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Asehujiko

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #90 on: September 22, 2007, 05:58:00 am »
If you want a bioshock fortress you have to add the most important bioshock feature as well: securom shitware.

What i'm going to do: hine out the entire mountain, and then designate everything to be tossed in 1 1x1 shack. Quantum stockpile ftw.

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #91 on: September 22, 2007, 06:51:00 am »
It would also be awesome to mine out one of these huge caverns (someone come up with a catchy name - quick!) but centre it around one of the underground water/lava caverns so that the liquid sealed in it's penubra of rock, suspended in the air with small supports to the side, was like an egg yolk floating in the centre of an egg.
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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #92 on: September 22, 2007, 07:26:00 am »
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Originally posted by Asehujiko:
<STRONG>If you want a bioshock fortress you have to add the most important bioshock feature as well: securom s***ware.</STRONG>

Well at least it's not starforce.

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #93 on: September 22, 2007, 08:47:00 am »
Better entrance defenses!

Entrance (first floor):

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Entrance (2nd Floor)

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #94 on: September 22, 2007, 11:14:00 am »
I was thinking there is another option that might be worth exploring as well. I'll steal the design above and modify it a bit.

Entrance (first floor):

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Entrance (2nd Floor)

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Grek

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #95 on: September 22, 2007, 12:38:00 pm »
A vast stone toilet.

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 FORTRESS UNDER HERE 

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #96 on: September 22, 2007, 01:53:00 pm »
First I will:
Download, install, start, Adventurer suicides testing.
At some point i will:

make an isolation vault, like this:

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X = rock
~ = magma
# = chasming designation
  = Air
| = restricted access (door)

In the vault i will have maybe legendaries and nobles, some privileged few anyway. it shuld be compleatly invincible and corrupt and stuff and... and...

well, in the main fortress i designate everything needed in the vault to be chasmed and if they don't there is this lever in the vault that drown them all  :D , great fun if goblins overrun the fort and food suddenly stop coming without the nobles knowing why.   :D

...or if there is a famine and food deliveries halves and then the nobles pull the lever and everybody dies horribly and then they realize there is nobody left to send food an they starve and die horribly and desperately tries to mine out and burns horribly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :D   :D   :D

...

Eeerm, excuse the bad English, I got kinda exited, and exuse the giant ASKII-art and long post to...

TO BE CONTINUED... maybe...

Comments? Comments, comments, COMMENTS?????????

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #97 on: September 22, 2007, 09:41:00 pm »
Grek, mate, I don't have a clue what it is you've drawn!    :p

I think I might want to get an idea about volumes before I start any grand design. For example, I wonder what it would be like to dig a channel to the lava pool in the Fortress Location Selection and Sizing examples (1, 2, 3) on the Dev Next pages and see how far out the lava would stretch when let loose on the terrace in the north-west?

That way I might have an idea as to how much liquid there really is in a pool of that size (and other tests that I would run) and I'd have an idea of what would work and what wouldn't in my fortresses. Last thing I'd want is to plan and implement some big scheme only to find that the lava font I had created doesn't get anywhere near to that human town and falls very far short! How would I build up any credibility as an insane terrorist if my threats become disappointing and even hilarious to the local townsfolk??

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #98 on: September 23, 2007, 12:25:00 am »
Guys? i just had an idea. Dig a MASSIVE pit, think of a strip mine. Build a castle out of glass at the bottom of the pit. Flood with water!

To get into the entrance hall enemies must walk a line of drawbridges up to the front gate which is set into the mountain face. The entire path is set on the surface of the water. 4 Towers rise from the water to act as artillery platforms in addition to the gate defenses.

If the enemy somehow makes it to the front gate, there will be a waterfall of lava sealing the door  :)

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #99 on: September 23, 2007, 12:53:00 am »
Armok: That thing is a death trap!

Grek: That thing is hilarious! I hope you make it in-game and share it, especially if the water works. I assume you would leave some space to dump fertilizer in the bowl?  :p (It took me a few minutes of staring before I understood it, too.)

Since I just played my first glacier map, I think I'll try an ice fortress in the new version. My fortress shall hold the most valuable treasure, and also be the most unreachable.

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #100 on: September 23, 2007, 03:04:00 am »
First thing I'll do is see If I can mod in my sig.
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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #101 on: September 23, 2007, 04:39:00 am »
Now I know what I'll do first:

Make a fortress in the middle of nowhere, hoping there's stone in the soil.

Then make an outide castle! It will have battlements and everything. The nobles will sleep in towers on the outside, down in the it I get stone from.

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #102 on: September 23, 2007, 05:26:00 am »
My first fortress will start out with only skilled miners so that I can have fun learning the new cave-in stuff and have fun playing architect (I suppose I'll want them to be builders as well for rewalling).

1st floor

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2nd floor
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# = wall
< = upward stairs

In case the picture doesn't explain it well enough, I'm going to try and make a big cavernous room with a pretty high ceiling. The ceiling will be supported by 3x3 pillars, each of which will be hollow with stairs going up and possibly down through the middle. I'm flexible with the design, but I'm thinking that once the pillars reach the ceiling, they will go through a solid layer above which will be some barracks + training areas + weapon/armor storage. With four stairwells leading down, even a large number of troops could quickly fill the hall below in preparation for a siege.

I have another idea; perhaps I'll upload images of it if it turns out successful.

"It will have one long staircase just going up and one even longer going down--and one more leading nowhere just for show..."
Hehe, couldn't resist.

Edit(two days later):...................Why do topics always die when I post? It's seriously messing with my self confidence... XD

.... but seriously, why?

[ September 25, 2007: Message edited by: Sylverone ]

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #103 on: September 25, 2007, 01:02:00 am »
Don't worry, Its not dead yet.

First I'm going to make a test fortress and do things like build a tower to the top of the sky and dig down to the bottom of the earth.

Then I'll build a giant sand castle on the the beach.  :)

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Re: What is the first thing you're going to do with the new
« Reply #104 on: September 25, 2007, 01:04:00 am »
Another thing I was considering was recreating another great dwarven city of the fantasy world.

No, not moria.Ironforge!

It'd be pretty challenging as IF's setup doesn't lend itself well to defense.

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