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There is already a dwarf fortress thread here
But this is kinda different as everyone who wants to play can, but in a playlist where each person manages the fortress for one year and then passes it on to the next player.
It would be kinda like when Something Awful (boatmurdered) did it.
Anyone interested, post here or Pm me, I'll compile a turn list based on first-come-first-served. Of course no guarantee that your turn will come around. Also if your turn comes up and you don't respond (and start your turn) within about two days, in the interest of keeping it going you'll be skipped. If you know you won't be able to do your turn say so and you'll get bumped back a turn or so instead of skipped altogether.
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Finally I willing to play with any tileset if some people don't like the ASCII graphics.
And if people want to play but don't understand the game theres a tutorial in the thread I posted eariler.
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I'm surprised more TL.netters aren't into DF. Obviously, it's not much of a succession game with just 2 people, but I'd love to get involved in one, so sign me up and hopefully more will follow.
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I'd be up for this, though it's been a while since I played DF.
On August 07 2009 23:34 Iankill wrote:
Finally I willing to play with any tileset if some people don't like the ASCII graphics.
Can't people just set the graphics however they want when they play their turn? It's not as if it's bound to the saves or anything.
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my friend plays that but its to confusing for me :O, it was pretty hilarious lol
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On September 02 2009 06:59 armed_ wrote:I'd be up for this, though it's been a while since I played DF. Show nested quote +On August 07 2009 23:34 Iankill wrote:
Finally I willing to play with any tileset if some people don't like the ASCII graphics. Can't people just set the graphics however they want when they play their turn? It's not as if it's bound to the saves or anything.
Yes, and i will play >:D
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I would love to play it, I will look into it.
I start to remember the glory days of such awesome games as Moria, Angband and Nethack when I look at Dwarf Fortress.
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I'll play if anyone could show me some a guide/walk me through the basics, I love rogues but I hear DF is quite a bit different and a lot more complex
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On September 02 2009 07:31 coldfront wrote:
I'll play if anyone could show me some a guide/walk me through the basics, I love rogues but I hear DF is quite a bit different and a lot more complex
I suggest the 40 video guide on youtube from CaptnDuck
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On September 02 2009 07:41 wonkman wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2009 07:31 coldfront wrote:
I'll play if anyone could show me some a guide/walk me through the basics, I love rogues but I hear DF is quite a bit different and a lot more complex I suggest the 40 video guide on youtube from CaptnDuck
I second this suggestion.
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I would actually suggest this one
http://afteractionreporter.com/2009/02/09/the-complete-and-utter-newby-tutorial-for-dwarf-fortress-part-1-wtf/
It was posted on the last DwarfFortress thread and it took me from not knowing crap to being able to create elaborate traps, execution chambers, magma falls, etc. (it doesn't show you all that, but it gives you the knowledge to figure it out on your own)  Also the tileset they link to and use is a lot easier on the eyes as some might not be able to stand the standard ASCII graphics.
Oh, and I'm totally up for this.
Edit: oh, and are we going to do this like the boatmurdered game where we try to write up a journal of our progress?
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Ahh I tried to start a game and then managed to flood my fortress
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Oh well...
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On September 02 2009 15:40 Fontong wrote:
Ahh I tried to start a game and then managed to flood my fortress
X((((((((((
Oh well... Don't forget, losing is fun! 
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Well I'm going to give it a try, put me on the list
I'll try the 'complete and utter newby' tutorial, I like how it's written :p
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So unless/until we hear from Iankill, I'll keep track of who all is interested, and start up the game if need be. At the moment, we have
Lucktar
armed_
wonkman
Foucault? (you were kinda vague in your post whether you wanted to play this game or not)
coldfront
Falcynn
inertinept
Should we wait for more, or for the OP to respond? Or should we get a game going now? If I left your name off the list, just post here saying you'd like to play. Cheers.
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I'd say we can just get started whenever you feel like it If there's more interest we can always just tack them on to the end of the list.
Anyways, any ground rules for this before we start? Such as maximum time to finish your year (2 days? A week? more?), anything we should avoid (is striking adamantium okay, or should we stay away?), or pretty much anything else anyone would like to contribute?
