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I haven't been able to notice any boost to spell damage from matching resistance. While the testing hasn't been entirely methodological and I didn't rule out the possibility of the boost being capped at a very low value (say, anything higher than one or two bars gives no benefit), I'm fairly confident that it's not working or does not work at least with ice ball. I tried changing both the base resistance and the effective one. I suppose it's possible that the boost is VERY small, say a flat +dmg that doesn't get multiplied, which would explain why my end game character isn't noticing a difference.

This is definitely something the 2d version did better as you frequently had 70+ goblin siegers, including trolls and mounted goblins. Humans came in even larger numbers and yet in my current game they sent one pathetic squad.

I agree the sense of progression, but it's only there for your first fort as even in the 2d version you could powergame straight to magma. You could have magma workshops running very early and in fact it was more trivial than it is now. For me, there was no motivation to start another 2d fortress after my first "perfect" one. In 3d there are many more possibilities and the starting locations can be much more interesting.

By the way, I started playing again this week after a ~20 month break and I'm once again hooked.

Wow, I somehow get 30-40fps now and I used to get like 15 in the older version of Copperblazes.

edit: Veryinky says he got rid of all the stones so this proves having thousands of useless objects is what usually kills your performance

[ July 04, 2007: Message edited by: syllogism ]

Yeah, I dont think you actually have to train dwarves to get the noble. Someone should fix the wiki.

updated: http://content.imagesocket.com/images/local_map_8_1080_5052a7b.PNG

or using different font http://content.imagesocket.com/images/local_map_8_1080_5052b8f7.PNG

[ September 26, 2006: Message edited by: syllogism ]

[ September 26, 2006: Message edited by: syllogism ]

You are supposed to get a metal bar(s). What did you try to melt? I suspect if you melt something that takes less than one bar to produce, you'll get nothing.

[ September 08, 2006: Message edited by: syllogism ]

Toady has said having a lot of items is currently the main cause of slowdowns