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[Gavinfoxx]

Yes, I know the prefab fortresses TOTALLY SUCK, and the 'computer' is not playing the same game that dwarf fortress mode is...

...BUT...

has anyone ever made a WORKING fortress that takes the basic 'look' and some of the basic layout concepts from those prefab dwarf forts that you find in adventure mode? With some modifications, of course, but having a good, quality fortress that takes as much inspiration from the prefab forts as possible? Is this a worthwhile goal?  If so, has anyone posted screenshots of this sort of fort?

[anotherthing]

That's a good question. It seems to me the human towns are fairly functional, but the dwarven cities really don't seem to be. I can't see how the fortresses in Adventure Mode would survive a siege or a FB/Collosus showing up. All they need to do is walk in the top.

I just kind of wonder if that's how Toady makes his fortresses.

[Gavinfoxx]

What about putting the entrance at the end of one of those long halls?

[Johuotar]

I once saw fort which was just big hole in the ground with staircases at all sides. No roof. I lolled so hard. 

Some forts I've seen have been ok, though difficult but possible and I have been thinking of building one.

[dogstile]

I took fort ideas from human forts. Each house is a hole in the ground with a hatch on it. there's a perimeter wall and some above ground stockpile buildings. Works quite well.

[Toast024]

Once one of the forts actually connected to the caverns. Its reasonable to belive that the forts are intended to be more complicated and complex, but worldgen keeps on screwing them over. If you embark on one of these and dig through the wall, there will be more smooth stone past the initial layer visible in adventure mode.

[Gavinfoxx]

So has anyone ever managed to figure out how a nice/complete version of these pregen forts is SUPPOSED to look, fully?  And posted that online anywhere??

[MaDeR Levap]

These generated dorf fortresses are mother of all placeholders... complete crap in current version.

It would be nice to lift concept of "massive single player game" from Spore and use uploaded player forts as basis for computer generated fortresses. Just mark "I agree" and after abandoning program will send basic layout (it will be in kilobytes, not tens of megabytes) to server.

[GildedBear]

I've considered it, but never actually done it. I figure that the entrance pit should be fortified.

[Rhenaya]

These generated dorf fortresses are mother of all placeholders... complete crap in current version.

It would be nice to lift concept of "massive single player game" from Spore and use uploaded player forts as basis for computer generated fortresses. Just mark "I agree" and after abandoning program will send basic layout (it will be in kilobytes, not tens of megabytes) to server.

i dont want to have penis shaped megaconstructions above an entrance... and as the internet works this will come

[MaDeR Levap]

i dont want to have penis shaped megaconstructions above an entrance... and as the internet works this will come

Dowloading data from net for generated fortresses would be obviously optional. If you want non-boring computer fortresses in adventure mode, you gotta take some risk.

[thijser]

i dont want to have penis shaped megaconstructions above an entrance... and as the internet works this will come

Dowloading data from net for generated fortresses would be obviously optional. If you want non-boring computer fortresses in adventure mode, you gotta take some risk.

Well in spore you can make this in minutes in dwarf fortress you will need hours to set this up. And appointing one or more mods will make wipping them out a quick procces.

[Rhenaya]

the problem is, as soon something can be shared, "funny" guys will invest days if needed to upload such things. just for the giggles

[Grimlocke]

That, and modded materials/items/etc would cause a ton of trouble. Unless the those were sent with the fortress, which could casue even more trouble. The penis fortress could be made of elf flesh blocks! (that mod exists)

Or just crash. Just wouldnt work I guess, DF is too complex for this stuff. The fortress layout wouldnt match up with the terrain, it might not be a fortress at all, it could collapse or just be flooded with magma. Best we could probabaly do is to have the community make a whole bunch of fortresses specialy intended as prefabs. Or Toady could eventualy get around to making them.

The idea of embarking on some random persons abandoned fortress sounds fun though, you could eventualy get fortresses used by dozens of players.

[Gavinfoxx]

Guys, what about my original question??