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[Jim Groovester]

Lucky me that 31.04 came out just as soon as school was over. I might actually have a chance to finish this.

Will this have the same set of rules and projects to be completed as before?

[Martin]

Yes, no other changes to the rules or projects.

[Kipi]

How about the deadline?
Just curious, I think I wont get even near it with eight years of in-game time and speedy game like the .04 is...

[Moontayle]

w00t! Too bad I've got a boatload of prior stuff happening today or I'd jump right in. Tomorrow then. Can't wait to break in a completely new fort on my new rig.

[Kipi]

Do I see right, is it small-scaled waterfall over there?! 

The map looks nice, though hard to read as I've not got used to ASCII version as I have been using graphic backs earlier. Oh well, I think this could be good time to learn the native version...

Oh crap, or should I say... OH CARP!!!
Yep, the river seems to be full of carps... FUN!!!


EDIT:
Okay, a question regarding the rule of enemies being able to path in the fortress: Is it against the rule to use drowning chambers, which will only be used to kill enemies who can get trapped there. Basically, the room is cut out from the rest of the fortress for the duration of filling it (enough time to kill anything inside) with two bridges. When the the drowning chamber is sealed the secondary entrance will be open, and thus anything outside should be able to path inside the fortress.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I would be on the safe side and just use a water cannon to push enemies off a cliff.

[Martin]

Drowning chambers are fine so long as there's no extended path blocking to the fortress. Your design sounds fine.

[Kipi]

Good to know. The embark location did gave me a lots of ideas how to build the entrance of the fortress, including the drowning chamber as a defense.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Carp tarp?

[Kipi]

Well, actually didn't think it that way, but it would be awesome!
Sadly, basing on what I read from other threads, the carps are not so dangerous anymore. And my flooding chamber would rely on pumps to get the water, so no carp transporting... 

[Martin]

The carp aren't so bad any more, but that doesn't mean some of the other things living down there aren't. One of my early attempts at this map was going to have an entrance down at water level and while I wasn't looking 5 of the starting 7 were dragged down to their death.

[Kipi]

Okay, small update, as I have already begun the contest fort.

So, I'm slowly getting used to ASCII. That's the biggest problem right now, as I have always played with graphic packs (first Mayday, then Phoebus). Luckily I've had lots of experience with ASCII RPGs (A.D.O.M. especially), so the learning curve ain't that big.

Now, is the embark profile the very same as in the previous version? Most of it looks like, though I don't remember having four(?!) dogs there.

Entrance carved, partially formed to support the incoming flooding chamber (that's when I have my industry running). Only 1/4 of the world is accessible to my fortress due the rivers, though that's fine by rules as I never cut the pathing out.

First stones I hit when digging down was Bituminous coal! YAY!

Not much else going on, moved all the food inside, my only miner is trying to get the industrial sections ready so that I can begun producing floodgates and other things necessary to muddy the farming section.

Oh, and it just turned to summer, first year.

[Martin]

Yeah, the profile is altered a bit as there were some items in the last one that weren't terribly useful. People will still hate it, but if there's anything that's clear from reading the forums the last few years it's that there is nothing resembling consensus on embark profiles.

[Josiwe]

Sign me up as a player, please. I'm using the second embark, it's fairly peaceful so far, nice mix of resources. Only complaint is that

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the shrubs are all longland grass, and I don't really have the bags to quern it to flour and cook it. Hopefully my dorfs don't starve before I can irrigate my farm area.

[Urist Imiknorris]

The shrubs CAN'T all be longland grass... There are so many with [BIOME:NOT_FREEZING]...