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ZeeToo posted:

Ground floor! Now to balance testing time versus being sure I get a slot...

I'm doing this except instead of testing I'm trying to think of a punny name

Boing fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Jul 22, 2011

# ¿ Jul 22, 2011 09:27

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 13:32

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Do we know approximately how much a single + of strength is worth in terms of size? Like a dwarf has Strength + but is size 60 compared to a human 70, are they roughly identical?

# ¿ Jul 22, 2011 09:56

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Arena Challenge site posted:

19. Dr Strangelove, Male Strangler (managed by Shorter Than Some)

Why isn't this Dr Stranglelove. Someone change it

# ¿ Jul 22, 2011 12:08

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Fredrik1 posted:

Jonathan Sebastian Smith has taken his quilt pen and signed up to the tournament, there he will compete to win the hand of the fair lady and to become the rightful air to the throne.

(I will have absolutely no idea what I am doing)

Funny you should say that, my fighter was very nearly a werewolf called Johann Sebastian Bark

# ¿ Jul 22, 2011 23:16

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Hey I have nothing else to do, I guess I'll test some builds, let me give this human a knife and

# ¿ Jul 23, 2011 02:45

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Metamucil posted:

If you're a goony tryhard min-maxer like me, you might enjoy this arena.txt edit that I made real quick. It replaces everything on every Z-level with row after row of identical test arenas. With some simple macros, you can set up hundreds of fights in mere minutes!

Just copy/paste it into Data/Init

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JKU5PGE7

You could've made those arenas tessellating diamonds with the correct number of x-spaces between starting corners and doubled the number of tests you can run!

# ¿ Jul 25, 2011 07:53

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Looking forward to when gladiator Gladiator Dies Horribly dies horribly

# ¿ Jul 26, 2011 16:20

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Battle Royale, Boing, Grodimus Thunderbeard, 250 !!!

# ¿ Jul 28, 2011 00:42

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What the hell, Grodimus? They give you a big fuckoff steel sword and you go scratching antwomen like a ponce

# ¿ Jul 28, 2011 13:44

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I am never wrestling a yeti

# ¿ Jul 31, 2011 09:58

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SynthOrange posted:

code:

That One Snake Guy bites Maugrem in the left eye, tearing it!
Serpent man venom is injected into the Maugrem's gremlin blood!
That One Snake Guy latches on firmly!
The Maugrem loses hold of the steel short sword.
The Maugrem is completely paralyzed!

And a platinum sword? gently caress that. He got lucky :arghfist:

No but really I should've bought some weapon skills. At least we had a nail-biting close match, right?

# ¿ Aug 4, 2011 08:53

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Dies Horribly you fantastic bastard. It's a good day for underdogs right

# ¿ Aug 8, 2011 11:04

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I haven't seen anyone rolling around on the ground yet. That was one of my favourite additions to the combat system. Is it because nobody bought points in dodging?

# ¿ Aug 10, 2011 14:44

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I like to think that if my arm was cut off in a fight with a midget I'd still be man enough to keep punching him in the head with my other arm until he died.

This happened to me in Adventurer mode once except I was able to pick up my sword again with my free hand :eng101:

# ¿ Aug 17, 2011 16:46

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I don't know much about picks but taking off a goblin's leg with one was badass

# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 08:07

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That elf fights like a dwarf

# ¿ Oct 28, 2011 09:43

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Oh yeah. Vox a busy man.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2012 18:53

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That was kickass Vox. Armless boxer, thumb-biting, blood everywhere oh poo poo :psydwarf:

# ¿ Jan 15, 2012 00:49

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I am excited for the names more than anything else.

(sent mine!)

# ¿ Feb 26, 2012 12:02

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ZeeToo posted:

Yeah, Captain Blood Loss has some fiendishly high weapon levels. Against any melee opponent, he was never going to live up to his name.

If I'd known we were allowed Striking, Wrestling, Biting and Kicking skills I would've sank my points into those :arghfist:

# ¿ Feb 29, 2012 15:54

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Some awesome fights. Picturing the Dr Stranglelove fight is brutal as all hell

# ¿ Mar 11, 2012 12:18

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I'm prepared for loads of necks exploding into gore (and being little more than slight inconveniences for the neckhavers).

(Cat Stevens is ready)

Boing fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Aug 8, 2014

# ¿ Aug 8, 2014 10:32

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Hey Team 6 I think we can get a 1-protect-2 thing going

# ¿ Aug 8, 2014 14:26

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^^^ Hey I guess that means you stick with this build forever and we coast to a clean win right

unwantedplatypus posted:

let the cat out of the bag

The cat is out and he's pissed :v:

Wrestling seems finicky since Cat spent half of the round grabbing pinky fingers and little toes before letting go of them again. Fortunately he spent the other half of the round punching hands into pulp but you sort of want wrestlers to have a bit more sense.

e: Actually looking at the log it seems wrestling doesn't work at all? Not a single joint lock, takedown or throw. Or is that just my guy?

Boing fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Aug 11, 2014

# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 10:54

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Afriscipio posted:

Unrelated question: Onan was kicking Pulpy Van Winkle, even though he doesn't have any kicking skill. Was this because PvW was prone?

No, fighters get random opportunities in combat for better-than-usual strikes and fighter AI will usually take them, even if it's to scratch their pinky finger or something rather than give them an axe to the face. I think the opportunities are governed by the Fighting skill.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 09:25

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Ramc posted:

Looking forward to seeing how our division hashes out. Also dammit Cat Stevens- I bet on your team based on your previous performance.

Cat Stevens is a master of drama. It's much more exciting when we win the next round this way.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2014 10:47

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drat, that could've gone either way. Good job boys!

I complained before about neck-crushing not doing anything. My immersion :argh:

# ¿ Aug 25, 2014 02:09

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It's amazing that Paper Machete died not from being bludgeoned with a metal bow for two days straight, but from the lung wound days previously, as he lay comatose and beaten.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2014 09:06

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You described it perfectly and yet you didn't even give us a screenshot of the arena strewn with piles of minotaur vomit :saddowns:

# ¿ Aug 27, 2014 09:27

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Alright Cat, you're in now, you have an opening to take the guy out, you got this!

quote:

Cat Stevens grabs One-eyed Willie by the first finger, right hand with his right hand!
One-eyed Willie stabs Cat Stevens in the upper body with his adamantine spear, tearing the muscle, shattering the right false ribs, shattering the left floating ribs and tearing the liver through the large steel breastplate!

# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 10:56

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 13:32

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Jazzimus Prime posted:

If we're going to be doing multi-tier arenas, I'll probably have to look into including that multi-level rendering plugin with the version of DF we're using for the arena.

Also, it sounds like with Bad Munki's proposal, it might not always be a fight to the death, since you could lose a match by falling to a lower level?

The lowest level is magma, of course. It's always a fight to the death.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2014 15:04

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