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[Replica]

HOLY CHRIST
That's 200 attacks with a steel grade weapon material in one tick for a trap loaded with just 10 of those!
No wonder you added trapavoid to many of the creatures, that is just insane!

[P(ony)SI]

HOLY CHRIST
That's 200 attacks with a steel grade weapon material in one tick for a trap loaded with just 10 of those!
No wonder you added trapavoid to many of the creatures, that is just insane!

Exactly, that's why the Elder wants us gone. Such weaponry is DANGEROUS in the hooves of ponies.

[Maklak]

I don't have the time to write much right now, but I'm still watching the thread. Replica's report was entertaining, if lengthy.

Since Serrated Disks and Spiked Balls have 3 hits, 20 hits is something of an overkill. Granted, those hits are just small cuts, but they can still chop a radscorpion to pieces.


On the subject of Cyberponies, like I mentioned, Master Red Eye said that one problem with them is that if you take some slave's brain and put it into a killing machine, it may want to enact some kind of revenge. I'd therefore like to be some chance for things to spin out of control, just like with defective AIs.

I was thinking about plasteel plates and I don't really see an in-fluff reason for them to exist, if their only use is smelting them down. Sompeopny made them in the first place for a reason. An in-crunch reason could be to force the player to build a prismatic smelter and a prismatic forge ho handle Plasteel. Maybe there could be some other way to handle this or a use for plasteel plates in upgrading robots or cyberponies. Either way, it is just a minor grievance. However... well, I just never saw plasteel in any FoE fiction and I think introducing it was a mistake in the first place.

On an unrelated note, I think the TRAPAVOID should be split into separate tags for cage and weapon traps. 

[Replica]

Steel doesn't leave "small cuts", steel leaves deep gashes gushing with blood.
200 attacks is a goddamned meat grinder.

Web or loss of consciousness

Trapavoiders become vulnerable to traditional traps when they are webbed or unconscious. One can take advantage of this, usually to cage the uncageable, by building traps in a silk farm or by building a constructed floor on top of a support and surrounding the area under it with traditional traps-- what is known as a cave-in trap.

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[Indigo_Surprise]

On the subject of Cyberponies, like I mentioned, Master Red Eye said that one problem with them is that if you take some slave's brain and put it into a killing machine, it may want to enact some kind of revenge.

I read that differently than you. I forget where it was, but it read to me like if the pony was allowed to fully control the machine it would enact revenge, but instead the brain is used for computing and an AI takes care of targeting and everything else.

[Maklak]

Indigo_Surprise, you've read correctly. I just twisted his words for !fun!

Replica, you've just given me an idea for a fall trap with cages at the bottom. Other then that, just post rifleponies on the wall, put some cage and weapon traps around and hope for the best, but that's dangerous for my own ponies too, if they were to engage the Rangers in the wrong spot. But then if they do, they'll likely die anyway.

> Steel doesn't leave "small cuts", steel leaves deep gashes gushing with blood.
Judging by the edge size on barbed wire, those cuts are small.

[Replica]

>> Steel doesn't leave "small cuts", steel leaves deep gashes gushing with blood.
>Judging by the edge size on barbed wire, those cuts are small.

Mak.
Maky Mak.
Maky boy.
By fellow player and Overseer.

If I cut you once in the arm with a steel blade I'll leave a cut, right?
Not that bad, you'll probably still be able to shoot a gun or swing a weapon with that arm.
But if I cut you 200 times, in 1 second...

And then, it's not really a blade either, it's a tiny ultra sharp barbed string.
If you swing your arm at a string like that you'll probably slice it clean off.

This video pretty much shows that ONE barbed steel wire trap would do, link.
Imagine 10 barbed steel wires.


Lycaeon, milord, if you don't mind me asking, what is the status on the next version?

Just wondering because of that community fort I wanted to run, figured I'd do it now that I still have one spare week to go before school starts again.


Nevermind, I backtracked a few posts and saw "Sunday", so either sunday or sometime next week. Perfect. :)

[Splint]

My wasn't that wonderful fuel for my dreams/nightmares.

[P(ony)SI]

That was nice.

Anyways, a question. How effective are combat pistols (small caliber ammunition) against ghouls and glowing ghouls?
I'm planning on rising a certain Stable from the dead, one that has no trees to make combat rifles or anti-machine rifles, so I want to make sure that I won't screw myself over again.

