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Girlinhat

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Star Ruler: Microcline
« on: November 26, 2011, 08:42:07 pm »

So I started playing Star Ruler again briefly.  I hopped on and found a few planets and grabbed them.  All planets except the homeworld have a set of attributes, usually 2, which can be good or bad.  "Vast Plains" gives a cheaper building cost.  "Sparse Ore" gives 50% mining rate.  Some attributes are pointless flavor text, however.  One in particular was "Microcline Deposits" with the tooltip of "Not this again..."

Just thought I'd share that...

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Re: Star Ruler: Microcline
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2011, 08:53:16 pm »

I like blue though, it's my second favorite color.

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Re: Star Ruler: Microcline
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2011, 09:06:42 pm »

I don't understand, what is so special about this mineral?
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Re: Star Ruler: Microcline
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2011, 09:07:50 pm »

It's extremely common, and useless.
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Re: Star Ruler: Microcline
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2011, 09:18:08 pm »

More specifically, in older versions of DF you got a pause and snap-focus event on every mineral, which you couldn't disable.  Microcline, being incredibly common, caused a lot of pointless pauses and zooming to pointless pieces of walls.  It's still very common and most players hate it for how shockingly blue and annoying it is, a real eyesore in ASCII, but not as much as white materials.

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Re: Star Ruler: Microcline
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2011, 09:25:10 pm »

And here I was expecting some sort of DLC or update  ::)

Oh well, it's always nice to see DF references.
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Re: Star Ruler: Microcline
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2011, 09:35:44 pm »

More specifically, in older versions of DF you got a pause and snap-focus event on every mineral, which you couldn't disable.  Microcline, being incredibly common, caused a lot of pointless pauses and zooming to pointless pieces of walls.  It's still very common and most players hate it for how shockingly blue and annoying it is, a real eyesore in ASCII, but not as much as white materials.

I think the second most common of the "Pause the game" materials was Orthoclaus
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Re: Star Ruler: Microcline
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2011, 09:55:04 pm »

But for whatever reason, Microcline garnered more hate.

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Re: Star Ruler: Microcline
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2011, 01:38:27 am »

I like blue though, it's my second favorite color.

No! wait, it's yellooooooooooooooooww...!!!
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