April 23, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.13 has been released.
News: February 3, 2024: The February '24 Report is up.
News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
News: November 21, 2018: A new Threetoe story has been posted.
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I found a human city named Sleevevirgins. It was easily the biggest city in the world, so clearly I wasn't the first person to come inside the city's walls.
Because fleeing to South America is just a thing. People just really like SA. Also, Assange is there I believe.
I don't want to know how he earned his name.
How often is the development page updated?With each release. Toady mentioned that in the latest DF Talk. That means that you'll rarely see the 'Done, Next Release' color. I'm pretty sure the same applies to the Features and Screenshots pages.
[59:45] Threetoe: "Yeah. Ok, so the next question comes from Vincent. He asks "The Dwarf Fortress Consolidated Development page (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_single.html) says that it's outdated. When was this done and in what way is it outdated? Are the arcs still current and is the new page being kept up tp date?""
Toady: "So I guess it was a long time ago. Several years ago now, that the Consolidated Development page was created. We moved over from the core, req, bloat arc system over to just having a more kind of partial recent development type of page. It's not...It's outdated in the sense that, I mean we have a bug tracker now. The reqs of the old development page were...A lot of those were just bugs. So it's not like we've changed our direction at all, it's just that that particular system was becoming cumbersome and unwieldy, and was annoying to...Like every little thing, having to keep track of it and so on. So all of the arcs, as far as I remember them, it's all still the idea of what we want to do. So there's really nothing we've dropped as far as I remember.
And I don't keep the new page up to date on a kind of daily or weekly basis or anything like that. It mostly gets updated on releases. So that means it can go for a year at a time without being changed but it does get updated at releases."
Threetoe: "Yeah, just different ways of organizing, I think is...It's not really out of date or anything, it's like all that stuff is still there."
Toady: "Yeah, I mean, pretty much the...Part of it is just a motivational thing. Changing the way we organize the notes just keeps things fresh and keeps us moving forward."
While this may be a bit presumptuous, what are your plans for after the usual post bug fixing ? What should we expect will be next on the dev list?I can't find a quote to back me up right now, but I recall something about Thief Role/Taverns and Inns. Of course, the final decision likely won't come until the end of the bugfix cycle.
[01:37:19] Threetoe: "Ok, the next question's from Meg and they ask, "Will we be getting bug fixes to polish the already existing parts of Dwarf Fortress, like the AI, in the next version? And if so, to what extent?""
Toady: "So after this release...So when you ask about the next version, not really. I mean there's a big kind of AI guts rewrite that's actually happened in Fortress Mode regarding their prioritization and so on and how they think about things that's gonna make things like job priorities more of a low hanging fruit in the future. But when it comes to actual bug fixing, that's not what these large releases are intended to accomplish.
What happens right after the large release is a series of smaller releases. Sometimes, you know, a couple in a week. And many many many of them that will address old bugs, new bugs, clean up portions of the interface, address minor annoyances and add in features to the game that are just meant to be more helpful to people playing. Especially things like Fortress Mode which we've been neglecting a bit with our focus on Adventure Mode in the big releases. Fortress Mode sees a lot of changes in these smaller releases as well. So if you're waiting for things like that don't pin all your hopes on the next version, but that should be the time when you get excited about Fortress Mode and fixes, and bug fixes, polishing and that kind if thing. So you should be excited about the next release cos it means it'll be the beginning of the process that you want."
Ah, I can see it now!
You, a deprived peasant armed with nothing but your wits, set fire to the woods around a bandit camp to slay them. Just watch which way the wind blows...
The strategy would be realistic and viable, and come with the downsides of unpredictable fire killing you as well, and of course destroying things from the bandits which you may have wanted to recover.
I've always thought they'd taste like playing cards that have been in someones wallet long enough for the coppery flavour of coins to seep through.
If Fortress Mode time is slowed to match Adventure Mode, I will be saddened by feeling the need to forgo new Fort mode features in favor of continuing to play the game with years passing at an appreciable rate. I feel it would be likely that I wouldn't update the game anymore, because Adventure Mode just isn't remotely as interesting to me, and time-related things (the next caravan, children and animals growing up, etc) generally already feel like they take far too long.
So props to mallocks wherever he is.
