Bay 12 Games Forum

How much memory does DF take up on your computer?

In many apps, especially DF, the faster you make something the more memory it takes up, the less memory it uses, the slower it goes. Most DF users have plenty of RAM and can quite easily get more. A faster processor on the other hand is a lot harder to acquire.

I think that Toady should be more concerned with making the game faster.

I think that first we should work on vermin that make syndromes, like mosquitoes, but that would require a good model for illness, where there are injuries, syndromes and illnesses (split into viral and bacterial maybe).

As has been said already, pathfinding is a huge issue with this idea.

I do like the idea of making rodents do more stuff though, but in a way that doesn't require pathfinding. We could maybe start with ants, since we have 'colony of ants''s, but we don't have ants.

It probably wouldn't happen in adventure mode because this will happen in evil zones and humans don't inhabit evil zones.

Anyway, the dead re-rising would be fine, but as has been said, there needs to be a way to kill them permanently, like lopping their head off. We need to be able to order dwarves to do this though.

I do this already, but it's a rather manual process, I would rather like it if it was automated.

What could happen is that you select what you want, so you can set it to accept everything including stone if you want, then when stockpiles are built it automatically deselects the item type from the settings.

I think that on a global level, important figures could have some basic information stored on them, like ethnicity and maybe 1 or 2 random major traits, so you could get in the legends something like "He was known for his big nose and freckly skin", for fortress dwarves we could store a larger amount of information, including the different alleles etc, so we keep track of if they are a bb, BB or Bb. For general populations, general traits would be stored, so the Clasping Mirrors might have dark skin and curly hair, whilst the Shining Moon might have light skin and slanted eyes. These traits might change over time as they get invaded and stuff, or maybe just over time due to climate etc.

I suggest alchemist to do these sort of things:
- turning one type of material into another. For example, turning 20 lead bars into 1 gold bar (the amount of bars needed may depend on how skilled alchemist is)
- brewing some potions, that would buff dwarfs, like making warriors more strong and tough or speeding up healing, but long usage of them may result in dwarfs getting addicted to them.
- creating poisons to make dwarven weapons poisonous

The last two would be good, but the first one is horrible. Poisons are already made though, but they are just simple extracts, I assume that alchemists could make far more potent and far ranging poisons, maybe through some system like The Elder Scrolls has, where you mix the ingredients and the effects are the intersection of the individual effects of the plants. The problem is that poisons need to be implemented properly first, i.e. you can apply them to weapons.

The idea of buff potions is pretty much the same as above, so no more elaboration is needed.

The idea of turning lead into gold is a really bad one, as it is completely non-realistic and gamey. Yes, it is possible, but it hasn't been done yet, the only true alchemy we have done is atomic fusion and fission, which aren't even remotely feasible in DF. We have managed to convert platinum into gold in real life though, but all that required was jamming another proton onto a Pt atom, which is very hard to do in itself, let alone pulling off half a dozen protons. Also, Pt is worth more than Au.

One use of alchemy that is often suggested is that it could be used to create gunpowder, except then there's the whole discussion on whether we should have gunpowder or not.

On first impressions, it looks like adventure mode, but it really isn't. Adventure mode is simultaneous turn-based, some of the things that we do in adventure mode could never be done in that game, like targeting.