Dwarf Fortress v13 - Orkel looses a roaring laughter, fell and terrible! - Games

Really? The screens I posted looks more or less what the game itself looks like on my screen. I must be coping with lower quality much better than you then. But then again, the highest resolution I have ever played a game at is 1366x768. In other words, not much of a graphics dude. That is of course the highest resolution my cheap screen can do, so yeah... Anyway, sorry, will post higher quality next time.

The problem is that it blurs the bright colors into the background and it looks bad Compare these two: One is lossless .png and other is .jpg [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/Dorf/example1.PNG[/img][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/Dorf/example2.jpg[/img] Notice a difference? [editline]31st March 2011[/editline] Oh fucking facepunch blurs the picture regardless Open them in new windows to see the original

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;28908211]The problem is that it blurs the bright colors into the background and it looks bad Compare these two: One is lossless .png and other is .jpg [img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/Dorf/example1.PNG[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/Dorf/example2.jpg[/img_thumb] Notice a difference? [editline]31st March 2011[/editline] Oh fucking facepunch blurs the picture regardless Open them in new windows to see the original[/QUOTE] Only difference I see is the walls are kinda blurred in the second one

Look at the purple food items.

Red color is what suffers most in .jpg compression, it's always blurred to fuck.

[QUOTE=Orkel;28909024]Look at the purple food items.[/QUOTE] Oh I see it now

Ah, yes. I see it now as well. Will use .png from now on.

[QUOTE=Durandir;28909155]Ah, yes. I see it now as well. Will use .png from now on.[/QUOTE] If you do, mediatag them though. Some people are browsing on their phone / are from Australia, and you wouldn't want to kill their bandwidth now would you?

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;28909180]If you do, mediatag them though. Some people are browsing on their phone / are from Australia, and you wouldn't want to kill their bandwidth now would you?[/QUOTE] Mediatagged images still get loaded, they're just not visible.

[QUOTE=SomeFaggot;28903705]Would you guys like a repository for all these dorf stories? I think it'd be fun to make one. I'd probably stick a random story button in there. People could submit stories along with a picture that relates.[/QUOTE] I'd particulary like this as the LP archive is blocked at work and I would like to browse through stories in my pre alloted 42 minute food break. (THEY ARE WATCHING ME) That poobar blog has some of the most incredible stories I've ever read. Also since the updates fixed soap, I'm falling in love with DF all over again.

Eh i started playing this made a farm, carpentry, some beds, a throne some chairs and a table and i really dont see the fun in this that much. What am i doing wrong

[quote=WarRage333]Eh i started playing this made a farm, carpentry, some beds, a throne some chairs and a table and i really dont see the fun in this that much. What am i doing wrong[/quote] winning

[QUOTE=WarRage333;28909442]Eh i started playing this made a farm, carpentry, some beds, a throne some chairs and a table and i really dont see the fun in this that much. What am i doing wrong[/QUOTE] Use your imagination, it's basically a way more complicated minecraft with angry midgets.

I didn't get sucked into Dwarf Fortress from the fun. I had no fun. I was trying and failing in a game I felt was broken and unbalanced, I was just an omnipotent force to lead these small guys to their eventual doom. What kept me coming back was that I knew success was possible, I'd seen it done and I'd make these fuckers live and fight and turn these fucking Goblins to mincemeat. A lot of them would die in gruesome and hilarious ways (my favourite death being a Dwarf working on a bridge seven stories up, when it collapsed, sending a rock hurtling down on top of the unluckiest Dwarf who just happened to be passing under at exactly the wrong time; sending him three layers down whilst leaving a trail of vomit). This game is fucking challenging and when you finally grasp any little success it makes the effort worth it. You get your fun from failure, and if you don't like failure then you picked the wrong game.

So, I think it's about time I got back into Dwarf Fortress, I took a 2-3 month break, as I wanted to make sure a lot of bugs have been worked out with the new version, and it looks like a lot of them have been fixed, so it's time to have a go at DF again. Anything I should know about the new pottery/bee/animals things or whatever?

I'll just start linking to my images. I keep playing because I love making stuff. This and Minecraft are the best games when it comes to that. When you add the complexity of more or less everything, then you have a game where you can build really impressive things but it will take hard work to get there. And if there is something I like better than building stuff up from nothing, then it is having a hard time doing so. I have yet to reach any major goal I set for myself without failing either horribly or hilariously, so I keep coming back.

