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Author Topic: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?  (Read 8618 times)

klefenz

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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #60 on: December 16, 2013, 10:54:11 am »
I felt i was not a newb anymore when i could see dwarves and doors and blood where others only see a screen full of gibberish.

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VerdantSF

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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #61 on: December 16, 2013, 12:17:23 pm »
I dunno, the game still throws little surprises at me now and again that make me feel like a newb.  Like when I walled off the first cavern, I had a few deaths due to mass-designating the removal of scaffolding.  I thought I was being cautious enough by doing 1 layer at a time.  What I didn't realize is that I still needed to remove every other scaffold piece, otherwise, some dwarves had their scaffold removed right under their feet :(. 

Still, I suppose I stopped feeling like a total newb when I played through 2 in-game changes of ages (2nd Age of Legends from the death of a dragon, then the 3rd Age of Myth from the births of my first fortress born ones).
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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #62 on: December 16, 2013, 08:35:07 pm »
I had the great unnewb epiphany when... oh yeah, right. I'm still a newb. Never mind.
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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #63 on: December 16, 2013, 11:22:18 pm »
I developed the "doesn't care about anything anymore" trait.
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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #64 on: December 17, 2013, 03:28:00 pm »
When I abandoned because of being bored.
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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #65 on: December 18, 2013, 01:43:25 pm »
When I realized I didn't need to refer to the sidebar to remember what keys do what (AFTER a three-month break)
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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #66 on: December 18, 2013, 05:59:18 pm »
When I managed to get a duke without every having to pause the game because an emergency had cropped up. I paused the game for other reasons, but never panic-paused.
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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #67 on: December 18, 2013, 09:36:07 pm »
When I started attempting my own megaprojects/stupid dwarf tricks instead of replicating others/following other people's suggestions.
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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #68 on: December 18, 2013, 11:38:04 pm »
Quote from: KingBacon on December 16, 2013, 11:22:18 pm
I developed the "doesn't care about anything anymore" trait.

This man knows what's up.
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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #69 on: December 19, 2013, 02:26:31 am »
when i had a military worth a damn...which was in the last few days...out of the two and a half years i've been playing dwarf fortress... :-\
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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #70 on: December 19, 2013, 05:43:41 pm »
Quote from: Somejob on December 16, 2013, 08:35:07 pm
I had the great unnewb epiphany when... oh yeah, right. I'm still a newb. Never mind.
This.
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Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« Reply #71 on: December 21, 2013, 08:33:13 am »
When I forgot to bring axe with me on embark and manage to creat a new one from the wood I get from wagon and some ore I found in the cave before the first migrant wave arrive. Really pround of myself for not abandon it instantly.
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