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[kilakan]

aw man, people \keep leaving and it hasn't really started yet....

[Imp]

It'll be alright.  This contest is somewhat on hold, once it'd active again, I expect/hope that people will join or possibly rejoin.

Amusingly, not one person submitted anything for the original ending date, least not that I know of.

Just think - if any one person had, that one person would have won, since they had no competition

The winner of this master's competition might have had a map scoring the lowest possible single point in every category, just because there was no other choice for which map was best!

[Jimmy]

Trouble is that map was unplayable for eight years given the bugs. Trying to just survive zombie horses for that long isn't worth the grief.

[Josiwe]

I'm thinking about joining the competition - not that I consider myself a master, but for the fun/challenge of it. Just surviving 8 years in a hostile environment where you can't wall off the nasty would be an accomplishment, for me. If the merge release is playable and we get a new embark for it I might hop in.

[Neyvn]

Trouble is that map was unplayable for eight years given the bugs. Trying to just survive zombie horses for that long isn't worth the grief.

Your kidding right, You start with a Lightsaber...  I mean Axe...
Just remove the Carpenters woodcutting skill, make someone a Uniform with a Axe and nearly every Zombie will be cut in half. The real problem is the Monsters with only one body part or so, cause to kill a Zombie perfectly you need to either cut it in half (Lower from Upper) or remove its head...

[Jim Groovester]

Hmm. Martin hasn't been logged in since April 30th.

In light of this, I will pseudo-officially declare that the DFM3 is on hold, pending the release of a half-decent bug-fix version and Martin's return. This, as far as I can tell, was the plan anyway.

If Martin doesn't return for about a week or two after a half-decent bug-fix comes out, I'll step in and run a new map.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

that sounds fair but add on to it that you should try to contact him some how after the decent bug fix comes out but before the week is up just to be fair to him, after all he did start this all.

[Retro]

IIRC Martin doesn't come on the forums that often but keeps track of the devlog, so once the merge is out I expect he'll be back quite quickly.

[Martin]

Oh, I'm still here. Been checking the devlog at least twice a day. I only just noticed that I got logged out of the forums somehow. I'm coming off a particularly busy two weeks, but everything is ready to go once .04 drops and I'm carving out a little extra free time to oversee things now that it looks like we're very close.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Looks like .01 save will be compatible in the new version.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

looks like .04 is out but in a beta sorta of way.

05/16/2010: DF 0.31.04 is up, but I've put it in a forum thread instead of as the main download. A lot was rewritten and I don't want to jump to replace the main download links until the worst bugs are sorted out, but I don't imagine people would appreciate another months long private testing process. Hopefully the show-stoppers will be ironed out soon. Then I can get back to military/equipment/combat/etc. bugs. I'll probably be taking some days off in a bit... it has been a long time since I took any time off and I'm starting to feel it (or maybe that's just because it's 4PM and I didn't sleep getting this thing up the last many hours). I'll let you know in here when the month-end or whatever break begins.

[Martin]

DFM3 Map #2 is now available here: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2361


No undead and some nice new features. I think people will like this map a lot.

Main post updated.

[Neyvn]

Why does this map look strangely familiar...

Wasn't it used in a Lets Play thing???

[Martin]

It might be similar, but I genned it from a random seed and have not uploaded it prior to just now.

[Neyvn]

Doesn't matter, none the less very interesting map...

Now if you excuse me I am going to go work our how to do the Under the Magma Fort thing...