[QUOTE=AnotherGuy;28909608] (my favourite death being a Dwarf working on a bridge seven stories up, when it collapsed, sending a rock hurtling down on top of the unluckiest Dwarf who just happened to be passing under at exactly the wrong time; sending him three layers down whilst leaving a trail of vomit)[/QUOTE] I laughed hard at that. My funniest deaths are probably the two baby suicides of Tradedaubed when they jumped off the top of my skyscraper after becoming depressed little babies from losing their parents in a siege.

[QUOTE=Orkel;28910093]I laughed hard at that. My funniest deaths are probably the two baby suicides of Tradedaubed when they jumped off the top of my skyscraper after becoming depressed little babies from losing their parents in a siege.[/QUOTE] Only in Dwarf Fortress is that hilarious.

Welp, so after losing 14 dwarves to a mountain titan (thought it was only 11, but lost 14) I proceeded to make my fortress a wee bit more secure, starting with placing a drawbridge at my back entrance, which was previously very poorly defended. Just then, a goblin snatcher appears just outside that entrance. "No biggie, I'll just order a squad to attack him." What happens? While chasing the goblin, they run into an ambush of about 12 goblin lashers. I pull up the drawbridge at my front entrance, but they enter my fort through the back entrance with the unfinished bridge on it. Shortly, my 70 dwarves had dwindled to 0. Heaps of Fun. Time to start a new fort.

That test fire of my bridge-pitfall was conclusive. One of the elf's severed legs shot off so hard it knocked out the dwarf putting in the door. Time for spikes now. :hist101:

[QUOTE=Pokey McFork;28910856]That test fire of my bridge-pitfall was conclusive. One of the elf's severed legs shot off so hard it knocked out the dwarf putting in the door. Time for spikes now. :hist101:[/QUOTE] That elf managed to kick dwarf in the face after his death.

The death I found most enjoyable was when my miner fell on z-level (channeling) His left rib broke of and ruptured his heart so he bled to death in a matter of secconds.

A fire just started in my supply room, at the same time my elite Axedwarf went raving mad. This is not gonna end well, seeing as he kills anyone trying to douse the flames that are going to reach the booze stockpiles. fffff

Grievously injured dwarfs started filling up my hospital all of the sudden. Had no fucking idea why. Turns out the ballista in the main entrance was still on "Fire at will" since the Goblin invasion. Lost a Alpaca and maimed a semi-useless dwarf (which is probably going to die soon).

[QUOTE=Pokey McFork;28910856]That test fire of my bridge-pitfall was conclusive. One of the elf's severed legs shot off so hard it knocked out the dwarf putting in the door. Time for spikes now. :hist101:[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=MendozaMan;28910977]A fire just started in my supply room, at the same time my elite Axedwarf went raving mad. This is not gonna end well, seeing as he kills anyone trying to douse the flames that are going to reach the booze stockpiles. fffff[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=acds;28911246]Grievously injured dwarfs started filling up my hospital all of the sudden. Had no fucking idea why. Turns out the ballista in the main entrance was still on "Fire at will" since the Goblin invasion. Lost a Alpaca and maimed a semi-useless dwarf (which is probably going to die soon).[/QUOTE] I almost cracked up in class.

[QUOTE=Seiteki;28911421]I almost cracked up in class.[/QUOTE] Such is life in dwarf fortress.

Generating a world on my netbook. 0 fps. Image! Thadar Oru, "The Planets of Forever." [URL=http://img192.imageshack.us/i/theplanetsofforever.png/][IMG]http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7922/theplanetsofforever.th.png[/IMG][/URL]

I got this great idea to build a water wheel-powered pump at a brook that crosses my map. Yeah, well, thing is that I didn't make a big enough channel for the water to go down, so it's slowly filling the southern part of my map with water. There's even fish living in the pool it has created, oh god

Build a water reactor by abusing the laws of physics until they give in! [url]http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Water_reactor#Dwarven_Water_Reactor[/url] I think that might also count as lake building, Effed.

[QUOTE=Effed;28912014]I got this great idea to build a water wheel-powered pump at a brook that crosses my map. Yeah, well, thing is that I didn't make a big enough channel for the water to go down, so it's slowly filling the southern part of my map with water. There's even fish living in the pool it has created, oh god[/QUOTE] Be glad it's not as bad as Halp Cat's He made a well in his fort once, and hippoes came with the water.