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GaxkangtheUnbound

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Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« on: September 10, 2010, 03:41:17 pm »

I just thought of something.
Lake water is very pressurized, and if you were to carve fortifications out of the map, place migrants nearby, and have the pressurized water push 'em through the fortifications, they'd be gone without any "Deceased" statuses.
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2010, 03:47:25 pm »

Try it FOR SCIENCE!
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2010, 03:49:46 pm »

Try it FOR SCIENCE!
I would, had I have the time for it.
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2010, 04:10:29 pm »

Science takes priority over business!
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2010, 07:33:07 pm »

I predict that the dwarfs will get stuck either before the fortification and drown, or ON the fortification and drown.
Nevertheless, try it for SCIENCE!
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2010, 09:46:40 pm »

Perhaps if the path is short it would work with MAGMA
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2010, 09:47:59 pm »

Perhaps if the path is short it would work with MAGMA
Unless you can contain said magma, I doubt we cold use it before the migrants burned to death.
Maybe I should sell migrant corpses to elves.
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2010, 10:17:04 pm »

Perhaps if the path is short it would work with MAGMA
Unless you can contain said magma, I doubt we cold use it before the migrants burned to death.
Maybe I should sell migrant corpses to elves.

I don't know if they would want them.
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2010, 10:20:00 pm »

That's what the game REALLY needs, smuggling.

So instead of taking things by force, you force things upon people, in means of smuggling it into their stuff, and letting them leave with it. It'd be legit.
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2010, 10:22:09 pm »

That's what the game REALLY needs, smuggling.

So instead of taking things by force, you force things upon people, in means of smuggling it into their stuff, and letting them leave with it. It'd be legit.

Teach those elves to bring wooden goods...
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2010, 11:17:31 pm »

Elf 1: "My, Cacame, our cart is just as heavy as it was when we came! When we Ca-came, that is."
Elf 2: "Ho ho ho, indeed it is, Cacame! Perhaps the dwarves didn't want anything?"
Elf 1: "Exquisite point, Cacame! I thought, since they cut so many poor trees, they must have some kind of lust for wooden crafts. Apparently I was wrong."
Elf 2: "Chin up, Cacame! Maybe they simply traded an equal weight of items. I shall check the cart." Pause. "...Cacame! The dwarves have given us enough food to last for weeks!"
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2010, 11:42:44 pm »

Elf 1: "My, Cacame, our cart is just as heavy as it was when we came! When we Ca-came, that is."
Elf 2: "Ho ho ho, indeed it is, Cacame! Perhaps the dwarves didn't want anything?"
Elf 1: "Exquisite point, Cacame! I thought, since they cut so many poor trees, they must have some kind of lust for wooden crafts. Apparently I was wrong."
Elf 2: "Chin up, Cacame! Maybe they simply traded an equal weight of items. I shall check the cart." Pause. "...Cacame! The dwarves have given us enough food to last for weeks!"

A nice meal of +Dwarf Meat Roast+ for the Elves?
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2010, 04:20:22 am »

Elf 1: "My, Cacame, our cart is just as heavy as it was when we came! When we Ca-came, that is."
Elf 2: "Ho ho ho, indeed it is, Cacame! Perhaps the dwarves didn't want anything?"
Elf 1: "Exquisite point, Cacame! I thought, since they cut so many poor trees, they must have some kind of lust for wooden crafts. Apparently I was wrong."
Elf 2: "Chin up, Cacame! Maybe they simply traded an equal weight of items. I shall check the cart." Pause. "...Cacame! The dwarves have given us enough food to last for weeks!"

A nice meal of +Dwarf Meat Roast+ for the Elves?

You're a sick man. o_o








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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2010, 04:23:21 am »

Elf 1: "My, Cacame, our cart is just as heavy as it was when we came! When we Ca-came, that is."
Elf 2: "Ho ho ho, indeed it is, Cacame! Perhaps the dwarves didn't want anything?"
Elf 1: "Exquisite point, Cacame! I thought, since they cut so many poor trees, they must have some kind of lust for wooden crafts. Apparently I was wrong."
Elf 2: "Chin up, Cacame! Maybe they simply traded an equal weight of items. I shall check the cart." Pause. "...Cacame! The dwarves have given us enough food to last for weeks!"

A nice meal of +Dwarf Meat Roast+ for the Elves?

You're a sick man. o_o








DO IT

As soon as the game will let me sneak stuff onto their pack animals, I will. I already have an automated animal-life processor. Just have to modify it to process dwarves as well.
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Re: Using lake pressure to eliminate migrants
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2010, 09:15:11 am »

In 40d, dwarves could be forced onto fortification squares with water, but not off the map.
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