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Messages - Elvang

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Building below sea level
« on: September 26, 2016, 09:56:18 pm »
Your construction will require support of some kind, even if its a single tile wide floor extending to the shore or a single wall column rising from the bottom of the body of water. Building on and up from the surface of the water is easy once you have a support out there. Building down isn't. Unless the water is freezing so you can dig stairs down, you can't build constructions down meaning you must start at the bottom of the water, which means removing temporarily a potentially enormous body of water so your dwarves can path safely.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: September 25, 2016, 11:14:03 pm »
Followup to previous posts1: It seems instead of losing power and cycling back on, the keyboard will simply stop responding now and I'll have to unplug/plugin to get it working again. The lights stay on, just doesn't react to anything. I either didn't notice before, or its started recently but my USB WiFi is doing the same thing. Continues to receive power but stops responding to anything until I unplug/plugin. Device manager shows its on a separate hub (keyboard, mouse, and WiFi are all plugged into the back), which I had also disabled the power saving on.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: September 17, 2016, 01:33:50 am »
Ah, it was enabled on those; disabled now. Will have to wait and see if that fixes it.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: September 17, 2016, 12:14:57 am »
Quote from: wierd on September 16, 2016, 09:35:47 pm
this may be a power management issue.

try looking at the keyboard and mouse HID driver properties in device manager to see if "allow this device to be turned off" is checked.  if so, uncheck the box on both drivers' property pages.
Checked device manager, all the keyboard/mouse entries have the "Allow the computer to turn this device off to save power" box grayed out, unchecked and unable to be changed.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: September 16, 2016, 09:32:06 pm »
Recently built a new computer (all parts are new except for the graphics card), and I've noticed that occasionally (maybe once per 6-8 hours of usage) my keyboard will become unresponsive and lose power. Rarely, it happens to the mouse at the same time. When this happens, it only lasts for a few seconds, though it takes longer for the keyboard to finish its startup stuff than the mouse. How would I go about narrowing down the cause of this? They are plugged into adjacent USB ports in the back, and the keyboard and mouse are both new-ish (Razer Blackwidow Chroma and a Logitech G500). The motherboard is an ASROCK X99 Extreme4.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Hive Toppled?
« on: September 12, 2016, 10:28:21 pm »
Yes, your constructed hives are being deconstructed/destroyed. Toppling is usually caused by unhappy dwarves or building destroyers.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: When half the Markdwarves choose dodging demonstration...
« on: September 11, 2016, 10:42:09 pm »
Quote from: mikekchar on September 11, 2016, 07:08:13 pm
The big problem with this is that it tends to unstack the bolts.  So you can remelt them to exploit the roundoff error in melting (everlasting copper supply), or you end up with bolts all over the place.  Is there an easy way to restack bolts?  My marksdwarfs have their entire barracks as an ammo stockpile :-)
AFAIK, there is no way to stack/re-stack items (unless there is a DFHack plugin/script for it). More hauling jobs to stockpile, but marksdwarves should put 25 stacks of 1 bolt in their quivers just as readily as 1 stack of 25. This is a case where you'll want to use QSPs to cut down on travel time when re-equipping.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Dwarven Suites
« on: September 11, 2016, 10:35:18 pm »
His example is to demonstrate that smoothing does not care about tile sides, but engraving does. He locks a dwarf in Room 1 to engrave the wall separating Room 1 and 3, and thus the engraving appears on the wall in Room 1, it does not also appear on the wall in Room 3 even though they share the wall tile. While the 23a page mentions it, the DF2014 page states it clearly. Its not a matter of overlapping room values, the engraving itself depends on direction it was engraved from.
Quote from: DF2014:Engraving
Engravings are directional--only the side the engraving dwarf stood on will receive the engraving value bonus. There is no way to engrave more than one side of a single wall tile.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Massive FPS issue that was not present in 0.34
« on: September 11, 2016, 02:47:17 pm »
Quote from: Evans on September 11, 2016, 12:35:03 pm
Quote from: Elvang on September 10, 2016, 11:01:19 pm
Quote from: Pirate Santa on September 10, 2016, 09:28:02 pm
It sounds like digging out large pieces of the surface is screwing with pathfinding.
That sounds familiar/similar to the pathfinding bugs that were sources of lag in older versions. IIRC, a workaround was retiring the fortress and then reclaiming it, as it'll remap/hide anything not path-able from the surface.
Would you be that kind as to point me to this bug or at least suggest keywords to look for? The last issue with immortal undead weasel turned out to be 6 y old, so I would appreciate some help with necromancy here.
The forum thread was about pathfinding cache bugs, if I remember right. On mantis, pathfinding bugs fall under the pathfinding category.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Massive FPS issue that was not present in 0.34
« on: September 10, 2016, 11:01:19 pm »
Quote from: Pirate Santa on September 10, 2016, 09:28:02 pm
It sounds like digging out large pieces of the surface is screwing with pathfinding.
That sounds familiar/similar to the pathfinding bugs that were sources of lag in older versions. IIRC, a workaround was retiring the fortress and then reclaiming it, as it'll remap/hide anything not path-able from the surface.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Workflow vs Manager
« on: September 02, 2016, 12:56:00 am »
[SOFT] is used with garments/armor made from cloth (does not include leather, [LEATHER] is for that). I don't think it applies to items other than armor at the moment. From looking at the manager, it looks like you can limit to leather made items with Leather items but there doesn't seem to be anything more specific than the Plant items trait at the moment. There is a Small object container items trait but it doesn't appear to apply to bags.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: is there a secret to worldgen?
« on: September 02, 2016, 12:43:16 am »
Are you using mods? Crashes from long worldgens tend to be from memory issues.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Designations for digging with lines for each tile?
« on: September 01, 2016, 12:03:12 am »
If I'm reading the tileset description right, the buddy 10x10 2014-07-12  tileset has this feature. If it works as you want, should be simple to do the same to your preferred tileset.

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I wanted every character in this set to be the very best text symbol it could possibly be, while still looking good in-game.

A hidden feature of this tileset is that the border around the white tile only has its red color-component changed, which means that a nice clear grid shows up over (brown) designations, while (blue) ice walls still look perfectly smooth.

[PILLAR_TILE:10]

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: July 25, 2014, 02:22:54 am »
I've got a couple old 1TB hard drives nearing capacity that I need to back up, as they are several years old and have seen extensive use. Looking at current hard drives though has kind of scared me off buying new ones, as even the recommended brands/lines seem to have numerous problems and bad reviews (lots of DOA, refurbished replacements DOA, multiple failures within the first couple months, etc; anything over 1TB seem to have high failure rates?).

Looking around, the Western Digital Reds seem to be the best right now, but are listed as NAS drives. Can they be used in towers like regular drives? If not, I wouldn't mind trying a NAS setup, since I'm interested in some redundancy and the drives will be mostly used to backup files from a couple LAN PCs. Any recommendations would be appreciated, as my hard drive experience starts and stops with a handful of Western Digital Blacks and Blues that have toughed it out solo in towers over the years.

My motherboard supports RAID 0/1/5/10, as far as I can tell, and my case and power supply have room (though I may need a more powerful PSU depending on the drives, I'd want to get another fan as well); I've got a 1TB on one of the two SATA III's right now with 3 3.5" drive bays left, so if I wanted RAID inside I assume I'd go RAID 5 with 3 drives on my unused SATA II's(4)?

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Life Advice / Re: JPG contents randomly being overwritten with a plain text error
« on: June 01, 2014, 05:33:40 am »
Manually downloaded/transferred.

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