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[Helgoland]

Heh, I put them into a bit of a trap in that regard: My dwarves are motivated by a series of incentives to work long hours under bad circumstances, driving them into misery. But by cultural tweaking I've gotten them to the point that they actively resist any change towards the better, even within their own political system. Man, those PETA nitwits were flabbergasted.

[94dima94]

Ok, guys, I f***ed up.

After some magic research I find out I embarked on a biome with the "life" sphere of influence. So I start the usual channeling stuff to harvest the various effects (plants grow quickly, injuries heal faster and easier, the usual good stuff).
Of course, I leave the channelers working for a while and I forget to check. It turns out my embark is not only in the "life" sphere... About a third of it (of course the part where my channelers are) is in the FIRE sphere.
So now I have flaming trees everywhere on the surface, the biome went from temperate to hot (yes, I'm dumb, it took me THAT long to notice) and the special children who are born here don't heal those next to them, and they don't calm ghosts either; no, they set fire to something next to them every time they get a bad thought.
On the bright side, though, they have fireball attacks, and it looks like they are immune to lava (I still have to test with dragonfire), so in some years I'll have my army of pyromancer warriors ready to kill any human approaching (let's see if your gunpowder is still a "technological advantage" when it blows up in your face every time you bring it here. This may give me the edge I needed to have a chance in the war)

[Mel_Vixen]

Heh, I put them into a bit of a trap in that regard: My dwarves are motivated by a series of incentives to work long hours under bad circumstances, driving them into misery. But by cultural tweaking I've gotten them to the point that they actively resist any change towards the better, even within their own political system. Man, those PETA nitwits were flabbergasted.

So they produce Games now? I mean thats the same thing i see in my job as Softwaretester in the Industry, we and the coders are constantly in a crunch.

Currently we work on a new "visual interpreter" (you know those visualisation plugins that every game nowadays uses), nice thing that we got the persistant visualmodel up to distances of 300 Kilometers at micron resolutions. Such resolutions arent needed for DF at all but for other games like KSP 3.0 its a boon. It does wonders thought for fractal magiceffects which get much more crisp. Problem is that we still have a memoryleak somewhere and by pushing 4 Petybyte per frame on 120 frames/sec the game starts to slow at around 2 1/2 hours or so. Thats atleast what our profiler is saying.

[Helgoland]

Couldn't you just periodically boot up a second instance of the program and then do a smooth transition? It's a shitty workaround, but I'm guessing you guys are working under deadline...

[Starver]

I'm not sure if this is an error or a feature, being a bit behind reading the devlogs, but I started DF up a couple of hours ago, and it wasn't until I saved and quit that I realised that all this time my dwarves had been just sat in one place, all that time.

Meanwhile, however, it seems that I (from what I can see) had been mostly moving furniture around my house, storing food in different places and somebody seems to have built a fully-equipped craft workshop in the sub-basement that I'm fairly sure I didn't previously have.  And there's also this mysterious unlabelled lever...

[Denzi]

Alright guys, I'm about fed up.

I am trying to reign in my dwarves because they just are getting too dangerous and too smart for their own good. I have all of my firedwarves and civil militia kitted out with the best possible gear I could get them (Laws are full conservative btw, so the militia have auto-crossbows and the fire-dwarves have candy-coated silver axes). But some how this damn 'Liberal Crime Squad' keeps popping up and resets all of the laws to moderate (at minimum) or to full liberal (Which basically keeps me from having a standing military, so the other civs have fun with me then) within ten to twenty years!. Even when I think I've killed them all another cell activates somewhere else, it's like they reproduce through spores!

Any suggestions? I'm at a loss of how to deal with this.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Alright guys, I'm about fed up.

I am trying to reign in my dwarves because they just are getting too dangerous and too smart for their own good. I have all of my firedwarves and civil militia kitted out with the best possible gear I could get them (Laws are full conservative btw, so the militia have auto-crossbows and the fire-dwarves have candy-coated silver axes). But some how this damn 'Liberal Crime Squad' keeps popping up and resets all of the laws to moderate (at minimum) or to full liberal (Which basically keeps me from having a standing military, so the other civs have fun with me then) within ten to twenty years!. Even when I think I've killed them all another cell activates somewhere else, it's like they reproduce through spores!

Any suggestions? I'm at a loss of how to deal with this.

Hmmm...is the leader of each of the cells a famous playwright?

[My Name is Immaterial]

Alright guys, I'm about fed up.

