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1) Players will turn in their fortress as-is, at no additional penalty

45 (60%)

2) Players will be given a short extension, dependant on how near they are, and how many players are unfinished

27 (36%)

3) Players will be disquallified from scoring

2 (2.7%)

4) Something else (please explain)

1 (1.3%)

Total Members Voted: 75

[Solifuge]

If any player doesn't want to take the full 8 years, they can submit the map early. If there's anything you want to take care of yet, though, you've got time for it. I'll be spending a day or two mailing judges with the rules and all that business.

[Vieto]

ok, I'm just going to check for any fall immigrants, then I'll submit the map, because nothing really happens in Winter.

[Martin]

ok, I'm just going to check for any fall immigrants, then I'll submit the map, because nothing really happens in Winter.

Sieges happen in winter. I love sieges...

[Magua]

Maybe I'm just odd, but I haven't had *any* goblin sieges.  Humans sieged me in the summer of 102 and 103.  I've had a few goblin ambushes, but absolutely no goblin sieges, even with my seven digit wealth.  Maybe they don't like me.

[Vieto]

Ok, my save: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1442 as of Late Autumn, 207.

Overview:

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An overview of the final Site. From here, you can clearly see the Fort, the Stadium, and the Bridge (recently fortified, I was having issues with people being Spartan-kicked into magma by titans). The letter on the stadium in red is either A for Armok, or V for Vendeta Vieto. A personal touch.

Stadium:

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The stadium as seen from the bridge, the only proper entrance to the stadium.



The view of the Arena as seen by the King. Or another noble.





The stadium as seen from the Arena. Intimidating.




From a wall, the magma is clearly visible, as well as the entire Arena.




From the roof, the fort can be seen. Notice the clear-cutting around the fort contrast to the forested ridge. No wonder the elves hate me.

Purpetual Dining Hall:

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I won't show you the mechanisms and stuff, those can't be seen in visualizer. Please note the room isn't flooding, I just topped up the waterfall.

Appartments:

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The entrance to the great appartment hall. It is composed of the salt-water swimming pool, the fresh-water drinking pools, the shops and bazarrs (not seeable), the spanning bridges, and the rooms on both walls.




The hall, as seen from the room of the kind who graciously didn't show up.




Same room, from a lower level. The bridge is there.

Underground water tower:

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The Underground water pillar/tower. It's purpose: presurize the water to go anywhere in it's vicinity. More of a practical thing.




From the top of the watertower. Really, it's mostly full, preventing the display of the vastness.

Dwarf Gate:

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The Dwarf-gate! infortunately, the magma doesn't form a complete red wall, so just assume it's receiving static or something. Unseen, the front is coated with mechanisms of superior quality, and is powered by several PM machines. This view is not seeable by any dwarf. The purpose of this device is that you turn it off, put a cat inside it, turn it on, and send in goblins on suicide missions to stop the goa'uld cat menace!

The gate had several 'malfunctions' during it's testing, such as magmaflooding (I was saved by accidently installing a secondary drainage system onto the lower level)




The dwarf-gate, as seen from the viewing Balcony.




the view from a maintenance platform. You can really feel the height from here.

edit: fyi, each spoiler usually has multiple images.

[Realmfighter]

as DFM2 is drawing to a close, i have one question to ask.

Will there be another?

[Martin]

Here is my submission.

Save
Map
Z screen:

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Most of the projects are fairly straightforward. Two glass towers and a glass bridge, a round excavated fortress with quarters, noble quarters, all the usual amenities, and an assortment of survival elements - protected fresh water supply, obsidian farm, very large above and below ground farms. Everything is designed around circles because magma pipes always make me think of circles (and I have a handy circle script).

The megaproject was the elimination of the majority of the aquifer from the map by excavating and then collapsing almost the entire embark level 4 z-levels down. This leaves a 5-wide path around the perimeter of the map and a round central platform housing the fortress. A glass bridge extends over the top of the collapsed region from the map edge to the fortress. Yes, I dug the place out again...

11 fatalities (of varying sorts), 15 artifacts, 48 miners (not quite all legendary, but a hell of a lot of them are), no dead nobles (by design), no dead diplomats (by design).

The upload contains a save from right when the lever is ready to be pulled collapsing 45,000 tiles. Be prepared for the game to lock up for at least 5 minutes when you do.

[Realmfighter]

i didn't dream large enough.

[Vieto]

... wow ...

All hope of first place; dashed out the window.

[Realmfighter]

How do i upload things? when i click on the save folder it gos into the folder, and if i input the folders name it doesn't work!

[Martin]

You need to zip up the folder before you can upload.

[Realmfighter]

How, exactly?

[Martin]

On a Mac, you just right click and select 'Archive'. On Windows you need to install a zip utility. There are a bunch of free ones you can download - WinZip and 7-Zip are both pretty popular.

[Realmfighter]

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1445

my projects as are as follows.

no aquifer piercings
obsidian volcano
hermit family cave
noble smoke cloud
outside fort

Can some one take a pic in VF? i doesn't work on my computer.

[Albedo]

I'll remind/ask people to remember that these have to be judged - so anything you can do to help that process will be appreciated. Esp pointing out details, labeling of one form or another, explanations of insidious devices, whatever.

Good luck to all!