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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

[Jim Groovester]

Okay, I've got Solifuge's scores. So I'm going to close judging now and start tabulating scores.

Great job to all the judges. Turned out better than I expected.

[Jim Groovester]

I am proud to finally announce the results of the Second Dwarf Fortress Masters' Competition!

Category Awards:
Forts were graded by the judges on a series of categories. The standings within each category are as follows:

Megaprojects:
1st) Magua, with an average score of 4/5
2nd) Slogo, with an average score of 3.9/5
3rd) Martin, with an average score of 3.8/5

Layout:
1st) Martin, with a score of 4.6/5
2nd) Rosedrake, with a score of 3.8/5
3rd) Realmfighter, with a score of 3.6/5

Beauty:
1st) Slogo, with a score of 4.8/5
2nd) Martin, with a score of 4/5
3rd) Vieto and Rosedrake tied, with a score of 3.6/5

Toughness:
1st) Magua and Martin tied, with a score of 3.4/5
2nd) Slogo, Vieto, and Rosedrake tied, with a score of 3.2/5
3rd) Realmfighter, with a score of 3/5

Industry:
1st) Magua and Martin tied, with a score of 4/5
2nd) Slogo, with a score of 3.6/5
3rd) Vieto, with a score of 3/5

Creativity:
1st) Slogo, with a perfect 5/5
2nd) Martin, with a score of 4.2/5
3rd) Magua and Vieto tied, with a score of 4/5

Final Standings:

Rosedrake
6th place, with 63.2 points

Realmfighter
5th place, with 65.2 points

Vieto
4th Place, with 71.2 points

Martin
3rd Place, with 78.8 points

Magua
2nd Place, with 84.8 points

Slogo
1st Place, with 119.2 points

Scores By Player:
          Slogo     Magua     Martin    Vieto     Realmfighter    Rosedrake
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Proj.1    4.4       3.6       4.2       4.2       3.6             3.2
Proj.2    4         3.6       4.2       3.2       4               3.4
Proj.3    3.2       3.8       3.2       3.4       2.6             3
Proj.4    4.4       4         3.6       3.4       3.2             2.8
Proj.5    3.6       5         4         4.2       2.8             3.2
Proj.Avg  3.92      4         3.84      3.68      3.24            3.12
Layout    3.4       2.8       4.6       3.4       3.6             3.8
Beauty    4.8       3.2       4         3.6       3.2             3.6
Tough     3.2       3.4       3.4       3.2       3               3.2
Industry  3.6       4         4         3         2.8             2.4
Creative  5         4         4.2       4         3.8             3

Favorite  +20       +5
Total     119.2     84.8      78.8      71.2      65.2            63.2



A great job to everybody! The players, especially, deserve commendation for the excellent fortresses that they produced.

Congratulations to Slogo, whom I deem it in my authority to award the title: Master of Muckgrotto! Wear it with pride!

[Vieto]

well, I guess they were good forts too.

good game.

[Retro]

Congrats all, including Jim and Solifuge for running this competition! Rankings aside, I did enjoy everyone's fort. Come out for DFM3 when the new version's out!

[Slogo]

Awesome! Thanks again for doing the judging everyone, and thanks to all the people who entered. I can't wait to see what awesome forts the future competitions end up with.

To celebrate I took some Stonesense picture. You can't really get a sense of the central tower or the roof of the Grotto but oh well.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[The Architect]

It's stunningly beautiful.

[CobaltKobold]

I note the lack of civ bonus points.

[Solifuge]

I note the lack of civ bonus points.

Well, I notice no sortage of snarky remarks from the peanut gallery, so I guess that balances out.

...just kidding!

When tallying thse things up, I totally didn't include those in the final scores. I'd love to be able to blame Jim Groovester, but it was 100% my bad. This whole scoring process was takien directly from DFM1, without much adaptation for the challenges, and I only had access to my old score-calculating table, which didn't include the city scores (those were assessed afterward).

But either way, scores were already tallied, and I'm not about to revoke medals. As a point of future advice to whoever was in charge of this contest; you seriously need some more structure.

I mean, gawd!

[CobaltKobold]

*giggles, but still wonders where they'd go*

It doesn't look like they'd affect the placement.

[Jim Groovester]

*giggles, but still wonders where they'd go*

It doesn't look like they'd affect the placement.

