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Skelodwarf

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The Mechanical Demon (Don't get your hopes up)
« on: April 01, 2009, 09:56:05 pm »

Because 'tis only the name of my newest fort.

(Sorry Brokensquare, you have to take a backseat for a while as I sort out my social life, and am in too much of an emotional crisis to write)

It's a pretty epic starting site, and I've only just begun, but any suggestions for what to do with it? I plan to make a gigantic mechanism somewhere in the fortress using plates and magma.

Other than that, the site is mostly obsidian with a large chasm reaching up towards a river, which runs perpindicular to it, right next to a magma pipe (Can you spell Aewsome?).

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5286-themechanicaldemon

That's the lay of the land, and I don't want any trash about the tileset. Seriously guys, I don't.

Other than the Giant mechanism, (Which I plan to do something CrAzY, I.E. lock every door in the fortress, and flood a large sphere with magma) I have no idea what to do with it. I kinda want to just reveal on a seperate save and then use that to plan an epic fortress. (Can't have no giant holes effing my up)
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Re: The Mechanical Demon (Don't get your hopes up)
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2009, 12:55:46 am »

Interesting site, it's actually got a couple of horns on top! Also a nice square shape to carve a fortress out of.

My first suggestion would be to take advantage of those two protrusions and have two guard towers going all the way up.

Personally what I would do is place the 'core' of the fortress (dining room?) in the center of that square-ish protrusion of the mountainside, and use the periphery (which is mostly dirt apparently) for farms and storerooms. But that's not a very 'epic' idea, just reasonable.
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Re: The Mechanical Demon (Don't get your hopes up)
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2009, 11:55:53 am »

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(Can you spell Aewsome?).
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Yes, can you?
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Re: The Mechanical Demon (Don't get your hopes up)
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2009, 02:35:14 pm »

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Re: The Mechanical Demon (Don't get your hopes up)
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2009, 04:46:21 pm »

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Re: The Mechanical Demon (Don't get your hopes up)
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2009, 08:12:47 pm »

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Re: The Mechanical Demon (Don't get your hopes up)
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2009, 05:17:20 pm »

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(Can you spell Aewsome?).
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Yes, can you?

Can you get a joke?
That WAS the joke. :awesome:

I know it was.

Afterall, I made the joke.

Awsome joke, by they way.

Ok do the whole thing but also build bridges everywhere so you can smash anything anywhere in the map with the pulling of a single lever.
Or you could build all bridges of bauxite and flood the world with magma before doing this. Pics.
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Re: The Mechanical Demon (Don't get your hopes up)
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2009, 05:35:21 pm »

It needs to have a complicated reciprocating fluid system to cause spikes to retract and extend in the entry way randomly when a lever is pulled.
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