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[Cruxador]

"DF multi-player" takes 2 basic forms. The community fortress, where a group of people make suggestions or discuss what to do, but only one person is actually at the controls. And the succession fortress, where people take turns being at the controls.

And then there is DFTerm. Few years ago we in Russian DF community had a lot of fun with it, though it has few problems and needs to be tweaked to work with latest version.

DFTerm (and similar things like webfort) essentially just provide a convenient way to do what are essentially succession forts without having to pass a save around.

There's a big difference between playing for fifteen minutes or less while other players watch and chat, and playing for a year each with no real communication beyond AAR type posts.

[Diamond]

"DF multi-player" takes 2 basic forms. The community fortress, where a group of people make suggestions or discuss what to do, but only one person is actually at the controls. And the succession fortress, where people take turns being at the controls.

And then there is DFTerm. Few years ago we in Russian DF community had a lot of fun with it, though it has few problems and needs to be tweaked to work with latest version.

DFTerm (and similar things like webfort) essentially just provide a convenient way to do what are essentially succession forts without having to pass a save around.

There's a big difference between playing for fifteen minutes or less while other players watch and chat, and playing for a year each with no real communication beyond AAR type posts.

True. I also remember a (more recent) fort running around 20 real-time days with all pauses removed, with people connecting and doing stuff whenever they want, and contingency plan in form of a walled-in vampire and autobackups. It was quite an experience.
The only two problems were occasional griefing and backspace button not working.

[Zarathustra30]

"DF multi-player" takes 2 basic forms. The community fortress, where a group of people make suggestions or discuss what to do, but only one person is actually at the controls. And the succession fortress, where people take turns being at the controls.

And then there is DFTerm. Few years ago we in Russian DF community had a lot of fun with it, though it has few problems and needs to be tweaked to work with latest version.

DFTerm (and similar things like webfort) essentially just provide a convenient way to do what are essentially succession forts without having to pass a save around.

There's a big difference between playing for fifteen minutes or less while other players watch and chat, and playing for a year each with no real communication beyond AAR type posts.

True. I also remember a (more recent) fort running around 20 real-time days with all pauses removed, with people connecting and doing stuff whenever they want, and contingency plan in form of a walled-in vampire and autobackups. It was quite an experience.
The only two problems were occasional griefing and backspace button not working.

Was it pretty much "Twitch Plays Dwarf Fortress" or was it super-fancy with everyone having their own cursor?

[Mesa]

I'm Polish as well though I don't really play DF that much anymore, if that counts. :V
(I sure was hyped for DF2014 and played a lot of it when it first released though)

One of my irl friends is on the forums as well somewhere I think.