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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:59 pm
by Knight of Cydonia
Population cap is a joke. A JOOOOKE, I tell you.
I only say that since I can comfortably handle 300 dorfs, but anyway.
I'd be down for this, assuming we're using most recent version?
Also, yeah, everyone should
pay some other dorf lots of platinum to impersonate them so they can escape
name a dorf after themselves.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:48 am
by Claus
More dwarves is always better - there is always a free axe in the military!
That said, making sure everyone can actually RUN the damn fortress is an important point in a sucession fort, so everyone try to keep the population between 50 and 80 by the end of your turn... by whatever means necessary, mwahahaha!
Since there are no other prefs I'll probably pick a temperate/cold mountainside with a river and flux. Vanilla of Vanilla. I'll edit the world creation parameters as follows:
Cavern Openness: 60-100, passage density: 0-5 to prevent those ugly mazes of twisty passages. If you have any other requests, I will create the world in about 8-10 hours, after I return from work.
I'll post the 7 initial dwarves when I start, so you guys can pick your impersonations
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:19 am
by Knight of Cydonia
Shotgun the carpenter.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:06 am
by Kcdaspot
Pick the miner... What? so it's not original so what?
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:07 am
by Kcdaspot
also temperate. make sure there are trees, lots of them. For beds and crafts.
oh and pop cap at 100... we need haulers
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:07 pm
by UltimaAvalon
Kcdaspot wrote:we need haulers
Kcdaspot wrote:we need haulers
Kcdaspot wrote:we need haulers
Kcdaspot wrote:we need haulers
Kcdaspot wrote:we need haulers
Kcdaspot wrote:we need haulers
Kcdaspot wrote:we need haulers
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:20 pm
by Kcdaspot
UA: A simple "I agree" would be nice
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:24 pm
by Drench
I
would
/in for a succession game, but I've never figured out what to actually do.
which i would argue is better, but eh
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:00 am
by Claus
No one really does, Drench!
BTW, I found a nice embark location, with lots of trees, snow, a river, two natural towers to build on, marble, limestone,
... and skeletal marmots!
I'll post updates as I play.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:59 am
by DizzyIzzyB13
This would be fun, if I know what the hell I was doing with DF.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:32 pm
by Knight of Cydonia
Claus wrote:... and skeletal marmots!
Please... please tell me there's nothing else... skeletal about?
Also, we should get a turn listing sorted. I'm happy to go last on the rotation. Whoever
kills
has fun with a fortress has to start a new one?
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:30 pm
by Kcdaspot
you know what? I think that the succession should be in mish mash. this should just be a discussion.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:39 pm
by Claus
Hey guys,
Sorry for the delay - my first embark, for some mysterious reason, was lagging like hell (30FPS for the 7 dwarves - WTF?), so I had to regen the world.
So no more undead livestock roaming the land - the new embark is still temperate forested (LOTS OF TREES!) with a small aquifer as the limitless source of water.
The play order is the order of people who said they wanted to play - I think this is the fairest.
Drench, Dizzy, please join! The fact that you don't know what you are doing just makes it better!
I made a thread in Mishmash for the game:
http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 88&start=0
It's Nikanor's turn! Send me the savefile if you don't have a place to host it!
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:02 pm
by Drench
Okay, fine, /in, but I reserve the right to demand you disregard my save.
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:49 pm
by Kcdaspot
so what do other peeps think of the game?
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:10 pm
by Herodotus
Just started a few days ago. Wouldn't have tried without the newb guide in the first post.
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:00 am
by Kcdaspot
Glad to help
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:39 am
by Herodotus
The hard parts at this point are:
1. knowing what the long-term things-to-do are
2. deciding how much defense is right - how about building a huge wall around the above ground map?
3. proper labor allocation
4. so many details... some can be researched on the wiki, some can't.
Maybe loading some of the save files from the sucession game will help.
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:42 am
by Kcdaspot
maybe, if we don't muck it up horribly. :p
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:08 am
by UltimaAvalon
Herodotus wrote:The hard parts at this point are:
1. knowing what the long-term things-to-do are
Whatever the fuck you want, preferably something you havent done before
2. deciding how much defense is right - how about building a huge wall around the above ground map?
There is never too much defense
3. proper labor allocation
half your pop as hauler, the other half in the military when they're not doing useful things like making beer or drinking beer
4. so many details... some can be researched on the wiki, some can't.
Losing is Fun
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:04 pm
by Kcdaspot
A Thousand times what UA said.
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:34 am
by ReaperCharlie
Wow, this game looks extremely complicated.
I really doubt I'd ever try to learn to play unless I was:
a) in the 80's and there really was nothing better
b) in prison with 56k, lots of time and no speed
c) drunk and on Vent with all my friends
Now, if c) is a possibility, let me know. Otherwise... sorry.
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:54 pm
by Kcdaspot
I don't know HOW many times have I pointed to the links in the op... That newb guide will save you a ton of time... and cut the learning curve down to about a couple of hours if you pay attention.
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:52 am
by Claus
Haters gonna hate
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:52 pm
by Kcdaspot
I found this for any newbies.
pre-genned everything, comes with a tutorial. enjoy