I am trying to reign in my dwarves because they just are getting too dangerous and too smart for their own good. I have all of my firedwarves and civil militia kitted out with the best possible gear I could get them (Laws are full conservative btw, so the militia have auto-crossbows and the fire-dwarves have candy-coated silver axes). But some how this damn 'Liberal Crime Squad' keeps popping up and resets all of the laws to moderate (at minimum) or to full liberal (Which basically keeps me from having a standing military, so the other civs have fun with me then) within ten to twenty years!. Even when I think I've killed them all another cell activates somewhere else, it's like they reproduce through spores!

Any suggestions? I'm at a loss of how to deal with this.

Has the LCS begun killing high-profile conservatives? If not, you can still turn this around. Try to get hicks from the farmlands of your fortress into the same room with the richest of the rich, and they should quickly begin to form the Conservative Crime Squad. It's your best chance.

[Baffler]

Alright guys, I'm about fed up.

I am trying to reign in my dwarves because they just are getting too dangerous and too smart for their own good. I have all of my firedwarves and civil militia kitted out with the best possible gear I could get them (Laws are full conservative btw, so the militia have auto-crossbows and the fire-dwarves have candy-coated silver axes). But some how this damn 'Liberal Crime Squad' keeps popping up and resets all of the laws to moderate (at minimum) or to full liberal (Which basically keeps me from having a standing military, so the other civs have fun with me then) within ten to twenty years!. Even when I think I've killed them all another cell activates somewhere else, it's like they reproduce through spores!

Any suggestions? I'm at a loss of how to deal with this.

Has the LCS begun killing high-profile conservatives? If not, you can still turn this around. Try to get hicks from the farmlands of your fortress into the same room with the richest of the rich, and they should quickly begin to form the Conservative Crime Squad. It's your best chance.

Also, it sounds counterproductive, but there's no better way to drag the LCS out of hiding than to simply invite them. If you relax restrictions on free speech, they should start coming out of the woodwork to publicly voice their support for their nefarious agenda. It's kinda exploit-ey, but what usually ends up happening with this is that the LCS founder keeps their nose completely clean and gets delegates to do all the actual work, usually foreigners or lower class dwarves. The founder can't be uncovered until the justice system is fixed, so the above gives you at least some direct control over the situation until Toady figures out how to stop the sheriff from believing the citizen's bugged out accusations against chairs and whatnot.

[poketwo]

Alright guys, I'm about fed up.

I am trying to reign in my dwarves because they just are getting too dangerous and too smart for their own good. I have all of my firedwarves and civil militia kitted out with the best possible gear I could get them (Laws are full conservative btw, so the militia have auto-crossbows and the fire-dwarves have candy-coated silver axes). But some how this damn 'Liberal Crime Squad' keeps popping up and resets all of the laws to moderate (at minimum) or to full liberal (Which basically keeps me from having a standing military, so the other civs have fun with me then) within ten to twenty years!. Even when I think I've killed them all another cell activates somewhere else, it's like they reproduce through spores!

Any suggestions? I'm at a loss of how to deal with this.

Well, you could set up a prophet and get a massive religious "enlightenment" and set up an Theocracy. Then force the LCS to become cannon fodder for your military, and then possibly take over the continent!!!!!! And it gets rid of the pesky democracy system that keeps making you change your laws.

It also could be you set your server-world to multiplayer-enabled, and a bunch of people are playing LCS in your world. I'd recommend banning that game until the modern era, where its supposed to actually start functioning. But we all know the problems bay12 game integration has with the time-differential era starts, so it just begins whenever one starts up a game.  Sometimes, the worst bugs come from the modding teams, I remembered when they weren't selling all the mods, before the EA wars. Makes them exceptionally buggy.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I remembered when they weren't selling all the mods, before the EA wars.

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time...
*Has flashback*
*Everyone can hear tinny sounds of gunfire and explosions in the background*

[Helgoland]

They're dead, Myn. They're all dead. But we're still alive. And we will stay alive. There is no point in not living our lives because they were denied their chance to do so.

[Button]

Off-topic, I know, but I'm really digging Half-Life 3.

[94dima94]

Off-topic, I know, but I'm really digging Half-Life 3.

Oh, so you are in the pre-alpha testing group? You are so lucky!

[poketwo]

Off-topic, I know, but I'm really digging Half-Life 3.

Oh, so you are in the pre-alpha testing group? You are so lucky!

Remember that it got released almost 25 years ago, the same day dwarf fortress got our of Beta?