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[Jasper]

Maybe I'm just dumb, but my trend has been toward games that are simpler, but not necessarily easier.

That, or games that are so plot intensive/graphically stunning that they amount to art, more or less.

[Jasper]

Mass Effect was a very pretty game, but it was also a very "kill the endless mooks" game.

Protip:  A sniper with lots of levels in pistol is fucking unstoppable. 

[Captain Utopia]

It's been a while since I've stayed up at night playing a game.  Today I'm tired and grumpy and have only myself to blame.  That, and those stupid fucking dwarfes, why the hell does my mason keep going off hunting, and my carpenter plant seeds while job queues build up at their respective workshops and the supply chains break and everyone starts eating kittens?

Anyway, I found this silly tutorial was great for getting me actually playing the game rather than giving up in disgust, which I almost did:
  http://afteractionreporter.com/2009/02/09/the-complete-and-utter-newby-tutorial-for-dwarf-fortress-part-1-wtf/

And this is indispensable too:
  http://dwarffortresswiki.net

[Jasper]

"...and the supply chains break and everyone starts eating kittens"

Newsfeed. 

[Golden Applesauce]

Obviously, you need to disable hunting on your mason, and disable farming on your carpenter.  The dwarves have a kind of bizarre job priority system - if you set one dwarf to do both "catch fish" and "clean fish", he'll just keep fishing and never stop to clean any of the fish, resulting in a huge pile of rotting fish and no actual food.  In general, you want each dwarf to do only one job, and that includes hauling labors.

[Golden Applesauce]

"...and the supply chains break and everyone starts eating kittens"

Newsfeed. 

I don't think they eat kittens unless you expressly order the kittens to be butchered first.  Which can be a problem, because you can't order dwarves' pets to be butchered.  Normally, you just don't mark animals as "adopt meee" unless you know you don't want to eat them later, but cats have the survival advantage of being able to force dwarves to adopt them, whether you like it or not.  Many a fortress has crumbled into dust because they've been overwhelmed by eternally breeding cats that they can't bring themselves to kill.

http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Catsplosion

Note the "thermonuclear catsplosion" option, where you literally have exploding cats by the magic of messing around with core body temperatures.

[Jasper]

I'm speechless.

[Captain Utopia]

Obviously, you need to disable hunting on your mason, and disable farming on your carpenter.  The dwarves have a kind of bizarre job priority system - if you set one dwarf to do both "catch fish" and "clean fish", he'll just keep fishing and never stop to clean any of the fish, resulting in a huge pile of rotting fish and no actual food.  In general, you want each dwarf to do only one job, and that includes hauling labors.

Ah - that helped, thanks.  Yup, it is a bit bizarre.. gets easier with more dwarves though - is it even possible to specialise at the start with only 7 dwarves?  I find myself constantly updating the labor preferences just to get anything done.

I hate this game for addicting me into staying up till the large hours playing it.

[NotPublished]

  3x hotter than the sun's surface .. poor Cats

That was almost the whole island...

[NotPublished]

I played Sid Meier's Civilisation ... I had fun playing #1 and #2 

[Reginald Ret]

Alpha centauri is the best in the series in my opinion.
civilization is cool, ever single one of 'em :P

Have you played Colonization?
either the original or the one based on Civ4.
Also very enjoyable.

[Golden Applesauce]

Obviously, you need to disable hunting on your mason, and disable farming on your carpenter.  The dwarves have a kind of bizarre job priority system - if you set one dwarf to do both "catch fish" and "clean fish", he'll just keep fishing and never stop to clean any of the fish, resulting in a huge pile of rotting fish and no actual food.  In general, you want each dwarf to do only one job, and that includes hauling labors.

Ah - that helped, thanks.  Yup, it is a bit bizarre.. gets easier with more dwarves though - is it even possible to specialise at the start with only 7 dwarves?  I find myself constantly updating the labor preferences just to get anything done.

I hate this game for addicting me into staying up till the large hours playing it.

You can specialize with seven dwarves, you just won't be able to do everything yet.  Which isn't a problem, as the more advanced things that require a bunch of dwarves can wait until the first immigrant wave.  One formula that I stuck with for a while was 1 planter, 1 woodcutter, 1 carpenter, 4 miners.  Lately I've been trying 6 miners + 1 carpenter, and just starting with enough food and booze to last me through the first year (selling the anvil at embark helps.)

[Jasper]

Tried DF today.  It is my kryptonite.

[Requia ☣]

question, hoe do you keep the second wave of settlers from starving? cause the fuckers bring no food with them for me, best I can come up with is to try something with 4 or so farmers in it.

[NotPublished]

just downloaded DF, having a bit of trouble figuring out anything Going to try hit up the wiki ... I feel like being god.

I miss Black & White But cbf playing that

I can't get fullscreen mode to work with the RantingGrodent Tileset

But fullscreen mode works with the unmodded DF

edit : nvm fixed it - fullscreen was just in a weird resolution, changed it to 1280 x 800 anyhow