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Quote from: quip on January 28, 2011, 02:55:27 pm

Quote from: Fniff on January 28, 2011, 02:55:10 pm

Check auras to see if there is anything particularly close, or if that Lovecraftian horror is near...

And you might want to look for a source of light. And something that can you can defend yourself with.

AND you would get a bonus from using rare, tougher/lighter/special wood types.

Hey, I'd like to suggest looking at some form of interprocess communication for DF, so that the various visualizers and tools we have could get data in a proper manner instead of having to read specific memory locations that change every version.

There are three big advantages and a minor one:
1: Tools will usually be up-to-date the moment a new version of DF arrives.
2: Toady could offer more data, and possibly even more complex data than any tool could provide.
3: Visualizers could read the clothes a dwarf is wearing, and with some luck, Dwarf Therapist could even query for a path between two points and give the user insight into his fortress.
Minor: Toady could somewhat regulate which data is available. By offering data this way, it's clear that it's okay to use it for anything. By not offering specific data, it's clear that that isn't supposed to be known. The tool coders could still mess around and read those things from raw memory, but there'd be less incentive since there's an "official" way to get the data you actually need.

Sockets seem to be used a lot for this kind of thing. UDP, preferably with a rather careful interpretation (just drop faulty requests, don't handle them) so that it doesn't affect DF's own stability.

Damn, that's a necro. Anyway, You're right, Bohandas. People should be able to produce the weapons with one click. A solution to the manager problem (and the possible annoyance with having to define every material every time) is to have an additional "design a weapon" option and just queue building a weapon design that you have named, instead of this.

He is "something great" and/or "something tall". We are on a great plan, and if capturing it was a trial, it was rather small. Also, huge rabbit-creatures with human hands? That IS a tall tale. We'll get a short answer. Let's make it worth it.

.. Also, there's probably something tiny around. Look for the tiny for a moment, it may be easy to find.

Maybe also implement some kind of quarantine function.

Given the way most players seem to look at migrants, most quarantine functions would make a sound remarkably similar to *ker-SPLAT*.

What Gatleos said. Also, if something nasty is lurking under the city, you don't want to go into a cavern only a mile or so out without protection. Bring something to defend yourself with. Preferably more than one, if you can carry it without arousing suspicion (not sure if this world has American- or Europe-based laws).

That, or go hang out somewhere for a bit and relax. All this chaos can't be good for one's sanity.

Go to your new apartment, and see if you can find out anything about these new people through meditation. Especially your boss and the Eduardo employee.