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Quote from: Scow2 on October 11, 2012, 04:47:33 pm

A fortification is more like a chest-high wall.

And yet, if you surround a cat with these "chest-high walls" it will be completely trapped?

The walls are steep, and nothing climbs yet.
Makes sense, except how would you carve fortifications into walls then?

or refine said ore and sell the materials resulting.

Or both! A still or something would probably be cheaper than a smelter, though.

I'm working on getting dffd to accept the zipped save, but until then here's some population numbers.

There are over 27,700 goblins; a bit under 3,700 humans; around 8,500 elves; and less than 2,000 kobolds. There are hundred, maybe over a thousand, humans in goblin settlements; maybe one in ten or fifteen is a prisoner. A similar proportion of free elves to goblin and prisoner elves seems to exist, and probably at least a hundred or two kobolds are goblin prisoners. Elven and kobold settlements are purely their parent race an and domestic animals, but human towns seem to contain maybe 1% goblins. Some hamlets are just hundreds of abandoned farm animals and pets. It only gets worse...

Not easily, and if your adventurer retires somewhere they might end up in  a fortress.

Don't you think that miners have other sources of stuff? It's not a way to get serious profit when you have a cruiser

There's a lot of asteroids... And what do you suggest we do? Name one thing as safe and legal as and more profitable than trading low-bulk luxuries to miners with tons of minerals. We could probably sell the stuff to them for ore, much cheaper than we would if buying the ore directly, and then make a profit on the ore!

Problem isn't pressure, it's quantity.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 11, 2012, 06:36:28 pm

Shout for help and try and slice or cut or rip an arm or something off.

She already ran away...

Oh, uh....
Rescind previous action and search for some sort of easy chokepoint we could defend. Close off other entrances to the newly-designated safe area and search for any threats in said safe area.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 10, 2012, 10:20:47 pm

Quote from: §¢ǿŗÞﵧ on October 10, 2012, 07:23:59 pm

There is something more depressing about this too. with the creation of quantum computers, philosophers now think that there is a possibility that we might be living in a simulation. I know it sounds crazy but think about it carefully: If quantum computers have the potential to be this powerful, then it is possible they can create artificial intelligence in a simulation. And these computers also have the possibility to simulate entire universes.

As to the math stuff: Couldn't the universe be the three-dimensional surface of a four-dimensional black hole?

well... a black hole contains what is known as singularity in its center. Singularity is one dimensional (so a infinitely small dot) so if we did live in a black hole 1) time would go backwards and 2) we would be crushed to a point by hyper gravity.

I knew the singularity bit, but assumed it wasn't the literal black hole mentioned several posts back.

Code doesn't take up much space, resources do. Even if you have ten thousand goblins standing in a field, the save data just needs to know all their coordinates and conditions, and you only need to store one goblin texture/model to display them with, or a set of textures for separate body types and all that (along with smaller textures for scars, stumps and so on). Assuming the actual game mechanics stayed the same save size wouldn't really need to change, and then you just have to draw textures and make models for every tile type, item, creature, whatever else. I'm not saying it wouldn't be a fairly monumental undertaking given the sheer amount of detail in DF, but it's by no means undo-able.
The bigger concern would be writing a proper engine to handle all of our nonsense, but storage-wise machine code is pretty trivial.

Have you paid attention to how much is abstracted that couldn't be if we had Skyrim graphics? The location, shape, and orientation of scars; the position of scars; the way a dwarf holds a crossbow when missing three fingers; how one wrestles with one's left lower leg; and much, much more. Oh, sure, a crappy job could be done easily, but when has Toady been content with a crappy job?