That's what my thinking was when I was lazy and decided to have the judges ignore them. Well, it wasn't so much having them ignore it, as it was I didn't want to mess with Solifuge's judging system from the DFMC1.

I have the judge's individual scores. Should I post them?

[CobaltKobold]

I am going to post my fort here when it's done, anyway.

[Slogo]

You should post any feedback the judges included with their scores.

[Jim Groovester]

Very well. I'll post a table and all the PMs I received.

Spoiler: The Judges' Scores (click to show/hide)

      MM   R   wh   S11   Sfg
Martin                  
   #1  3   5   4   4   5
   #2      5   5   4   4
   #3      4   3   3   3
   #4      4   3   4   4
   #5      5   4   3   5
   L   4   5   4   5   5
   B   5   4   3   4   3
   T   3   5   4   2   4
   I   4   4   4   3   5
   C   5   5   5   3   3
   F   0   0   0   0   0
                  
Magua                  
   #1  5   3   4   3   3
   #2      4   3   2   4
   #3      4   4   3   3
   #4      5   4   3   3
   #5      5   5   5   5
   L   2   3   3   3   3
   B   3   4   4   2   3
   T   3   3   3   4   4
   I   4   5   4   2   5
   C   5   4   4   2   5
   F   0   0   5   0   0
                  
Slogo                  
   #1  4   5   5   4   4
   #2      5   5   3   3
   #3      3   3   3   3
   #4      5   3   5   5
   #5      4   2   3   5
   L   3   5   3   3   3
   B   5   5   4   5   5
   T   4   3   3   2   4
   I   4   4   4   3   3
   C   5   5   5   5   5
   F   5   5   0   5   5
                  
realmfighter                  
   #1  4   4   4   2   4
   #2      4   4   4   4
   #3      2   2   1   4
   #4      3   3   3   3
   #5      2   2   3   3
   L   4   3   3   4   4
   B   2   4   4   3   3
   T   4   1   3   4   3
   I   3   1   3   4   3
   C   4   3   4   4   4
   F   0   0   0   0   0
                  
Vieto                  
   #1  4   5   4   4   4
   #2      3   3   3   3
   #3      4   3   3   3
   #4      4   4   2   3
   #5      4   4   4   5
   L   3   4   4   3   3
   B   5   4   4   2   3
   T   3   2   4   4   3
   I   4   2   3   3   3
   C   5   4   3   4   4
   F   0   0   0   0   0
                  
rosedrake                  
   #1  3   2   3   4   4
   #2      4   3   3   4
   #3      2   3   4   3
   #4      3   3   2   3
   #5      3   3   3   4
   L   5   4   4   2   4
   B   2   4   4   4   4
   T   5   1   4   2   4
   I   4   0   3   2   3
   C   4   2   2   3   4
   F   0   0   0   0   0



L = Layout
B = Beauty
T = Toughness
I = Industry
C = Creativity
F = Favorite

Notes: Metal Militia only gave a single score for all five projects for each judge. warhammer651 didn't know what rosedrake's projects were, so gave an average of 3/5 for all of them. Retro couldn't gauge rosedrake's industry, so I put a 0/5 for that category from him.

Spoiler: Metal Militia's Scorecard (click to show/hide)

sorry for lateness

Martin
1)projects: 3/5
2)layout: 4/5
3)beauty: 4/5
4)toughness: 3/5
5)industry: 4/5
6)creativity: 5/5

Magua
1)projects: 5/5
2)layout: 2/5 (dwarfs have to run all over the place
3)beauty: 3/5
4)toughness: 3/5
5)industry: 4/5
6)creativity: 5/5

Slogo
1)projects: 4/5
2)layout: 3/5 (not very practical)
3)beauty: 5/5 (impressed a lot by the cavern)
4)toughness: 4/5
5)industry: 4/5
6)creativity: 5/5

realmfighter
1)projects: 4/5
2)layout: 4/5
3)beauty: 2/5
4)toughness: 4/5
5)industry: 3/5
6)creativity: 4/5

Vieto
1)projects: 4/5
2)layout: 3/5
3)beauty: 5/5
4)toughness: 3/5
5)industry: 4/5
6)creativity: 5/5

rosedrake
1)projects: 3/5
2)layout: 4/5
3)beauty: 2/5
4)toughness: 5/5
5)industry: 4/5
6)creativity: 4/5

Slogo's fort is my fav

might have a crack at this myself.

