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[KenboCalrissian]

Strange, I didn't make any copper weapons... only 5 suits of chain and plate, really (and 5 suits of leather armor).  They must have already had those.

[sir labreck]

Probably, did I'm the only useful dwarf doing something constructive and not dying of it? Anyways, I love my crossbow

[nil]

Probably, did I'm the only useful dwarf doing something constructive and not dying of it? Anyways, I love my crossbow

I made the copper weapons, for sparring.

[The Architect]

Flooding old mines with magma is a solution!

Give me 16th I'll do all this to save SGIX!
Then I'll ask Nahkh to inspect. His tgchan quests attract poorly.

This is a really bad idea. Melting things to get rid of them is generally bad, because a significant amount of melted items are tracked by the game forever, even after they disappear. You have to use a garbage compactor to properly annihilate items. This is information that should be spread around more on our forums! The other options are chasms, pits and flows where the item will fall off the map.

I now make a point of emptying areas I am going to flood with magma to avoid this, as I have several hundred melted globs on my best fort's stock menu that don't actually exist.

[sir labreck]

Listen to the brain guy ^^ Another use of stone, more constructive is to make gigantic outside construction, like an above-city.

Or use catapult to make it fall outside the map, I think that work? Just don't make the FPS get too low, not a problem for me now, but for other...

[Lord Shonus]

Probably, did I'm the only useful dwarf doing something constructive and not dying of it? Anyways, I love my crossbow

Actually, you've been in bed for awhile with a yellow head.


BTW, nil, I sealed off the fortification path you made because the soldiers kept taking too long  a path to get anywhere, but I didn't destroy it, so if anyone wants to use it, it's a trivial matter to re-open it.

[nil]

Too long?  Madness!  It's the best ever I say!

(but seriously they're way way faster than the guys they're shooting at, plus I already built an optional bypass...  each to their own, though, if I've learned one thing from Sparkgears its that perfectly decent players can have wildly divergent ideas of not only what is good, but what's even acceptable)

edit:  Okay, now that I look at it, I don't understand your reasoning at all.  You did the exact equivalent of dropping the bypass bridge I had already built in, only permenently.  I guess I didn't explain the bypass well enough so it's sort of my own fault, but that's kind of a bummer.  Hopefully we don't get a big frost giant siege too soon, we're pretty much defenseless against them.

[Lord Shonus]

No, even with the bridge dropped, soldiers would tend to go through the winding path, even to go to the main entrance. You'll notice that I covered all the external entrances as well.

[KenboCalrissian]

How do you open that bypass, anyway?  I looked everywhere for the lever and couldn't find it.  It was really bugging me... on my turn, all traffic went in and out through my magma trap because it was the shortest way.

[nil]

No, even with the bridge dropped, soldiers would tend to go through the winding path, even to go to the main entrance. You'll notice that I covered all the external entrances as well.

Worked fine for me....  The path wasn't even accessible when the bridge was down, except from the far entrance, and with it being a dead end they should never have had any reason to go down there (unless maybe you had large squads stationed in front of the fortifications)

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Whatever though, like I said if I wanted people to use my shit I should have gone to the trouble of actually explaining how to do so.  edit: And there could be issues with squad members running to the other sides of walls like there so they can stand "next to" their leader, I've seen that in similar setups.

How do you open that bypass, anyway?  I looked everywhere for the lever and couldn't find it.  It was really bugging me... on my turn, all traffic went in and out through my magma trap because it was the shortest way.

Upper left in the lever room, for what it's worth.

[Overspeculated]

Oh hey, I missed my turn.

Oh well.

[Demonic Spoon]

Ello ello. Glad to see this beast is still going more or less. 

Gimme the 17th?

[Heron TSG]

Hey, you're back!

[Demonic Spoon]

Yeah, I am! 

What's been happening lately?

Has ajar started playing yet?

[Heron TSG]

Not that he's posted. The past few SparkGears have been a bit worse for wear without you or Nahkh.