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I had a fortress running very well, it was only two years old and I had one single swordsdorf that I brought along, and I wasn't anywhere near a necromancer tower. Well, somehow despite the fact that this was a bustling fortress he managed to get into my internal refuse stockpile without being spotted or running into any traps or anything. Then, after raising a horde of animal skeletons they began overwhelming the passerbys who were immediately raised as more undead who then began to double their numbers, and despite all the ensuing chaos and me drafting the entire fortress to kill them, they were immediately raised as soon as they died.

I never, ever spotted the dude.

How the hell am I supposed to avoid this?

I'm in a pickle myself. I'm on XP and the only thing I've ever upgraded since I got this box in 2006 is the graphics card in 2008 (ATI Radeon 2600 HD Pro) and a couple new harddrives. I'm running the max amount of ram capable with XP (4 gigs), hard drive cant get much better except in speed and I have no idea what to do to make my CPU and graphics capability any better than what I have (Intel Core duo 1.86ghz I believe I might be running). Mostly just asking what do on a budget to make it better?

Quote from: zehive on November 04, 2012, 04:50:24 pm

A first person game where you start out modestly as a peasant in a medieval village, town, castle or city etc. One with life, a dynamic economy, other nations either warring or signing truces, conducting trade etc. Bandits and outlaws, a justice system. A perfect emulation and simulation of medieval life. And you can play any role you want with great depth. From farming to inspiring a revolution and overthrowing a king. Something with growing towns and places that are built by the people who live there and a dynamic population. The ability to expand technology or build your own kingdom. With the proper pacing for these kinds of events that take time, planning, luck, skill etc. Raise huge armies and march on enemies, lead small units. Be able to sneak through cities and steal valuables. And all of this as a first person game that you personally interact with. Not silly dialogue options with a static NPC and adhoc levels

But I also want it to look good, because silly though it may be I think graphics are important for immersion on some level. Sure, I can get immersed in DF with my imagination, but its not the same.

So someone making DF ~0.5's adventure mode but prettier?
I think we have a difference of opinion though, because in my opinion, with something as complex as this, immersion would be ruined by the frequent issues with animation/graphics that would doubtless pop up. Like in TeS where you're pretty into going through a dungeon, then you accidentally walk into a corpse and it gets stuck on something and starts flailing around with collision stuff. Kind of awkward when it's meant to be a consistent, sort-of-realistic world.

Well I am talking about a perfect world here where bugs never happen

A first person game where you start out modestly as a peasant in a medieval village, town, castle or city etc. One with life, a dynamic economy, other nations either warring or signing truces, conducting trade etc. Bandits and outlaws, a justice system. A perfect emulation and simulation of medieval life. And you can play any role you want with great depth. From farming to inspiring a revolution and overthrowing a king. Something with growing towns and places that are built by the people who live there and a dynamic population. The ability to expand technology or build your own kingdom. With the proper pacing for these kinds of events that take time, planning, luck, skill etc. Raise huge armies and march on enemies, lead small units. Be able to sneak through cities and steal valuables. And all of this as a first person game that you personally interact with. Not silly dialogue options with a static NPC and adhoc levels

But I also want it to look good, because silly though it may be I think graphics are important for immersion on some level. Sure, I can get immersed in DF with my imagination, but its not the same.

I typically get them in squads where i've combined all the legendary fighters...

Well, I changed it to libcod.console_flush() but that doesn't seem to have had any affect on the the issue I'm having.

It's saying AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'console_set_foreground_color', and it'll do this for multiple items.

Alright, I've never touched coding in my life. I figured I'd go around and jump into, what feels to me, to be the deep end. Well I started following roguebasins tutorial to get my feet wet and I found out I had a problem, I have no idea what the hell they're on about. Okay, I understand what they want me to write and I have the basic gist of why it is the way it is, but then its like 'okay now run that code!' wait what? Also where have I been supposed to be dumping these files? I suppose into the folder you told me to make at the start. But now I've got everything in there, I've just gone off and named and saved what I've got and now when you say 'run' I don't even know from where I'm supposed to do that. Just click? Because just clicking flashes the CLI in my face that then immediately disappears.

Am I hopeless?