Dwarf Fortress

[lacota]

Glad to finally find other hole-digging maniacs. if y'all ever need to talk strat about it, feel free to MSN me, extremepumpkin AT lacota DOT net.  (yeah, it's not hotmail, but it works).

mmmm Dwarf Fortressy goodness.

[Sartan]

I'm terrified at the very idea of starting a fortress, but I love adventurer mode. Wandering around being sneaky, throwing halberds and butterflies at people. At least, until I ran directly into a giant cave spider and got murderized.

[Rusted]

I'm terrified at the very idea of starting a fortress, but I love adventurer mode. Wandering around being sneaky, throwing halberds and butterflies at people. At least, until I ran directly into a giant cave spider and got murderized.

Yeah, I remember when I first started playing the game.  I started out with Dwarf Fortress, but it confused the hell outta me, so I went to play the more fun and quick goodness of adventurer mode.  I eventually stumbled on that one long-running story of a Dwarf Fortress and Elephants and got inspired to try the Fortress mode again.

[lacota]

I'm the other way around, I'm terrified of Adventurer mode.

I WAS SO HORRIBLE AT ROGUE/NETHACK.

[lacota]

NTS: Water flows on a diagonal.

My Patties are al l water-logged now.

[lacota]

Well, I must be doing SOMETHING right. First round of migrants. I've gone from 7 to 27 O.O time to start building bedrooms and beds!

[Rusted]

I've gone from my first phase of 7 dwarves plus the joy of new immigrants to 7 dwarves plus or minus take a few  of a narrow tunnel to funnel immigrants in -> elaborate traps at end of funnel -> death of immigrants -> the minor labor needed to clean up said mess.

And there we go   Still 7 dwarves, no more extra mouths to feed, and no extra work besides taking care of the 7 lovely dwarves!
I haven't yet gotten to the third phase, which I'm guessing from others is the hermit phase.

[lacota]

Dontcha love it when the Dwarves go Postal? 3 dwarves and a dog later..

[saharo]

Dwarf Fortress is what I was thinking about at the time when I played Diggles: The Myth Of Fenris.
Great concept, I love videogames that have a sandbox approach, flexible enough to let gamers go beyond the developer's expectations... did you see what people did with Armadillo Run and N (the Force machines for the former and the DDA for the latter) ?
You should see what incredible fortress people build with DF, one is about a big system of pumps that allows a bunch of dwarves to build a tower in the ocean!!!

I really hope that the code behind DF can be optimized, or that it gets optimized for multiprocessor, otherwise in some future version my pc will not run it smoother than 2FPS...DF computes really a lot!