Since I'm 6th in line, I'd actually like having the maximum time as short as possible  however I think a week would probably be best. As for adamantium, I'm fine with striking it, but the person should talk about it with the people playing after him if they're okay with it since we don't want people
+ Show Spoiler +HUGE SPOILER AHEAD + Show Spoiler +(To be honest, I don't think this is that big of a deal, but on the wiki page and at the dwarffortress forums they all treat it as a huge spoiler so beware of this if you choose to click on...) + Show Spoiler +having to deal with an army of demons if they feel they're unprepared for the task, and if they're not it's probably not fair to everyone else further up the list since the fortress will probably fall within a year if they don't know what to do.
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Good points, Falcynn. I'd say as far as ground rules, just don't do anything that prevents the fortress from being taken over by your successor, and since we have a fairly good number of newbies, that probably includes adamantium. Large, grandiose projects are encouraged, but if you can't finish what you started, be sure to explain to your successor what your plans are and what is needed to complete things.
Screen shots and creative storytelling are encouraged, since they always make succession games more interesting, but feel free to write as little or as much as you like. I'd recommend against having any set time limits at least for now, provided that whoever is playing keeps people posted on their progress and attempts to get things done in a timely manner.
I'll go ahead and start up a fortress in the next 24 hours or so, so any feedback on what kind of location we want is encouraged. I don't think we should start in any haunted areas or under a goblin fortress or anything like that, but I'm open to pretty much any other suggestions.
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Relatively small area, nothing boring like desert or tundra, water. Don't care about anything else.
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On September 04 2009 04:30 Lucktar wrote:
Good points, Falcynn. I'd say as far as ground rules, just don't do anything that prevents the fortress from being taken over by your successor, and since we have a fairly good number of newbies, that probably includes adamantium. Large, grandiose projects are encouraged, but if you can't finish what you started, be sure to explain to your successor what your plans are and what is needed to complete things.
Screen shots and creative storytelling are encouraged, since they always make succession games more interesting, but feel free to write as little or as much as you like. I'd recommend against having any set time limits at least for now, provided that whoever is playing keeps people posted on their progress and attempts to get things done in a timely manner.
I'll go ahead and start up a fortress in the next 24 hours or so, so any feedback on what kind of location we want is encouraged. I don't think we should start in any haunted areas or under a goblin fortress or anything like that, but I'm open to pretty much any other suggestions.
Magma pipe.
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Yeah! Magma!
Just hope the magma pipe doesn't reach to the surface like all of my other games  One rogue fire imp and the whole forest goes up in flames causing one of my woodcutters/fisherdwarves to inevitably catch on fire and die, leading to everyone running outside to loot their bodies, which leads to those dwarves catching on fire, causing them to run inside to grab a drink and blow up my booze stash, setting fire to the rest of the fortress...not fun times.
Although the benefits of magma forges/smelters more than outweigh that risk
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On September 04 2009 07:45 Falcynn wrote:Yeah! Magma! Just hope the magma pipe doesn't reach to the surface like all of my other games One rogue fire imp and the whole forest goes up in flames causing one of my woodcutters/fisherdwarves to inevitably catch on fire and die, leading to everyone running outside to loot their bodies, which leads to those dwarves catching on fire, causing them to run inside to grab a drink and blow up my booze stash, setting fire to the rest of the fortress...not fun times. Although the benefits of magma forges/smelters more than outweigh that risk
I hope it does spawn on the top.. so you can train all of your dwarves in the art of wrestling and send them against the dreaded fire demons with shields of wood and their bare hands with their spider silk cloth socks as tools of suffocation so the death of those demons shall be swift!
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On September 04 2009 07:55 wonkman wrote:Show nested quote +On September 04 2009 07:45 Falcynn wrote:Yeah! Magma! Just hope the magma pipe doesn't reach to the surface like all of my other games One rogue fire imp and the whole forest goes up in flames causing one of my woodcutters/fisherdwarves to inevitably catch on fire and die, leading to everyone running outside to loot their bodies, which leads to those dwarves catching on fire, causing them to run inside to grab a drink and blow up my booze stash, setting fire to the rest of the fortress...not fun times. Although the benefits of magma forges/smelters more than outweigh that risk I hope it does spawn on the top.. so you can train all of your dwarves in the art of wrestling and send them against the dreaded fire demons with shields of wood and their bare hands with their spider silk cloth socks as tools of suffocation so the death of those demons shall be swift! Screw that, first thing I'm gonna do when my reign starts is build a damn moat, with the only entrance being through a 3-tile wide corridor full of dwarven atom-smashers and spike traps set on repeat (the spike traps will be connected to a pressure plate located in a channel cut into a river, which when opened up by the flood gates will bring a continuous stream of water which will set the spikes to activate and deactivate continuously). The only thing I'll have to worry about except an army of building destroyers will be the stupidity of my own dwarves...
