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[Kamudo]

Okay, I wanna try a little mega project. I've been seeing myself building one for a while, and I was wondering if Building Midgar from Final Fantasy 7 was a good idea. I know that I'd probably have to dumb it down a lot.

Here's the idea's I've got so far.

I want to build it out of black stone. I want it built over a Magma pipe, so I can go ahead and channel from it, to 8 different places, where the 'reactors' would be. Completely for show of course.

I want it to be huge.

Other than that, I'm drawing blanks. Any suggestions?

Any suggestions? o-o

[xdarkcodex]

Yes I believe supports can be built on top of each other but I never tried it so dont take my word for it. You ca make like a giant tree. Make like a cylinder made out of wood up a few zs and make a sphere or something on top of it or something make out of green,yellow or red stones.Build a trade depot on top of it and when the elven caravan come wait till they unload there stuff and destroy the tree.

[Kamudo]

-Scratches head- Okay, thanks.

I dunno what you mean by a giant tree.. >_> I don't wanna build that. xD

I'll find a picture, for those unfamiliar.

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[Quietust]

Supports can be stacked, though you'll need a floor tile in between each one.

[Shaostoul]

Good luck with it dude! It'd be awesome to see midgar in DF. Should be to scale tho hahaha.. >.> Blue prints for midgar anyone?

[Kamudo]

Thanks. -Scratches head-

Is there anyway to create blueprints aside from drawing? Cause I don't wanna start building and then make a mistake. =/

Thanks for the Support Question I had. ^^

[JamPet]

You wouldn't need supports for the plates right?  Just a tall pillar going up and up and a support at the very top.  Once you get to right under the plate level you could build a little platform where is located both the support and the lever to deconstruct it, so you could reenact that scene.  The pillar should be knocked over or mostly knocked over by the falling plate.  That doesn't sound like cheating it to me (Although no helicopters in DF, so the Turks would not be getting any dramatic helicopter rescues. Whatevs!).  I guess that you would use bridges to link the separate plates together.

On top of the plates you could build houses for all of the skilled dwarves and place your industries.  Down underneath in the slums could be low quality furniture and rooms for your hauler class.  Let miasma rot in the slums and try and nice up the upper levels with a statue garden maybe to preserve the feel of it the game.  And of course in the center of the city, a huge tower built to the very top of the sky in your map housing the Shin-ra military elite and the nobles of the city!  No forget to capture a suitably dangerous monster and hide it in the tower to play the part of Genova.

Sounds like some fun!

[Kamudo]

Hehe, I like your suggestion. *-*

Thank you for your help. ^^

I was thinking that the Mayor could live in the top most floor of the Shinra building. I really don't wanna build it super tall, but I could try to recreate most of the floors. Hojo's lab, lobby area, Top floor, along with the balcony.

Having a Genova incident would be cool. And build a big Highway or something, for Caravans. O:

[Chewykittens]

Well, you can do a practice version to get the idea down.  My suggestion would be to make the Imperial City from Elderscrolls 4 (Oblivion.)  Round shape walled up into slices, 6/8 towers along the outer wall (Going from memory cause I can't find any good pics.) And a giant tower in the middle.

Make that first, all the while making up the design; then move up to Midgar.  As for ways to draw up blueprints (there's really no other way) I suggest paint.net and abuse the hell out of the layers.

[Kamudo]

Yeah, I'll do a practice first. I know I'll most likely get it wrong, but it'll still be fun. I'm trying to decide if It should be built above ground, or if I should dig it out. Partly because giant plates would be annoying to build, plus the.. I dunno.. x-x;

Well, Paint it is then. =/ I'll do my best to provide a shitty Blueprint. xD

[Kamudo]

Ew, I started working on it slowly, and my computer fucking restarted. -_-

Anyways, if I build walls diagonally, will they connect?

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The x being a wall? >_>
If that makes any sense.

[beekay]

Nope. Everything will be able to move through the diagonal gaps (except for miasma, mist, smoke, etc).

[Kamudo]

Damn. =/ Well at least I don't have to build walls on top.. Aside from houses, but those are square. xD

[monk12]

Obviously, the magma reactors need to be able to flood the countryside around Midgar in case of Weapon attacks! Why do you think it was so dark and barren in the game?

If you're feeling ambitious, you could replicate latter-day Midgar's Mako Cannon as a Magma Cannon fed from a cistern fueled by the reactors.

And yeah, just make the slums a hellhole. Refuse piles everywhere, animals messing up pathing, lack of food, water, and booze, and periodic Plate Drops. Who needs a practice map when part of the fortress design is the ability to destroy any given segment?

[Kamudo]

Well, the map I've selected has no magma, at least for the practice.

So far, my people keep getting attacked by leopards, and two have died. It's mid summer, and They've barely made it to the second floor of the central Pillar.

My fort is 16 floors above ground, so I'm doing the plate 5 Z levels tall, and Shinra building will be 10 z levels tall, with one to spare at the top.

So far, I think I've got the measurements all screwy, or my map isn't big enough to support Midgar.

I've already started on the slums. It sucks. I try to keep the Plate Dwellers and the slum dwellers separate, but it doesn't work. -Shrugs-