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Toast024

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What exactly are slopes?
« on: July 20, 2010, 09:20:04 am »
As we know, every mountain in the world is not a series of ramps. This leads to my theory that some natural "ramps" or slopes as they are called are actually walls that are easy to climb. What do you guys think about this?
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Re: What exactly are ramps?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2010, 09:38:33 am »
Natural ramps are called "slopes" in the game.

It just means that terrain is not perfectly flat,
but rather slopes from one altitude to the next.

Because every mountain isn't a step pyramid either.
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2010, 04:01:03 pm »
It's an abstraction, necessitated by DF's tyle-based world representation.
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2010, 04:02:36 pm »
Quote from: Toast024 on July 20, 2010, 09:20:04 am
What do you guys think about this?
I think the distinction is meaningless.
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2010, 04:11:35 pm »
Quote from: Toast024 on July 20, 2010, 09:20:04 am
walls that are easy to climb.
When was the last time you saw a goat climbing a wall?
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2010, 05:11:54 pm »
Last week. Our grandma's goats in her village run up almost vertical walls on our barn. But other critters can't do such a task :P.
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2010, 05:20:50 pm »
Spider goat.
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2010, 06:00:33 pm »
Quote from: Deon on July 20, 2010, 05:11:54 pm
Last week. Our grandma's goats in her village run up almost vertical walls on our barn. But other critters can't do such a task :P.
Darn Soviets, training their goats to work as undercover KGB agents. The CIA thought of it first!
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2010, 06:07:53 pm »
Quote from: ILikePie on July 20, 2010, 04:11:35 pm
Quote from: Toast024 on July 20, 2010, 09:20:04 am
walls that are easy to climb.
When was the last time you saw a goat climbing a wall?

Check it
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2010, 06:41:48 pm »
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2010, 06:56:40 pm »
Baby ibex are way cuter.
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2010, 06:56:51 pm »
Actually, part of what annoys me is that mountains theoretically block overland travel on the world map... except in the local map, a wagon can actually go almost flying with only one tile on a ramp, and all its other tiles hanging over a 45-degree slope around it.

Yeah, sure, there's erosion, but it shouldn't be so easy to traverse a mountain that it's basically as easy to traverse as flat open grasslands.
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2010, 08:47:01 pm »
Multi-tile entities will always be something this game struggles with.
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2010, 08:59:18 pm »
How many are there? Only wagons as far as I know. Let's keep it that way. =3
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Re: What exactly are slopes?
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2010, 10:32:58 am »
I really don't think that Bronze Colossi are single tile creatures.
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