Ok, my year is up. The save is posted, if anyone wants to pick it up.
Bump.
Do any of our previous overseers (Canius, Silophant, Dinaroozie, Autolycus) want another turn? Any new players want to give it a try? The fortress is fairly stable as I’ve left it - no disasters in progress, flooding under control, plenty of booze, and a competent military in place.
Ahhh I was hoping I could take up the mantle but I’m snowed in with work at the moment. 
If nobody’s stepped up by the time I’ve excavated myself though, I’ll take the next turn.
Or perhaps one of our illustrious lurkers wants to take the reins? 
Bump. Any interest in this dealio continuing? I theoretically have time to have another crack at it now (took a while, I know) but it’s been a pretty long time… perhaps interest has died down?
If not, any interest in a new succession when the new version comes out? There’s going to be vampires and shit - it’ll be rad.
Right now I’m waiting for the next version to come out before I start anything new. I’m not going to take another turn immediately, since I just went, but if you or someone else wants to go, feel free.
I would love to keep this going! I was sad when I thought it fizzled out.
As for me taking a turn, I feel like I’ve gone too soon really. Dina, I’d be fine with you going at your own pace.
Bam! My year is done. Sorry it took so long to get the thing finished after I started - it was a bit hard this time finding time to make things happen, on account of me having a job (unlike during my participation last time).
Anyone who read my last update may recall my planned drowning trap project, The Chalice. Well,
I didn’t get it finished. Whoever goes next, be careful with finishing the thing off if you have never messed with stuff like this before - it could potentially be Fun. But hey, somehow if that’s how things fell apart, it seems vaguely appropriate for a succession game. Feel free to ask me questions about it here if the stuff I posted in the other thread is not adequate. But yeah, that’s that. It’s been emotional. I look forward to the antics of whoever follows me. Any takers?
Like AndrewL, I’ve been waiting for the new version to come out, but it’s taking so long (current ETA: Mid-January. Maybe.) I’ve got the itch. I’ll be happy to pick it back up, but not until my finals are over the week of the 19th. If anyone else wants to take a turn first, that’d be just fine.
Hey Silophant, looks like you might be up! How were finals?
Thought I’d bump this thread because I didn’t see it anywhere else, but it looks like a major new release came out last week. I’ve downloaded it, and my first fort is headed straight for [del]disaster[/del] fun. Not only do I have to deal with my own fortress management ineptitude, I’ve also got rampaging capybaras (WTH is up with that?), and a vampire seems to be slowly filling up my morgue. All in all, not too bad, especially since I’ve been looking for a time waster ever since I gave up on Norron.
I’m not ready for any sort of team effort, but if you guys wanted to start back up again, I’d watch with [del]sadistic glee[/del] interest.
I’m a little too busy to take another turn at the moment, but I’d love to see this keep going. We have many things with potential for Fun
I just reinstalled the newest version and started up again. if you guys are up for the new version I would happily jump in. or if someone has a link to whatever version you are playing with a graphics pack I would drop in for a year on the one you have going.
I still haven’t created a new fortress in the latest version. Been messing around exploring all the adventure mode stuff that was added instead. I actually just finished a major megaproject in 31.25, and am waiting for the bugs to be shaken out in the current version before starting up something long-term.
If someone wants to start a new community fort in the current version I’m game, but I don’t play with graphics packs.
Well, I for one would like to see us continue the one we have for a little bit before we make a new one. Things are just getting good!
As for graphics packs, Critical1, you can download a graphics pack for your client only. We don’t all need to use one. What I am saying is you can play with a graphic pack and it won’t mess up the succession game one bit. If you are serious about playing, post back, and if you can’t find any graphic thingies on your own, I can hunt for those later too.
I would be down, I know the graphics packs don’t go with the game, I just haven’t had much luck with using them outside of a combined pack+game single download
Just want to bump this so it won’t get forgotten. I’ve been having a lot of fun (or Fun! as the case may be) with the latest version. My first notable fortress was going along good until a siege showed up. I thought I’d close the drawbridge and let the crossbow dwarfs take care of it, but I go to pull the lever and it still had “link to bridge” queued up. Crap, send in the hammer dwarfs I guess, probably going to lose some since I hadn’t got them completely kitted out with armor. Sure enough blood is flying and it looked like I got them with a few losses. Then I see the message “Urist McDeaddwarfs corpse begins to move!” WTF!? Check the reports and there was a human necromancer along with the siege. Pretty soon I’m overrun with zombies and moving body parts. I let out the vampires I had holed up, but they didn’t do much and I abandoned.
The last fortress was doing pretty well. I fixed the drawbridge problem, and had a pretty good trap maze going with large copper serrated disks chewing up the sieges. Then comes the titan (beware it’s fiery breath!). I thought the crossbow dwarfs took care of from the walls well away from my entrance, but it must have got a breath off before it died, because all of a sudden I’m getting bled to death messages. I lost at least half a dozen and the fire was spreading into my entrance before the game crashed. It had been a while since I saved, so I abandoned.
I’ve just started another fortress and its name is “Bloodtheater”. I hope it’s not an omen.
All in all, I think I’m getting more comfortable with the game. I hope we can keep this going, because eventually I might be able to take a turn.
I made a dwarf shower and a flood trap that was pretty effective when I got hit with a siege. dug a room that was 3 stories tall and filled it with water from the river above. and this room emptied into the entrance tunnel flooding it instantly and drowned the attacking goblins.