Unless you guys think that's being a little too cheap =/
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On September 04 2009 08:08 Falcynn wrote:Show nested quote +On September 04 2009 07:55 wonkman wrote:On September 04 2009 07:45 Falcynn wrote:Yeah! Magma! Just hope the magma pipe doesn't reach to the surface like all of my other games One rogue fire imp and the whole forest goes up in flames causing one of my woodcutters/fisherdwarves to inevitably catch on fire and die, leading to everyone running outside to loot their bodies, which leads to those dwarves catching on fire, causing them to run inside to grab a drink and blow up my booze stash, setting fire to the rest of the fortress...not fun times. Although the benefits of magma forges/smelters more than outweigh that risk I hope it does spawn on the top.. so you can train all of your dwarves in the art of wrestling and send them against the dreaded fire demons with shields of wood and their bare hands with their spider silk cloth socks as tools of suffocation so the death of those demons shall be swift! Screw that, first thing I'm gonna do when my reign starts is build a damn moat, with the only entrance being through a 3-tile wide corridor full of dwarven atom-smashers and spike traps set on repeat (the spike traps will be connected to a pressure plate located in a channel cut into a river, which when opened up by the flood gates will bring a continuous stream of water which will set the spikes to activate and deactivate continuously). The only thing I'll have to worry about except an army of building destroyers will be the stupidity of my own dwarves... Unless you guys think that's being a little too cheap =/
It is in regular dorf fortress, but for my plan... i would make all the dorfs into farmers, and maybe the highest skilled into stone crafters. With this done for the first half of my year, i will trade off all of the crafts for food and seeds and with enough food and a fully functional well i will turn all dorfs into single handly godlike warriors, demanding them to train days on end without rest, and i can only hope, HOPE that something somewhere has the balls to attack me ^.^
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A cool idea while they're farmers and/or crafters is to build a "gym" full of screw pumps that aren't attached to anything and set them all to manual pump. Or you can do this as a completely separate phase for a few months in between the phases you already have planned out. With enough pumps you can get a pretty decent number of dwarves to be "superdwarvenly tough" in a matter of months.
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On September 04 2009 22:52 Falcynn wrote:
A cool idea while they're farmers and/or crafters is to build a "gym" full of screw pumps that aren't attached to anything and set them all to manual pump. Or you can do this as a completely separate phase for a few months in between the phases you already have planned out. With enough pumps you can get a pretty decent number of dwarves to be "superdwarvenly tough" in a matter of months.
They dont need it when they will be legendary swordusers,wrestlers,shield users,armor users, and whatever else i can fit in >:D
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Update:
After about 2 hours of world-generation, I found a site that meets all requirements. Lots of trees, a magma pipe (at the surface), flux, fairly calm, not very evil, all the ingredients of a great fortress. The temperature is 'Hot,' which I'd rather have avoided, but I was getting sick of making maps. Plus this way I don't think it'll freeze in the winter, making a well/cistern unnecessary.
I'll dedicate my turn to getting a workable fortress up and running, with a steady food supply, decent workers' quarters, large workshop area, and so forth. More updates to come as the year progresses and significant things happen.
EDIT: Also, to avoid the fiery scenario that Falcynn mentioned, I'll be building a wall around the lava pipe, which can be deconstructed if/when a future player decides to build lava forges or whatever on the surface, or can be left in place and the tube tapped into underground.
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On September 05 2009 08:52 Lucktar wrote:
Update:
After about 2 hours of world-generation, I found a site that meets all requirements. Lots of trees, a magma pipe (at the surface), flux, fairly calm, not very evil, all the ingredients of a great fortress. The temperature is 'Hot,' which I'd rather have avoided, but I was getting sick of making maps. Plus this way I don't think it'll freeze in the winter, making a well/cistern unnecessary.
I'll dedicate my turn to getting a workable fortress up and running, with a steady food supply, decent workers' quarters, large workshop area, and so forth. More updates to come as the year progresses and significant things happen.
