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GameHat

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I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« on: July 27, 2007, 09:54:00 am »
...build ponds by digging channels and having dwarves fill it with a bucket.

Seriously, was just browsing DF wiki a few days ago and saw a link to "ponds" and went "Whaaaaaaa....?"

Anyone else completely unaware of a game feature after playing a significant amount of time?

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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2007, 10:56:00 am »
Not played alot, but thats the first time i hear of it.

[ July 27, 2007: Message edited by: TheSpaceMan ]

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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2007, 12:35:00 pm »
I played for months before I realized that you could hold down the shift key to scroll quicker whilst designating.
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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2007, 01:27:00 pm »
Not just when designating, d'ailleurs.

[ July 27, 2007: Message edited by: Narushima ]

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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2007, 01:56:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by ktrey:
<STRONG>I played for months before I realized that you could hold down the shift key to scroll quicker whilst designating.</STRONG>

D'oh.  I didn't know about that one.

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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2007, 01:59:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by ktrey:
<STRONG>I played for months before I realized that you could hold down the shift key to scroll quicker whilst designating.</STRONG>

Took a few months before i found that out too.

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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2007, 03:44:00 pm »
took me a while to realize you could get more detail on engravings by examining them in adventure mode.  and that coins in adventure mode have interesting things on them.
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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2007, 06:39:00 pm »
I guess I started playing not long after the current version was released. Just found out two weeks ago that / and * could be used to page through certain menus.
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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2007, 09:35:00 pm »
Well almost all of this is new to me.  Keep em coming, I want to learn new tricks!
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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2007, 03:44:00 am »
quote:
Originally posted by ktrey:
<STRONG>I played for months before I realized that you could hold down the shift key to scroll quicker whilst designating.</STRONG>

You can WHAT?   :roll:

*sighs* thanks for the enlightment
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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2007, 04:07:00 am »
Hey, I just recently discovered that you could use the mouse to create mining designations like if it where a basic paint program. I quickly used this fact in combination with my drawing tablet to "draw" mining patterns more complex than the typical geometric ones:

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Re: I played this game for dozens of hours and I had no idea
« Reply #11 on: July 28, 2007, 12:27:00 pm »
pressing l during the game gives you a list of the nifty things your dwarves have constructed.  i can't believe i only just discovered this today (by accident, i was aiming for k to look at a stockpile   :eek: )
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