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Author Topic: A suggestion on poop handling  (Read 19032 times)

Silverionmox

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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #135 on: July 11, 2009, 04:58:28 pm »

Considering this idea was mentioned and destroyed in the very first DF thread ever, way before even 2D was released, there is really no reason to keep clamoring for pee and poo simulation.  Can you imagine having to dwell on it long enough to code it?  Do you really want to subject the world to bugs of DF scale and scatological bent?  I ask you.  DF has made us crazy enough already.
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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #136 on: July 11, 2009, 06:17:51 pm »

Regardless of that opinion the idea had already been considered and rejected years and years ago.
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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #137 on: July 11, 2009, 07:54:44 pm »

So when better to bring up a long dead subject then now?
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« Reply #138 on: July 11, 2009, 09:05:16 pm »

Regardless of that opinion the idea had already been considered and rejected years and years ago.

Toady said that he would add it to the game only if he considered it to be a fun addition. Hence, we suggest ways that it could be implemented such that it is fun.
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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #139 on: July 12, 2009, 05:50:53 am »

If you don't find drowning things in shit fun, there's something wrong with you
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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #140 on: July 12, 2009, 05:56:57 am »

If you don't find drowning things in shit fun, there's something wrong with you

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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #141 on: July 12, 2009, 07:27:08 am »

If you don't find drowning things in shit fun, there's something wrong with you

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Instant cholera, hepatitis and assorted parasitical diseases! Letting it rest for a year should be sufficient to eliminate most pathogens.
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Rowanas

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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #142 on: July 12, 2009, 08:10:57 am »

what? I can't hear you over the sound of FUn happening due to farm based diseases. Everyone seems hellbent on making farming FUN, but try not to make it too FUN
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I agree with Urist. Steampunk is like Darth Vader winning Holland's Next Top Model. It would be awesome but not something I'd like in this game.
Unfortunately dying involves the amputation of the entire body from the dwarf.

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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #143 on: July 12, 2009, 12:51:12 pm »

If you don't find drowning things in shit fun, there's something wrong with you

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Instant cholera, hepatitis and assorted parasitical diseases! Letting it rest for a year should be sufficient to eliminate most pathogens.
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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #144 on: July 12, 2009, 09:57:21 pm »

Personally, I imagine a loo as either a well like construction, that goes the opposite direction, and thus requires no bucket, or a floor grate with a designation over it.

Perhaps both could be included, with poncier dwarves demanding the fancier arrangement.

If this does go in, I recommend that the first release to feature toilets, not also feature sewage and sewers. Manure and it's farming applications would make a good forerunner to both items.

This gives the naysayers the chance to see that dwarves pooping does not cause the world to end, and gives us time to adjust to the new realities one at a time.

Plus, we'd get more freaquent releases... ;D
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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #145 on: July 13, 2009, 09:11:05 am »

i like the idea of shit being in the game

we could use it when the goblins are coming in your fort,they all of a sudden get hit with it from abouve

ULTIMATE TRAP!
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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #146 on: July 13, 2009, 11:38:38 am »

No no, the ultimate trap involves a sewage pit along the side of the passage, and a torch being lit at the end of the tunnel, shortly before the accumulated methane from hundreds of dorfs all being bubbled up through the sewage at once.

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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #147 on: July 13, 2009, 02:44:07 pm »

Sewage should _most_definitely_ be flamable in the way that booze is flamable.
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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #148 on: July 13, 2009, 02:46:52 pm »

The bare minimum, cool sewage trap involves a flow of A washing the invaders into a flow of B. With A and B being magma and sewage, in whichever order is easier to clean up.

Ultimate sewage traps will probably involve dying slowly from some horrible disease, and eating raw kittens to survive.

Sewage should _most_definitely_ be flamable in the way that booze is flamable.

Of course not. In point of fact, an above ground sewage pit or uncovered vat, shouldn't produce enough methane to burn, let alone explode, under normal circumstances.
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Re: A suggestion on poop handling
« Reply #149 on: July 13, 2009, 10:08:18 pm »

Yeah, but it'd be awesome to watch the explosion...
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I agree with Urist. Steampunk is like Darth Vader winning Holland's Next Top Model. It would be awesome but not something I'd like in this game.
Unfortunately dying involves the amputation of the entire body from the dwarf.
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