EDIT: Also, to avoid the fiery scenario that Falcynn mentioned, I'll be building a wall around the lava pipe, which can be deconstructed if/when a future player decides to build lava forges or whatever on the surface, or can be left in place and the tube tapped into underground.
what a wuss ;D
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You can just build a door into the wall and lock it (forbid it, and close it tightly) and that should keep fire imps out.
Anyways, glad to see this finally getting rolling. Excited to read all future updates
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Update number 2:
We've had our first casualty already, but fortunately it was only a war dog. For the sake of argument, I'll call him Bruno, for the poor thing was a stray, with nobody to look after him. Bruno, being the ferocious beast he was, simply could not restrain his wrath upon spotting a couple of fire imps. Unfortunately for him, the imps were floating benignly on the surface of the lava tube when his fury descended upon them. In spite of being rapidly incinerated by the fiery lava, the heroic Bruno viciously tore two fire imps limb from limb before succumbing to the sweet embrace of death. Even though your body will never be recovered, you will live on in our hearts forever, Bruno.
In other news, as of early Summer, all the lakes/ponds on the map evaporated due to the extreme heat. This revealed a need to produce a more reliable source of fresh drinking water, so the construction of a canal from the river, which is some distance away from the fortress, to a nearby (now empty) pond has commenced.
A single exploratory mining shaft has been dug to the lowest level possible, and more will be constructed to aid future commanders in the locating of valuable ores, gems, and stones.
All the dwarves are now living in their own separate sleeping quarters, with plenty of room for future expansion. The bedrooms are laid out in a tesselated design, one which can be repeated easily in either a vertical or horizontal direction.
That's all for now, stay tuned for more exciting adventures from outpost Zuglarabod, or "Shipstricken" for those non-dwarves among us.
EDIT: Oh, and there's elephants too. They seem not to be incredibly hostile so far, but who knows what moods might take them in the future? Also, there were unicorns here when I first arrived. They seem to be gone now, no idea where to. Maybe the elephants ate them.
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On September 05 2009 11:03 Lucktar wrote:
Update number 2:
We've had our first casualty already, but fortunately it was only a war dog. For the sake of argument, I'll call him Bruno, for the poor thing was a stray, with nobody to look after him. Bruno, being the ferocious beast he was, simply could not restrain his wrath upon spotting a couple of fire imps. Unfortunately for him, the imps were floating benignly on the surface of the lava tube when his fury descended upon them. In spite of being rapidly incinerated by the fiery lava, the heroic Bruno viciously tore two fire imps limb from limb before succumbing to the sweet embrace of death. Even though your body will never be recovered, you will live on in our hearts forever, Bruno.
In other news, as of early Summer, all the lakes/ponds on the map evaporated due to the extreme heat. This revealed a need to produce a more reliable source of fresh drinking water, so the construction of a canal from the river, which is some distance away from the fortress, to a nearby (now empty) pond has commenced.
A single exploratory mining shaft has been dug to the lowest level possible, and more will be constructed to aid future commanders in the locating of valuable ores, gems, and stones.
All the dwarves are now living in their own separate sleeping quarters, with plenty of room for future expansion. The bedrooms are laid out in a tesselated design, one which can be repeated easily in either a vertical or horizontal direction.
That's all for now, stay tuned for more exciting adventures from outpost Zuglarabod, or "Shipstricken" for those non-dwarves among us.
EDIT: Oh, and there's elephants too. They seem not to be incredibly hostile so far, but who knows what moods might take them in the future? Also, there were unicorns here when I first arrived. They seem to be gone now, no idea where to. Maybe the elephants ate them.
Hunt them, Then encrust them onto wooden crafts, then trade them to the elves, when the elves get angry kill them until they decide to trade with you, then trade them elf bone crafts.
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so.. what happened with this
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Wow, sorry guys I completely forgot about this thread although to be fair people didn't start posting in it until nearly a month after I started it haha. Anyways it looks like you guys had some fun with a fort.
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Hmm. Put me down as interested/maybe, if there is an eventual group going.
I might need a week or two before I can check it out though (lol midsemester rush).
Back in my days we conquered MUDs. This 'graphics' nonsense is child's play.
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bump! anyone interested in starting up a dwarf fortress succession game in latest patch?
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