Spoiler: Retro's Scorecard (click to show/hide)

Okay, here you go. I hastily formatted it from Word to forum tags so hopefully it'll look fine. For the record, Slogo/Logo's was my favourite.

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Martin

Five Projects
Aquifer removal: 5/5. Extremely complicated, time-consuming, and impressive. A major landscaping achievement. Exceptionally dwarfy.
Glass tower: 5/5. On top of being well laid-out and aesthetically pleasing (and well protected), it’s made from green glass on a formerly sand-less map.
Entrance tower/bridge: 4/5. Strong and effective, but similar enough to the main tower to seem like an extension of it.
Ring fortress: 4/5. Spacious, stylish, efficient. Perhaps a bit repetitive.
Survival elements: 5/5. The access to the outside world really seems only for courtesy – the fortress is an impenetreble microcosm.

Layout: 5/5. I imagine the dwarves would have a tricky time running all th way around the ring for something, but for the most part it seems they go across z-levels rather than circling the whole fort.

Beauty: 4/5. It’s very polished and ‘finished,’ but a lot of it is bare. The circle design also got a bit repetitive for me, as already noted.

Toughness: 5/5. You don’t wanna mess with this fort.

Industry: 4/5. From the justice screen, it seems like pretty much all noble mandates were ignored, although the fort is a wealthy metropolis.

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Magua

Five Projects
Sign: 3/5. Pretty big, but not all that complicated.
Pump towers: 4/5. Not really that aesthetically pleasing, but they’re complicated enough and serve a good purpose.
Hammer: 4/5. Looks good and serves a nice purpose, but seems like the same project as the pick.
Pick: 5/5. Again, seems the same project as the hammer, but it’s more complex and looks a bit nicer.
Sacrificial Pyramid: 5/5. Just fantastic. Utterly dwarfy.

Layout: 3/5. Does everything it needs to; nothing special, though. A bit random and confusing.

Beauty: 4/5. It looks fabulous… except for the pump stacks, which are the metaphorical sore thumbs of the fort.

Toughness: 3/5. Soldiers are legendary wrestlers just now starting to train in hammers; their armour is sparse and inconsistent. There’s a very long flooding chamber, but it’s apparently untested, and I wasn’t able to try it myself without a siege to set it off. Outside of that, there’s a bridge, some dogs, and a single row of cage traps.

Industry: 5/5. Nobles live in luxury and all mandates have been fulfilled. Main industry: seems to have been food and ammo, and the average roast here is worth around 5000 dwarfbucks. I think it’s the wealthiest fort by a hundred thousand or so.

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Slogo (Logo? He goes by both but uses the latter more)

Five Projects
Fire Snake Moat: 5/5. Gorgeous, dwarfy, and involves magma. The snakes also look snake-like in VF, plus the bridges act like their tongues!
Crescent Tower: 5/5. It’s absolutely massive, and the tower actually has a giant crescent built into the top of it. Again, it also has a functional use.
Spiral Ramp and AquiferBreach: 3/5. A pretty big aquifer breach, but the ramp’s just a ramp to me.
The Grotto: 5/5. Everything about this is fantastic. The whole thing is organic-looking, and the side caves even have a rougher feel to them to contrast the main grotto.
The Yard: 4/5. Lots of cool stuff here, definitely feels like an actual yard with full structures for each enterprise.

Layout: 5/5. It’s a great Layout: both above and below ground.

Beauty: 5/5. No explanation needed, really. It’s gorgeous.

Toughness: 3/5. Many champions are just wrestlers with sometimes-steel-sometimes-iron armour. If a large siege arrived and the bridges didn’t raise, I’d think there’d be trouble.

Industry: 4/5. Main industry seems to be cloth and stonecraft. Mandates seem to have been kept up with as well from the justice screen. Obsidian farming has been set up using the aquifer.

