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Surprising how many specifically want ASCII/text interfaces... I always liked them myself but still.

Quote from: Kay12 on August 23, 2011, 07:35:06 am

Quote from: metime00 on August 23, 2011, 07:07:37 am

What makes version 1.0 special is that it's the completion of everything on the devlog, as well as the game being "complete." That second reason is purely symbolic, but it's still exciting. I think the sort of tangential features Toady would add post version 1.0 would be the most interesting.

Toady uses a scheme where the 1.0.x will mean nothing special in itself apart from 100 of the core features being complete. I haven't counted the items in development log but I'm fairly sure it's something else than 100... unless Toady was "aiming" for 100 for whatever reason.

There's 100 CORE items now.  A year ago there weren't that many and he and ThreeToe sat down and worked out what the 100 items should be.

There's other stuff above and beyond that (REQs and BLOAT)

Well, that might explain it... I personally dislike stuff being "promoted" just to get neat numbers though, but that's Toady's choice.

Or something caved in through it?

What makes version 1.0 special is that it's the completion of everything on the devlog, as well as the game being "complete." That second reason is purely symbolic, but it's still exciting. I think the sort of tangential features Toady would add post version 1.0 would be the most interesting.

Toady uses a scheme where the 1.0.x will mean nothing special in itself apart from 100 of the core features being complete. I haven't counted the items in development log but I'm fairly sure it's something else than 100... unless Toady was "aiming" for 100 for whatever reason.

Quote from: Kay12 on August 23, 2011, 02:12:15 am

What does the part in bold mean? I have a big farm that's constantly fully operational.  I have dozens of idlers rush to plant stuff whenever season changes.

Huh, maybe I was wrong. But after noting that most plots only ended up half-planted, I just sorta assumed that only one farmer at a time could work on a plot.

You may be lacking in workforce or seeds. Or have a case of "biome border syndrome" (=one half of a plot never gets planted because it's in mountain biome)

Quote from: i874236951 on August 23, 2011, 06:34:37 am

Could you temporarily increase MAXAGE for humans in creature_standard, to something ridiculous like 1000?  Or would that not work?

If you want to try, OP, make sure you change the save raws, not the ones in the main directory.

I will try that asap.
Thank you very much for this good idea

I see the halls! Wait, I live... the Prophecy was not fulfilled! No, the Prophecies are always right! This cannot be the Dwarven Fortress I was told of! These fraudsters deserve to die!

Methuselah soon learned that diplomatic immunity doesn't protect one from magma.

Quote from: Kay12 on August 23, 2011, 04:59:21 am

Quote from: lordcooper on August 23, 2011, 04:53:30 am

The great thing about this thread is that DF 1.0 will answer nearly everyone's prayers.

By Toady's version numbering scheme, the version 1.0.0 is nothing really special...

But 1.0.0 is the release version, which means Toady will believe it is "finished", insofar as this kind of game can actually be finished

Where did you hear this? While it is true that 1.0.0 is the release version for MOST games and programs, as far as I know Toady's versioning scheme doesn't place any additional value on it. He uses a system x.y.z where

x: How many hundreds of core features have been completed (currently 0)
y: How many core features have been completed (currently 31)
z: Minor release (currently 25)

Meaning that 1.0.0 is only special if you, for some reason, consider the 100th core component to be somehow more epic than the others.