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Suggestion: Detailed tool tips for each option on mouse over? This utility could make things alot less daunting for new players.

Wow, I almost choked on my drink because I was laughing so hard.

damn.... almost had him.... next time... next time...

I know the "What the f*** are these things supposed to be anyway" issue was more-or-less resolved (with input from Toady, no less) but I came across this passage while reading and instantly thought "OH SO THAT'S WHERE HE GOT THEM".

Disappointingly simple, I know, but remarkably well-suited to the name, Toady's description of them as having talons like Velociraptors, and to being ridden by small greenskins.

Feel free to discuss beak dog-related shenanigans if you don't care.

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Quote from: K4el on June 10, 2010, 03:07:44 pm

Yep, i keep autosave on.

To answer your original question, no the original 'region#' folder is not used when loading an autosave. They are entirely separate saved games at that point. You could, in fact, delete all but the latest one and continue playing that one.

gotcha, so each save also preserves the raws that are pertinent to that save. thanks.

My bad, i was typing that out just before lunch and i was in a hurry... mmmm stir fry...

What I was talking about was DF's save folder structure. I'm a bit confused about it and what you meant by copying the RAWs into it.

I'm typing this from memory but my save folder typically looks like this:

\Current
\Region1
\Region1 - Month** - Year**
\Region1 - Month*+1 - Year**
\Region2

etc, etc. You get the idea. What i was confused about is deleting the raws from these folders. I'll need to replace the raws in each one right? If so, i take it replacing the raws folder won't change my current fort? Just the rules of the world that fort exists in? I'm not 100% familiar with how the RAWs work. It seems to me if you go about changing the RAWs you may end up with instances of fort saves that could be corrupted?

I'm asking more for my own information than out of any sort of concern you're steering me wrong. I've been playing DF for quite some time now and i'm sick of not having a deeper technical understanding of how it functions.

To everyone having problems: read the goddamn FAQ. I don't see a single question here that is not being answered in the FAQ.

Except for shooowop's: that is a general DF problem.

Please try to remember the details of tile sets are quite arcane for alot of us. I've read through the tutorial and FAQ on your site but its not helping me determine if what ive encountered is indeed a bug or if it is working as intended.

I've loaded a save game from 31.04 into DFG32 and the unmined soil/stone etc is showing up with vermin/trees and other object's graphics on the stone tiles.

Having read through the FAQ either Note 1 or 7 could explain what i've encountered potentially. Is what i've described an issue you're familiar with or have i ran into something else that you need to know about? i'm not particularly worried about fixing it so much as making sure you're aware if its a unique issue.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=25967.msg303086#msg303086

This should bring you up to speed.