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[Mesa]

...the following would ensue.
(I know that it's technically multiplayer, which we're not supposed to even think about, but whatever!)


The game(mode), temporarily named "Siege", combines elements of both Fortress and Adventurer modes - it throws 12 (?) adventurers (heroes/champions/pros/whatever) in two teams to defend...
Planepacked and Broiledprinces, respectively.

YES, you heard right - the two great mega-artifacts, with stories of the world(s) engraved on them.

But wait, you start with basically nothing! What to do?
Well, if Fortress mode skills make it into Adventure mode (which is my sole demand right now, btw), then YOU are the ones who build the base around your mega-artifact from resources nearby, YOU craft your weapons, YOU defend your base.

I do realize that there would be many issues with such a gamemode, like friendly fire, disadvantages because of lack of resources and the like - we could either have preset, symmetrical maps for Siege or randomly generate worlds for it. The bases could even be located in the very ends of the (huge) world for sake of long-term play.

Think about it...Relatively loose objective to fulfill, but at least there's one, unlike in Fortress and Adventure modes (not saying it's bad thing to not have an objective).


Now, we could have just our standard dorfs and the like as possible adventurers, but given how many creatures Toady has put Armok has spawned...There's quite a lot of variety possible - necromancers, goblins, antmen, flying kobolds, fire-breathing vampires - and just wait until we have proper magic for even MORE FUN!


And don't forget - carps are still lethal vs dwarves.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

If something was something else it would be somewhat different.

[Mesa]

If something was something else it would be somewhat different.

Yea, but that's the way I imagined it....

[Robosaur]

If something was something else it would be somewhat different.

You, good sir, are a buzzkill.

[kuki]

Technical objections aside, imagining DF becoming a MOBA kills my buzz

Thankfully I think we are safe from this.

[thiosk]

If df was a Moba I never would have played it.

[GoombaGeek]

If only I knew what a MOBA was.

[AutomataKittay]

I'm pretty sure it's not USA's giant Mother of All Bombs or the city from the bible in this context.

I'd be a bit scared because that means there're flying bomb somewhere.

[Mesa]

If only I knew what a MOBA was.

In other words, an action RTS.
Well, this is more like just an RTS, but you get the point...Or not.

[Kumis]

Multiplayer Online Blaargh Aaargh
As far as I can tell.

[thiosk]

Multiplayer online battle arena.  Basically, defense of the ancients and league of legends are the well known entries.

Imagine counter strike during its heyday, but rts.

The communities are horribly nasty, and represent everything I hate about multiplayer gaming in distilled form.  It is those people that make me reflexively cringe everytime someone brings up multiplayer modes for single player games (get ready for that elder scrolls mmo, btw.  Cant wait to see 30 naked nords jumping up and down yelling about mining 4 fish)


If df was a moba, when someone lost a dwarf to carp everyone would go apeshit and disparage their mother and question their sexual orientation, then rage quit the game

[Rex_Nex]

The closest thing to multiplayer that I can see happen to DF is someone getting hackey-hackey and somehow getting two people to download the same fort from a web server and having both players able to interact with the same world at the same time.

Of course, this would have the community split over whether this violates toady's wishes, it'll be buggy as hell, and probably crash every other minute because of desync'n issues.

[snpaa]

What if Dwarf fortress was a first person shooter...

[AutomataKittay]

What if Dwarf fortress was a first person shooter...

UHAX CROZBOW

[Dutchling]

MOBA = DotA