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Author Topic: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?  (Read 16271 times)

malimbar04

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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #45 on: January 29, 2012, 04:28:51 am »

You have a lot of plump helmet wine and quarry bush roasts, and even with 65 farmers you're having trouble keeping up with it. Most of your animals are now pets, but you do not cage them. To try to control your blooming pet population by slaughtering them, but that just increases your food problem. A few of these were exotic animals you purchased from the elves.

I mentioned the fishers, but I'm thinking more that you didn't reassign and micromanage most of your dwarves. When something needed to be done, you hunted someone down to fill the role on a pinch, not the other way around.

Your fort is entirely carved from the mountain and not smooth at all. You do not use any danger rooms, and have lost several dwarves to goblin ambushes before you sealed up the fort. Your marksdwarves are still mostly novices with the crossbow (unless a few are rusty).

You like copper, mostly because you mine it out and have a lot of it on hand. You made some copper architecture at some point. You also pride yourself in making workstations out of decent materials.

And you have no armor or clothing industry to speak of, and most of your dwarves are either running around in rags or are at this point naked. You could, if you wanted to, create a lot of pigtail fiber clothes, but you have no rope reed (or any outside crops for that matter). Instead, you just have large swaths of under ground flood-irrigated farms.

The strongest defence (after your locked doors) in your entire fort right now is an animal, I'm guessing a giant war bear.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #46 on: January 29, 2012, 04:42:01 am »

Hmm.
I think you have many traps defending your fortress, given the low amount of military dwarves.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #47 on: January 29, 2012, 05:04:10 am »

Three of your dwarves are named Kivish.

Your computer has an AMD processor.

You're allergic to shellfish.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #48 on: January 29, 2012, 06:53:50 am »

You have entirely too much Microcline and Orthoclase laying around.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #49 on: January 29, 2012, 07:08:51 am »

You have little to no clutter, and a good organization level as your FPS is still survivable.

You do not have any waterfalls, nor any Obsidian farms.

You really don't want to give gifts to other civilizations except when you feel they need it.

Your army is composed of civilians on their tour of duty, with a small squad of marksmen watching their every move as they scurry through the fortress.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #50 on: January 29, 2012, 04:26:26 pm »

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
That's not 65 field dwarves, that could be 39 potash makers for all you know
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #51 on: January 29, 2012, 05:20:41 pm »

Here's another picture to chew on. 
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #52 on: January 29, 2012, 05:29:42 pm »

Here's another picture to chew on. 


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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #53 on: January 29, 2012, 05:34:49 pm »

You have massive above ground farms that you only recently constructed, after your dwarves became cave adapted, possibly part of some sort of toughening program.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #54 on: January 29, 2012, 05:41:39 pm »

About 12k in exported wealth. Assuming your fortress has been going for 8 years (250 + 8) I'm guessing you did a bit of trading in the first year or so then started claiming all the imported stuff without trading. Or more likely after the first two years you started getting ambushes or invasions around the same time as your trade caravans and the caravans got slaughtered. After cleaning up the mess you claimed all the leftovers.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #55 on: January 29, 2012, 05:51:58 pm »

You prefer 6x3 farm plots for your planting needs.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #56 on: January 29, 2012, 07:11:18 pm »

Your farms are green.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #57 on: January 29, 2012, 08:10:51 pm »

I suspect that your miners have been excavating a space that you have now started to build your megaproject it.  During the excavation you have had many sieges, and have been very busy defending many vulnerable outdoor works, including outdoor farms.  Your military is mostly hauling just now, except the marksdwarves who are manning the fortifications. Most weaponry and armour is converted goblinite. In fact I further suggest that you have a dangerous beast outside the main gate that you do not want to engage in melee hence only the ranged troops on duty.
One further assumption: You will soon learn to drive and will thereafter be too busy to return to this forum to confirm or deny our guesses.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #58 on: January 29, 2012, 08:55:29 pm »

One further assumption: You will soon learn to drive and will thereafter be too busy to return to this forum to confirm or deny our guesses.
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Re: A screenshot is worth a thousand words, right?
« Reply #59 on: January 29, 2012, 09:02:10 pm »

You have a massive surplus of food and plants that their value is doubled, or even tripled by the addition of Organic Fertilizer.
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