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Author Topic: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?  (Read 2333 times)

LMeire

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Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« on: October 22, 2014, 07:44:12 pm »

Apparently it has nothing to do with actual temperatures, so how do I go about fixing this?


The one problem magma can't fix.
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2014, 10:48:19 pm »

Meeting area looks a bit empty, maybe it needs some puppies and dwarven feet to warm it up

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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2014, 10:51:46 pm »

Do you have other, better, meeting areas? Or a dining hall meeting area?
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2014, 12:54:03 am »

I just started a "straight to cavern" embark, and by some twist of luck I managed to dig past all the caverns and hit the magma sea near some candy; so I decided to build on top of it. That's one of two meeting zones, the other one is on the glacial/mountain surface.
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2014, 01:00:51 am »

I just started a "straight to cavern" embark, and by some twist of luck I managed to dig past all the caverns and hit the magma sea near some candy; so I decided to build on top of it. That's one of two meeting zones, the other one is on the glacial/mountain surface.
It might just be far away from everyone, and so it is "cold" because everyone uses the other one? Try removing the first one to see.
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2014, 04:42:18 am »

I think meeting zones will not be used if they have a "cold" (or "hot") label and are "outside" - because temperatures are directly endangering in those cases. Underground places with those labels are (usually?) not dangerous - there seems to be some effect, but it's hard to trace; at least water will remain liquid in "cold" underground and creatures don't directly freeze/melt. The warning label just seems to be embark-wide.

That you see such a label at all means you're in a biome where the surface is dangerously cold. Trading can become fun.
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2014, 05:17:13 am »

I am pretty sure the solution is more magma.
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2014, 07:40:27 am »

I am pretty sure the solution is more magma.

Or cats, make a cat carpet.
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2014, 03:27:37 pm »

I am pretty sure the solution is more magma.

Or cats, make a cat carpet.

Then magma.
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2014, 06:39:06 pm »

I am pretty sure the solution is more magma.

Or cats, make a cat carpet.

Then magma.

And then a layer of dwarf babies.
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2014, 01:39:57 am »

Just don't miss the screenshot when it all catches fire..
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2014, 10:13:33 am »

How do you take screenshots like that? I've never gotten ones to work that well.
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2014, 10:16:26 am »

How do you take screenshots like that? I've never gotten ones to work that well.

[Print Screen], ctrl+P into Paint, save and then upload to TinyPic is how I do it. Is that what you meant?
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2014, 10:56:15 am »

How do you take screenshots like that? I've never gotten ones to work that well.
I always just pause the game and then use the snipping tool
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Re: Exactly what does it mean when a meeting area is "cold"?
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2014, 10:56:57 am »

How do you take screenshots like that? I've never gotten ones to work that well.

[Print Screen], ctrl+P into Paint, save and then upload to TinyPic is how I do it. Is that what you meant?

Thanks!
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