[Maklak]

I won't comment on the stuff from earlier. I doesn't even matter that much.

The way I see it, barbed wire was supposed to cause lots of small cuts. It hits 20 times with [ATTACK:EDGE:10:100:cut:cuts:NO_SUB:10]. I can't find it now, but this is actually a piercing attack, which is effective against armour. I believe that changing this to [ATTACK:EDGE:30:100:cut:cuts:NO_SUB:10] or even [ATTACK:EDGE:50:100:cut:cuts:NO_SUB:10] will make the attacks edged instead of piercing and nerf barbed wire by a lot, especially against armour. I can't find a link that would confirm it, ATM.

> Anyways, a question. How effective are combat pistols (small caliber ammunition) against ghouls and glowing ghouls?
Ghouls don't feel pain and bullets just wound them and aren't that effective. You'll do more damage than with BBs and having some fire support is good, but to kill ghouls you want to have melee ponies.

[P(ony)SI]

>> Anyways, a question. How effective are combat pistols (small caliber ammunition) against ghouls and glowing ghouls?
> Ghouls don't feel pain and bullets just wound them and aren't that effective. You'll do more damage that with BBs and having some fire support is good, but to kill ghouls you want to have melee ponies.

I'm not worried about them not feeling pain. The main post says something to the effect of "Glowing ghouls are lethal in melee", so I was hoping combat pistols would be able to at least go through a glowing ghoul to damage their legs and cause brain injuries.

[Pokon]

I'm not worried about them not feeling pain. The main post says something to the effect of "Glowing ghouls are lethal in melee", so I was hoping combat pistols would be able to at least go through a glowing ghoul to damage their legs and cause brain injuries.

Do you, by perchance, have a Turret? Any sort of suppressive fire will chase away those nasty ghoulies. Also, Glowing Ones irradiate ponies that come within melee range, which means lots of vomiting and general disgustingness.

[P(ony)SI]

Do you, by perchance, have a Turret? Any sort of suppressive fire will chase away those nasty ghoulies. Also, Glowing Ones irradiate ponies that come within melee range, which means lots of vomiting and general disgustingness.

Turrets chase away ghouls? Interesting. How many turrets should I get?
Vomiting and general disgustingness isn't it. They give huge drops in all of the combat-centered attributes, which worries me.

[Replica]

Have some garbage you guys.
First signs of trouble are showing up, I give it 5, tops 8 more reports before doomsday.

Spoiler: Lemon Stable Report 10 (click to show/hide)

Do you feel that?
You don't?
Are you sure?
It's that slipping sensation when everything is going great but that you feel like it is slowly slipping out of your grip.
Kinda like holding a slab of meat soaked in grease, feels icky and it slips out of your hooves very slowly.

Lapse:

We came off with a very very bad start.
Turns out that the Steel Rangers have been secretly spying on us all along, the bastards.
They sent a small squad of soldiers to test our defenses, they managed to sneak all the way up to our walls before the alarms went off.

In the meanwhile 3 black radscorpions displayed aggressive behavior, the 7 of us went out and killed them all, just like old times.

The steel ranger scouts kept showing up one by one and retreated as soon as they were spotted, as the last steel ranger escaped a squad of slavers showed up, the first ambush in over 3 years.
This is it guys, the beginning of the end of Lemon.
While their main squad rushed up to our entrance (the bridge was lowered) one of the sneaky bastards got up from behind us, our entire damn army chased after her and beat her to death.
But a black radscorpion happened to be there and it took down one of our soldiers before being cut apart.
They ditched their dead comrade and galloped back to our perimeter just before the slavers got up to it.
Slavers were murderized, it was a 6 v 35, they were utterly destroyed, but managed to wound some of our guys in the fight.
The wounded were brought to the hospital where we got to test the new Mrs Redheart bot.

Lycaeon was amongst our wounded, he lost his lower left hindleg in the fight, ouch.
No idea where his leg went.



A ghost appears below our well, the one closest to the fishing area.
Yeah, I shit you not, a fucking ghost.
Everypony freak out about it and get their water from our second well, everypony save for one of our priests, one of the two snipers, who calmly goes to talk to the ghost.
The ghost reveals that it fell in the well in an accident involving a soapy floor and that it drowned there, nopony missed it and this made the dead pony very upset.
To make it happy again we crafted a stone slab and engraved a memorial in it's name and placed it by our well for it to see, the ghost appreciated this and it's soul came at peace.
The ghost's body however must still be down there in the well, slowly disintegrating under the strong water current... luckily only me and a few others know about it, there is no need to tell the others about it, we wouldn't want panic to break out, got to remember to fish it out somehow using grappling hooks or something.

