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User:Kydo
Who I Am
I am Kydo, a DF player who enjoys this website a lot and is interested in helping. Mostly with grammatical corrections. (If you see any issues on my page, please point them out to me. Everyone makes mistakes. That's why I'm here.) My real name is Jeff. Not that it matters. In rl, I'm an artist with two years of college under his belt... And no money to complete the rest of the degree. I'm a gamer, I play D&D and dabble in tabletop RPG design, I play videogames excessively, and it all tends to get in the way of my art, really. This is probably just another diversion, I suppose. Oh. And I'm a MAN. Let's make that clear.
I have a DA page if you wish to talk to me about art or what-not. Kydo
Observations
Okay then! New release! Time to start my page over fresh, and write about all the weirdness I find! Yay! Once I've re-learned everything in the game, I'll get round to doing some actual projects and expanding the wiki again.
Stonesense
As expected, the BRILLIANT DF isometric visualizer... Doesn't yet work with the new release. So, when I stumbled into an enormous cavern system, which was extremely unpleasantly placed, and I found it's features almost incomprehensible, and tried to use the visualizer to understand it, well, it just didn't work. Looks like all it needs is a quick update to recognize the process, though.
Staircases
Unless you are digging one, single, block, vertical channel, from TOP to BOTTOM, staircases WILL get your dwarves trapped, as they cannot build them from below any more. For example,a dwarf trapped in a trench cannot make a staircase out, as he cannot make the necessary "downward" stair tile on the level above. This means, unless under specific circumstances, ramps are superior. At least for now.
U.G.L.Y. You ain't got no alibi
Anyone else noticed that almost every single dwarf is ugly? Like, horribly so? They're all gap-toothed, with hooked noses and sunken eye sockets, with weird scars... Ugh. I love the cultural styles, though. I chose the dwarvs who go around conquering everything and discovered that they preferred, very long, nicely combed beards and mustaches, with shaved bald heads. Even some of the women shave their heads. Neat!
Hunger and Thirst
Also, now we can over-work our dwarves. They'll mine away until they're about ready to collapse of starvation or thirst before they finally give in to it. Kinda' creepy. And not good for their mental states. Makes my tendency to make HUGE designations and focus on other things for a year sort of a bad thing.