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[FireCrazy]

Make me a noble too, please .

[mahrgell]

so a 9x9 embark on 4 rivers? Perfect conditions for any megaproject

[neblime]

If you guys find some way how to add RPG intrigue into the DF mechanics - it would be awesome.

well I was thinking we wouldn't much in game mechanism for our actions/decisions - only the results, like custom professions, ownership of grander houses/furniture/military equipment.
Instead have a council of noble families that can vote on political appointments (i.e. the normal DF nobles) and other things perhaps;
what shall we do with the new gold vein?
Does Urist mcBeastslayer need to have an "accident" before he gets too popular with the peasants?
who gets to sleep in the artifact bed?
should we expand the council to eight families?
EDIT - also maybe institute laws?  "Any dwarf found to be keeping more than two socks in his possesion shall be sentenced to fall 7 dwarf units onto a raised ☼Steel Spear☼!"
and so on...
EDIT#2 - inkydance is a perfect name for a politician/noble
that way players can join in without it being a succesion game and future dorfed players can aspire for a seat on the council so they can influence the game more (or to otherwise usurp its influence!)
let me know what you think of that idea
P.S. A building for the council would be cool ^_^

[neblime]

The Diary of Neblime Inkydance, whose career prospects are uncertain, 1st Granite, 126
We arrived at "Eribnebl" at last.  Quite a quaint name, I'll have to ask someone what that means in proper dwarvish.
I got to know that Amostod fellow on our journey (the self proclaimed leader of this expedition), he seems nice enough,
but despite what I was told about how this place would be different to any other, we would no longer live like rats in a
hole and each and every peasant artisan and noble would be kept in their proper place and housed as such, he informed me
he intends to form a traditional dwarven government with one single nobleman sending down production orders from on high
to break the peasants' backs by hammer or hauling.  He seemed to disdain verbally discussing such "intellectual and pointless"
matters with me so I have written a petition detailing an alternative form of government for his assesment, I await his
remarks on it, in the meantime I shall attempt to have that Kerod fellow sign as well.

[cyberTripping]

Great looking embark. It'll be fun seeing how this plays out.

Could I be dorf'd?

[TeleDwarf]

Make me a noble too, please .

We are out of male nobles, so you will be a female noble from the starting 7. I'll post the screenshot of her personality later today.

so a 9x9 embark on 4 rivers? Perfect conditions for any megaproject

yep. for this project we need a lot of space, and I love rivers and waterfalls. Let's see if we will make it a 1-2 FPS madness.

well I was thinking we wouldn't much in game mechanism for our actions/decisions - only the results, like custom professions, ownership of grander houses/furniture/military equipment.
Instead have a council of noble families that can vote on political appointments (i.e. the normal DF nobles) and other things perhaps;
what shall we do with the new gold vein?
who gets to sleep in the artifact bed?
should we expand the council to eight families?
EDIT - also maybe institute laws? 
that way players can join in without it being a succesion game and future dorfed players can aspire for a seat on the council so they can influence the game more (or to otherwise usurp its influence!)
let me know what you think of that idea
P.S. A building for the council would be cool ^_^

This sounds fun. Within that framework we could even have a full-featured succession game, given we get enough active dorfs who share our fervor and able to run 11x11 embark with 3 rivers.

Does Urist mcBeastslayer need to have an "accident" before he gets too popular with the peasants?
"Any dwarf found to be keeping more than two socks in his possesion shall be sentenced to fall 7 dwarf units onto a raised ☼Steel Spear☼!"

Maybe we need censors in our senate to protect our dorf from such regulations? right now any beastslayer would probably be more important then all other dwarves, because the first ambush would probably end our utopian dream. Also as far as I know df mechanics the "2 socks law" would quickly outlaw whole population.

Could I be dorf'd?

Sure, male migrant or noble female?

[FireCrazy]

Make me a noble too, please .

We are out of male nobles, so you will be a female noble from the starting 7. I'll post the screenshot of her personality later today.

Fair enough I guess.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Dwarf me as the weakest of your military (i.e. the one you deem "most likely to die painfully and slowly to stray ducks, ducts or kobolds").

So, will I be dorfed or not?

[TeleDwarf]

Dwarf me as the weakest of your military (i.e. the one you deem "most likely to die painfully and slowly to stray ducks, ducts or kobolds").

So, will I be dorfed or not?

Sure you will be, but since you requested a military role and I do not have any militia yet your dorf is still undefined... Maybe you would like some useless migrant now and some useless warrior later? chances are they all will die painfully enough.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Yeah, I just wanted to make sure you didn't read over the post. Anyway, I'm happy waiting. The amusement of seeing this place crumble will be great.

Anyway, if you need some advice, I think I know a pretty safe way to defend your fortress: dig out a small minecart track that overlaps your fortress entrance. Put as many rollers as you can afford on the track. Add enough lead minecarts to fill the track almost completely. Add two  floodgates, to shut off the stream of minecarts in times of peace. Then you connect the rollers to a water generator. To keep your dwarves from getting hit, designate a shortcut through the point where minecart track and path meet; when attacked, tell the dwarves not to use the shortcut.

