Gird your nerdly loins: Dwarf Fortress
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Mate. I do, I really do. But I'm still obsessed with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
I'll take a turn a bit later on if you want. I need some time to jump off that learning cliff. I'm up for it though.
Crispy
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I've been checking out Legends mode, and this handy viewer: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=72702.0 to find historically interesting embark locations. Just found a dwarven civilization that consists of just a single settlement, population 377 (all the other dwarven civs are thousands strong). Although they are quite close to elves and goblins, they have never gone to war. This is because of Reg.
Reg Bisekerith was one of the first dwarves in the world, having been created in year 1 as the General of the settlement Roadfords of the civilization known as The Citadel of Spreading (note: it's ironic that the civ has never spread beyond its founding walls!). However, in year 2, he profaned the Cathedral of Diamond. Geshud, the local Mountain God punished Reg by cursing him and turned him into a were-armadillo. Reg left town and went into retreat for two years, before returning as a sworn enemy of Roadfords.
His first act of vengeance was eating someone's pet rabbit, but this was just an appetiser. Over the following 250 years Reg has come to disrupt the fortress again and again and again. He is now known as "The Beak of Heather" and has 24 kills to his name. Not only that, but he has successfully bitten and cursed 8 of his former kin, who now also regularly run rampant through the halls, killing and maiming as they go. Roadfords has suffered nearly 600 were-beast rampages in the last 250 years, claiming the lives of 142 dwarves.
There have been 14 kings and queens of the Citadel of Spreading. About half of them were killed by the were-beast plague. The current ruler is Mistem Inethartob. After battling with were-beasts all his life (most recently, Reg the Beak of Heather), he has decided that he cannot face the same fate as his forebears. He has become obsessed with his own mortality and seeks to extend his life by any means.
This means one of two things. He will get bitten by Reg and become an immortal were-beast. Or he will access arcane knowledge and become a Necromancer. I am tempted to run the simulation again, but give it another couple of decades, to see if Mistem manages to achieve his goal...
Reg Bisekerith was one of the first dwarves in the world, having been created in year 1 as the General of the settlement Roadfords of the civilization known as The Citadel of Spreading (note: it's ironic that the civ has never spread beyond its founding walls!). However, in year 2, he profaned the Cathedral of Diamond. Geshud, the local Mountain God punished Reg by cursing him and turned him into a were-armadillo. Reg left town and went into retreat for two years, before returning as a sworn enemy of Roadfords.
His first act of vengeance was eating someone's pet rabbit, but this was just an appetiser. Over the following 250 years Reg has come to disrupt the fortress again and again and again. He is now known as "The Beak of Heather" and has 24 kills to his name. Not only that, but he has successfully bitten and cursed 8 of his former kin, who now also regularly run rampant through the halls, killing and maiming as they go. Roadfords has suffered nearly 600 were-beast rampages in the last 250 years, claiming the lives of 142 dwarves.
There have been 14 kings and queens of the Citadel of Spreading. About half of them were killed by the were-beast plague. The current ruler is Mistem Inethartob. After battling with were-beasts all his life (most recently, Reg the Beak of Heather), he has decided that he cannot face the same fate as his forebears. He has become obsessed with his own mortality and seeks to extend his life by any means.
This means one of two things. He will get bitten by Reg and become an immortal were-beast. Or he will access arcane knowledge and become a Necromancer. I am tempted to run the simulation again, but give it another couple of decades, to see if Mistem manages to achieve his goal...
FridgeMagnet
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I'd do a succession game. Right at the moment though I don't have a lot of dwarfing time, as what time I do have (about two hours a day) I like to spend Not Looking At A Computer.
I'm getting a bit bored of my current fortress tbh. When I can entice goblin armies into my heavily trapped entrance it can be amusing, but irritatingly my dwarves still seem much too keen to just run out and take them on single handedly. Actually when they are weapon lords they can take out huge quantities and sometimes scare all the rest off, but even so. And most of the time it's just dig dig dig.
I'm getting a bit bored of my current fortress tbh. When I can entice goblin armies into my heavily trapped entrance it can be amusing, but irritatingly my dwarves still seem much too keen to just run out and take them on single handedly. Actually when they are weapon lords they can take out huge quantities and sometimes scare all the rest off, but even so. And most of the time it's just dig dig dig.
stuff_it
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fractionMan
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Never
Crispy
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I seem to have acquired the ultimate punchbag. It's name is Nenpe and it is a human deity. It came with their caravan pretending to be a diplomat. It's actually some sort of hideous tortoise monster. It can't fight for shit, but it's also incredibly tough. So I've had my two melee squads taking turns whiffing at it. They're leveling up to Professional swords-and-axedwarves yet they're still not putting the thing down. It's been fighting so long, its old wounds have turned into scars. Its scars probably have scars.
Bob_the_lost
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To be honest I was hoping for more graphs of Dwarf productivity over time in various scenarios. 
FridgeMagnet
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I would lock it underground somewhere inside a set of fortifications, then set a routine around it for new marks dwarves, and set them on that occasionally,.
I want to play this and I don't play computer games and it sounds like the worst thing ever. But still.
stuff_it
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Dwarf fortress - it's going to be a lot of digging.
nah, more about smelting gold and making gold crafts.
If you've got more than 14% of your dwarves digging, you've only got 7 dwarves.
Crispy
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I think I've found a "fun" world and embark for the succession game 
tbh, I'm keen to get a move onto it, as my current fortress is getting boring. I keep seeing off the goblin sieges by raining crossbow bolts on them till they give up. My legendary weaponsmith has made adamantine swords and axes for my cave-creature death squad. There's not a lot of challenge left. I feel the need to settle somewhere more interesting.
tbh, I'm keen to get a move onto it, as my current fortress is getting boring. I keep seeing off the goblin sieges by raining crossbow bolts on them till they give up. My legendary weaponsmith has made adamantine swords and axes for my cave-creature death squad. There's not a lot of challenge left. I feel the need to settle somewhere more interesting.
Crispy
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You'll get used to it.I would do the beginners guide on the wiki, step by step with no deviations. Don't try and be too careful, your dwarves will die. Then start again. Your third fortress will probably be the one that has a chance of making it long term.
fractionMan
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bah, x windows isn't included with OSX any more and it's taking ages to download.
fractionMan
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oh, it's not a fan of retina displays then
Crispy
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fractionMan
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it makes the window full size then only fills a 1/4 of it 
I'm going to get neck ache
I'm going to get neck ache
fractionMan
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fractionMan
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argh. Can't get it to work in anything other than 1280x400 which is a teensy bit letterbox.
stuff_it
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Fnar.
SITREP please! I got all excited even though my namesake isn't doing much at all atm.
fractionMan
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I worked it out, the window is resizable
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