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[Pure_W]

I don't think it's possible to use power for anything but millstones and pumps.

[Boksi]

Then this might take a very long time though

[Cheeetar]

Also, my fall onto a staircase thing would have ramps instead of stairs, so you would walk instead of doing shift full stop. It would be awesome.

[jplur]

*bump*

So Boksi how is your turn going?  No rush or anything 

[Pure_W]

*bump*

So Boksi how is your turn going?  No rush or anything 

We have to wait till toady release DF v.1.2! :p

[Cheshire Cat]

so, ive finished fully exploring the two existing sites. ive never gone to so much trouble to get a single adamantium mace, whoever that was. tremendous fun exploring. that inaccessible fort i complained about earlier did have a stupidly obvious entrance i missed somehow, along with a deviously well hidden back door.

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 the end of my heroic adventurer occurded in an interesting way - pulling a lever, thinking "oh that did nothing" then walking forwards a few paces and having a set of adamantium floodgates (which i had spotted) close behind me, leaving the lever i pulled to activate them BEHIND me on the other side. i knew about the whole delay thing that happens with floodgates, but i never factored it into the turn based movement that happens in adventure mode. so aparently trapped i ended up drowning trying to explore water filled areas for a way out. note to everyone - don't kick down mysterious doors.

anyways, not to be on your case or anything Boski, but im dying to play the next fort that comes out. mucking around in someone elses built area was much more fun then i thought it was going to be, especially the "oh @%$#" moment when i realized i had irrevocably closed the way back, walling my companions off behind me.

something which i would find more fun would be more of a lived in feel. the two built areas present didnt have accessible living and communal spaces. Toady does try to make his world feel alive, so making places that feel lived in or functional in some way would be more interesting. even the pyramids have nearby ruins of the workers quarters.

the other thing is, don't be too clever. puzzles that involve throwing switches then marching across the map to see if something has happened are not fun, at least, not for me. If things are going to be ludicrously well hidden, then write a cryptic text file or something that can masquerade as an old peice of paper your adventurer starts with, and send it on with the save. if your doing tricky water puzzles it may be a good idea to do adequate drainage with floor grates and underground spaces absolutely everywhere it is possible for someone to accidentally flood.

last thing - that brook that dropped into a giant canyon was crazy awesome. it went nearly to the bottom of the map and changed to "muddy brook" in its description. i didn't know the game had natural features like that, though you can only see it in adventure mode if you jump off the edge.

[Duke 2.0]

 So no La-Mulana fortress?

 But yes, you will find my forts being small sites, which look like normal houses or towns, mines or farms. But if you travel downwards, you would find some small, not terribly difficult trap and a bit of loot.

 Perhaps I will make one place that looks like a normal fortress in it's first few years, with the exception of EVERY door having magma behind it. Don't tempt me. I'll do it.

[Micro102]

omg that floodgate thing is brilliant. extra points to the guy who built it. but should of put, if possible, an area filled with animal cages, releasing wolves, dragons, bronze collosus... and a way back

[Cheshire Cat]

there was a variety of levers that could have opened the floodgates, i didnt end up trying them all as they were far off and i didnt feel like walking back and forth. also i sortof flooded one of the corridoors leading to a bunch of them nearly to the top, and unless you are playing a frogman or something you start drowning as soon as you get a rock ceiling above you. also, the floodgate thing was awesome, but may not have been intentional. regardless it was pretty damned cool.

[varkarrus]

Ooh. If I had noticed this sooner, I would have given a tip to make your fortressess faster

Add [SPEED:1] to the Dwarf Creature.

[I3erent]

Can i join in this project?

[Micro102]

i dont think you want to....2 week projects are turning into 2 month ones. or is it 3?

[MC Dirty]

Well, of course you can, but don't expect to get the save in the next few days. Or weeks, for that matter.

[Duke 2.0]

Well, of course you can, but don't expect to get the save in the next few days. Or weeks, for that matter.

Or months.
 Or years, considering how long these things are taking.

[MC Dirty]

Boksi has some really awesome ideas, but he's taking extremely long.
I hate to do this, but if he doesn't post anything in this thread in the next three days, he gets skipped, okay?
Someone should write him a PM. I'm using the DS Browser which is pretty damn annoying.