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[lordcooper]

So I figured it could be cool to embark on an Elven town and have two civilisations building alongside each other.

Turns out the elves just stand around doing NOTHING.  No building, farming, mining or even eating.
Bug or not yet coded?

[Smew]

Not yet coded, plus it would kill your FPS, and elves never do anything useful anyway.

[lordcooper]

FPS isn't really an issue atm (running a 150+ fortress at 60-ish on average)

Is this intended to be added in later?

It would ensure lots more FUN when other civs decide to mine through/build over/demolish parts of your fortress.
Besides, who doesn't want to collapse an entire elf town with the pull of a lever 

[dieinafire]

not to hickjack this thread, but how do i embark where a civ is? friendly or non-friendly.

from what i remember, i've tried to embark where there was 1 (it's the statue icon 6x6 square on the far left map right?), but the minute i put 1 single embark icon into the civ's location, embark is no longet highlited. what gives, and what do i mod?

[Smew]

not to hickjack this thread, but how do i embark where a civ is? friendly or non-friendly.

from what i remember, i've tried to embark where there was 1 (it's the statue icon 6x6 square on the far left map right?), but the minute i put 1 single embark icon into the civ's location, embark is no longet highlited. what gives, and what do i mod?

You can't embark with other dwarves, but with any other civ, you can embark just fine.

[dieinafire]

yeah, i tried to embark where a goblin civ was (i think).

hm, maybe i should try again?

idk.

[jester]

goblin civ should work fine, (they are the pi symbols on the map).  lots of fun to be had sealing off a goblin tower and then filling the thing with water/gibbons/lava or whatever.

  embarking in a human/elvish town has worked for me but they are damn boring.

[Shadowex3]

So I figured it could be cool to embark on an Elven town and have two civilisations building alongside each other.

Turns out the elves just stand around doing NOTHING.  No building, farming, mining or even eating.
Bug or not yet coded?

That's because elves have no purpose in life except to piss of dorfs. Seriously, what were you expecting from them?

[lordcooper]

I dunno...

Tree houses perhaps?

[Papa Cauldur]

Elves make great target practice. And much laughs can be had diverting magma through their 'cities'

[Meanmelter]

do what every smart DF'er would do.

place traps everywhere and let all the elfs fall onto it and then sell them to a pecific human race.
then abandon.
create a new fort and wait till they come with a trade, they should have elfs in a cage

MAKE THEM WHERE THEY CAN BE CATPURED THEN WHEN U GET THEM IN A CAGE MAKE ZTHEM UNCAPTURABLE!

[Evil One]

Elves make great target practice. And much laughs can be had diverting magma through their 'cities'

The only time I ever embarked with an 'Elven retreat' nearby was when I built my Elven village incinerator... Ahh! Good times, nothing makes me more happy than a retreating Elf.

[Rowanas]

elves are useless vs kobolds and angry things, but vs goblins they're  useful first line of defence. shame I accidentally flooded my only fortress in elven lands.