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Author Topic: Do the needs of the group outweigh the life of a single dwarf?  (Read 2685 times)

Pandarsenic

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Re: Do the needs of the group outweigh the life of a single dwarf?
« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2009, 03:17:30 pm »

Well, I personally rather like to create, er, stockpiles of infinite Prepared Meals.

That means big fields for Quarry Bushes (and brewable plants)

Which means I typically have around 5 legendary miners so I can quickly create new stockpiles, a ton of haulers for when I designate masses of stone for dumping, and a lot of "Planter" peasants who do nothing but pick up my plants.

Thus, stonecrafters.
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Re: Do the needs of the group outweigh the life of a single dwarf?
« Reply #16 on: November 23, 2009, 10:09:47 pm »

For the mercy of Armok, it's like this game is training you to be a dictator who kills for his own amusement. I see a lot of dark threads like this, especially guilty is the Mermaid farmer.
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Re: Do the needs of the group outweigh the life of a single dwarf?
« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2009, 10:20:41 pm »

For the mercy of Armok, it's like this game is training you to be a dictator who kills for his own amusement. I see a lot of dark threads like this, especially guilty is the Mermaid farmer.

You don't have to. It's just more entertaining.

WARNING: FOLLOWING LINK IS TO TVTROPES. COUNT DORKU IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST TIME, PRODUCTIVITY, JOBS, DWARVES, OR FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS THAT MAY ENSUE FROM CLICKING THE LINK.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideogameCrueltyPotential
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Miners are diggin out nicely, everything will go right, i hope. hell, what am i even saying? this is dwarf fortress. it wont go right.

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Re: Do the needs of the group outweigh the life of a single dwarf?
« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2009, 10:39:32 pm »

For the mercy of Armok, it's like this game is training you to be a dictator who kills for his own amusement. I see a lot of dark threads like this, especially guilty is the Mermaid farmer.

You don't have to. It's just more entertaining.

WARNING: FOLLOWING LINK IS TO TVTROPES. COUNT DORKU IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST TIME, PRODUCTIVITY, JOBS, DWARVES, OR FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS THAT MAY ENSUE FROM CLICKING THE LINK.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideogameCrueltyPotential
But killing your OWN dwarves?
I'd understand if it was elves, but these are your DWARVES, they work laborous days just to please you and your unreasonable demands, only to be killed for your amusement. You have become what you hated most... Count Dorku, Noble.

I also believe killing things that don't attack or are to much a hassle to get, is pointless.
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Kietharr

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Re: Do the needs of the group outweigh the life of a single dwarf?
« Reply #19 on: November 24, 2009, 09:48:07 am »

Uh, OF COURSE YES! Do you know how many peasants I've sacrificed to Armok by making them open magma pipes?
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Hyndis

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Re: Do the needs of the group outweigh the life of a single dwarf?
« Reply #20 on: November 24, 2009, 11:11:07 am »

Uh, OF COURSE YES! Do you know how many peasants I've sacrificed to Armok by making them open magma pipes?

I make them engrave the walls of their tombmagma chamber before opening up the magma flow.   :D
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Re: Do the needs of the group outweigh the life of a single dwarf?
« Reply #21 on: November 24, 2009, 12:30:43 pm »

Uh, OF COURSE YES! Do you know how many peasants I've sacrificed to Armok by making them open magma pipes?

I make them engrave the walls of their tombmagma chamber before opening up the magma flow.   :D

If it's immediately destroyed, then it wasn't done for personal gain and is therefore true art, I suppose. Amusing.
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Hyndis

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Re: Do the needs of the group outweigh the life of a single dwarf?
« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2009, 12:40:33 pm »

Actually only engravings on the floor will be destroyed. Remember that walls containing magma do not actually touch the magma, thus engravings on the walls will not be destroyed.
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Re: Do the needs of the group outweigh the life of a single dwarf?
« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2009, 12:43:11 pm »

I never could do the "embark with no items" thing.  One pick, one axe, one crossbow.  That's as good a start as anything.
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