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Author Topic: Chasms should be visible from site selection screen  (Read 486 times)

DJ

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Chasms should be visible from site selection screen
« on: December 17, 2007, 01:24:00 pm »
I don't know if this has been suggested before, but a quick search didn't find anything.

I often want to play a map with a chasm, but it's major pain to find one. Making it visible from the site selection screen, just like magma vents, would save me a lot of time and hair.

From the immersion perspective, it makes perfect sense. I assume that dwarves send out prospectors and this is how we know what the area we want to settle looks like and what stone layers are present. I find it hard to believe that these prospectors would fail to notice gigantic holes in the ground.

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Armok

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Re: Chasms should be visible from site selection screen
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2007, 02:05:00 pm »
Seconded.
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Akroma

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Re: Chasms should be visible from site selection screen
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2007, 02:54:00 pm »
but only chasms that are connected to the surface

anything else would be boring

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Re: Chasms should be visible from site selection screen
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2007, 07:32:00 pm »
Agreed.
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Chaos

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Re: Chasms should be visible from site selection screen
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2007, 01:30:00 pm »
Especially as chasms are dangerous, what with monsters basically spewing out of them and whatnot (ok, maybe a slight exaggeration). The same, however, then holds true for caves and ruins...
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Alfador

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Re: Chasms should be visible from site selection screen
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2007, 05:23:00 pm »
Agreed with both DJ and Akroma.
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