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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Hallways replaced with up/down staircases
« on: December 12, 2010, 03:35:34 pm »If you want to work out the processor drain from pathing you will need to actually look at the layout of your fort and do a lot of counting. If the tiles checked to get from a dwarf to where he wants to go are less one way then that means better FPS. This is the basis for ALL claims about pathfinding FPS from stairs or ramps but "count several thousand tiles" is not as catchy an idea as "ramps are better" or "stairs are better" so you hear those instead, usually with very altered reasons because so few people check out the pages people link for A* pathfinding, or possibly because a few couldn't understand it (it's easy.)This also explains why ramps are better in some forts and why stairs are better in others and and still others can be very efficient on one level. (although the last one more works with burrows.
(also, the hospital would be fully stocked with supplies and I intend to have enough buckets produced that the doctor wont have issues with no buckets working. maybe the stagnant water causes issues with the reaction. I dont know...)
hahaha (I am an engineer at college atm, but not as far along as you 
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It was the fact that it can be woven that implies it can be bent, and if it can be bent then it will always flex slightly when used...(make the shaft an I-beam and then laugh as it is now as effective as solid adamantine.