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It's Fortress Friday! Today we wait for @Doubledee@hexbear.net to finish their turn and for control of the game to pass to @gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net, with the following players waiting for a chance to leave their mark on Dwarven history.
Since last week, it appears there has been a mix-up, and I think @gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net started playing her turn early. In case it wasn't clear, please refer to the top of the post where I say "this person is ending their turn, and this person is beginning their turn." The list below is upcoming turns. If you are at the top of this list, that means you should be prepared to begin your turn next week. The dates are when the player should check in, download the save (waiting for the previous player to post it first), and begin their turn, not when they should be finished with their turn. I will mark this more clearly going forward.
As a consolation to @gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net, she can still comment about what happened, but it will be considered non-canonical, doomed to an alternate timeline, like a nightmarish dream sequence or something. The game must continue from where @Doubledee@hexbear.net left off.
I'm sorry I didn't intervene sooner. I missed it over the holidays.
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(Beginning Jan. 2) @booty@hexbear.net
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(Beginning Jan. 9) @context@hexbear.net
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(Beginning Jan. 16) @Oreb@hexbear.net
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(Beginning Jan. 23) @Infamousblt@hexbear.net
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(Beginning Jan. 30) [First slot for new players / second turns begin] @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net
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(Beginning Feb. 6) @Moonworm@hexbear.net
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(Beginning Feb. 13) @Doubledee@hexbear.net
New players are encouraged to apply in this thread. All players and spectators are welcome to load up the save and see what's going on first hand.
As we approach the point where players will begin their second turns, we will transition how we handle adding new players to the queue. Applications at this point will be put +/- two weeks back in the queue (after the next player) so people can have a reasonable amount of time to make adjustments.
Lore
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Announcement: Thread
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Generated world: File
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Episode 3 - Doubledee: Teaser / This thread / File (mirror) - current save, ready for @gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net
How to play
Importing the save
Dwarf Fortress saves are not stored in a single file. They are stored as named
directories containing over a thousand individual data files. In order to load
the game, you need to download a zipped archive of the save and place it in your
Dwarf Fortress save directory. This directory can be located in a number of
places depending on which OS you are using and what settings you have enabled.
If Portable mode is enabled (not default), the save directory will be
located in the same directory as dwarfort / dwarfort.exe. If you are using
Steam with the default locations, these are:
On Linux: ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Dwarf Fortress/save
On Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dwarf Fortress\save
This directory might exist, even if Portable mode is turned off (default), but in that case it will be ignored by the game. Instead, save files are stored somewhere in your user directory.
On Linux: ~/.local/share/Bay 12 Games/Dwarf Fortress/save
On Windows: %AppData%\Roaming\Bay 12 Games\Dwarf Fortress\save
Extract the FFSeason1 directory from the archive and place it inside of the
appropriate save directory, then you should see it after starting the game.
Stopping the clock
By using a combination of the "Autosave Frequency" (any setting as long as it is not "Off") and "Pause after every autosave" options, you can cause the game to pause at the exact moment the calendar ticks over to 1st Granite (the first day of the year).
After the game pauses, you still have the opportunity to do a couple minor things, like designating blueprint tiles to label hazards, noteworthy sources of material, or leaving graffiti. You can also rename stockpiles and rooms, etc. before writing the final save. You should avoid doing anything that will substantially change the behavior of the fort or generate labor tasks (like creating / removing stockpiles, changing which items are allowed to be stored in stockpiles, enabling / disabling standing orders, creating new work orders, or designating new rooms / meeting areas). Military schedules often change at the start of a season (e.g. the "staggered training" preset). This is fine.
Any blueprints left are merely suggestions. The next player is free to ignore them. If you wanted something built there, you should have microed your miners better :P
Exporting the save
When Dwarf Fortress creates auto-saves, or if you use the "save and continue
playing" feature, Dwarf Fortress will write these saves to an alternate
directory (e.g. autosave1 or pull the lever). When you finish your turn,
you need to use the "Save and return to title menu" option and choose "Save to
this timeline." You need to do this even though the game just created an
auto-save. This will write the save back to the FFSeason1 directory, which you can then
place in a zip archive and submit.
Making your submission.
