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[sava2004]

You And your fellow Humans Have decided to start a new town. Your King has given 5 years to do as much as possible. After 5 years he will send a team of men to judge your town, and if it meets the requirements, you will become the nation's "Head Architect".

So this is how everything is gonna work. I will be providing you with a map. The rest is up to you. You are to submit your entries on November 14, Which is a bit more than 2 weeks from now. The Entries will be judged by both a point based system, and by other players.
The Points.

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"Woody" - Your Fortress is made completely out of wood. Worth 2 points.
"Dragon-proof" - Your Fortress is made completely out of stone and metal. Worth 3 points.
"Walk to Work" - The entrance to your mine is a minimum of 40 tiles away from your town's center. Diagonals count! Worth 3 points.
"Fear of the Unknown" Don't go higher or lower than 3 z levels. Worth 5 points.
"1st Place!" - Get voted into first place. Worth 15 points.
"2nd Place." - Get voted into second place. Worth 10 points.
"3rd Place." - Get voted into 3rd place. Worth 5 points.

If you have any more ideas for acheivments, feel free to leave them in your reply, if I think they're worthy enough, i'l add them to the list!
The Map (and other stuff you'll need to play).

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What we'll be using = http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1537
Everything that you'll need to play is included in that save.

[The Architect]

Well, my only human town was my 3rd ever, left it alone after 3 years. If I build, it will be for the flavor of the town and not to earn achievements. It's going to be *authentic* to the best of my ability.

[Duke 2.0]

 You might want to provide the entire DF folder, as many of us have different ideas of what constitutes a human mod. Also, you forgot the Fear of the Unknown award.

[sava2004]

Oh, sorry about that. Updated the main post with the achievement, and some info on what we will use.

[barconis]

CAT_MOUTH fixes are required in order to load the world. Can't generate an embark without them, I get a missing body part fatal error. With the CAT_MOUTH fixes from the wiki, and 'orc mod' from dffd, I get a missing shape definition fatal error, with no other information. You really need to just package everything up.

[sava2004]

see, the problem is, I have LOTS of other things in my DF humie folder. Lots of unorganized things that might be important DF files, or they might be un-needed crap.

[barconis]

Eventually we'll get it. Now there's a missing reaction; and I had added the awemedinite reaction before trying it (removed it again), so I don't think it's that.

[sava2004]

This is just retarded. I'm compressing the WHOLE folder, and uploading it.

[Ol_Splatterguts]

Try this: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1540
 
I'm an (moderately) experienced DF player, first-time forum poster, so hopefully this isn't useless.

[sava2004]

Horrah! thanks alot!

[Squirrelloid]

Some questions about scoring:

Fear of the unknown - as in, you can go up *and* down 3 z-levels (7 total z-levels including the home z-level) and score this?  or you can only use 3 total z-levels?  I haven't looked at the map yet - if the terrain isn't flat, how do you judge this?  is it at a local x,y point only n z-levels can be used, or does is it a global 'you can use z = z1, z2, z3, ... z7 and no more'?

This award does seem kind of lame since it limits the height of megaprojects if you try to get it.  So I imagine people will totally ignore it since no one is going to win a voting award by not building upward a bunch.  It might be better just to limit mining depth...

Woody/Dragon Proof: I assume this only counts constructions?  Or do you need to deconstruct your workshops and rebuild them after you have suitable materials too?

If you do some construction with metal bars/blocks, is it still dragon proof?

Walk to work: What counts as an 'entrance' to your fortress?  If i line the walkway with walls, but have a definable entrance at one end and the mine at the other, are they still walking to work?

[sava2004]

Fear of the unknown = You can build up AND down, and the starting Z level is the level where the building's "Ground" floor is.

Woody/Dragon proof only counts constructions, And yea i should probably at metal to "Dragon proof"

I've Updated so "walking to work" is 40 squares away from the center of your fort.

The acheivements are pretty limiting, and I really only have them here as an extra challenge, Whoever gets the 1st place award should win, unless the other guy has 2nd place and a clusterfuck of acheivments, and the first guy has none

[The Architect]

What alterations did you make to the humans? Did you add trap components or anything distinctly non-human?

[sava2004]

Trap components are the only "non-humie" things there. And the trap compenents are there just so you can build screwpumps.

[Squirrelloid]

Download gives me 'missing bodypart: cat mouth' error on trying to play.  Do you use the fix on the wiki, or something else?

Now i'm missing a reaction definition...  Can the download actually just be a full DF install so it actually works?

Edit: I am using the DFFD 1540 dl.

Edit edit: sorry, that was the dl from the first post.  For some reason i thought the OP had been updated to the new dl... trying the other one...

Edit^3: Same issue.  What reaction definition am i missing?