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By the holy swelling of Armok's Prostate, this is unfair!

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No, really - my miner's head was ripped off before he even started digging!

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OHMIGERD WHY OH WHY OH WHY

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Your sanity has crumbled to its end

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I'm a masochist.  This is the perfect spot for a new mountainhome!

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Total Members Voted: 0

Voting closed: November 16, 2013, 07:34:02 pm

[WoobMonkey]

Template, for easy judging:


{fortress date}

Spoiler: state of the fortress (click to show/hide)

 Post screenshots of your status screen, stocks, etc here

Spoiler: architecture and design (click to show/hide)

Post screens and descriptions of your hall, any notable mechanical works, megastructures, etc here

Spoiler: military achievements (click to show/hide)

Post screens and descriptions of your military, particularly ingenious trap systems, war animals, kill count, etc here

Spoiler: danger and threats (click to show/hide)

Post screens of invaders lists, groups of undead, FBs, giant pools of miasma, etc here

Spoiler: miscellaneous (click to show/hide)

What it says on the tin.  What you find relevant that isn't covered above, goes here.

     Also, what do you think of the idea of a bonus/malus for naming dorfs after judges, and keeping them alive?  Just an idea.

[puutuulion]

I don't want to encourage ultra-conservative play; what if we dorf all the judges and say if you lose all of the judges, you must abandon?

We definitely need at least 3 judges, if that's the case.

[WoobMonkey]

It's up to you.  I wish to totally divorce myself from any and all fortress judgement - it just struck me as possibly a neat idea, that's all.

[puutuulion]

Let's get some other judges before throwing more rules in.

[Timeless Bob]

I'll take a go at this.

[WoobMonkey]

Welcome to joyous hell, Timeless Bob.  May your reanimated dwarfs enjoy the sunberries.

[4maskwolf]

I noticed that the file is already up on DFFD.  Aren't we waiting for more judges and rules finalizations, or should we just go ahead?

[WoobMonkey]

The file is already there, for the sake of everyone who is interested having access immediately.  Grimmath, for example, expressed a wish to see the save before commiting to a playthrough.

Personally, I'm ambivalent on this one.  It's not like it's a race or anything, on the one hand; on the other, without having hammered out the scoring system, you may be putting yourself at a disadvantage as far as fort design goes.  We should probably wait for a few more judges before posting anything, at least.

What say you, puutuulion?

Spoiler: request from participants (click to show/hide)

Though I've lurked for the past 6 months or so, I only signed up to these boards very recently.  As it's incredibly poor ettiquette to make requests in other threads, and I don't think spamming strangers' message boxes is on the list of things MIss Manners would recommend, I call upon those of you who know a few others to kinda... put the word out a bit, y'know?  If you can think of anyone who'd be likely to take an interest in judging this little competition, please wave your magic wands, and summon them to the thread!  Cheers.

[Timeless Bob]

Personally, I think that everyone should be a judge, Players and those others.  Like French ballet competitions, everyone would know that the judges were biased towards their beau, and that's OK, because all of their votes on the various scores even things out.  It's just part of the competition to invalidate or otherwise sway the other judges' opinions, so that in the end, it's the performance of the entire team, both on the stage and with politics in back room deals, that nets them a win.  !!FUN!! often happens to winners as well as losers, and everyone enjoys reading about the ensuing "scandals" for the next year until a new competition is scheduled.

I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty darn dwarfy to me.

[WoobMonkey]

Poll added, with veto power offered to puutuulion in case of a tie or contentious result.

[Jerky]

This looks stupidly hard. Count me in.

[WoobMonkey]

Counted.  May the first corpses to rise in your fort not be bearded.

[puutuulion]

I say game on.  Players can vote.  Everyone clear with the scoring?

[WoobMonkey]

4 out of 8 confirmed participants have voted, each for a differing option.  Democracy probably won't work among a bunch of anarchic drunk midgets, anyways.

puutuulion, as Chief Judgey Guy, your word is law (under punishment of cotton-candy hammering) - the evil has come!

STRIKE THE EARTH!  HURRY!

I will be updating now.  To be clear: everyone posts screenshots, writeups, savefiles, whatever by Sunday, November 24th for the first round of evaluation.

You will be judged on <smudged>, as well as your <redacted>, and your ability to <ketchup stain><page is burned away>.

Basically, just survive, and make the best damned fort you can under extremely challenging circumstances.  It's all just for !!FUN!!, anyways.

[4maskwolf]

Okay.  I won't post anything for a while, probably, I'm currently working on mirehole and soon will take over chamberdrums.