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[Little]

A decent and easy, simple way to equip stuff in Adventure mode.

[Drakale]

quote: A decent and easy, simple way to equip stuff in Adventure mode.

This is way too rational to belong in here  

[Mikademus]

quote:Originally posted by Little:
<STRONG>A decent and easy, simple way to equip stuff in Adventure mode.</STRONG>

I think this is subtle yet scathing critique of Toady O.o

[Sean Mirrsen]

I think my most over-the-top-yet-feasible suggestion was custom vehicles in adventure and fort mode.

quote:Rai's R-2 Powered fires the Beam Chakram launcher!
The flying !!!Beam Chakram!!! strikes Sanger Zonvolt's Grungust Type O in the left arm!
It is wrecked!
The left Boost Knuckle is severed and falls off!
Sanger Zonvolt's Grungust Type O fires the right Boost Knuckle!
The flying Boost Knuckle strikes Rai's R-2 Powered in the torso!
It is crushed!
The power unit is crushed!
The control system is crushed!
Rai's R-2 Powered has been destroyed.

At least, that's the most over-the-top suggestion yet. I haven't finalized my thoughts yet on the complete body structure/combat system/item properties overhaul suggestion I was writing down here and there...

[Jreengus]

Hydrogen really is quite abundant so surely we should be focusing on fusion as an energy source, deuterium and tritium should be easy for our dwarves to obtain and im sure they could build a tokamak for the reaction to take place in, infinite energy generators could be linked up to generators to create the electricity needed for the lasers and electro magnets although im not sure where they would obtain the beryllium required for the generator walls (As im sure we all know that carbon is unuseable due to the formation of hydrocarbon films which flake of and reduce the performance) since the tokamak would be difficult to build wed probably need to build the Interspecies Tokamak Experimental Researcher. We would need new weapons to defend this joint effort from goblins, might I suggest 210Polonium arrows, the arrows as im sure you all know would decay emmiting helium nuclei (otherwise known as α particles) in order to create a more stable proton/neutron ratio within the nucleus. the advantage to these arrows is that the α particles can of course cause cancer. Whilst fission could be possible the main problem as i see it is maintaining control over the reaction taking place within the generator, we would need the right mix of 235uranium and 238uranium as well as the graphite moderator rods, to top that we would need an experienced dwarf controlling the boron coated steel rods which are used to control the rate of the reaction taking place.

Anyway much as i would love to continue regurgatating my chenistry open book paper im too tires to be bothered Thatguy away...

[The-Moon]

quote:Originally posted by Draco18s:
<STRONG>No.</STRONG>

 

quote:WHEN REPLYING TO A SUGGESTION

   * Try to make a contribution. If you like a suggestion, say why you like it and try to refine it if possible. If you don't like a suggestion, say why and be civil about it.

If you cant follow the rules toady has set in place, then don't post Draco.

Mikademus: We would be better off with steam power, then nuclear  

[ April 25, 2008: Message edited by: The-Moon ]

[umiman]

The ability to suck the souls from your enemies and use them to power a superweapon that calls forth orbital lasers that were left there by an ancient, technologically advanced civilization as a defense mechanism against the end of the world that ironically ended their world and as such bring forth the end of your world in a bizzare spectacle of glorious divine rays of immaculate destruction scorching the lands and searing the seas bringing all dwarvenkind to its knees in but moments and forcing them to build giant underground vaults scattered across the lands where they keep their brightest and best in the hope that someday in the distant future when the land has resettled they make retake the outside world and live in a new post-apocalyptic utopia among the many mutants that now make their home there while fending off attacks from an unknown alien race that for some reason or another make their home in the sky in a huge rainbow-coloured spaceship the size of a continent where they create and occasionally send down giant monsters to cause trouble and it would fall upon a band of five intrepid heroes who dress in latex to use their giant robots designed in the likeness of the ancient five destroyers of the earth, carp, elephant, eagle, spider, and floodgate wherein if it is not enough they can further transform these robots into one super-robot called dwarftron who will the promptly kick the butt of the invading monster and save the day just before the elves who had fled to space during the initial conflict millennia ago return in their warships made of trees return with a vengence, their hippy-powers having grown tremendously during their exile in space and after the dust settles where they crashland their giant spacepods of maple onto the scarred, barren earth they promptly begin the retaking of the earth's surface from our intrepid dwarves by playing a boardgame comprised of multicoloured gems where the objective is to line up as many of the same coloured gems as possible to hurt the enemy.

[ April 25, 2008: Message edited by: umiman ]

[Mikademus]

quote:Originally posted by The-Moon:
<STRONG>

Mikademus: We would be better off with steam power, then nuclear  

</STRONG>

Well, I think this thread has firmly established that the logical progression for DF is steam power, then nuclear power (steam might be a good way to power the centrifuges), then fusion. As for the control of fission and exponential thresholds etc, DF is soon turing complete with water gateways, so of course the dwarves can construct an automatic water-powered computer control structure.

The natural extension of the above mentioned developments is of course settlement on other orbital bodies in the solar system.

Also, the increasing skills of the glassmakers, making the incredibly fine optics required for inter-planetal orbital bombardments makes possible microtechnologies (after the macroscopic perspectivethe only reasonable way forward IS nanotechnology!) and improved astrology.

Also, love the suggestion on DF: Road Warrior!

[Mikademus]

@umiman: I want to read your book!

[Bricktop]

@ umiman:

Was that post a Power Rangers reference? (The dwarftron robot thing reminded me of power rangers... mainly because that is the only bit of pwer rangers that I can remember.)

[Khosan]

quote:Originally posted by The-Moon:
<STRONG>Mikademus: We would be better off with steam power, then nuclear   </STRONG>

It actually makes sense in a twisted sort of way.

Nuclear power (or at least the one variation of it that I'm aware of) is kind of just steam power with a power source that heats itself.  If I remember correctly, the radioactive material is in some perpetual state of meltdown, water just flows past it, keeps it cool enough that it doesn't actually melt and promptly evaporates, then the steam spins a turbine and creates power.

The problem for the Dwarves would be getting the radioactive material to the "reactor" without setting themselves on fire and irradiating half the fortress.

[Cthulhu]

Dwarves could never harness radiation, because of hair-loss.  If a dwarf loves his beard, his head explodes.

[umiman]

Bricktop: probably, I was writing that in one breath.

Cthulu: A Dwarf is all beard. If he lost his beard, he wouldn't exist.

[Mikademus]

quote:Originally posted by Cthulhu:
<STRONG>Dwarves could never harness radiation, because of hair-loss.  If a dwarf loves his beard, his head explodes.</STRONG>

quote:Originally posted by umiman:
<STRONG>Cthulu: A Dwarf is all beard. If he lost his beard, he wouldn't exist.</STRONG>

<OT> ROFL! Nominated for "best responses ever award". </OT>

That shows that the DF universe IS ontologically different from ours, in that fundamental elements are existentially intrinsically connected with being for sentient beings. It is utterly true that for dwarves, hair and existence it inextricably connected, which is why cancer is not called "the wasting decease" but "the fading decease" for them, but this is also why not only the clothesmaker and alchemist are important for dwarf fission, but also the philosopher is of vital importance. When dressed in a lead apron.

[Lalandrathon]

Well if we have nuclear power, we need things to power. Like turbo pumps that shoot water or magma across the maps. Or dwarven rapid transit systems. Or goblin rapid crushing systems. Also, deathrays. And orbital lasers. And who can forgot good old fashioned explosives? Need to add some of those too. Like nuclear catapults. Let's see those gobbo bastards deal with that.