[QUOTE=Loofiloo;20109881]A dwarven caravan arrived at my fort, and one of the wagons is going slllloooooooowwwwww as hell. What's up with that? Crippled horses? Unreasonably heavy cargo?[/QUOTE]
Strange. I guess the caravans go according to what they carry, because I've had caravans go literally like, lightning fast, they get from my trade depot to the end of the map within 1-2 seconds.
This one takes one step about every 5 seconds.
If it had appeared very far away from my fort, it probably wouldn't reach the depot before the caravan packs up and leaves again.
The wagon isn't damaged, and none of the horses are wounded, and the driver and his bodyguard aren't wounded, and the cargo isn't inordinately heavy, so I don't know what's going on.
Might just be a glitch of some sort.
Also, OH MY GOD I AM DUMB. All this time when I've ventured in caves there would be a diagonal tile and I always thought it was just a bug because I couldn't get past it with the arrow keys.
Guess who figured out how useful the keypad is in adventurer mode
New fortress started, the wildlife consists of fire imps, fire men, and wild horses with a spatter of smaller creatures.
I want to play this but I'm intimidated by the graphics and the complexity of the game.
My dwarves positively love this one human, Warosp Strickenrhyme the Autonomous Ambiguity of Assembling. They're always making engravings of him killing elves back in 54, during The Cremated Attack.
Just now one of my peasants made a pair of muskox bone leggings (yep, he was possessed) and on the leggings are images of this human killing one elf (depicted in horse bone), and ripping off another elf's left index finger (depicted in alder wood).
I love my dwarves so much
[QUOTE=Loofiloo;20110299]and ripping off another elf's left index finger (depicted in alder wood).
I love my dwarves so much[/QUOTE]
Damn, that's some motherfucking detail.
[QUOTE=BackflipHatchetAttack;20110275]I want to play this but I'm intimidated by the graphics and the complexity of the game.[/QUOTE]
I will admit that it has a steep learning curve and most will ,but once you learn your way around the commands and the oh so useful K key you'll learn what every symbol means quickly. As for the graphics if your more of a visual person and cant stand ASCII characters you can change it using tilesets. If you wanna learn the game within a day you could use captnduck's guide
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZUS2h-Yzc&feature=relatedn]Here[/url]
For the tilesets you can change
This [img]http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1935/dwarf2.png[/img]To this[img]http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4390/dwarff.png[/img]
They Represent dwarfs
(Zoomed in A LOT)
Extreamly large amounts of text you've been warned! (pretty much the history of my current fort some shit happens that I think will help new DF player learn and want to play EVEN MORE!)
Fuck, fuck, fuck all my dwarfs were happy until I found that damn lava pit. I sent my military in there was only 1 recruit wounded (took a fireball to the chest) and lost only 1 experience swords dwarf (dual swords dwarf in bone armor) to a fire spirit and the rest on my elite military squad starts running out like frightened children. I had assemble a fresh squad of "farmers" they had no weapons, armor, or combat training and you know what they did a damn good job. They went in and shielded the woodcutter from fire balls (with their body) while he was dragging the wounded recruit out of the war zone, they made quick work of the fire spirit using their hands, then let their beards take care of the imps. Yep, only one of them got wounded everyone agreed it would be best to just leave him lying there so... they just left him. Crazy shit starts to happen as soon as switch the squad back to famers. Left and right tantrum spirals everywhere, the worthless bastards complaining about eating the same food and drinking the same booze. Well if they don’t like having a stock pile of meat and shrooms plus a steady supply of booze, then shit I'll just burn it all. Make the little bastards drink water, and eat dirt for all I care I'll take the fucking beds away from those ungrateful little shits.
I spend hours making them intricate pluming for both water and magma and guess what they fuck it up. Well someone one decided it would be beneficial to rip off all the floodgates and toss the dead into the water intake pipes. So now we got large amounts of magma and water spewing all over the fortress plus the steady stream of blood water. Then I'm constantly being attack by "needs empty buckets" announcements that’s too bad since I had 30 something buckets made, but the mayor decided it would be best to horde them all in his room then have anyone who came close to one arrested and beaten to death.
Human caravan comes along a human diplomats walks in witnesses a child rip off a armed fortress guards arms off then Spartan kicks the guard back like 10 squares into a open pit of magma. The diplomat walked right back out and the caravan guards chased a kobold inside of my fort, and finally splattered the little fucker all over the mayor’s room. I don’t know they must have touched his buckets or something because the mayor flipped the fuck out and started attacking the human spearmen. The spearmen lost an arm, but killed the mayor this caused another tantrum spiral. It was an all out cluster fuck in this room 15 tantruming dwarfs plus the 25 military dwarfs I had left all piled into this room I locked the door thus starting the first dwarvenly cage match. Everything died except for 19 of the military dwarfs, the humans were beaten into nothingness not even their equipment survived and now that I think about it the caravans left too plus the strange war message takes me by surprise... oh look a siege!
