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The new version of the game is still extremely buggy. Toady is fixing the bugs prioritizing the most serious crash inducing bugs first. The big FPS draining pathing bugs and optimization are also pretty high up on his to do list so I would expect that over the next few weeks we'll start to see some performance improvements as Toad finishes up with the big crash causing bugs.

In the mean time things you can do to keep your FPS healthy include generating smaller worlds with shorter histories. Decreasing the embark size and population cap will also help. Kill or chase away all flying creatures on your map as fliers are even more buggy than they were in past versions and can cause massive FPS decreases and even full blown crashes. Assuming you aren't playing in an evil or water scarce biome where the weather matters, you can turn off the weather. Avoid using bins in your stock piles. Bins continue to be buggy and generally will degrade FPS and dwarven efficiency. Large bodies of moving water also put a load on FPS so embarks with features like large waterfalls will also slow the game a bit. Those are the main things that can be easily changed that will help FPS.

This is made of pure awesome.   

It is something Toady plans to fix but right now it remains an unfinished feature.

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Nobody wants to play without good and evil in the world I think.

I despise both good and evil areas. They are gaudy, cartoonish eyesores with fairly limiting (less variable), unimaginative content.
The fact that that's not at all how good and evil actually work doesn't help, either. I'm an adult, who signed up to play a dark, sophisticated game. Not to watch a disney movie.

But yes, if you like them, that's true - you can just set it to zero for large areas only.

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That's weird, because it would be entire oceans, not just part of.

Not weird, always works like that on smaller maps. The oceans are aforementioned "large regions"

I'm not quite sure how you can argue that adding a large variety of game mechanics by including aligned areas in the world is somehow making the game less variable. It's actually the exact opposite of what that word means. "Variable" is the opposite of uniform which is what creating an all neutral world is heading towards. By removing biome options and game mechanics you certainly aren't increasingly variability. I think you are in the VAST minority in that you prefer a world with less biome and game play variability but to each their own. Everyone is free to play as they like. 

If he is your best armor smith then seal him in his own private prison that includes a forge and dump his supplies in from a hole in the ceiling and dump his masterworks out through one in the floor.

Yay. Growing pains that include random collapses and teleportation through levels <_<
Well, good to know. Ought to avoid digging so shallowly.

Cave ins are perhaps the single most devastating and dangerous force in the game. They can instantly kill any being in the game and they will keep collapsing through multiple floors until they reach a layer of solid stone. So say you collapse a tree on the surface directly over your fortress with 15 floors stacked underneath it. So long as there is a room or passage on each level below the tree it will cause a cave in that continues all the way down to the floor of the deepest level of your fortress killing everything in between.

Quote from: Melting Sky on July 20, 2014, 08:39:55 pm

I definately think that once melee is fixed and dwarves start to actually use their weapons, killing the undead will still be difficult but not nearly as one sided as it is now.

It's... half fixed in 0.40.04.  Now they use their weapons in real combat, but they don't train their weapons in sparring.   So, I guess you could danger-room or shaft-of-enlightenment them to make them gain weapon skill, then let them spar to gain all the other skills.

Live combat is always my favorite way to train melee dwaves. A handful of cage traps at natural or manufactured choke points on the surface should supply a nearly constant supply of enemies to train with. Just remember to drop them far enough when pitting to do a bit of damage to the more dangerous foes. It's not much fun when your neophyte melee dwarves rush in on a combat ready giant lion etc.  Disarmed but armored goblins are the best.

There are definitely demons who escape the underworld and reek havoc on the surface. In fact there is new HFS surrounding how they do it.