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Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« on: July 23, 2012, 05:35:03 pm »
So as the title says, what part of a fortress's life do you despise?

For me, it would be the absolute beginning (Including prep), I hate setting everything up. Once everything is up and running I'm happy as a clam, though.
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2012, 05:54:40 pm »
That time right after set up but right before anything interesting happens.
It just grinds on and on until excitement occurs.
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2012, 05:56:18 pm »
The early fortress days tend to be the most fun. You struggle, and struggle and finally believe you're safe in the middle ages... NOPE something destroys all society and you're back to square one.

I love that one the best.

Least favorite age... Not sure really. I guess I just like Fortresses.
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2012, 05:56:23 pm »
Yeah, the start. With less then 40-60 dorfs everything is just too slow. I start with 19 now thanks to dfusion, but still hate this part.
On the other hand, I just love designing the initial layout of the fortresses.
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2012, 05:56:34 pm »
Spring and Summer of second year.

My 18 or so Dwarves have their jobs, I've got a good flow going, currently digging out some important areas. I'm actually eager for the next migrant wave, because I have about 8-12 positions that I'm looking to fill.

Five minutes later, I have 75-80 Dwarves. I have far more dwarves than I have jobs for them to do, half of them want to do stupid shit like hunt or fish out in the dangerous wilds, and virtually none of them have any genuinely useful skills (Adequate! Adequate! Adequate!) It's like dealing with a suddenly very dire homeless problem.
« Last Edit: July 23, 2012, 06:00:32 pm by Moonshadow101 »
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2012, 06:04:45 pm »
The vampires and secret creatures as well as the mid game period where goblins start to send multiple squad sieges/ambushes and you haven't gotten a decent military set up and equipped yet.
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2012, 06:12:35 pm »
The part immediately after embark when you realize you forgot to bring something critical to this location, like a cool fortress name. DFhack->die
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2012, 06:50:30 pm »
When your first overly large migrant wave arrives.  The first couple of waves are nice.  But when 50 Novice Fisherdwarves show up at one time?  Not so fun.
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2012, 06:56:13 pm »
Digging the fortress. I need to try some new layouts, it's my least favorite because I do almost the same thing every single time.
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2012, 07:12:34 pm »
I like ti create.  Worldgen is actually my favorite part of the game...

Thus, I dislike any period of established safety.  Being untouchable is too much like being perfect for my liking...
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2012, 08:59:20 pm »
Quote from: pisskop on July 23, 2012, 07:12:34 pm
Thus, I dislike any period of established safety.  Being untouchable is too much like being perfect for my liking...

Ditto.  That's why I tend to get bored of forts quickly once I'm established and my population grows.  I also tend to find the micromanagement necessary once I have 100+ dwarves to be frustrating, especially since I can't find a distribution of professions, and which labors assigned to each profession, that I like.
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2012, 09:01:41 pm »
My least favorite part of The Fortress life is dealing with Urist McDumbass running around being stupid (aka pretty much all the dorfs).
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2012, 09:51:34 pm »
About two or three years in, where all the industries and stockpiles are up and running but placed wherever they could fit at the time, making the whole fortress quite responsive to orders but an absolute tip.

DFHack->copystock is excellent for relocating your entire setup. Even with that I've given up on making separate stockpiles for fat and tallow. Tallow never sits around in large quantities for long anyway.
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2012, 11:15:33 pm »
My least favorite part of DF is not being allowed to save Orders and Uniform settings, in between games.
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Re: Your Least Favorite Part of a Fortress's Life
« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2012, 11:23:59 pm »
Quote from: knutor on July 23, 2012, 11:15:33 pm
My least favorite part of DF is not being allowed to save Orders and Uniform settings, in between games.

This, especially if one fort gets raped by undead and I have to start a new fort in quick succession.  Having to go through and completely refit 3 or 4 different squad types every game can be annoying at times.
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