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Reamfighter

Five Projects
No Aquifer Piercing: 4/5. A very risky move, which cost him in the Toughness and Industry: categories, but it’s an additional challenge which he dealt with.
Obsidian Volcano: 4/5. Very nice, though magma’s not visible.
Hermit’s Cave: 2/5. Those are not the happiest three dwarves. Despite it being easy to dig through the dirt and make them nicer rooms, they’re forced into small 1x1 bedrooms in a larger room. Currently one of them is attending a meeting, presumably to complain. I get that squalor was the point, but still not the greatest endeavor.
Noble Smoke Cloud: 3/5. An extension of the volcano, largely empty and completely unfurnished despite being for nobility (as noted in Industry).
Outside Fort: 2/5. Realmfighter described this as ‘the defensive walls and housing,’ but the walls aren’t keeping anyone out (as noted in Toughness) and the housing is… housing, and in a kind of random layout. With just soil layers, dwarves could’ve been given two-floor soil apartments to themselves with separate kitchens, living rooms, dens, etc.


Layout: 3/5. The volcano part of the fort is nice; the underground is a mess. Stockpiles are customized to just accept everything, and most of the workshops don’t do anything. Bedrooms are random as well (and there’s a tree in one of them!) It’s okay, but nothing special.

Beauty: 4/5. The volcano is very pretty.

Toughness: 1/5. There are a lot of champions, but all are solely wrestlers despite obsidian swords being easily creafted, and the most iron I saw on them was in the form of an arrow stuck in one’s leg – no armour or shields, even as leather.. Possibly a casualty of not digging through the aquifer. Also, the fort has four completely unguarded entrances with only a lowered drawbridge to access and at one point is safeguarded by a locked door, and the dwarves’ relaxing lake is directly open to fire from above without even a door.

Industry: 1/5. Low wealth, just about every mandate was ignored (including furnishings, which there’s not really a reason for), and there seems to not really have been much of an Industry: at all aside from selling the goblins’ loot and some bag-making. Aside from the bag-making guy and the dwarf attending a meeting, nobody is doing anything. Sand was accessible, but nothing in the way of green glass, and no attempt to make an obsidian farm was made outside of the thousand-ish blocks that went into the volcano.

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Vieto

Five Projects (not individually identified, so using what he used in his post)
Arena: 5/5. Massive and looks good; appears to have been put to use as well.
Dining Hall w/ Waterfall: 3/5. It’s a nice looking dining hall, and the waterfall spreads over a nice-sized area.
Apartment Hall: 4/5. The hall itself is very nice and open, but only the inside of the hall has been smoothed – the apartments themselves are unsmoothed with just a few furnishings and are all meager or modest.
Underground Water Tower: 4/5. Extremely complicated and useful. From the looks of it, it was set up so that extra access points could be made without having to drain the system. Most levers were unmarked and I had a great deal of fun pulling them all and drowning the entire fort.
Dwarf Gate: 4/5. Wasn’t able to see it in action (putting an animal inside and letting goblins attack it in vain) but a pretty cool magmafall, and rather big/complex.

Layout: 4/5. Extremely complicated despite being centered around a central staircase, but everything is easy accessed by the dorfs.

Beauty: 4/5. The main fort sans hall isn’t that nice, but the arena makes up for it.

Toughness: 2/5. Some champions in poor/makeshift armour, some cage traps (that are more for catching stragglers than completely stopping enemies), a single set of weapon traps, and a bridge. If not for the bridge, Id’ see some trouble ahead for these guys.

Industry: 2/5. Didn’t have all that much more than Realmfighter despite having plenty of access to rock, and nobles were ignored entirely (furnishing needs included). There are a bunch of stonecrafters making instruments, but even a bin of masterwork instruments isn’t worth that much.

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rosedrake

Five Projects (kind of just guessing which they are from the DFMA map)
Worldkiller 2000: 2/5. Two massive pump towers that can spew either tons of water or tons of magma, though the magma just pours back into the source and the water would just drain off the map edges. Don’t seem to serve a purpose outside of their alleged worldkilling use. Looks like they were used once judging by a misshapen obsidian shelf, but the obsidian’s inaccessible.
Power Generator: 4/5. That’s a lot of power, and a nice-looking plant itself.
Green Spike Maze: 2/5. Sure, there’s a lot of glass, weapons, and maze-ness involved, but… the only way in is from underneath the fort, and the end of the maze is just a dead-end. Completely without actual function.
Main glass dome and moat: 3/5. Pretty nice moat; dome is more squarish than circular, but whatever.
DM’s Mausoleum: 3/5. It’s nice that there’s magma surrounding the tomb only partitioned by glass windows, but it’s pretty small.

Layout: 4/5. Aside from some messy stockpiles, it was a very well-laid-out fort.

