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I would like to add my voice to the chorus of praise for this. I wish that I could do something this cool in my spare time.

Thanks Baughn, I didn't realize he was referring to CPU cache memory specifically. 400 CPU cycles on a modern 2GHz processor is what, 20ns?

Do you guys think its good idea for a complete beginner in programming to start with C#?

I think so. It's got everything you'll need to get the concepts of lower-level languages, it's syntax mimics that of the C family, if you're on Windows it's very easy to handle a GUI with, and it's freely available to anyone that doesn't mind the nag-box that C# Express adds into your developed programs. XNA is also freely available, which helps a little bit by simplifying down all the DirectX calls into something more intuitive and focused. I wouldn't expect any major titles to be done with C#, but it's certainly fine for learning.

I was just wondering how DF would handle having a ton of mods mixed together at once. I may have to try this out, just to see how many civs can exist at once

Quote from: Sagus on May 08, 2010, 04:15:16 pm

What are the odds of we being able to make a gun that shoots swords?
Not ammo named "swords" that come in stacks, but individually forged swords?

Very, very low.

Edit: There is an alternative, which would involve making a reaction which takes a sword and converts it to a nigh-identical ammo item. I remember this being done with anvils somewhere...

You can't mark swords with the [AMMO:BOLT] (or properly-formatted equivalent) tag?

Lately, I've not had a lot of time to really focus on DF. It does also make for a very good background game, though, given that you can check every 20-30 minutes and see whats going on. This obviously isn't going to result in a fort that the OCD micro-manager players (and we're all that to some extent, given the nature of DF) wouldn't be too happy with. Lots of idlers, a bit of a food issue, etc.

Anyways, I still wanted to have my fort get somewhere despite my lack of direct attention on it. Standard 4x4 embark location: Side of a mountain, with a bit of the forest available for trees. My chosen goal was fairly direct: A stripmine, to tear the mountain into it's individual component pieces. And the land below it. Yesterday, I hit the first milestone: The mountain's peak is now even with the forest floor beside it.



That's the inner-most corner of the mountain, 15 layers below it's original peak. What you can't see is the soil and trees a few screens away, at the same Z-level as the rest of the terrain. You also can't see the mud-blob forgotton beast, locked in eternal combat with 4 dogs and a trained giant eagle.

I don't intend on stopping the fort here, though current issues, brought on by lack of dedicated attention or otherwise, may require a reclaim squad.
-The unkillable forgotten beast, as mentioned before. It's eternally fighting about 20 feet from the main staircase down, which is keeping half my fortress from doing anything but going 'I'm hungry, gonna head back downstairs and AHHHH MUDBEAST! AHHHHH! AHhhhhey, you know, I'm still hungry' eternally despite the 100pt. restriction cost I applied to going anywhere near the main steps and the far easier fact that there's a big hole with ramps not 40 steps the other way.
-Apparently somehow the 240+ dwarves living here managed to eat all of my food. Alcohol isn't in short supply, but I can hardly butcher kittens fast enough to keep the fort fed.
-My woodcutters don't seem to want to actually cut trees right now. Lazy arses. Trees are now getting in the way of clearing out more levels.
-All of the detritus left from robbing the elves blind time after time is building up, plus vermin, and the idlers have decided apparently not to dump anything the elves brought anymore for some reason.
-I'm going to have to put a little more care into plans at this point, as I don't want to collapse anything on my existing underground developments, or lose the couple of ponds I have on the forest floor.

Some stats:
-240 dwarves at population peak, 161 now. No royalty at all, just a mayor.
-200,000 stone and 4200 gems dug out of the mountain.
-2,000 barrels holding ~12,000 drinks and ~2,000 food units.
-680 remains that won't go away. Rot already, you dead shells.

A: Rules are apparently meant to be broken.

B: This one might not be super obvious, especially if you read it first and assume it's something far more wrong.

I also almost apologize for almost blantanly stealing 3's tags.

It is definitely true that the temperature-metals are waiting on some bugfixes before they can get tested properly.

I was pretty sure BURN was in the string dump as an attack type. I assumed it would throw an error if it wasn't. Maybe I should doublecheck that.