Prophecy Prairehawk suffers from the same crazy symptoms as Corai and the other ponies with strange projects.
He goes into a secretive state where he drew us creepy pictures of what he wanted, after some time and passing the pictures around the stable we managed to figure out what he wanted and he immediately set about creating whatever insane project he had in mind.
At this point we might as well just muse these crazy ponies and let them do their thing, the results of their strange works is very pretty, even if they are not always of good use to us.

Nothing really happens during the time he works on his project.
He completes it and proudly shows me FOCUSTAMED THE NOBLE OF CROWS, which in non-crazy translates into "a mug made of gems".
On the mug is an image of Pudding Mobdrink, that earth pony who created that awesome statuette, being "accepted" by the ponies of Lemon.
That's great, we'll just... uh... put it with the rest of our gifts, with the... bracelet, scepter, earring and statuette...
Kinda feels like Hearts Warming Eve where you ask for a bunch of awesome crap but end up getting books and socks.




We place more hives.
That's... basically all there is to that.

An earth pony girl was born, I like her, she is a funny foal.
Let's see if she thinks building in the irradiated wasteland is funny when she grows up.

The wounded all recover (this happens barely 15 minutes after the ambush), everyone return to their work as if nothing even happened.
Lycaeon insists that the loss of half his lower left hindleg is "just a flesh wound" and that he wants to keep training his armor using, fine by me, here is a crutch, use your unicorn voodoo magic to figure out how to walk properly and we'll see you at combat training tomorrow.

To reduce unhappiness and increase workforce morale we place some aluminium chests in the remaining bedrooms, designate more bedrooms to be dug out (many more), order more beds to be constructed and give free milk and honey biscuits to everypony (LIMITED SUPPLY ONLY, GET YOURS TODAY).

We build MAS & Arcane Terminals in the RobronCo machine shop (for lack of a better place).
Running the terminals I see programs about spells like "Implosion", "Time Dilation", "Torment" and so forth.
Fucking crazy, is what it is, can't believe our frail unicorns would be capable of doing such evil.
Still it might be worth checking out, maybe we can use some of this unatural fuckery against our enemies.
The list of terminal reactions look like this.




We build some extra workshops, namely a Loom, Clothier, Sawmill and Plywood Workshop.
Many of our more veteran Lemon citizens clothes are showing serious sign of wearing out.
Crazy Cow's jumpsuit is showing off more than it should, this would be just fine if it was just us, but with 124 other ponies seeing half her flank this is not okay in my book.
Crazy Cow is assigned a brand new jumpsuit and some socks, the only pair in the entire stable.
This only drew more gazes towards her, I immediately regret giving her the fucking socks.
Edit: Oh right forgot, I am not supposed to do that, my bad.

In the meeting hall (which is turning out to look pretty good now that our builders are almost done smoothing the entire place) we build a bar.
To celebrate this we open up all those hundreds of year old sparkle-cola, sparkle-cola RAD and sunset sarsaparilla bottles we have been saving up for a rainy day, everypony wants to be friends with the new barista, so much in fact that absolutely nopony can be arsed to move that one stone table out of the damn way like I asked them to do so long ago.



Stockpiles are overfilled, two new areas are designated for digging, but our builders (also responsible for mining) are busy doing more important stuff, like making the kitchens and meeting hall look pretty.
Good to know that we have all our priorities straight.

The sensors we installed in the caves have detected hellhounds in the caverns.
All our technician spotting this said when leaned back in his chair was "Cool story dawg, it's not like we even want to go down there anyway".



Some plywood is made using wood, I wonder what we'll make, I don't really know what we even want to make out of plywood, we sort of already have everything we need, almost.

We order some new mechanisms, many of our new workshops require mechanisms, and the only mechanism I got is one made out of plasteel which I accidentally ordered a while back, and I don't want that to be used for building (preferably I'd like to be used in the construction of a deluxe ripper or chainsaw rifle).

