Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Snugglebear]

My best recollection is that we have at least 130 dead; there were around 70 on my turn and I lost another 60 or so.

But I haven't counted, no.

[GeneralValter]

It's interesting, really. We've successfully racked up a nearly Boatmurdered-level of bodies, but the spire is still totally under control. While it seems some of those early sieges came a bit close for comfort, we haven't tantrum-spiraled or demon-exploded yet. I'm quite impressed. Especially considering that we've kept the spire going for 13 years now.

[Akroma]

well, magma replenishes, so the next goal should be obvious:

Wall of the whole map, only leaving a nice street for the caravans. Then build some pumps and some sort of power-production and slowly flood the whole map.

Just imagine it.

A gigantic sea of magma as far as the eye goes, only a small raw path of stone to support your wagon, as you aim towards a black spot at the horizon: A bottomless pit, housing the mountainhomes, your ultimate trading goal.
Behind you is an ambush group. In front of you is an ambush group. But god damn it, you WILL get those rock mugs.

[nahkh]

The fortress does seem strangely stable considering what it's been through. Is it the lack of nobles? Stupendous leadership? Or simply a calm before the storm?
Speaking of calms, who's hogging the save? (I am aware of the extreme irony of me whining about someone taking their time with the turn.)

But hey, they told us this was a crazy idea. They mocked us, called us mad. BUT WE SHOWED THEM! THEY'RE THE MAD ONES! BWAAHAHAHAHA *thunder*

[Donkringel]

That'd be me. Sorry, got sick on sunday, one of those fun viruses that leaves you hallucinating that yout fighting the communists in vietnamese jungles, and you and your men are screwed because they have dinosaurs, while you only have iron spheres which need to be calibrated specifically so that...

Yea the hallucinations were weird

At any rate, a few things to report.

-I've made to to summer. This is after about 5 hours of real gameplay or somesuch?
-I used my normal .38c folder, forgot to turn on temperature. The spirit of fire has NOT drowned, and while the coal fire has gone out, the gameplay is is at 8 fps (this is with the temperature off two as well. I think it may be the pits themselves we have to contend with). Needless to say, I need to sink more time into the game
-Species integration was not a goal our great leader should have endorsed.

^_^

[Akroma]

why not simply cave the pits in completely ?

that should take care of all demons

[nahkh]

A dastardly plan. I like.
Make it so, number one!

[Akroma]

I wonder, what happens to the glowing pit tiles ?

if they stay, we just HAVE to use them for something awesome

[GeneralValter]

Problem with cave-ins: In the previous game where that worked (Roariron, the demon-hammer), the only demons being squished were frog demons. What we're talking about is a full-fledged spirit of fire infestation, here. There's probably been demons migrating to all the random tragedy that happened here that there's 20 or 30 spirits by now.

I'm exaggerating, of course, but the point is that our particular problem flies. Trying to dig out a cave-in device would result in at least some period of time in which we are exposed to the spirits.

A few other things:

1. I don't see why we need to worry about the demons anyway, unless they're the assholes taking up all our processor speed.

2. Try getting rid of all the animals. I worked on that at the end of my year, but I think the animal depopulation wasn't nearly serious enough. If the overseers in the years between mine and now haven't dismantled it, there's an entire animal slaughter/refuse processing rig set up somewhere by the chasm. Also, by the time I finished there were 10 or 12 dwarves with butchery or tanning enabled.

[nahkh]

I think that they ARE the bastards hogging all the CPU time. When I accidentally opened the chamber the first time around my FPS dropped from 40 to less than ten (although it could have been the burning charcoal). And it won't necessarily leave the fortress exposed:

code:

##################
#                #
# ############## #
#      I         O
##################
#FIREANDBRIMSTONE#

where I is a support and O is a built wall

[Mlittle]

I get around 60 fps from the save at the end of my turn, 13-14 fps from the end of GeneralValter's turn and 12 fps from the end of Fleacircus's turn. The changes from my save to GeneralValters's were the pits, 26 new dwarfs and 62 less animals. It must be the pits and the spirits that are hogging the CPU.

The death count is 187 dead dwarfs, according to the 'u' menu. There is some oddity as three adults and three children are listed separately from the rest. Given our food supply, are we making it into a dooms day shelter for the dwarf nobles, or something?

[Kagus]

The demons are the ones taking up your processing, trust me.  I was crawling along with Roariron until after the Demonhammer fell, whereupon the FPS went rocketing skyward.

Well, as "skyward" as this machine can get, anyways.  It was a welcome relief from what it had been.

Thanks to the ability for cave-ins to punch through multiple floors/ceilings, you should be able to take them out without too much exposure.  Built floors can work quite well, but they're not as powerful and can't plug up stuff.

However, it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to take them all out in one swing.  You'll be left with a few angry, dangerous, flying spirits of fire.  Make sure you're ready for them.

[Akroma]

if we manage to at least take out the one who is keeping the water from entering the pits along with the main structure of the pits, we should be able to take the flying ones out simply by filling the whole chamber that follows the cave-in with water. They would have drowned already, but the narrow path the water is taking keeps it from accumulating enough mass to drown them before it turns into steam.

[Kagus]

Ehmmm...  Hate to break it to ya, but spirits of fire don't breathe..

[Akroma]

well, at least trapping them in a flooded chamber after crushing most of them is somewhat humilating ?