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[Reudh]

1. Necro got muted for a while, i forget why.
2. He was famous for shouting MAGMA in all caps, italic, bold, and quite large writing as a solution to problems.

[Urist Imiknorris]

1. Necro got muted for a while, i forget why.

This is why:

2. He was famous for shouting MAGMA in all caps, italic, bold, and quite large writing as a solution to problems.

He also kept derailing threads with Insistent Terminology.

[King DZA]

Something about rape and ponies, or was that just the first time?

No, no, wait, I remember. I think he was muted again because he went into derailment overdrive almost as soon as he was unmuted. Ponies, pics, MAAAAAAAGMAAAAAA. All the works.

[floundericiousWA]

Zalisiden until its demise was wallowing in coal.

It's the only one that i've had a surfeit of coal before.

OMG, my reclaim map, Ducimom, is SWIMMING in bituminous coal.  I've got entire layers that are straight magnetite and bit coal...i've got hundreds of units of the stuff...

...and I'd still trade it in a heartbeat for even a single smidge of flux!!

[Endiqua]

I still don't get what this meme has to do with Necron getting banned? Is it not allowed?

More to the point, per the Moderation Log, Necro was muted for 2 weeks (not banned) for ignoring warnings and thread derailment.  Such as a question about a "lava pipe" being immediately derailed by a hissy fit about how it should be "magma," to the apparent bewilderment and confusion of the OP.

I like magma as much as the next dwarf, but Necro's a one-trick pony with it (heh, got a pony reference in there).  IMO, things have been actually done with magma that are far more interesting, clever, and amusing than simply shouting the word over and over.  The FTW lever in Boatmurdered, the Dorf Xmas Message, and so many accidents (and "accidents").

I don't dislike the guy or want him banned or anything, I just wish the meme would go away.  Magma's been around a lot longer than Necro has and we all know it's an option in many, many situations.

OMG, my reclaim map, Ducimom, is SWIMMING in bituminous coal.  I've got entire layers that are straight magnetite and bit coal...i've got hundreds of units of the stuff...and I'd still trade it in a heartbeat for even a single smidge of flux!!  

Floundericious, I confess I'd be tempted to do some modding to turn, say, orthoclase or microcline into a flux stone with that map.   

[Sutremaine]

...and I'd still trade it in a heartbeat for even a single smidge of flux!!

Yup. If you have magma, the only thing you can do with your mountain of coal is to make steel with it. And you can't do that without flux. If things were the other way around and you had flux but no coal, wood is available from more sources and comes in greater quantities.

[floundericiousWA]

OMG, my reclaim map, Ducimom, is SWIMMING in bituminous coal.  I've got entire layers that are straight magnetite and bit coal...i've got hundreds of units of the stuff...and I'd still trade it in a heartbeat for even a single smidge of flux!!  

Floundericious, I confess I'd be tempted to do some modding to turn, say, orthoclase or microcline into a flux stone with that map.   
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LOL why not...It's a reclaim map and is already buggered (ghosts for dwarf bodies that cannot be found anywhere (I even mined out the frozen river to make sure they'd not died in there). 

[Michael]

It's not so much of an issue now, but prior to the Cavern layer update, you could deforest an entire map in just a few years.

You must mean "prior to DF2010"...

It's not so much of an issue now, but prior to the Cavern layer update, you could deforest an entire map in just a few years. And the logistics of harvesting an entire map can get nightmarish too, when you're sending wood cutters 125 tiles+ away from your fort and they get jumped by an entire squad of ambushers.

Just use channels to cut off your forests from any nasties.  It's a little like a slow-motion game of Qix, and more fun than the other micromanagement the game makes you do.

[Satarus]

Go on a logging spree for the first year or two before ambushes show up.  I still have 2000 logs in the stocks menu and a near legendary wood cutter who clear cut half the heavily wooded map.

[floundericiousWA]

LOL why not...It's a reclaim map and is already buggered (ghosts for dwarf bodies that cannot be found anywhere (I even mined out the frozen river to make sure they'd not died in there).

...and it's done!  Steel production is underway only rudely interrupted by a goblin siege.

Funny story though!  A megabeast (fat, giant, hairy, human-giant monster) appeared on the map about two months after the goblins showed up...and the goblin archers ripped him to pieces in about 30 seconds.