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Has no one opened the gates since I first closed them? I'm looking at the save now and see that they're still closed.

I just noticed something really important.

Billon! We can smelt one ore piece of Tetrahedrite into two bars of Billon. Tetrahedrite counts as One Copper and One Silver in it's unsmelted form. Because of that, if we make Billon from ore at the smelters, we end up with two Billon.

I just loaded up the save again. You guys do realize that there is another Magnetite cluster where the bar stockpile is? We still haven't even completely mined out the first one, and there's still loose magnetite around it. All the mudstone we have probably has a couple more magnetite clusters in them.

Also, I can see Hematite veins everywhere. I don't think we'll have an iron problem. We could also get at all the Tetrahedrite that Cog uncovered, use up some copper instead.

The company I work for (I'm a sysadmin) just got in a couple of those. Good laptops, Lenovo really knows what they are doing.

You probably won't have too much trouble with DF on one of those. Late game when you have a lot of dorfs will get a little dicey, but that happens for everyone. The game will only ever use one core anyways. I've got a quad core system with 2.3Ghz on each core with 4 gigs of DDR3. So as far as DF is concerned, our machines are relatively in the same ballpark. All in all, it should handle DF fine.

BTW, I seem to remember Toady talking about how the Intel Integrated cards tend to handle DF better. Something about the way they implement OpenGL. So your Intel card might end up doing better than my Geforce GTX295 in DF.

I've never played with orcs before. Can they be Atom Smashed? If so, just make a super long hallway with several atom smashers. Set lever to repeat.

You won't get any goodies from them, but you will still be breathing.

Quote from: Dakk on January 13, 2010, 10:47:51 pm

Quote from: AtomicPaperclip on January 13, 2010, 09:35:23 pm

I always kinda imagined them like the Na'vi from Avatar, only not as awesome... or blue... or hot.

You find the Na'vi hot?

You need treatment sir.

I dunno, she did have a certain allure to her.  I wouldn't mind finding a chick with that degree of confidence, grace and firey demeanor. 

Heresy! To think such things is to spit on the real hero of that movie, Colonel Miles Quaritch!

Strangely, Elves don't seem to mind wooden ballista bolts, so long as they are sailing at them at high velocities.

maybe i'm wrong.  or it took THAT long to heat up...

It'll usually survive for a minute then fail critically. Usually you first clue that is has happened is lots of messages about dangerous terrain followed by Fun.