge behind it. I don't want to see a fortress dedicated to some kind of PvP either, just to give players a little extra challenge to cope with for the sake of fun, as you often see in the more interesting succession forts.

Like bonus points, for being a terrible person.

Okay, so you're talking about a normal fort done like you're getting paid to succeed, and a side goal of a group of 7 dwarves who are doomed to hate life? I totally get that, but how many dwarves will the fort need to have before you start separating out victims? You can't just start doing this the first day of embarkation or the PvP would totally take over the thing. Arbitrarily waiting one year should get you lots of newcomers, but the first migration wave might get you more than enough.

How are the victims going to be determined? First overseer gets first pick?

[SRD]

k so it's sorted, we're doing this, NOW WHO'S PLAYING.

[acetech09]

Ok - the OP is now even more different than it was. Everybody encouraged to reread so things like Bihlbo's responses aren't outdated.

@bihlbo - As I said, you're a bit behind on the discussion. You skipped quite a few replies between kod's reply and yours.

[SRD]

THE FORT IS GOING TO BE ABOUT STRAWBERRYSHESES AND CLOWNSIESES.

[KodKod]

Okay, so you're talking about a normal fort done like you're getting paid to succeed, and a side goal of a group of 7 dwarves who are doomed to hate life? I totally get that, but how many dwarves will the fort need to have before you start separating out victims? You can't just start doing this the first day of embarkation or the PvP would totally take over the thing. Arbitrarily waiting one year should get you lots of newcomers, but the first migration wave might get you more than enough.

How are the victims going to be determined? First overseer gets first pick?

As has been mentioned it's a bit late now since things have changed, but for your sake I'll flesh out my original idea a bit more even if it doesn't mean much now.

Whelp, the way I had envisioned it, which of course is malleable to fit the fortress, would be to only have to deal with one dwarf at a time, the previous overseer. Naturally that leaves player one without someone to pick on, but if it's rotary then it wouldn't matter in the long run, and like you pointed out the first year wouldn't be an idea time to start thinking about it anyhow.

So, hypothetical scenario. Player 1 finishes their year and names Dwarf 1 after themselves. Player 2 then takes the helm and goes about their business, but also has as much fun with Dwarf 1 as they want, which could be lots, it could be none at all, without killing them. When Player 2 is done they throw in a Dwarf 2, and pass it on to Player 3. Dwarf 1 doesn't matter to Player 3 at all, and they can be released from whatever hell they're in, or fight in the military and get killed, without it mattering. The only dwarf that matters to Player 3 is Dwarf 2. That way there would be less to juggle so it's fun, not a chore, not that it couldn't be optional period.

[SRD]

Wait, so we can kill the other players' dwarf unless it's the one we're torturing? what?