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This is a XXpun threadXX. It is of poor quality. It is dyed emerald green with vomit. It is covered in raccoon blood, sunshine, and bad puns.

He plans on adding everything to the game before he releases it.

Everything.

IMO it sounds awesome by his descriptions, I just hope he releases it before November 11.

Did you turn the mouse off in the init settings? I do that all the time cause I don't like to use the mouse.

I used pheonix for the longest time until I realized there was an option to take out all those annoying , ; :'s. Now I play with varied tiles on and water numbers off O.o

I've played without DT as well, it's a pain in the rear and takes up a lot of time but there's a certain level of personal relation you get with each dwarf if you choose to do it. While I'm assigning their jobs, I also take the time to see what food they like and whether or not they've noticed my sweet marble road yet. Integrating DT into DF or updating the interface any more than what it's at might take this away.

Add another screen that chooses the workshop(s) the job is queued in (and maybe the option to name your workshops) and I think that would be perfect. I agree with the 30 item limit being removed.

My last fort drove me bezonkers. Going back and forth between the workshops was too much, too much milling/threshing/cooking/brewing/smelting/melting/smithing/milking/cheesemaking/shearing/bagmaking/etc that I found all I was doing was managing the workshops. The manager doesn't do a very good job when I'm farming 200+ of each underground crop per year, and putting jobs on repeat works until I forgot to check back on them. I accidentally left craftworkshops 1-3 on repeat bolt production thinking they would run out of bones or my hunter would run out of bolts eventually. 20k bone bolts later I was proven wrong. There were so many bolts on the ground, and so many bolts in the workshops, and so many bolts in the stockpile T.T

The sadder part was, my 10x10 bone stockpile was still full, and craftworkshops 4-6 were busy decorating all of the bone bolts with horns and hooves.

Quote from: kotekzot on July 02, 2011, 10:33:00 pm

Multithreading an application that is being actively developed is generally a bad idea.

Also, multi-threaded optimisations are better to be made as soon as possible, to prevent larger code refactoring in future.

If it's deemed even necessary, my dual-core runs DF at 100 FPS with a fully mature fort, and I can assure you that I don't clean up after my sieges. I like the blood and scattered items everywhere. 20k arrows? You got it. Water and magma fall running into a lake of obsidian? Sure. I get bored with a fort long before FPS becomes an issue. My current fort is still pushing 90 FPS at year 23, and I haven't cleaned up from sieges or ambushes since year 8. I just wish the rain wouldn't wash the blood away.

My laptop, on the other hand, is a much different story ^.^ Poor little atom processor.

(Cue explanation as to why exactly DF needs to be multi-core)

But then your copper dagger wielding adventurer would get shot by some random thug who liked his dagger at the beginning of the game. We already have random lion mauling while you're on your way to complete a quest, we don't need to give them guns.

Besides, I haven't seen anyone say exactly how this is supposed to be implemented. Should we just skip making a crossbow at the beginning of the game and go straight for the hand cannon, and blow every goblin up with one well armed dwarf? Will your dwarves be massacred because your swords and shields couldn't stand up to the goblin guns? Or should we just go ahead and implement skill trees for each fortress where you have to research different technologies for your dwarves to use?

Last I checked, we already had a fallout mod that has guns in it.