Beauty: 4/5. No visualizer access, but I very much liked the green-glass-everything, and there were some nice aesthetic choices.

Toughness: 1/5. A drawbridge is the only thing between the fort and the outside world. Admittedly, I can’t investigate the military myself without a save.

Industry: Impossible to say without the save. Looks like there was a lot of glassmaking, though. No shops in sight, which suggests no economy – whether he never hit Barony status or just turned off the economy is tough to say.

So yeah, I just now realized I forgot the Creativity aspect of the scorecards. I'll just sneak them in really quick here.

Martin: 5/5
Magua: 4/5
Slogo/Logo: 5/5
realmfighter: 3/5
Vieto: 4/5
rosedrake: 2/5

Spoiler: warhammer651's Scorecard (click to show/hide)

DFM2 JUDGING

Martin
PROJECTS
1 Glass bridge/ towers
4/5
2 penetrating the aquifer
5/5
most just collapse a small section. he collapsed the entire dancing map
3 Obsidian farm
3/5
4 quarters
3/5
5 farms
4/5
2) Layout: 4/5

3) Beauty: 3/5

4) Toughness: 4/5

5) Industry: 4/5

6) Creativity: 5/5

Magua
FAVORITE
PROJECTS
1 Sign 4/5
no use, but it looks good
2 Pump Towers 3/5
would have given a higher score if they actually did anything.
3 Hammer 4/5

4 Pick 4/5


5 Sacrifical pyramid 5/5
mostly for badassness alone
  Layout: 3/5

  Beauty: 4/5

  Toughness: 3/5

  Industry: 4/5

  Creativity: 4/5

Slogo

PROJECTS
1 Moat
5/5
2 Grotto
5/5
3 Pyramid near the red snake
3/5
4 big tower in the center
3/5
5 the glass buildings
2/5
 Layout: 3/5

 Beauty: 4/5

 Toughness: 3/5

 Industry: 4/5

 Creativity: 5/5

realmfighter
PROJECTS
1 No Aquifer
4/5
2 Obsidian Volcano
4/5
3 Hermitage
2/5
4 man-made smoke cloud
3/5
5 Walls
2/5
 Layout: 3/5

 Beauty: 4/5

 Toughness: 3/5

 Industry: 3/5

 Creativity: 4/5



Vieto

PROJECTS
1 Arena
4/5
2 Perpetual motion machine dining hall
3/5
3 apartments
3/5
4 Water tower
4/5
5 gate
4/5
 Layout: 4/5

 Beauty: 4/5

 Toughness: 4/5

 Industry: 3/5

 Creativity: 3/5

rosedrake

PROJECTS
Seeing as how I couldn't figure out what the projects were, assume 3/5 for all of them

 Layout: 4/5

 Beauty: 4/5

 Toughness: 4/5

 Industry: 3/5

 Creativity: 2/5

Spoiler: Samus111111's Scorecard (click to show/hide)

Scores: completely done except for rosedrake... not sure what his 5 projects are so I left them blank.  I pmed him, but he hasn't been on since November. If you know what they are, please pm me and tell me and I will submit scores for them.

Martin

5 projects:
   1 - 4
   2 - 4
   3 - 3
   4 - 4
   5 - 3
Layout - 5
Beauty - 4
Toughness - 2
Industry - 3
Creativity - 3

Total - 35

Magua

5 projects:
   1 - 3
   2 - 2
   3 - 3
   4 - 3
   5 - 5
Layout - 3
Beauty - 2
Toughness - 4
Industry - 2
Creativity - 2

Total - 28

Slogo

5 projects:
   1 - 4
   2 - 3
   3 - 3
   4 - 5
   5 - 3
Layout - 3
Beauty - 5
Toughness - 2
Industry - 3
Creativity - 5

Total - 36

Realmfighter

5 projects:
   1 - 2
   2 - 4
   3 - 1
   4 - 3
   5 - 3
Layout - 4
Beauty - 3
Toughness - 4
Industry - 4
Creativity - 4

Total - 32

Vieto

5 projects:
   1 - 4
   2 - 3
   3 - 3
   4 - 2
   5 - 4
Layout - 3
Beauty - 2
Toughness - 4
Industry - 3
Creativity - 4

Total - 32

Rosedrake

5 projects:
   1 -
   2 -
   3 -
   4 -
   5 -
Layout - 2
Beauty - 4
Toughness - 2
Industry - 2
Creativity - 3

Total - 13

Favorite Fortress - Slogo

ok, here's the scores for rosedrake's 5 projects

1 - 4
2 - 3
3 - 4
4 - 2
5 - 3

Spoiler: Solifuge's Scorecard (click to show/hide)

As mentioned in the thread, I'm passing out from exhaustion, but I wrote up commentary for the first 3 entrants. The rest will come later through the day, if you will still allow them. Don't stretch if you want to keep things moving.

