Well that ended with a whole heap of fun. All the dwarf were either asleep or wounded so no one went to close the tower bridges . The next person should probably just replay that year.

;_; that's bad luck man. Is there any secondary barricade, doors, etc?

imallinson

United Kingdom3482 Posts

July 16 2012 18:13 GMT

#222

On July 17 2012 03:11 Blazinghand wrote:

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;_; that's bad luck man. Is there any secondary barricade, doors, etc?

The tower was the secondary barricade and the doors got smashed down.

Dfgj

Singapore5922 Posts

July 16 2012 18:14 GMT

#223

On July 17 2012 03:02 Blazinghand wrote:

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If they don't have Cave Dragons or building destroyers we should be okay, right? We can just lock the doors and cower.

Even with building destroyers, the outer bridge has a moat. Although... does water 1 Zlevel down that freezes in the channel replace the floor tile? Looks like it did. Hm.

I guess it's moot now.

iGrok

United States5142 Posts

July 16 2012 18:19 GMT

#224

Wait, we hit FUN already?

iGrok

United States5142 Posts

July 16 2012 18:19 GMT

#225

On July 17 2012 03:14 Dfgj wrote:

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Even with building destroyers, the outer bridge has a moat. Although... does water 1 Zlevel down that freezes in the channel replace the floor tile? Looks like it did. Hm.

I guess it's moot now.

Yeah, the moat is moot. :p

Blazinghand

United States25557 Posts

July 16 2012 18:22 GMT

#226

if you want, imallinson, maybe give your turn another try? I don't feel quite ready to give up on skyhall, but I wouldn't mind starting a new fort either.

imallinson

United Kingdom3482 Posts

July 16 2012 18:22 GMT

#227

On July 17 2012 03:19 iGrok wrote:
Wait, we hit FUN already?

Yep, three sieges, two forgotten beasts and one ambush in a year. Even drafting all the adult dwarves into the military wasn't enough. It's definitely the most FUN filled year I've ever played.

On July 17 2012 03:22 Blazinghand wrote:
if you want, imallinson, maybe give your turn another try? I don't feel quite ready to give up on skyhall, but I wouldn't mind starting a new fort either.

I'll let the next person give that year another go if they want. I'm happy to just sit back and watch the chaos.

imallinson

United Kingdom3482 Posts

July 16 2012 18:31 GMT

#228

On July 16 2012 01:59 PassiveAce wrote:
Can someone please make an illustration of the fuchsia eye'd weresheep?
Now you will know why you fear the night...

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10 seconds of googling followed by 10 seconds in paint has produced my best artistic impression of this foul beast.

shackes

Germany148 Posts

July 16 2012 18:34 GMT

#229

No reloading imo!

Just start a new one.

What destroyed our main bridge in the first place, will remain a mystery, I guess.
It's just bad luck, that we were assaulted in the time between rebuilding the thing and linking it to a lever..

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

July 16 2012 18:38 GMT

#230

On July 17 2012 03:31 imallinson wrote:

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10 seconds of googling followed by 10 seconds in paint has produced my best artistic impression of this foul beast.

Fuckin' looooooooooooooooooooool

thank you for that :D

iGrok

United States5142 Posts

July 16 2012 18:43 GMT

#231

Alright, let's take a vote:

Poll: What should we do?

Start a fresh fort (11)

65%

Restart the year (6)

35%

17 total votes

Your vote: What should we do?

(Vote): Restart the year
(Vote): Start a fresh fort

Either way, we'll just continue down the list

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

July 16 2012 18:45 GMT

#232

Im not gonna vote because im not a player but I really thought skyhall had a lot more potential then it reached

iGrok

United States5142 Posts

July 16 2012 18:47 GMT

#233

Perhaps our future fort (should we choose that option) should be Skyhall 2.0. Totally above ground except for mines!

Obsidian

United States350 Posts

July 16 2012 18:47 GMT

#234

Does this mean I get year 1 of a fresh fort? Oh... boy...

Aixler

Netherlands946 Posts

July 16 2012 18:54 GMT

#235

On July 17 2012 03:31 imallinson wrote:

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10 seconds of googling followed by 10 seconds in paint has produced my best artistic impression of this foul beast.

This demands a picture added to the log, for every monster that shows up from now on!

Logo

United States7542 Posts

July 16 2012 18:57 GMT

#236

Keep going with a new fort! No living in the past.

I think maybe you guys should ease up the labor restriction a bit though as it seems like the dwarves' inefficiency is really costing you.

Maybe something like, "A dwarf's highest non-military skill must remain active"

iGrok

United States5142 Posts

July 16 2012 19:01 GMT

#237

On July 17 2012 03:57 Logo wrote:
Keep going with a new fort! No living in the past.

I think maybe you guys should ease up the labor restriction a bit though as it seems like the dwarves' inefficiency is really costing you.

Maybe something like, "A dwarf's highest non-military skill must remain active"

I'm completely ok with this.

Plus, this means that with careful managing, its possible to eventually deactivate that skill (since the one you want will grow higher).

Obsidian

United States350 Posts

July 16 2012 19:09 GMT

#238

I'd rather just have control over the main 7, and any future overlords. Oft-times dwarves will come in with truely worthless skills, why not just relegate them to a new job and run from there? Plus, fishing dwarves are pointless if the environ doesn't support them, hunting too can cause problems in some environs.

Logo

United States7542 Posts

July 16 2012 19:16 GMT

#239

Yeah but the idea of restricting labor is to make things somewhat less efficient so the fort has more hiccups and issues. Without any restriction it's not that hard to put together a well running fort where nothing all that interesting happens besides poor military choices.

But... yeah fishing/hunting and some other labors make too many dwarves too useless. Especially when you need stuff like idle dwarves to pull levers or give water*. By letting people turn off the older less used roles you can retrain dwarves, but it'll take a while since they'll split their time between their highest skill and what you want them to do.

*though my restriction doesn't solve that completely either