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Ogg and wave files appearently can both be sent directly into an OpenAL buffer.
So except for the decode time associated with and Ogg-Vorbis file compared to a wave file which is often in uncompressed Pulse Code Modulation, they should be nearly the same. Probably slightly less latency using uncompressed waves and probably a little more memory usage...

LOL I just launched a Treent at least 58 squares south and 57 squares east (+/- 3 squares).   It could have went farther, but sadly that was the edge of my map so I don't know where he landed in reality.

The thought of a flying tree has made my day...

I love this mod.

* one of the dwarfs in the squad has level 43 in hammer skill and 23 strength... Think it might have been him. *According to dwarf companion*

Quote from: sproingie on December 10, 2009, 04:35:37 pm

Naturally the Avatar of Armok would be the first to be modded.

Even if you kill it, you'll drown your FPS in blood movement calculations.   

I believe that this is the most likely outcome.

Least I would have something entertaining to see during my 1 FPS slideshows.

The interface would be fairly non responsive for many if designations were done in real time.  This would only work without severe annoyance in games with over 25 FPS (Annoyance = Rooms jumping to a different location after you told it to place somewhere, things miss designating, wrong materials being used, because of jitter) 
(Me who plays a fort at FPS:1 often times would really become significantly annoyed if it did not pause and it took a full second to register every key I pressed in EVERY menu)

Some one of course will retardedly suggest "Dur... dur... we could just use interupts... Hyuck"  not understanding the havoc you will cause interrupting the main processing loop and changing the underlying data while it is working.   It would take years of debugging time to catch every single race condition, and collision that could occur. I am fairly certain it would be easier to parallise the code and than to modify the underlying data realtime.

Migration waves need a lot of tweaking...

One of the biggest changes I can think needs to be done is restrict it to a percentage of the current population.  Per example: if you only have 7 dwarves your max migration wave should be 3, maybe with the chance to have up to 7 if your fortress had massively high wealth for those 7.

This would make dwarves feel a little important as you would not instantly have 30 dwarves after spending a year with only 7.

We also really need a working fortress account system, and have the surplus traded to caravans or coins minted going into it and abstracted (or kept in a main vault)  A fortress that has pretty architecture will of course attract some dwarves, but one with coffers brimming with coin will attract MANY more.

Then overall the wage system needs a complete overhaul, and immigrants should arrive biased twords any jobs you have set to pay more or less...

If you set a soap makers job to 0% pay rate, No soap maker would tread in your kingdom... if you boosted it to 500% Every soap maker in the kingdom would probably be beating down your door.


In short, a lot of work needs to be done, then immigration can start being tweaked.

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Quote from: Whitney on December 09, 2009, 10:27:54 pm

Am I the only one who believes coffins would make suitable makeshift beds? Saves plenty of time.

Cabinets would be great for storing babies.

Cabinets would be great for storing babies.

But the question being is; can they survive?
Not as good as magma is.

Is that a concern? Oh.. I guess cabinets would be better in that instance.

If I recall correctly real butchers use a spring loaded mechanism to deliver cranial shock to a cow causing instant coma state.

FPS:0

Oh wait... I already have that during sieges.. (Relentless assault sieges are not wimpy 10 goblin assaults)

* I can also hit 1 FPS with my 122 dwarf fort by simply flooding my underground tree farm.. Admittedly it is nearly 3 embark tiles wide and 2 high on a 3x3 site. But proper simulation of gasses will require WAY more processing power.


We will need a new counter...
How does Frames per Hour or Frames per year sound to you all?

I hope they sound good to you if this idea is implemented.