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[Duntada Man]

So, now that I've been looking at deeper materials on the map, I've noticed it's entirely possible to color code areas of the fortress. With the new burrows system you could assign people to various sections depending on their clearance level.

In essence you could play Paranoia with your dwarves, giving them clearance levels, odd tasks that no one understands and hillarious painful deaths for no discernible reason.

The problem I am having with this task, is color clearance levels. The standard Infra-red, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and Ultra-violet/High Programmer classifications doesn't really work. For one, that doesn't accurately explain ow dwarves feel about those colors. For one, tower caps are everywhere and are white, while blue metal is well, blue metal.

Could I get some ideas on possible color rankings?

And yes, military will only get weapons they have clearence for, so expect a bunch of the infra-reds to die horribly.

[Number4]

I'm afraid I don't have clearance to read your post about building a Dwarf Complex and therefore I as loyal citizen have of course not read your ideas, which I like to add are very good. Could you rewrite this post please?

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Smash The Computer! This message will self-destruct once read. Death Leopard.

[Duntada Man]

Good day friend citizen, your loyalty has been noted. You have been promoted to chief fertilizer tank scrubber! Please move all of your things to the next fertilizer tank sector.

Also, please suggest to friend Overseer what would be an effective color scale for Alpha Fortress. You will receive 12 greenglasscred for success.

[Silly Theory]

Man, I've read some of the book, but never really played it. It seems as it is painfully fun

HAVE TO PLAY

is it hard to DM?

[CT]

Silly Theory, your lack of conformance has been noted. Please wait patiently for the anti-mutant squad to arrive at your door. 

[Number4]

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Good day friend citizen, your loyalty has been noted. You have been promoted to chief fertilizer tank scrubber! Please move all of your things to the next fertilizer tank sector.

Also, please suggest to friend Overseer what would be an effective color scale for Alpha Fortress. You will receive 12 greenglasscred for success.

Yay, I've been promoted! Thanks, FC!

Silly Theo-R-YYY, writing in Ultraviolet without possesing Ultraviolet clearance is treasonous. *ZAP*Basically its easy to play and to DM, as there are no rules. At your clearance. Knowledge of rules is treasonous.

And there is a thing called JParanoia, so we could play online. Maybe a DF-themed game? Computer Phreaks.

[Angel-of-Dusk]

Silly infareds, bleeding red. You don't have clearance to do that.

Paranoia, Dwarven Style:

"Hello, Freind Urist, Im thinking what I want to do, can you guess?"

"I don't know, drinking booze?"

"AHHH YOU READ MY MIND MUTANT DIE!"

[Crustypeanut]

So, now that I've been looking at deeper materials on the map, I've noticed it's entirely possible to color code areas of the fortress. With the new burrows system you could assign people to various sections depending on their clearance level.

In essence you could play Paranoia with your dwarves, giving them clearance levels, odd tasks that no one understands and hillarious painful deaths for no discernible reason.

The problem I am having with this task, is color clearance levels. The standard Infra-red, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and Ultra-violet/High Programmer classifications doesn't really work. For one, that doesn't accurately explain ow dwarves feel about those colors. For one, tower caps are everywhere and are white, while blue metal is well, blue metal.

Could I get some ideas on possible color rankings?

And yes, military will only get weapons they have clearence for, so expect a bunch of the infra-reds to die horribly.

You know, I had never heard of Paranoia before this.  THANK YOU.  This game looks hilariously awesome in so many levels.  Gotta get my D&D group to try it out... we're already nuts as it is.

[Number4]

Well, the orginal colors could still work. Tower-caps are white? Tough luck for treasonous U-R-IST McCarpenter. Barrels will make drinking proper B3 difficult or treasonous,but there's still RED bloodthorn...

[Crustypeanut]

That is why you don't use towercaps, duur.

Red - Bloodthorn, Cinnabar, Bauxite, Kaolinite

Orange - Substitute Brown-Colored Wood, as it's the closest thing we got

Yellow - Orthoclaise is Best

Green - Olivine

Blue - Microcline or Cobaltite

Indigo - Kimberlite (Dark Blue, close enough), Rutile, Pitchblende (latter two are rare)

Ultra-Violet - Any White or Light Gray stone

Now, we could go further and include metals in this as well, but thats optional.  To be able to do this, you'd need a very frequent mineral rate upon world creation.  As for setting it all up, you might need to have non-color coded areas at first.  The Fortress was not always here, as we all know.  Before that, there was the lawless, Fortressless age of violence and unreason.  But now, you needn't worry. The Fortress is here.  The Fortress knows all.  The Fortress is your friend.  Trust in your Friend.  FUN is Mandatory.

[Girlinhat]

Could I get some context, please?

[Crustypeanut]

Could I get some context, please?

If, by you mean, context of the game, heres the wikipedia page on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)

[Theifofdreams]

Your clearance level is just high enough to read that article. You should thank Friend Overseer for providing such helpful information about Friend Computer.

[Number4]

Oh, and if you only had BLUE clearance, you could read that excellent TvTropes-article about PARANOIA...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Paranoia

The connection between this and DF: In paranoia, dying is Fun. Oh, and being happy about dying is mandatory. Failure to be happy about dying is punishable by execution.

[Eddren]

I can't die, though. I don't know the rules for dying. And I don't know why I don't know about the rules for dying. For that matter, all I know how to do is open doors, eat food, and press a single button.