Save files can be e-mailed to fortress-friday@matapacos.dog ahead of time. Some e-mail services (like Gmail) prohibit sending large enough attachments, but if it works on your end, it should work on mine. Otherwise, the file may need to be hosted using a third-party service. Dwarf Fortress File Depot is the canonical service for this (they have a category specifically for community games), but any service which doesn't require me to create an account or jump through flaming hoops is acceptable. Currently, the compressed save is about 50MB. It won't get any smaller with time.
Alternately, submissions can be made as a reply to the following week's Fortress Friday post, which will be posted in anticipation of a submission. This thread will be posted and used to coordinate the game and get the proper files into the hands of the next player regardless of if the anticipated turn was completed.
Whether or not the file was transferred in advance, The player who just completed their turn should make a top-level comment in this thread describing noteworthy events of their turn. You are encouraged (but not required) to roleplay and continue to spin a fantasy narrative out of it, but you don't need to write us a Tolkien novel - especially if you are pressed for time and have other shit to worry about. This shouldn't feel like a homework assignment.
My initial submission will be excessive because I am also covering the results of world-generation, the historical circumstances of the civilization we chose, and the embark. Subsequent posts will mostly be focused on chronicling events in Fortress Mode. You are absolutely not expected to export the world history and spend hours dicking around in Legends Viewer spinning up backstories for every minor goblin who gets turned into dog food.
What if a turn is not completed / running late?
If you anticipate not being able to complete your turn, just let us know (the sooner, the better) so we can make adjustments. Shit pops up. There are more important things in life than a stupid game. We won't be mad at you.
In case Fortress Friday rolls around and there is no submission, Tentatively, I think we give the player 24 hours to actually make their post before we start openly contemplating passing to the next player, followed by another 24 hours to find out which of the next players is actually available. So if there is no update by mid-Saturday, we find another candidate, and if there is no word by mid-Sunday, they are given the green light to play.
What if a turn is completed early?
You can tease us (it's reassuring to know progress is being made), but hold on to your spoilers until Fortress Friday. I think keeping this thing on a regular schedule will do a lot to keep everybody looking forward to updates and keeping things organized. If anticipation is eating away at you, try to fill in some lore and backstory.
Rules
There are not many hard rules, but generally
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You play for one year in-game time. Turns should begin and end on 1st Granite.
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Avoid using blatant exploits (the game is built of cheese, so this is sort of like the pornography rule, "you know it when you see it.") Things like perpetual motion machines or material duplication schemes should be shunned. Some things classified as exploits, like "atom smashers" should be fine as long as their applications aren't egregious.
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Try not to save-scum (Do save though. Crashes happen, and named "save and continue" saves won't clutter the main save).
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You are free to use DFHack, but do not use any of it's "Armok" (god-mode) features. Also, try to keep it modest. The fort shouldn't fail catastrophically if the next player doesn't have DFHack installed. ___
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The Fusion Fix mod for GTA IV comes with a timed snowy weather pattern for the holidays
(hexbear.net)
It's like I'm in frickin' Home Alone 2 
It finally makes sense to have Niko wear an ushanka
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According to recent reports by Fortune and Wall Street Journal, and court testimonies, the 48-year-old entrepreneur aims to father at least 20 US-born kids specifically to inherit his video game fortune. Bo wants to leverage US-based surrogacy to bypass domestic birth restrictions and secure American-born heirs.
Citing Xu’s video game company, a Wall Street Journal reported that Xu has more than 100 children born through surrogates based in the US, and has been allegedly seeking “50 high-quality sons,” as per accounts linked to Xu on Chinese microblogging website Weibo. One of the accounts also claim that according to Xu, “having more children can solve all problems.”
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I've been learning Godot and blender in my spare time. Made a little age if sail death match game to get my head round net code, rollback and all that brainfuckery (using netfox plugin for all the rollback netcode). All the models were made using Godot's CSG mesh tools as it was all very placeholdery and experimental. Had to relearn trigonometry and quadratic equations to allow for cool aiming reticles that predict where cannon shot is actually going to land as well as to point those cannons along a ballistic trajectory. In it's current state it's extremely basic, but I'm very proud of it.
