Forum Overview :: Dwarf Fortress :: It's always a better idea to clamber over something than to clamber under it,

[quote name="even before you factor in the CHUDs"][quote name="laudablepuss"]I presume the "minor obstacles" you're referring to are the collapsed buildings blocking the route to Rivet City. In real life, climbing over loose rubble is a good way to get buried or otherwise stuck in it and die. Not sure how a ladder would help you there.[/quote] [quote name="<a href="http://www.worldwithoutus.com/index2.html">Alan Weisman</a>"]4. What are some of the changes we could expect in New York City alone if all humans vanished? Within two days, without pumping, New York’s subway would impassably flood. Within twenty years, water-soaked steel columns that support the street above the East Side’s 4-5-6 trains would corrode and buckle. As Lexington Avenue caves in, it becomes a river. In the first few years with no heat, pipes burst all over town, the freeze-thaw cycle moves indoors, and things start to seriously deteriorate. Plugged sewers, deluged tunnels and streets reverting to rivers will conspire to waterlog foundations and destabilize their huge loads, toppling structures. Gradually the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.[/quote][/quote]