Hi all. Copperblazes is now into year 1066. Economy has finaly turned on (sigh). FPS is hovering around 5.
Dodging ore veins: I would highlight the exposed ore to be mined, then repeat. Using my engravers to smooth out the tunnels to find any ore hidden in a diagonal since smoothing acts funny near ore veins.
I did use two hacks. granite.exe to allow ore smoothing (you can see a smoothed out gold vein in the cooridor between the ore depots). Otherwise, I would just dig out the ore and try to plan out the fort so it looked like I planned it that way. (look at the wall which seperates the fort and the giant tree farm, most of those "side entrances" were simply me trying to get access to ore and then making it look like I ment to do that)
The other hack is teleport.exe, since my fort has 22 children right now, and at any given moment, one is starving or dieing of thirst while stuck on the magma smelters (I /HATE/ that bug)
The axe is a 1200+ 1x1 bridge made out of silver, bronze, brass blocks (plus grey, white, dark stone). If you've ever watched lord of the rings, you'll figure out who my fort's patron saint is.
At this point, my fort is mostly gearing up for taking out the demon pits and finaly "too deeping" it so adventurers will have something interesting to explore. (my elite soldiers are equiped with masterpiece steel plate, studded with gold, decorated with unicorn leather (yeah I modded them to be butcherable after they killed one too many dwarves) and dimple died silk). The non elite dwarves get simple exceptional steel with bronze trim and unicorn leather. Fort guards get simple exceptional bronze and the newly formed royal guards get masterpiece bronze.
My fort's favorite features are the "Castle", the arena gladiator pit (designated as a barracks by a weapon rack, which goblin prisoners are released to fight my training soldiers), and the "Vault")
... that's about it.
Oh, edit. My fort's net worth is now 23 million. Lots of gold/platinum crafts along with steel armor/weapons helped. My goal is for 100 before it "too deeps".
[ May 08, 2007: Message edited by: veryinky ]