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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

[eerr]

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!

you can right-click, send to, compressed (.zip) file.

[Jim Groovester]

Wow, nice work, Vieto and Martin. Damned impressive.

[Martin]

I didn't notice that Vieto had multiple shots under some of those. That arena is really cool. Is the roof clear glass?

And I never did figure out how to get fresh water below the aquifer layers - no matter what I tried it was always salty.

[Slogo]

Did you try pumping up water into a tank that was flowing in from the edge of the map rather than letting it drop? I'm about to try that on my map and see if it works.

[Vieto]

I didn't notice that Vieto had multiple shots under some of those. That arena is really cool. Is the roof clear glass?

And I never did figure out how to get fresh water below the aquifer layers - no matter what I tried it was always salty.

no, the roof is micro line. glass floors aren't transparent for me, for some reason. If glass was clear, it would be really cool, and I would have.

Also, all you need to do to get fresh water below the aquifer is to pump it below the aquifer. It's the crossing of the aquifer biome that makes it salty.

Still, I must say your's is very impressive.

[nil]

fyi I won't be submitting, way too addicted to savescumming for this

[Martin]

I didn't try pumping from the edge of the map.

And I did try letting it fall and then pumping from below the aquifer. It was still salty. Maybe I'll play with it some more later and work this stuff out. It's why I like the challenges, after all - I learn loads of new things.

[Solifuge]

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

Will there be another?

But of course! I've got some plans in the works, but I'll take a poll to generate some community feedback before deciding on anything.

We've got a few entries turned in so far, but we're still waiting on a number of players yet, so keep 'em coming. Also, I'd appreciate it a great deal, and it'd help me a lot, if players could let me know (again, if you have already) whether you're going to be trying to finish up soon, turn in your map as is, or drop out. It'll help get things going faster, so we can start getting the judges prepared ASAP.

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SUBMISSIONS SO FAR:
1) Rosedrake: Save

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1 million fortress wealth. 64 Dwarves. Dungeon mistress.
[ARTIFACT:NO]

Population cap: 65

+See the notes on each lever inside the fortress.
+Most structures are made out of green glass

=Aquifer breached via cave-in, and then obsidian casting
=Top of the magma pipe sealed to make way for the magma flooder

-Dwarves live under a glass dome.
--Sealing the dome:
---1. Floorhatch: obsidian lever. Allows merchants to the depot with their wagons
---2. Drawbridge: complete and total 100% seal from the outside world. Safety from the flood
--Top level completely floored

-Waterfall
--Activate only when dwarves are unhappy
--Drain it by repeatedly pulling the microcline lever in the center of the heavily doored chamber

xSwimming pool
xxNot yet done...

-Perpetual Motion Power Generator
--12000 power output, 4000 used
--spans 6 z-levels, 3 of them containing the waterwheels
--completely sealed from the outside world (top level completely floored)

-Worldkiller 2000
--Two modes available, water and magma
--Even the construction process kills FPS
---Even with temperatures off
--Output is five z-levels aboveground

-Greenspike Maze
--Estimated to be at least 500 tiles long
--With alarm (cinnabar retracting bridges shaped like an exclamation mark), activates when invaders step on the pressure plate before entering the maze
--All dwarves had their cleaning labour turned off, thus the maze will be completely covered in permanent blood in the future
--Levers:
---Lock invaders in
---Lock the maze from the fort
---Spikes activation (repeat pull lever)


-Snowflake designed Bedrooms
--Accomodated all the dwarves, with some unoccupied rooms

-Dungeon Mistress' mausoleum
--Surrounded by magma (glass windows)

2) Vieto: Save

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Overview:
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:
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.


Perpetual Dining Hall:
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.


Apartments:
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:
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:
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.

3) Martin: Save | Map

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Z screen:


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.

[Martin]

Don't forget realmfighter's upload.

[Eagle]

Martin: You need to go check out the Scour the Earth thread. Its right up your alley.

EDIT: Derp, you've already seen it. Sorry.

I suggest the next challenge be survival also, on a haunted mountain, with a chasm and pit. As elves. With orc mod.

[Magua]

I'm hurrying up to finish.  Whatever happens, I'll post tonight.  The FPS, cap'n, she cannae take much more!

[Martin]

I also have an idea for a survival challenge if Sol wants a break (or wants to play).

[CobaltKobold]

My time-sense gets fuddled when I'm low on energy. I have more time than I thought by a year. I'm not submitting yet, only one project is done nd..well..despite my infamous keyboard problems I'm having plenty of fun. (And some Fun. This summer saw a

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ax-ambush at edge of magma, combined with a magma flood on a mining level, that titan, a second squad ninja-de-hiding without apparent "Ambush!" message...and a legendary miner burning to death well after the magma was contained/evaporating by managing to dig into the bottom right corner. Three deaths apparently enough to nerve off migrants.

 That spring, arrival of Economy pack of nobles (upgrading to Count with wave), before their rooms had furniture available. economy causing half the population to sleep in front of the ballistas because unoccupied rooms don't autorent. Also, ye new black and weapon-smiths are all perpetually injured.

Anyway, I'm not really feeling up to rushing the completion, so feel free to DQ or extend me. If you don't wat to wait for the map, hints:

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Prism Tower, Duck Pond and water supply, magma moat(latter two subsumed into hectoproject...and kiloproject resp)

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Magma Work-Grid, Operation Beat-The-Heat, Lil' Guzzler

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The Crystal Palace, Dwarf Fortress (It'll make sense later), The Mountainhome

Peeking at others, I don't feel like mine'll measure up well. :-/ Oh well. 120 dwarves and still 10-20 fps. *yawn* tired...

[Martin]

I think project naming should be part of the criteria and should be presented before final reveal. I'm really looking forward to Cobolt's projects based on name alone.

[CobaltKobold]

Unfortunately, as I said, I'm sick and I want to play it at leisure, not rush, and it's only Late Summer 104 (Not that it isn't fun.) On another side, it's gotten me quite comfortable with my tileset that someone called "clock-radio". On another, like I used to sub ' for v, now I'm in habit of 4 for left..which doesn't work elsewhere.

edit: Some of the projects...amusingly...interfere with each other's looks.