Also, let me know once winners are decided, so I can get these awards done.

Martin:
P1 - Aquifer Removal: 5/5
Huge Terraforming Projects are one of his specialties, and Martin doesn't dissapoint this time. Subverting the entire natural environment seems quite Dwarfy to me.

P2 - Central Tower: 4/5
An impressive construction, complete with magma moat and green glass walls. Nothing earth-shattering, but it's a grand thing to behold, and quite defensible.

P3 - Entrance Tower/Bridge: 3/5
A solid piece of defense, directing all traffic through one Bottleneck, and protecting against thieves and siegers, while still allowing merchant access.

P4 - Ring Fortress: 4/5
Well-made fractal ring design preserves efficiency, while also being asthetically pleasing. The magma core is a nice touch.

P5 - Survival Elements: 5/5
This fort can weather a siege, a plague... just about anything, by the look of it! You can gather water, food, wood, and raw glass almost indefinitely in this fort.

Layout: 5/5
Efficient and organized, with a nice central, fractal design. Movement is kept to a minimum, and resources are freely available in well-protected zones.

Beauty: 3/5
An asthetically pleasing circular layout, with a magma core. There's not a lot of variety in form, though, which makes the appearance somewhat bland.

Toughness: 4/5
Solid defensive bulwarks, and a bottleneck at the north makes this fort nigh-impenetrable.

Industry: 5/5
Industry seems to be able to run without a hitch, even within a siege. You've also opened access to Sand where it was pretty much unavailable. Well done on that!

Creativity: 3/5
You took care of the aquifer in a unique way, but much of the rest of the fortress has a very simple, traditional feel to it.

Magua

P1 - Sign: 3/5
Though simple, it was a nice big monument to the site, and the civilization. Your attention to some of the worldgen details was a nice touch! I'll get back to that later.

P2 - Pump Towers: 4/5
Thats a lot of Pumps! Good call on pressurizing the magma/water once, so you don't have to pump it more than once. Not very asthetically pleasing, but quite Dwarf.

P3 - Hammer: 3/5
I wouldn't have noticed that it wasn't done if you hadn't mentioned it. Good way of concealing the pump for pyramid casting. Once the king moved in, this would have been a nice little vantage point to survey the Fortress.

P4 - Pick: 3/5
I feel similarly to how I felt about the Hammer. (Perhaps they could have been grouped together?)

P5 - Sacrificial Pyramid: 5/5
Fine archetecture here, and a monument to the power of industry. The Cinnibar accents are a beautiful touch, especially when paired with the natural-cast Obsidian. Easily my favorite Pyramid ever!

Layout: 3/5
Not mechanically efficient, and there is a bit of sprawl, but the fort tends toward conciseness nonetheless.

Beauty: 3/5
Not the most beautiful layout overal, but the pyramid nets you points, as do the asthetically pleasing casting pumps turned symbols of the Communist Party.

Toughness: 4/5
I'm definitely digging the Semi-Automated Drowning Chamber. Overal, pretty well-defended.

Industry: 5/5
Way to go hardcore storymode on your industry! I like that you shunned many of the exploits, in favor of a more realistic challenge, such as no beer-baking, appointing a Sheriff and the proper amount of Royal Guards, etc.

Creativity: 5/5
I really liked your attention to the story details of the game, such as the symbols of the civilization, the engravings about the war with the humans (a really nice touch!), and the Duke's Scepter Hoard to name a few. It really fleshed out the fort in my mind. In the future, we ought to weigh the story-side of Contest Forts as well.

Slogo:
(Favorite Fort Bonus!)

P1 - Fire Snake Moats: 4/5
I like the design, and the functionality. A simple concept, but it is asthetically pleasing, thematically solid, and a defensive feature! Quite Dwarfy of you.

P2 - Crescent Tower: 3/5
Its an interesting design for a tower, and nice attention to the civilization. Not earth-shattering, but I like it fine.