Oh well more blood for the blood god!
59 dwarfs left, 19 living military dwarfs (of which only 2 have weapons and armor)
I think I can take a human attack force, you think so?
I just downloaded it on my laptop. I will move it to my main PC to.
But i will start playing later.
Add me to your list, I started playing as well lately. It takes some time getting used to it though, and for some reason, when playing on my laptop, the menus don't work at all. :( Still getting the hang of it.
I got my first siege, which is good... but I only have my starter people and gained NO immigrants... I guess the bastards from that trading caravan bring them in here.
My adventurer has 38 notable kills, all but two of them are elves. I feel accomplished.
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now I'm up to fifty, great ambusher + adept bowman + elves with bows (near neverending supply of arrows) = FUCKING SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
I prefer to build a base then adventure in this game. I see much potential at buildings bases then adventuring and getting slaughtered. hell, even most of the add-on seem to only adapted to Fortress mode then Adventure mode.
I'm so confused, I got a notice that a "Vile force of Darkness has arrived!" When I was only at 13 Dwarves and 100k wealth.
I can't wait for the new version to come out, then I will start playing this game again.
I've really been wanting to start on a second fort, but I'm going to wait for the next version. I'll keep playing on my first fort until then.
Also I'm having a hell of a time finding out who actually killed the dragon that attacked my fortress. Nobody in my military has that in their list of kills. Maybe it was a war dog?
But don't they receive a title for killing something as huge as a dragon?
The learning curve is so goddamn steep.. I'm attempting to play this game.
So my human warrior now has 71 notable kills, still 99% of them elves, and on top of it he now has had his right eye ripped out by a dire wolf, badass.
Better protect that other eye then huh
[QUOTE=Zatharon;20114308]So my human warrior now has 71 notable kills, still 99% of them elves, and on top of it he now has had his right eye ripped out by a dire wolf, badass.[/QUOTE]
your character should be name Xiahou Dun for that.
Finally ended my killing spree for the night at 114 notable kills, 112 of which were elves, I decided to attack an elf forest retreat head on as opposed to sneaking around like I normally do, because of all my sneaking I ended up being a better shot than the elves with my bow, so I managed to take out all the archers before they could do anything horrible to me, then I shot more elves till I ran out of arrows and used my bow to beat anyone still alive from arrow wounds to death, then I pulled out my iron two-handed sword and carved a bloody swath through the remaining elves, it's been a good day.
Awww...the new version is not out yet? darn
So i go with the 2D or 3D or OpenGL's one?. I just want the best. Also i already have OpenGL's but i still want the one that facepunchers use.
40d16 or 40d17 depending on how stable it is. 2D is a lot harder.
[b]New devlog[/b]
[quote]There's a List thread reply here ([url]http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=30026.msg1019841#msg1019841[/url]) (2/8/10). One of Zach's horses was savaged by a nightwing and succumbed to infection two months later. It didn't go much better down below, where one of his dwarves was taken carp-like from the top of moat by a gigantic beast. The kiln was busted, and now it's not. Some problems with hospital item storage came up. Zach also found some pigtail trousers that weigh twice as much as a bin of pigtail cloth.
Scamps turned one today! When we weighed him, he was fourteen pounds. The birthday party is actually a five day festival (during which I'm still working), and he'll be receiving his gifts tomorrow.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Loofiloo;20107970]I've been visiting for like the past two threads and I'm not added[/QUOTE]
I've been visiting the threads since mid-2008, so one of the first few threads. I only wanted to be added so we can increase the list to show newcomers how many people enjoy the game. :D
I TRiED TO GO TO THE SITE TO FIND THE DEVLOG, BUT IT WOULDN'T LOAD
CURSE YOUR F5 MAGIC ORKEL
Just got ambushed by 12 Elves.
All of them got massacred and I lost nobody :smug:
It's probably because they didn't have any Archers :ohdear:
[QUOTE=KingQ8;20116971]I've been visiting the threads since mid-2008, so one of the first few threads. I only wanted to be added so we can increase the list to show newcomers how many people enjoy the game. :D[/QUOTE]
who's your main
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Ah, i remember the good old times of the first thread
I still remember when i said that this game was too fucking complicated, everyone said, not it's not.
Then i asked for a tutorial and all of you guys redirected me to captnduck's videos
I've been playing ever since.
i think it was the second iteration of this thread, or the first original by dlymidget
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