Anyway, decided that I wanted to learn some graphics and animation stuff before progressing too far with any game. Currently I manipulate the ships cannons, yard arms and sails by moving separate meshes which is a bit cumbersome. So the last two weeks whenever I have time I've been learning some blender. My last lesson was on UV unwrapping and texturing.
Anyway, I'd love to collaborate on something. It's tough working alone, and as hard as I try to convince them, none of my friends are interested in learning to code or model.
So hit me up if you are interested. This goes for anyone, btw.
Below is a little screenshot of the game. It currently site on a free tier google cloud server.
You can actually connect to the server if you want to take a look. The game has some bugs relating to rollback on the sail animations, and I think the wind direction stops changing after the server has been up for a while, something I need to look into.
Here is the game executable. File is big because godot bundles the entire game engine with the game files.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SyOcBMu-KL7s_WMKoWsNw6nD5rY6Bm-R/view?usp=sharing
Blurb on how to actually play the game.
To connect you need to paste in the following ip address 35.225.126.120 and hit join game. Before you do that you can go into settings and give yourself a name.
The controls are as follows:
W increase sail S decrease sail A-D turn. This actually turns your rudder. So if you hold it down your rudder will be hard over to that side and will take some time to return to centre after you let go. Q-E rotate camera Mouse wheel, zoom camera TAB show score board ESC bring up menu
A large compass sits on the sea around your ship and there is a red arrow which indicates wind direction. Your ship has differing sailing characteristics depending on its angle to the wind. You cannot sail directly into the wind so you need to tack upwind.
Left mouse/Right mouse Fire left and right guns. If you hold down left or right for more than a second and then release, the respective cannons on the left or right will all fire at once (a broadside), otherwise they will fire one at a time, as they are ready, starting from the front-most cannon
There are aiming cones that show the angle of fire and range of your guns. Each gun also has a target indicator which estimates where its round will land when it fires. Guns take some time to aim towards their target so take this into account when aiming. Guns also reset their aiming when they have fired and are reloading, so remember that after a gun has reloaded it still needs to reaim at target.
There are two ships to choose from. They are in no way balanced, I just needed to test that I could spawn on different ship types. The heavy schooner is better in every way than the schooner except for being a bit slower and less manoeuvrable.
Equally the cannons you can select from differ very little other than range and cone of fire. Again, this was for testing purposes. At some point I need to build some balanced ship types and cannons
Cannons get a x3 damage multiplier for raking the stern and x2 for raking the bow.
You can load up multiple instances of the client if you want to shoot at something.
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It's the sort of game I've been wanting for a long time, a (simple but functional) 4x where you design your own units
The design process is simple enough to be accessible but complex enough to involve meaningful tradeoffs and compromises. Armor makes a ship sturdier but slower, heavier, and more expensive. Big guns can inflict monstrous damage at long range but they are likewise heavy and expensive and eat a lot of ammo, which means more ammo storage, which takes up space and can explode if hit. Soldiers have to move around the ship to do things like fuel engines, put out fires, and reload cannons, so you have to keep traffic flow in mind and try to avoid situations where e.g. a single destroyed corridor effectively makes an entire section inaccessible.
Pictured above is my latest design, the Dreadnought, a monster of a ship with four heavy gun turrets and a thick coating of steel armor. It costs a fortune and moves like continental drift, but it's very good at what it does (dishing out and taking a whole lot of damage).
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Dispatch is Twilight for men. Robert is Bella, Blond Blazer is Edward, and Invisagirl is Jacob.
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Kinda funny watching Pokémon games slowly devolve into the kind of jank shit you'd find on Steam pushed out by a solo dev who used mostly generic assets, except it's a Nintendo flagship priced at $70 
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My Mommy bought me a Nintendo game for Christmas and I've been playing Metroid Prime 4 all weekend.
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Disclaimer: I dislike 2b2t, but the video does go over a harmful effect that these rule enforcements bring which is that all the harmful players on 2b2t will find other servers to play in instead of containing them in a place that the average player will never think about.
But also 
for drawing swastikas in response to getting told to not make hate symbols.
Also the minecraft EULA has always been the most confusing document to read. They're even being sued in sweden for it.
They basically have infinite powers until they decide to use them, which is what Microsoft wants to do now.
Don't buy into proprietary software, this will always happen. There's a libre implementation of blockgame called Luanti.
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