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[ZM5]

Roughly 98% of my actual playing is testing mods, so I rarely get time for proper RP.

God, tell me about it. I haven't properly played DF in a few weeks by now, I'm mostly just either writing down ideas for my good/evil biome revamp mod or bugfixing and some minor balancing for my other mods.

[RurikGreenwulf]

As many have said, I prefer to embark with an objective in mind, are my dwarf refugees looking for a new life in the wilderness? for the next update I plan to start small and end up with a brutal empire

[RurikGreenwulf]

I have been playing since 2008, and one of my long term dreams is having a evil dwarven emperor make war against all the realms of the world
then losing horribly and being forced to start a small settlement far in the poles

[StagnantSoul]

What is this "roleplay"? Do you mean not everyone is building a temple fortress around the All Mother and her molten flesh, training sacrifices to legendary for the yearly offering?

Really about 50% of my gameplay is roleplaying it.

[Urist McVoyager]

I don't generally RP it. Somehow I think what I'm going to say isn't RP anymore, but I'm actually going to let my dwarves vote on what I do in my next fortress by sorting through and counting how many have each kind of psychology. Like, am I overrun by potential soldiers or is everything going to be peaceful? Is vengeance a thing my people feel strongly? Am I going to have to track down and kill goblins if the fuckers come calling?

All in all it should be a blast.

[Chief10]

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I enable [ambusher] on goblins (which appears to be working again after a long period of brokenness)
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I just wanted to hear what your experience has been with this? Have you successfully seen ambushes and sieges and then ambushes again with no bugs?

I reenabled this tag a while ago (probably 42.x) and was able to get ambushes, but it made sieges bug out. The first siege I got was an infinite series of ambushes ("An ambush! Curse them!" x 99999) which didn't respect pop caps. I kept discovering more and more "ambushes" until my fortress suffered fps death from having ~600 enemies on the map.

[Shonai_Dweller]

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I enable [ambusher] on goblins (which appears to be working again after a long period of brokenness)
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I just wanted to hear what your experience has been with this? Have you successfully seen ambushes and sieges and then ambushes again with no bugs?

I reenabled this tag a while ago (probably 42.x) and was able to get ambushes, but it made sieges bug out. The first siege I got was an infinite series of ambushes ("An ambush! Curse them!" x 99999) which didn't respect pop caps. I kept discovering more and more "ambushes" until my fortress suffered fps death from having ~600 enemies on the map.

The massive ambushes persist, but they do seem to keep under the enemy and beast caps right now.

[TheEqualsE]

A lot.  I start out with something in mind when I start a fort, maybe trade oriented or a fighting fort.  They find their own way from their usually.  I get really attached to some dwarves.  Maybe some I don't like.  I make up little stories to explain the weird things I see.  I really get to know some of them, look up their stories in history, their families, their friends.  There's a goblin that lives in my fort who is always unahppy, and her closest friend in the whole fort is a giant cave spider that she trains sometimes.  She goes and yells at the mayor, and he likes it, because it makes him feel useful.

When a goblin siege comes I feel like I'm one of the nobles giving the orders, only to have them often disobeyed.  When the diplomat starts chatting I put myself in the place of the dwarf leader, think about how they must feel about things.  When the elf diplomat is cracking short jokes, my mayor is thinking, "You're so lucky we put up with you."

[Baffler]

A lot.  I start out with something in mind when I start a fort, maybe trade oriented or a fighting fort.  They find their own way from their usually.  I get really attached to some dwarves.  Maybe some I don't like.  I make up little stories to explain the weird things I see.  I really get to know some of them, look up their stories in history, their families, their friends.  There's a goblin that lives in my fort who is always unahppy, and her closest friend in the whole fort is a giant cave spider that she trains sometimes.  She goes and yells at the mayor, and he likes it, because it makes him feel useful.

When a goblin siege comes I feel like I'm one of the nobles giving the orders, only to have them often disobeyed.  When the diplomat starts chatting I put myself in the place of the dwarf leader, think about how they must feel about things.  When the elf diplomat is cracking short jokes, my mayor is thinking, "You're so lucky we put up with you."

I do pretty much the same thing, although I don't really tend to focus too much on any particular dwarf. I check their z-screens often enough that eventually I start to remember some of them, but not much more than that. Coming up with little stories to explain things, or just imagining the scene in whatever area of the fortress is more typical. I especially like to try to think of how the music they play sounds.

I also set out with a goal in mind for the fortress, like "dig in on the border and tank goblin sieges for the mountainhomes since they'll just endlessly go after the closest settlement" or "go here and exploit this sand to make fine glass works for the glory of our civilization," then look at the leadership of the fortress' personality and values and try to think about how they would run things and what them handling various things would look like on a personal level, then try to run the fortress accordingly. The point is to prevent myself from solving the same problem the same way every time and innovate, while also giving me some idea of what to do to get started - something that sometimes stymies me even after years of playing.

[ChangelingVenom]

Right now I'm running a necromancer Fortress. Finally converted the Queen to necromancy, but then an angry miner threw a tantrum and struck her so hard she died. Now I have a random normal dwarf as a Monarch and they won't read the many copies of the Necromancy classic "Immortality and the Universe".
My current goal is to gather a horde of undead in a large corral, then unleash them upon the world to destroy all my enemies. It's sad that the undead hate all life, including dwarves, so my plan is slow.
I hope to reanimate a flying forgotten beast and truly bring terror to the surface as I seal myself away forever.

I love RP in DF. The best game to RP in my opinion.

[weiserthanyou]

I'm currently RPing as a genocidal tyrant who is actively attempting to subjugate all dwarves in order to rule the world (the plan becomes less generic when the booming coffin industry comes into play a few battles from now). The only problem is that I spend about 2/3 of my time running DF while doing other things because the race traitorsdwarves take forever to stop moping over the elven bodies scattered around the trading depot and actually gather the wood needed to finish...anything.