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Albedo

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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #30 on: May 23, 2009, 06:17:26 am »
Quote from: Skorpion on May 22, 2009, 08:30:50 pm
When you daren't press half the levers around because you know they might flood your fortress.

And you aren't even sure which half.
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #31 on: May 23, 2009, 06:18:59 am »
That kinda thing gets especially bad in succession games, I hear.

I have only 2 levers:

Lever one: bring down the drawbridge.
Lever two: flood fortress entrance.

Luckily, I can remember which one's which.  For now.
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Albedo

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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #32 on: May 23, 2009, 06:28:32 am »
(If I ever found myself in a succession game where my predecessors had not labeled everything clearly, I'd just smile, deconstruct every lever I can find, and rebuild what I want.  And label it.

The unused mechanisms in the various doors and floodgates still add to total wealth.)
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #33 on: May 23, 2009, 11:12:23 am »
Quote from: Albedo on May 23, 2009, 06:28:32 am
(If I ever found myself in a succession game where my predecessors had not labeled everything clearly, I'd just smile, deconstruct every lever I can find, and rebuild what I want.  And label it.

The unused mechanisms in the various doors and floodgates still add to total wealth.)
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #34 on: May 23, 2009, 01:57:06 pm »
I can understand a succession game and not know which levers do what. However I place my levers in places that make it fairly obvious which does what. So I'm just having a hard time imagining what you people are doing in order to mess that up. Maybe you're all more forgetful than I? ... and that's saying something.
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #35 on: May 23, 2009, 01:58:52 pm »
words for you:  LEVER ROOM.
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #36 on: May 23, 2009, 02:10:42 pm »
or dealing with the humour of the person before you who linked the lever next to the drawbridge to the magma pumps....
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #37 on: May 23, 2009, 02:26:10 pm »
Putting them in your noble communal bedroom/ dining room/ tomb/ throne room so your nobles can actually be used for SOMETHING.
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #38 on: May 23, 2009, 08:46:21 pm »
When you embark on a 2x2 at the intersection of two Major rivers, filled with carp, gar, and pike
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #39 on: May 23, 2009, 09:33:53 pm »
When your lakeside starting location has 7 ****ing pages of Carp.
If not for that it was a nice location...
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #40 on: May 23, 2009, 09:48:06 pm »
... when you embark on a 2x2 terrifying forest w/ a shallow aquifer as a challenge. I could deal with werewolves... not Ogres.
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #41 on: May 24, 2009, 08:35:55 am »
When you get Skeletal HFS
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #42 on: May 24, 2009, 08:53:30 am »
When the second spring the hippos hit their poplimit through births. Then they ALL grow up a few years later.

Edit: Related to this, i have three full graveyard stockpiles-with 30-40 coffins filled with dwarves AS-IS. Much of it due to either my first tantrum spiral, or lemming rushes when a dwarf died to a hippo or alligator.
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From Mr. Welch's 1350 things he is not allowed to do in a RPG:
148. There is no Gnomish Deathgrip, and even if there was, it wouldn't involve tongs.
171. My character's dying words are not allowed to be "Hastur, Hastur, Hastur"
218. No matter my alignment, organizing halfling pit fights is a violation.
231. I am not allowed to do anything that would make a Sith Lord cry.
240. Any character with more than three skills specializing in chainsaw is vetoed.

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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #43 on: May 24, 2009, 02:49:33 pm »
When the ground outside your fortress is just muddy obsidian.
When you have lots of free bedrooms but you have to use old stripmines for coffins.
When the Hammerer took joy in slaughter.
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Re: You know your fortress is a disaster area....
« Reply #44 on: May 24, 2009, 02:56:45 pm »
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when you see hippos

Carp.
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