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Hey. I have the same problem as him; the game crashes during save time if I use the rapist. I tried several jobs as you suggested, but it crashes with all.

I'm on Ubuntu 10.10, but I'm on a 64bit machine. Also compiled the program from the source.

Yes, we do have the same problem.  I'm also on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10, and again, I compiled from source.  The only job I set was architecture so one of my dwarfs would design the well I wanted.

Olivine doors like like raw green gems.

Last game I became frustrated when I attempted to build a plot but was repeatedly unable to press enter only a single time.  DF would read every press of the enter key as two presses, and thus I could only build 1 tile plots.  Anyone else had this problem?  Is there a fix I can try?  Thank you.

I was wondering if there are any plans to improve the dwarf management options built into the game?  As it stands managing 200 dwarfs without a tool/hack like dwarf therapist is near impossible.  I would consider this a top priority as it's one of the most basic elements of the game, and currently one of the most difficult to use IMHO.

Using Linux I've never tried dwarf therapist.  I don't know how to make it work on Linux; if anyone has instructions they can post or link to I would appreciate it.  Admittedly I haven't had much desire to even try it, as I read it causes bugs and will often crash the game.  What is the current state of dwarf therapist on Linux?

I think it would be great if the game used SQLite (for example) to output some of the most frequently hacked game data.  Every few game cycles DF could sync the internal game state and the database.  The database would be comparatively slow I think, but not noticeably slow; a typical query usually takes a few milliseconds at most.  This would provide a robust and easy way for external tools to alter the game state.  As a novice programmer, I expect it would require a single global connection to the database and then a single query every few seconds to sync up any changes.  Being a transactional database there's no need to worry about data corruption when multiple sources try to edit the same data.  SQLite focuses on being lightweight (who would have guessed?) and easy to use; it's in the public domain, it's free, and there's no license to worry about, so no need to expose the source code.  Of course, Toady probably knows all this already.

EDIT:  To the mods: perhaps this topic should be moved to a more appropriate forum?

I can usually get at least 200 FPS (which is my cap, 2.4 ghz processor) when doing a fresh embark, but my most recent embark will not go above 50 FPS.  What could cause this certain embark to be so much slower?  There doesn't appear to be anything special going on, but I haven't seen the caverns or what's happening below.  (A dead magma man did show up on the creatures list before I had scouted the caverns and found lava.)  Also, this was the first embark where I actually inspected the world history in legends mode before starting, might this have anything to do with the unusually low frame rate?

Ah, the grand dinning hall, all is well.