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Re: Awesome IRL embark sites
« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2010, 03:00:59 pm »
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Pros: Flux, Sedimentary, Ocean (mermaids?), Historical Goblin French invasions should provide interesting engravings!
Cons: No interesting wildlife.
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Re: Awesome IRL embark sites
« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2010, 04:40:07 pm »
ODOS ADDER, BEWARE IT'S DEADLY STING!
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Re: Awesome IRL embark sites
« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2010, 05:21:50 pm »
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Re: Awesome IRL embark sites
« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2010, 09:50:34 pm »
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Because I like it my embark location to be as cold and heartless as my military.
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Re: Awesome IRL embark sites
« Reply #19 on: June 09, 2010, 10:16:14 pm »
Quote from: Satarus on June 09, 2010, 03:00:59 pm
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Pros: Flux, Sedimentary, Ocean (mermaids?), Historical Elf French invasions should provide interesting engravings!
Cons: No interesting wildlife.
Corrected for you. Everyone knows that the English are the ugly fuckers that goblins are based on (not the French), and that their siege-friendly nature in DF was set to emulate their historical aggression towards the dwarfy (read: permanently pished) Scots ;D
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Re: Awesome IRL embark sites
« Reply #20 on: June 09, 2010, 10:46:09 pm »
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« Reply #21 on: June 09, 2010, 10:46:19 pm »
Montreal.  Pros: soil for farming.  Large river for fishing and water.  Demonstrated ability to build an underground city.  Island for easy defense.  Heavily forested.  Volcano.  Cons: beluga whales drag your dwarves to their deaths in the river in the summer; in the winter, the river freezes over so goblins can just walk right in.
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« Reply #22 on: June 10, 2010, 04:43:55 am »
How about Yellowstone?
Related: Wouldnt it be cool if geysers were implemented?
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« Reply #23 on: June 10, 2010, 04:48:23 am »
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« Reply #24 on: June 10, 2010, 04:50:12 am »
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Uluru/Ayer's Rock
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Re: Awesome IRL embark sites
« Reply #25 on: June 10, 2010, 05:03:04 am »
Quote from: numerobis on June 09, 2010, 10:46:19 pm
Montreal.  Pros: soil for farming.  Large river for fishing and water.  Demonstrated ability to build an underground city.  Island for easy defense.  Heavily forested.  Volcano.  Cons: beluga whales drag your dwarves to their deaths in the river in the summer; in the winter, the river freezes over so goblins can just walk right in.

Have to agree with this one. That underground is something. Why has no one yet mentioned the rock of Gibraltar?
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Re: Awesome IRL embark sites
« Reply #26 on: June 10, 2010, 05:26:55 am »
Quote from: pushy on June 09, 2010, 10:16:14 pm
Quote from: Satarus on June 09, 2010, 03:00:59 pm
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Pros: Flux, Sedimentary, Ocean (mermaids?), Historical Elf French invasions should provide interesting engravings!
Cons: No interesting wildlife.
Corrected for you. Everyone knows that the English are the ugly fuckers that goblins are based on (not the French), and that their siege-friendly nature in DF was set to emulate their historical aggression towards the dwarfy (read: permanently pished) Scots ;D
Actually, if you read back on English history we do have a tendency to pick fights with everyone.
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« Reply #27 on: June 10, 2010, 07:21:21 am »
Quote from: ancistrus on June 10, 2010, 04:43:55 am
How about Yellowstone?
Related: Wouldnt it be cool if geysers were implemented?

I was going to post the Teton mountains, just south of Yellowstone, but realized my pictures of there aren't on this computer.
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« Reply #28 on: June 10, 2010, 11:28:13 am »
Golden, Colorado.

In case you can't figure it out from the site... It's at the foothills to the Rocky Mountains, with a stream (brook) running through from the mountains to the plains. The stream bisects a MASSIVE basalt mesa, splitting it in twain. Inbetween said mesa is the location of the  Coors brewery. The Colorado School of Mines is located up the street.

Actually, if everyone there was a midget with a full beard, it'd already be DF IRL. It's a mining town with a thriving school devoted to engineering and mining, with a MASSIVE brewery operation and a population of drunks (students) who love to do nothing more than come up with crazy projects (like putting a gigantic "M" on the top of a mountain, and then lighting it up.)

As for rock layers, it's mostly igneous intrusive with sedimentary layers scattered around (sandstone, mainly) and some metamorphic layers deeper in the mountains (slate, and some gneiss.) Also, limestone flux.
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« Reply #29 on: June 10, 2010, 11:56:07 am »
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Corrected for you. Everyone knows that the English are the ugly fuckers that goblins are based on (not the French), and that their siege-friendly nature in DF was set to emulate their historical aggression towards the dwarfy (read: permanently pished) Scots ;D

LOVE this

...Although, I'm not sure I'd liken the 100-years-war French elf-like...  There's a reason the battle at Crecy makes such awesome comic book fodder...
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