[TeleDwarf]

I think I know a pretty safe way to defend your fortress: dig out a small minecart track that overlaps your fortress entrance. Put as many rollers as you can afford on the track. Add enough lead minecarts to fill the track almost completely. Add two  floodgates, to shut off the stream of minecarts in times of peace. Then you connect the rollers to a water generator. To keep your dwarves from getting hit, designate a shortcut through the point where minecart track and path meet; when attacked, tell the dwarves not to use the shortcut.

Three major problems with this plan:
1. it is does not quite fit the theme. While I am not against use of minecarts for transportation, it sounds a bit cheaty for me to use short loop as a weapon trap.
2. it is a fairly large project for the limited resources I have so far. 7 unskilled nobles with a few migrants will fail miserably trying to build this in any kind of timely manner. Add to it an aquifiers I have not breached nor even found and the lack of anvil to make any lead stuff.
3. it assumes a single-entry fortress, while I am building a city/castle with a lot of ins and outs.

all in all - if I had enough workforce and access to metals - I would be better off equipping few squads with metal armor.

[kero42]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_John (looks like a mug),

Well, I've been there more times than I can count, but I literally never noticed that it looks like a mug. That's embarrassing.

To be fair, I probably only think it looks like a mug because the Wikipedia article said it did, along with that pictures angle. Like how an animal always sounds like it's saying what the titles say it is saying, on those horrible "cat says 'I love you'!!" videos, simply because the titles have already told you it was supposed to be saying that.

Also: "The mug shape has given rise to false accounts of the tower's origins supposedly relating to a beer-loving miller who was killed after being hit by a pole during a bonfire." sounds vaguely dwarfy to me.

[neblime]

well I was thinking we wouldn't much in game mechanism for our actions/decisions - only the results, like custom professions, ownership of grander houses/furniture/military equipment.
Instead have a council of noble families that can vote on political appointments (i.e. the normal DF nobles) and other things perhaps;
what shall we do with the new gold vein?
who gets to sleep in the artifact bed?
should we expand the council to eight families?
EDIT - also maybe institute laws? 
that way players can join in without it being a succesion game and future dorfed players can aspire for a seat on the council so they can influence the game more (or to otherwise usurp its influence!)
let me know what you think of that idea
P.S. A building for the council would be cool ^_^

This sounds fun. Within that framework we could even have a full-featured succession game, given we get enough active dorfs who share our fervor and able to run 11x11 embark with 3 rivers.

Does Urist mcBeastslayer need to have an "accident" before he gets too popular with the peasants?
"Any dwarf found to be keeping more than two socks in his possesion shall be sentenced to fall 7 dwarf units onto a raised ☼Steel Spear☼!"

Maybe we need censors in our senate to protect our dorf from such regulations? right now any beastslayer would probably be more important then all other dwarves, because the first ambush would probably end our utopian dream. Also as far as I know df mechanics the "2 socks law" would quickly outlaw whole population.

well, we can tone it down a bit for sure, but I take it you approve of the general idea? (do I have permission to RP that teledwarf said yes and setup the council?)

[cyberTripping]

Could I be dorf'd?

Sure, male migrant or noble female?

Migrant, preferrably a useful one.

Having FPS fun yet?

[TeleDwarf]

well, we can tone it down a bit for sure, but I take it you approve of the general idea? (do I have permission to RP that teledwarf said yes and setup the council?)

Yes, absolutely.

Having FPS fun yet?

Not really. I usually play at ~20 fps (this way I can actually see dwarves walking somewhere, not just darting around). But if you have some suggestions about FPS optimization - it will most assuredly come handy. things like traffic designations and such.

Now back to the progress.
The first caravan came and we managed to trade some wooden torture devices for an anvil, 2 bins of cheap leather and 4 metal cages with mundane animals. This allows us to have our first militia - xbow armed dwarves.

After the first year a spring has finally came.
we have basement and a main hall finished, but no roof yet:
Cellar:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is basement. in the corner you see a bookkeeper's office and rest of the space will be used for storage of various valuables, including food, booze, weapons, tools , etc...

Main hall:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1 - a kitchen. Fires of the stove and still will warm dwarves who come to the hall to rest.
2 - a lumbermill. here wood is shivered to make it usable for construction.
3 - Derpislava agreed to use her mechanical skills to create some wooden crossbows, quivers, backpacks, waterskins. She also teaches few migrants to fletch an arrow and a bolt.
4 - poultry pens and nest boxes are lined against the wall. animals feel safer this way.
5 - butchery.
6 - a training yard.
7 - an archery range.
8 - barrels with harvested plants are lined up against the wall.
9 - a small mushroom cave to remind us of home.

So now we are at a choice. what should we do once we finish roofing the longhall?
a - build a 2-nd story with restrooms, and move to turn longhall into a tavern?
b - build additional facilities around to house industries (barn, slaughterhouse, fisherman's hut, farm...), and move to turn this little trading post into a bustling village.
c - dig for stone, possibly freezing out any aquifier. Stone and metals will greatly increase our chances of survival.
d - build a wooden fort by the river, building our dream with what we already have (wood, bone)
e - your variant.

I guess it is suitable choice for a council of nobles, the larvae of our future senate.

Edit: I have added actors(named dwarves) to the OP. I will only post important updates in OP, and less important stuff will go to the thread instead. otherwise I risk running out of space in the OP.