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zchris13

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Re: Best Fortress Random Name
« Reply #120 on: April 27, 2009, 08:37:00 pm »
Quote from: ousire on April 27, 2009, 08:32:33 pm
Quote from: zchris13 on April 27, 2009, 08:30:09 pm
"d" "p" shall be your friend.
not really any other choice. its possible to get seeds from plants though, so thats an option
seeds from plants.  I got sun berry seeds.  SUNSHINE!
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Re: Best Fortress Random Name
« Reply #121 on: April 27, 2009, 08:48:48 pm »
Quote from: ousire on April 27, 2009, 08:32:33 pm
not really any other choice. its possible to get seeds from plants though, so thats an option

The other choice is hope for a caravan full of seeds and/or vegies.

And if you don't want to starve while waiting for those seeds to grow into something, <f>orbid all other food as soon as you have something gathered up that's edible (or brew it), so you have the seeds to plant. 

If you wait for those to be randomly eaten, you'll probably lose a season.
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« Reply #122 on: April 27, 2009, 09:43:22 pm »
Papercastle the Armored Fortification of Despair
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« Reply #123 on: April 28, 2009, 12:57:23 am »
That bodes well...
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« Reply #124 on: April 28, 2009, 01:08:46 am »
Quote from: Aethios on April 27, 2009, 09:43:22 pm
Papercastle the Armored Fortification of Despair

oh, i quake in fear  ::)
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« Reply #125 on: April 28, 2009, 02:48:24 am »
I generally hit r until I end up with a name that I like. I once got one called Ballsweltered or something of the like, oddly on a cold map. The fortress I'm currently playing is called Frostdrummed. I like it a lot.
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Re: Best Fortress Random Name
« Reply #126 on: April 28, 2009, 05:08:03 am »
My latest fort-name translated to "Workcavern".

Yeah...
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« Reply #127 on: April 28, 2009, 05:36:24 am »
Just started a new fortress. The random name?

CakeCakes.

Awesome.
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« Reply #128 on: April 28, 2009, 11:45:02 am »
Quote from: zchris13 on April 27, 2009, 08:37:00 pm
Quote from: ousire on April 27, 2009, 08:32:33 pm
Quote from: zchris13 on April 27, 2009, 08:30:09 pm
"d" "p" shall be your friend.
not really any other choice. its possible to get seeds from plants though, so thats an option
seeds from plants.  I got sun berry seeds.  SUNSHINE!

I still say drinking Sunshine should prevent cave adaptation...
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Re: Best Fortress Random Name
« Reply #129 on: April 28, 2009, 12:42:21 pm »
Bridgefights, which is awesome because it had two bridges that broke about 3 times each, once to a dragon (both), once to a cave-in and the rest to dwarves.
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Re: Best Fortress Random Name
« Reply #130 on: April 28, 2009, 03:03:58 pm »
My old one: "Problemhammer".  I decided to make all my military use hammers, and the problem turned out to be a carp filled river, a tendancy for all other water sources to run dry, and a constant stream of injured dwarves (almost none of the injuries were actually caused by enemies, apart from one from a ninja kobold who killed one and left another with a mangled head).  At least seeing the river run with blood was pretty.
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« Reply #131 on: April 29, 2009, 05:34:45 pm »
I compiled a small list of names I got. For a time I was keeping track of my forts, how they ended, etc.

Anyway, here it goes: (From 1st ever fort)
1-Thadrigoth "CrowdedCraft"
2-Gatalnokzam Anam "The Ageless Battle of Aging"
3-Mistemigam "Portal Gorged"
4-Mamgozedem "DragonKey"
5-Lameslogem "RoundPaint"

And how they ended:
1-Total n00b I was, things got bad really quickly, and my "crowded fort" (really tiny and really poorly planned, everything was cluttered in tiny spaces) had a dwarf get cabin fever, go psycho and kill half of the fort before I gave up. (it was only the starting 7, and he butchered himself good too)
2-1 word: Dehydration (I was still learning and didn't know about drinking zones), they don't know they're dead.
3-Madness (more psychotic dwarves) and frustration (me) drove me to carve a portal into a river, engorging it with unlimited water.
4-Gobs, tantrum-spiral, self-destructive dwarves, then dehydration, migrants never wanted to hear of the place ever again, demonized like a dragon by the country.
5-Painted with the blood of dwarves. Countless seiges.

I noticed something, my random names yield a cruel fate for all my dwarves.

Hell, my most recent fort, Ukererush "Wavehandle", had a bunch of tragedy involving waves upon waves of carp. in a pond filled with 5 of them at minimum, 3 of those carp were named, and maybe 2 more in the river were named as well. I think I lost a good 25 dwarves to carp there. Even constructing my sewer system to avoid that danger was a challenge, but damn worth it.

As well, I fear the worst for Rakustteshkad "Tombsprice" in Dwarf Heaven. Carping GCSs and fire-imps...  >:(

EDIT:
And all of those endings happened without my awareness of what they were really called previously. I started tracking my forts after maybe my third fort. You can imagine my reaction when I first discovered the names and lined up how they ended.
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« Reply #132 on: April 30, 2009, 04:11:45 pm »
Just randomly generating some names and then I got something I paused and looked then realised what it had given me.

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« Reply #133 on: April 30, 2009, 04:27:35 pm »
Quote from: Swiftfreddy on April 30, 2009, 04:11:45 pm
Just randomly generating some names and then I got something I paused and looked then realised what it had given me.

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« Reply #134 on: April 30, 2009, 05:13:04 pm »
My latest fortress got called Workedcrazy. This can portend only good things!
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