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Dwarf Fortress => DF Dwarf Mode Discussion => Topic started by: Loomy on December 10, 2022, 12:41:39 pm

Title: Steam: "Regenerate World? "
Post by: Loomy on December 10, 2022, 12:41:39 pm
I haven't played DF classic in a while but I'm pretty sure I was able to click an option that had the equivalent of saying "I don't like this generate world, don't save this world and create a new random one".

In the steam version I see Play Now and Save and Return the Menu. Am I missing "Don't save and return to menu" or something ? I can't find any other button.
Title: Re: Steam: "Regenerate World? "
Post by: Shonai_Dweller on December 10, 2022, 07:49:51 pm
They removed it because people would spend 6 hours generating a world then accidentally click "delete this".
There was never a "discard and create a new world" option though. You would discard, then start again.
Title: Re: Steam: "Regenerate World? "
Post by: ArmokGoB on December 10, 2022, 11:17:18 pm
They removed it because people would spend 6 hours generating a world then accidentally click "delete this".
There was never a "discard and create a new world" option though. You would discard, then start again.
I would spend hours generating pocket worlds and tweaking settings. Not being able to toss a world I don't want to keep wastes my time.
Title: Re: Steam: "Regenerate World? "
Post by: Shonai_Dweller on December 11, 2022, 12:31:51 am
They removed it because people would spend 6 hours generating a world then accidentally click "delete this".
There was never a "discard and create a new world" option though. You would discard, then start again.
I would spend hours generating pocket worlds and tweaking settings. Not being able to toss a world I don't want to keep wastes my time.
And guess what, as an experienced user, you are never going to hit a to abort world after generating it for 6 hours. So, entirely not who this failsafe was made for.

Just hit pause half way through generation, you can discard the world there.
Title: Re: Steam: "Regenerate World? "
Post by: ArmokGoB on December 15, 2022, 05:39:37 am
They removed it because people would spend 6 hours generating a world then accidentally click "delete this".
There was never a "discard and create a new world" option though. You would discard, then start again.
I would spend hours generating pocket worlds and tweaking settings. Not being able to toss a world I don't want to keep wastes my time.
And guess what, as an experienced user, you are never going to hit a to abort world after generating it for 6 hours. So, entirely not who this failsafe was made for.

Just hit pause half way through generation, you can discard the world there.
Ok, then as an experienced user, let me decide to toggle the ability to toss my crap worlds that take longer to save than to generate.
Title: Re: Steam: "Regenerate World? "
Post by: Bumber on December 15, 2022, 05:56:58 am
A confirmation would probably suffice.
Title: Re: Steam: "Regenerate World? "
Post by: ANickel on December 17, 2022, 07:19:37 pm
Seconding the "why remove this?" train of thought.
I can be pretty picky with the way my worlds look, and being able to delete and re-do them was a nice feature.