We have been having some issues with the hives, nopony knows what to do and there ends up being more workers assigned to figure out the hives than necessary.
All of our farmers (including me) are relieved of beekeeping and we ditch out worst farmer (some stupid kid who killed some of our crops last season) to do it instead.
Turns out the bees love him so much that they don't even get aggressive whenever he destroys one of their hives and kills thousands of their children.



An earth pony boy is born, tests show that he has no remarkable skills whatsoever (I don't question the tests, I don't even know what the unicorn doctors say, I just nod slowly and agree to whatever nonsense they say), so he is assigned to become a craftspony once he comes of age.

An unicorn girl is born, she on the other hoof has some type of special future skill, so she becomes a profession of her own, we create a new list labeled "Ammo Crafters" who will be responsible for crafting ammunition and guns, and assign her to it.
We don't really need ammo right now, but I imagine we will by the time she grows up.

Cloud Frog has another stroke of genius and figures out how to build a minigun turret, that thing looks badass (seriously the sprite is fucking cool as hell, yes I know hell is hot, just roll with it).
With no risk of it's bullets catching fire to our entire damn construction site we move it to our entrance.
Shortly after this a black radscorpion wanders in looking for revenge and the turrets open fire.
Zero effect from the standard turrets, the bullets just pling off it's armor, the minigun turret on the other hoof has a pretty good effect, some of it's bullets penetrate it's carpace and lodge in it's tasty soft flesh.
The minigun turret doesn't kill the scorpion, we had to send our military to kill it (the lucky winner was P(ony)SI who gets super excited whenever she hears "Go kill X!"), we take no injuries.

We expand the surface farms slightly.
Our indoor surface farms look like a complete mess, they are really in need of some serious infrastructural improvements.



Another Virtual Reality sim is built down in the training centre (well not built, we are still setting it up), now we can train two ponies in serious things and let two ponies play videogames all day.
The training of our 4 specialists is going good, P(ony)SI has almost caught up with Lycaeon in armor using (Lyc level 3½, P(ony)SI level 3).
Training for our two snipers is also progressing well, Humble Friendsound is almost at level 7 while Motherworship is almost at level 4.
Once Humble Friendsound reaches level 11 he will be deemed fit for combat duty and will be assigned to a squad of his own which will regularly patrol our walls, scanning the surrounding area with his damned anti tank rifle.



Lastly, we find Lycaeons hind leg.
Right in the middle of the bridge, in the middle of all the sick sludge, vomit and blood that has been mixing on it.
We really need to get that cleaned up, it's starting to look pretty disgusting.



Other:

*Too lazy to report overall progress, objectives and such, going to ditch the objectives section (as I have a hard time keeping track of everything I do as it is) but will be including a more extensive status of things in the next report (such as what all our skills are at, what our stocks are at right now, our militia skill levels and so on), this wont be in every future report mind you, but I figure I might as well fill you in next time so you get an idea of what we have going.*

I want to tell you about two things,

1. Be careful with beekeeping, only assign ONE beekeeper, if you assign more, much of your workforce will be standing around trying to pick up and move the same hive, this is a DF bug mentioned in the beekeeping wiki entry, so keep that in mind (and consider beekeeping now that you know that you only need a single pony to reap the rewards).

2. Irradiated storm ghoulification.
I noticed that I haven't had a single "natural" ghoul despite my biome, BUT that I do have one ghoul casualty in my area.
Judging by the profession I am guessing that one of the trade caravan guards of a caravan that showed up several reports ago turned into a ghoul when subjected to an irradiated storm, and that it killed one of his own friends before being brought down by the rest of the guards.
So if you embark in biomes with irradiated storms be sure to protect your trading partners in some way, build them a small house connected to a tunnel or something.
This doesn't happen often, but when it does it can end up being really bad for you, especially if you are being a coolguy who plays DF the dwarven way with no DFhack to save your ass in case of fatal amounts of fun.

Y'all dismissed.

Turrets chase away ghouls? Interesting. How many turrets should I get?

Hundreds of billions of turrets.
Because turrets don't chase away ghouls, pretty sure that ghouls have NO_FEAR and LIKES_FIGHTING.

[P(ony)SI]

Beginning of the end? Ha! The slavers and Steel Rangers only wish they could significantly harm the Stable of Lemon!
Make sure to savescum. If you've already done it, why can't you do it again?
Lycaeon is one unlucky pony, always getting wounded.

Also, not sure if you've noticed, but I replied to dat PM.