P3 - Spiral Ramp/Obsidian Breach: 3/5
A nice, well-defended way into the Grotto. A giant tunnel spiralling down into the deeps conjures a pretty mental image, though the execution still seems rather plain. Notheless, nice work.

P4 - The Grotto: 5/5
Yeah, this earns you my Favorite Fort badge. I absolutely love this design. it's like an cave-city situated atop an underground sea! something about it is so Jules Verne... I love it! Fantastic design on this, and a project of huge scope! This could have made multiple projects in itself, but the natural cave accents add a fantastic touch to it.

P5 - The Yard: 5/5
A thematic city above ground... adding all those unique buildings designed for certain industrial purposes makes this feel like a real city. Well done!

Layout: 3/5
The city seems divided between the surface and the underground. Nothing wrong with it, but efficiency and short trips is perhaps not one of this fort's strong points.

Beauty: 5/5
Aboveground, you have a series of buildings that look like a city. Below, a flooded open-air cave-town atop an underground sea.

Toughness: 4/5
The Fire Snake Moat seems like it defends the fort pretty well, and the spiraling downward tunnel is also well-guarded.

Industry: 3/5
Seems to be fairly average in its industrial capacity.

Creativity: 5/5
Beautiful city design, overal, and a very nice use of an aquifer... instead of destroying it, you incorporated it into the city design, which was very nice.

Realmfighter
P1 No Aquifer Piercing: 4/5
P2 Obsidian Volcano: 4/5
P3 Hermit Cave: 4/5
P4 Noble "Cloud": 3/5
P5 Outside Fort: 3/5
2 layout: 4/5
3 beauty: 3/5
4 toughness: 3/5
5 industry: 3/5
6 creativity: 4/5

Vieto
P1 Stadium: 4/5
P2 Perpetual Dining Hall: 3/5
P3 Apartments: 3/5
P4 Underground Watertower: 3/5
P5 Magma Gate: 5/5
2 layout: 3/5
3 beauty: 3/5
4 toughness: 3/5
5 industry: 3/5
6 creativity: 4/5

Rosedrake
P1 Worldkiller 2000: 4/5
P2 Power Generator: 4/5
P3 Greenspike Maze: 3/5
P4 Legendary Dining Room: 3/5
P5 Dungeon Mistress' Mausoleum: 4/5
2 layout: 4/5
3 beauty: 4/5
4 toughness: 4/5
5 industry: 3/5
6 creativity: 4/5

So there you go. That's everything I received.

[Slogo]

Lol at using Slogo and Logo I didn't even realize I do that here. I go by both in so many places I don't even think about it anymore.

I'm curious now what I had for defense, I know I had some crossbowmen and at least a few champions but were they really just all Wrestlers? I think I remember having 2-4 squads of 2 xbowmen and 2 squads of 3x axe/sword/hammer dwarves but they were probably all just wrestlers. I never actually used the bridges for defense. Any time there was a siege I'd just send any of the nearby military out to deal with it. It was actually a huge pain, a lot of the times the captain or 1/2 of the unit would be off in the tower or the grotto grabbing food or whatever. I also remember a bunch of... accidents... with my Military and guard. I know I lost at least 1 to a cave in, a few more to training injuries, and at least 1-2 to a siege (due to the aforementioned problem of 1/2 the unit being elsewhere).

The bridges are deceptively useful it takes forever for the dwarves to haul everything inside. By the time they do the next siege has already been relieved of their belongings. This is especially problematic when sieges opt to stand on the other side of a part of the moat scaring dwarves rather than pathing around.

[Retro]

Looking over my scorecard again, I can see all sorts of typoes and awkward formatting caused by me just running a hasty ctrl-h to replace a bunch of the formatting I lost from typing it up in Word. Eep. Sorry for accidentally spelling your name both wrong and incredibly awkwardly, realmfighter XD

Yeah, in terms of defense I generally found just-wrestlers less impressive than those with other weapon skills and did a quick armour gauge all around to see what kind of a hit they could take. I also tried to see what toughness would be if the drawbridges were hypothetically left down, since I've never liked the use of just raising a tiny bridge and keeping out an entire siege (or just locking a door in one case), so I tended to give a lower score to those who relied on that. But what am I explaining myself over and over again for? My scorecard's right up there.