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Author Topic: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way  (Read 42861 times)

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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #75 on: June 03, 2012, 11:23:25 pm »

Usually, yeah. But shall we itemize this list and separate the things that were learned the hard way from the things that were just simple discoveries that didn't cost anyone anything to figure out? I can do that if I have to make my point.

Well I had recruited all the available bandits of both camps, because it was an older game and I was a famous outsider who only killed night creatures.  I rested in the camp and the bandit leader went around killing my companions from the previous camp, while I slept.  when I woke up, my other bandit companions attacked the bandit leader for killing members of my party.  He slaughtered them, but stayed friendly to me.

He wouldn't join me because his duty was there at the camp, and I guess he did have a lot of putting heads on stakes to do.  However this was a world where I ramped up all night creatures including boogeymen to the max(I was extracting and studying them.)  Plus I had added boogeymen extracted from preious saves, so I had over the limit.

I had saved right before I took my nap. I never made it to another town, camp, or even lair.  I learned several things the hard way that game.
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Maybe that the dwarves never died and everyone is just shunning them.
"Wait, what are you doing?  I don't want to go in there!  No, I'm still alive, you can't do this to me!  Is Anybody listening?  Hello... Can someone let me out?  Help me!  Is anyone there?  I'm running out of air!"

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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #76 on: June 04, 2012, 05:58:23 am »

135. Don't think you're clever and sleep in someone's house to kill them  while they're unconscious. One dumbass always has insomnia.

never happened, not even once, i strangled countless cities overnight

it doesn't matter anyway since everyone in the civ is magically informed of your murders even without witness of any kind
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #77 on: June 04, 2012, 08:41:21 pm »

140) Sleeping on the beach to avoid bogeys sometimes means waking up with a shark in your bed.
141) Sharks can do devastating damage in the few turns they have before they suffocate in the air.
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #78 on: June 04, 2012, 09:12:08 pm »

140) Sleeping on the beach to avoid bogeys sometimes means waking up with a shark in your bed.
141) Sharks can do devastating damage in the few turns they have before they suffocate in the air.
Why would you ever do that?  :-\
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #79 on: June 04, 2012, 09:58:51 pm »

Because its !!FUN!!. and... His NAME is SuicideJunkie...

142. Archers are indeed overpower. But getting stabbed in the spine from behind while you try to wrestle the crossbow out of that douche's hands will kill you just as dead as the bolts would have.
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #80 on: June 05, 2012, 07:57:06 am »

143. Throwing your waterskin at the campfire is not the best way to melt the ice in the waterskin. Use 'I'nteract to melt the ice instead.

I managed to chuck my waterskin into a volcano once. Ultra smooooth.
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #81 on: June 05, 2012, 12:59:38 pm »

144)Campfires don't stop bogeymen from attacking you.
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #82 on: June 05, 2012, 06:27:03 pm »

145. (s) doesn't make you sneak. (S) does. (s) just leaves you wondering why they can all see you and why they were able to kill you so easily.
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #83 on: June 05, 2012, 07:37:04 pm »

135. Don't think you're clever and sleep in someone's house to kill them  while they're unconscious. One dumbass always has insomnia.

never happened, not even once, i strangled countless cities overnight

it doesn't matter anyway since everyone in the civ is magically informed of your murders even without witness of any kind
Well, that's odd. I usually get one in a building that doesn't flash Z.
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #84 on: June 06, 2012, 03:05:02 am »

135. Don't think you're clever and sleep in someone's house to kill them  while they're unconscious. One dumbass always has insomnia.

never happened, not even once, i strangled countless cities overnight

it doesn't matter anyway since everyone in the civ is magically informed of your murders even without witness of any kind
Well, that's odd. I usually get one in a building that doesn't flash Z.

just sneak kill him first then, with high enough ambush he won't notice someone is strangling him

i'm really looking forward to the crime overhaul in adventure, being a mass murder/thief/whatever is not fun when everybody knows it real time
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #85 on: June 06, 2012, 11:46:49 am »

146. All of the rules lie.

All of them.

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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #86 on: June 06, 2012, 11:57:12 am »

147. Item 146 is a lie.

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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #87 on: June 06, 2012, 05:15:51 pm »

140) Sleeping on the beach to avoid bogeys sometimes means waking up with a shark in your bed.
141) Sharks can do devastating damage in the few turns they have before they suffocate in the air.
Why would you ever do that?  :-\
As stated; to avoid getting killed by bogeymen in my sleep.  They apparently don't spawn on the beach, or mountains or rivers.
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #88 on: June 06, 2012, 10:28:51 pm »

135. Don't think you're clever and sleep in someone's house to kill them  while they're unconscious. One dumbass always has insomnia.

never happened, not even once, i strangled countless cities overnight

it doesn't matter anyway since everyone in the civ is magically informed of your murders even without witness of any kind
Well, that's odd. I usually get one in a building that doesn't flash Z.

just sneak kill him first then, with high enough ambush he won't notice someone is strangling him

i'm really looking forward to the crime overhaul in adventure, being a mass murder/thief/whatever is not fun when everybody knows it real time
Usually if I'm strangling people in their sleep I'm not high enough level to kill a rooster in a one on one fight. But thanks anyway.
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #89 on: June 07, 2012, 02:00:18 am »

148. Shooting prone target while sneaking may be impossible. If this is the only foe you have - just stop sneaking and then shoot. You chances to hit foe will increase.
149. Prone, bleeding, pale enemy is not a good target for wrestling practice. Shoot him unconscious or shoot him to death from a distance.
150. When hunting in lair you CAN shoot things obscured by "fog of war".
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