Whiteoak - 207 Mid Autumn by Jurph

Map Description:

From Barony to County, Whiteoak prospers. Whether it was through a complicated intrigue regarding precedence at court, or whether the Mountainhome truly believes that Whiteoak is more than an outpost, they have seen fit to send nobles to rule and elevated their status to Countess and Count-Consort.

Geshud still handles the day to day operations of the fortress but his time is mostly spent placating the nobles. Plans for magma-fired forges and glassworks keep being put on hold while the dwarves search for trinkets to make the nobles happy: crystal glass, whatever that is, seems to be the Countess' favorite. Nobody knows how to make it or where its ingredients lie. The master glassmaker has confided to Geshud that "crystal glass" sounds elvish to him, and that the Countess might be a traitor to our cause. We'll see what the Philosopher thinks...

Point of Interest: Nobles' Chambers

( 207 Mid Autumn → 207 )

These chambers are for the nobles but will also serve as additional catacombs for the dead. Engraving and salting the rooms with artifacts will give the nobles a status symbol to compare to other nobles. Hopefully arguing about relative room opulence will become more popular than asking for "crystal glass". - Jurph

There are 10 comments for this map series, last post 2009-03-30

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Submitted by: Razin - 2009-03-15 to 201 Early Summer

That is an dwarfy entrance hall if I ever saw one.

Submitted by: Salmeuk - 2009-03-15 to 201 Early Summer

This should look like a pretty fortress. . . Continue with the circular designs.

Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-03-16 to 201 Late Autumn

I'd be tempted to wall in around the weapon traps to bottle neck invades into trampling over the spinning short-sword traps.

Submitted by: Jurph - 2009-03-16 to 201 Late Autumn

I've got more swords and mechanisms in production, but I wanted to make sure to place them in the middle first.

Submitted by: magic dwarf - 2009-03-18 to 202 Early Spring

wow, looks like your off to a nice start

Submitted by: Sinergistic - 2009-03-19 to 202 Early Spring

Fav'd your traffic control devices thingy, I'm interested in trying it myself now and seeing how well it works, if at all.

I imagine that once all your dwarves get to legendary (one way or the other) and get perfectly agile, the system would really shine (assuming it works at all) because no dwarf would ever overtake another dwarf.

Submitted by: stoned funeral - 2009-03-21 to 202 Early Spring

Seems like the traffic control needs to be improved. Right now they're just extra one tile wide chokepoints, and depending on where the dwarf enters the level, it's faster for him to go the "wrong" way. I just don't think there's any way to force a dwarf to leave one way and not have others arriving prefer to pathfind that same way. Dwarfs don't collide anyway as long as there's room for them to maneuver, the only time they lose is in moving aside. I'd guess that making hallways wider and spacing the stairs between levels further apart will be much more effective.

Submitted by: Jurph - 2009-03-21 to 202 Late Autumn

stoned funeral, I think you must be right - if a route is fastest from A to B, then it's also fastest from B to A. If a Dwarf comes up through either of the leftmost stairwells he'll probably choose to go left rather than right.

We'll see how it works. I can always dig them out!

Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-03-30 to 205 Mid Spring

What did I say about those weapon traps?
Favourited the main poi for its epic story telling.

[Message edited on 2009/03/30 at 04:52 by Markavian]

Submitted by: Jurph - 2009-03-30 to 205 Mid Spring

The floodgates are controlled from a lever that I placed in the communal bedroom in the hallway above the dorms. I used the last masterwork mechanism that Olin made... luckily during the last caravan visit I had put a bunch of steel trap components on my Narrow GCS Credit Card. The trap jammed about halfway through the invasion, but up until that point it was like an episode of "WILL IT BLEND?" with elves.

[Message edited on 2009/03/30 at 07:45 by Jurph]

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