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The stack is worth 5 times as much.That sure are some epic bolts.Have a dwarf fire them and then retrieve them all, so you have 5 megavaluebolts instead of a stack.
You have the display case mod?
If so put those in there and vastly boost the value of a room.
If not, what a waste..I'd say use them like your "black arrows". Use them on like badasses that you KNOW your going to probably die from (titans, FB, colossi, etc.). They're actually pretty badass bolts to be perfectly honest, if I saw that comming at me, I'd probably shit myself, my entire fortress would shit itself, and everyone they KNOW will shit themselves (Scare off the elves anyone?)They're still no better than normal horse bone bolts...
A major part of DF is adding your own flavor, or story. Using your imagination, you know... that thing we all had when we were children? I agree with him, if youre not put off by the micro-managing side of making sure they are only used on a FB or HFS go ahead, would make a great story to have your Elite Marksdwarf captain slay a whole siege or something with these bolts.
"I'll just butcher this jabberer...OH GOD IT TURNED INTO COG!"They should be able to breed just fine, it's just that when a creature dies all transformations end, meaning that you get whatever butchery products that they would have given previously instead of the new ones.I have read on a forum somewhere about someone using a modded reaction to Forge Cows.Those weren't creature-cows, those were vermin-cows. That was also pre-transformations, so it's now possible to create a syndrome that takes one creature and turns it into another. I'm not sure what kind of offspring two transformed creatures will produce though. A dwarf turned into a jabberer still gives dwarf meat when butchered, so the transformation is not complete in all cases.
Why is it a generally held belief that ToadyOne doesnt do any optimization as he works?Because DF still has FPS problems. Also, new features tend to increase CPU load on average.
Damn , I've always been thinking like that guy in the cool quote .Actually, primates are pretty much all omnivorous. Also, herbivores tend to make better snacks than carnivores for some reason, but your point still stands even if we didn't commonly eat the big predators.
also im thinking that we have earned that meat because humans originally are plant eaters and just a bit hunters , because we have no sharp teeth , no sharp claws and we are not so agile . anyway , we slaughtered biggest predators and made +[insert large and dangerous predator here] meat biscuits+ out of them .
The amount of damage you'd do, and animals you'd kill, in converting enough land to feed all of humanity on plants alone, not to mention effects from alien species etc, would probably do fuckloads of ecological damage as well, in addition to overfishing, and as we wouldn't have a reason to keep nearly so many farm animals probably a lot less of them as well.True enough, but animals aren't really more space-efficient, since they also need to eat. The solution is to implement more efficient farming methods and stop overpopulation somehow.
The stack is worth 5 times as much.That sure are some epic bolts.Have a dwarf fire them and then retrieve them all, so you have 5 megavaluebolts instead of a stack.
You have the display case mod?
If so put those in there and vastly boost the value of a room.
If not, what a waste..
I'd say use them like your "black arrows". Use them on like badasses that you KNOW your going to probably die from (titans, FB, colossi, etc.). They're actually pretty badass bolts to be perfectly honest, if I saw that comming at me, I'd probably shit myself, my entire fortress would shit itself, and everyone they KNOW will shit themselves (Scare off the elves anyone?)They're still no better than normal horse bone bolts...
That's...actually almost exactly what I said.First off, the default state of the designations screen should be paused. I'm not saying that having the option to unpause while designating is bad; I'm saying not having the option to pause during designation s bad. Funny, that's what'd need to happen if multiplayer was in...I think I should have worded my post a bit different. My response was aimed to the fact that you compared Dwarf Fortress and SimCity. In fact, if you can still pause any time you want, there really could be an option for forcing the game to run while designations. In forts with low FPS this could be very good since not much manage to happen. This could have saved several my older forts from boredom.SimCity worked well because it's totally different style of game. You don't usually get situations where you have to act quickly and with accuracy, situations which happens in DF all the time. So comparing SimCity and Dwarf Fortress is not valid, IMHO.
It's rather off-topic from multiplayer, but the problem here is that pausing is tied to designating rather than situations where you need to act quickly. Sure it's useful to pause when you get sieged or breach a cavern, but why designating? Better to leave it up to the player. You can pause whenever you want by pressing space.
If I'm under attack, I might pause the game and designate a bunch of stuff. 90% of the time when I'm designating, I don't need the game paused.
The difference was that in MP you would not be able to pause even if you wanted, while in SP you could pause at will.
And all of it could be controlled by settings in inits (new file?) so that all players could set it to their tastes. Or disable completely.
But we are derailing here, perhaps I could make new suggestion about this idea (for SP use of course).
