"Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull" (RamblinRover)
10/08/2014 at 18:45 • Filed to: None
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"Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull" (RamblinRover)
10/08/2014 at 18:45 • Filed to: None | 1
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Does anybody else on Oppo ever play Dwarf Fortress on occasion?
Bad Idea Hat
> Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull
10/08/2014 at 19:41 |
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I tried, but couldn't get into it.
Now minecraft...
Chase
> Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull
10/08/2014 at 19:45 |
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I tried it once, didn't really understand some of the controls/couldn't seem to make the ones i did know work. I've been debating trying it again though
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> Bad Idea Hat
10/08/2014 at 19:49 |
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My funniest incident in DF was starting a fort that was basically in the Okefenokee. Constant rain. I made a giant channel system to control water flow and accidentally broke through to the fort, dropping water down a chimney about 9 stories to where a dwarf was mining. He got chucked back against the wall by a stream of water and broke his arm - I checked his recent thoughts and he had recently "admired a nice waterfall". Oy.
That being said:
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> Chase
10/08/2014 at 19:56 |
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It seems to take about 3 tries and some stubbornness to crack. Then, you just have to resign yourself to playing really badly before you can graduate to just playing badly like everyone else. One of my first forts, everyone died but one ornery guy who survived for almost a year having temper tantrums and eating rats for food.
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Bad Idea Hat
> Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull
10/08/2014 at 20:14 |
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My best moment in DF is literally the one time I loaded a game. Got lost after that.
Minecraft is a whole 'nother story. I had built up one hell of a nicely hidden stronghold in an early MP game. It was well hidden, to the point that entrance was inside some trees and leaves, and exit was through a lake bottom.
I suspect it was someone with admin rights on the server who saw my fort, because a small gang of 4-5 guys were waiting for me when I exited the lake. I returned to the fort to find the less well hidden caches completely emptied, and constructions of mine just gone. They literally stripped everything bare.
I knew all the admins were EST folks like me, and generally knew their patterns. All I had to do was get up at 5am on Saturday morning.
I set fire to the possessions of anyone I even remotely suspected of playing part in the ambush. I can't remember if this were pre-unrestrained fire bug or post-bug, but I just remember entire forests going up. I used a lot of flint. The admin I was friends with jumped onto the server about an hour in, laughed, and decided "fuck the server" as well. Apparently the same group of guys were doing this to a bunch of other people, which was why server population had been going downward.
I don't usually advocate outright griefing, but there comes a point when you just have to let out your inner John Rambo.
Agrajag
> Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull
10/08/2014 at 21:02 |
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I've never even heard of this, but color me intrigued.
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> Agrajag
10/09/2014 at 00:13 |
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It's probably the hardest game to learn how to play "properly"... in the world. Also, all the creature/etc. reference files are editable, so you can do everything from making cats that explode from their innards boiling (set internal temperature way up) to creating domains for the randomly generated dwarven gods to rule over, like Pie and Bacon.
It's the only game about which there has been a forum conversation on the practicalities of harvesting baby mermaids for their bones, so take that as you will.