Undergrotto was produced through shameless cheating also, which spoils the glory quite a bit. It's nice to look at, but it wasn't an accomplishment.
Uh,
scuse me. Hate to derail, especially in someone else's thread, but damned if I am having someone call roughly 700 hours of work 'not an accomplishment.'
I turned on [SPEED:0] at around year 4-5 because well over a million stone and digging designations was causing four seconds of gameplay to take
fifteen real-time minutes, and even with it on the dwarves were still moving about as fast as regular ones do at 5FPS. Yeah, it only took 14 game years, but considering the entire project took a little over four months as it was, it would have quite literally been impossible to accomplish within any reasonable time period without it - the main cavern digging, ignoring everything else, took two RT weeks to dig alone
with SPEED:0. In my thread I mentioned this and a few other things, like turning constructed ramps into natural ramps because the natural ramps accidentally got destroyed in a cave-in. The only difference there is that the natural ramps look slightly different than the constructed ramps in visualizers, and I had carved the original natural ramps before the collapse anyhow. In this sense I actually made all the ramps in the entire cavern
twice before editing, and the editing still didn't change any function of the ramps. I edited the raws briefly to melt a lot of stone, but this became necessary for FPS purposes, and it's worth mentioning I still spent a few real-time days doing nothing but stone dumping on top of that. The beach was pure cheating, but as mentioned I had intended on collapsing a sand layer down into the cavern but only realized a RT month in that I hadn't embarked on sand; I only created the beach after that out of need for glass. If you want to call me out on the beach, fine, I've already acknowledged that it's the only editing I did that actually changed the functionality of the game and the only editing that I consider cheating. Assuming I had never turned the beach into sand, the platform would still be there and look exactly the same except be made out of rock, so it's not as if I didn't take the time to carve it out.
To review: I used SPEED:0 to make my dwarves visibly move, I melted stone to save my old laptop which was spewing enough heat that it eventually broke a month later because part of the fan had melted, I turned constructed ramps into natural ramps because the original natural ramps got crushed and I wanted it to look natural in visualizers, and I made a beach to get glass. The first two were out of sheer necessity, the third was a purely aesthetic change that frankly I don't think anyone would have noticed if I
had just left the constructed ramps, and the fourth was out of resource needs. Personally I don't see these four things as deriving from the huge amounts of effort I put into that project.
I'm not expecting you to appreciate my endeavors or like my work, nor do I care, but
do not say I didn't accomplish anything because I 'shamelessly cheated my way through'.
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