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Nice! Poor madk.
I was going to ask if you remembered to change them to [PET] [MOUNT] and have a way to change them BACK, but you already have the EXACT solution I was thinking of. Bravo!

It's not necessary, but a different sort of organization of buttons might be an idea. Its getting to be an awfully long list of buttons. Even if its just a bit of a space between certain groupings, multiple rows, or text headings.

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Economy
Invaders
Temperature
Weather
Caveins

Aquifers
Exotic Pets
Exotic Mounts

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58797.msg1310395#msg1310395

Yeah, madk gave me the idea for the pets/mounts because.

I didn't realize xnrad had basically already did what I'm doing.  I'm looking to add more difficult to edit options (exotic pet/aquifers/ect) and specifically not duplicate what he did.  I think I'll just add frequently changed options.

Nice. Tested it and it all works for me!

If its easy enough, try detecting the current settings instead of assuming the defaults.
For Aquifers, this would be as easy as, if it finds a SINGLE [AQUIFER] tag, it assumes it is ON, and if it doesn't, OFF
Also for the aquifer thing, don't find/replace to just AQUIFER. that could cause some problems (it finds the word "AQUIFER" out of context and gives it brackets, or tries to turn "on" aquifers in a file where they are already on, and adds additional brackets.) So yeah, try -AQUIFER- or AQUIFOFF or something unique (silly) like that.

Finding default settings makes sense of course, that's on the list.  I added aquifer changing support as well.

Personally I dont find adjusting the init very diffucult at all, but if included with the 'lazy newb pack' this could be of some use.

As for suggestions, you could include a population cap regulator and a child cap regulator. Some display stuff like displaying water height as numbers could also be useful. And theres colors, you could add in a preview of a set of colors or something.

I don't find it difficult either, but after I set this up I would love to be able to just drop the exe in the DF folder, open it and turn on settings and off settings when I get a new version.

Great suggestions  Those will be in.  Colors would be cool too, I haven't messed with those but I could see a preview being really helpful for those.

I would use that, and may I suggest a save configuration option? I really get tired of having to redo everything in the init file every time I switch versions.

Yes, definitely a save config option.  That is, for myself, the main use for this.

Yeah, well, doesn't explain why no other dwarf has the skill, or why it isn't even listed in Magmawiki, or mentioned anywhere for that matter. Well... I did find a mention of it in String Dump section of Magmawiki. But that's all. Maybe it's just an unimplemented skill that's there due to an oversight or even a bug?

It appears to be a social skill:

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Skill_tokens

But there's nothing else about it.

Quote from: Mason11987 on June 19, 2010, 02:28:51 pm

I haven't tackled the military screen yet, but if someone wants to start, that'd be great.

I haven't edited anything on the wiki in a while, but I wrote this a while ago which could help someone add the military stuff.

Awesome, I hadn't seen that.

Instead of a section that is now linked directly from my article. 

Edit - Got it working, see edit at bottom.

Hey, never used Putty/dfterm.

Just setup dfterm2 on my desktop upstairs, connected to the port using my laptop downstairs (connected using local ip address 192.168.1.8 ), the right port. I can log in and get to the screen that has the "Game" window, the chat window, the main menu window, and the local players window.  But if I use the main menu do "launch a new game" it won't do anything.  Doing select game to join has "Back to main menu" and "None", clicking none... freezes it? I guess.

What exactly do I have to do on the server after running the config file and starting up the dfterm2 process?  I assume I fire up DF (.31.06) itself, do I need to actually embark first?

Thanks for this and I see it ALMOST working for me.  I've been using Team viewer to play off my desktop (really fast imo) and if I can get this going I'd set it up as public so others can have a decent machine to play with since I never use that machine really and it's pretty reliable.

Thanks!


Edit - I joined Remmon's server and got help from Adeon about this.

Things I did wrong.

• I forgot the "admin" part on the end of the df_configure call.  You can know you did this is when you log in with an id that should already exist it asks you to submit a new password.  If you're admin you should have an option to configure slots.
  
• When I got in and made a slot it wouldn't let me start a game, this is because the working directly exe directory were off.  Because I used quotes, don't use quotes
  
• Finally I could connect when using the ip of the computer in-network, but others couldn't, this is because I didn't port-forward on my router.  After I did that it worked.
  

Hope that helps!

Anyone can also join my open server now at  174.96.253.84 on port 8000.  It's a pretty fast system so if you've only played DF on a slow computer give it a shot and see if it's better. Running badly, trying to fix.

Thanks guys!

Isn't that a really, really bad idea?

It'd be good if there was some kind of way to bypass the tile-by-tile process though. Either a separate designation or just by making the game a bit smarter about detecting dangerous digging designations.

Well it'll cancel and you won't know but later when you go to designate it again you can see which tiles are "hot" so just don't designate them.

Quote from: Inspiration on June 12, 2010, 03:30:06 pm

Well then. It seems my amazing goblins-shredding ballista hall didn't work. I tried again, and this time, the gobbies went down the ramps, and my siege operators were poised for the attack. I told all the ballistae to fire at will and...

...Not much happened. My [speed:0] dwarves went through 30 bolts in less than a minute, and most of the damn things fell less than ten squares away from the ballistae. All I managed to do was to bruise one gobbo who was more eager to run into the arrows than the others. The wiki has, for the first time, let me down. :-(

speed 0? just recruit the miners, assign each one a pick, and voila! hole-punched goblins! after all, they get 30 or so turns for every gobbo one.

Even Speed 0 dwarves can be killed easily by a group of goblins.  It just takes one hit without armor and even though your dwarf has 30 times the turns, they're all spent stunned.