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Quote from: Broseph Stalin on August 07, 2013, 05:18:21 pm

I experienced a sudden drop in FPS and tried to counteract it by killing all unnecessary animals, deleting superfluous items, and designating smaller areas for mining and woodcutting. About a minute ago a warning popped up to tell me that I had ten minutes left on my battery. I turned the powerstrip off with my foot and my laptop had been using a fraction of it's processing power.

*Proud to use a tower for maximum processing power. Tower of Power!*


Anyway, my whole fort has crossbows. And bolts. And I still have too much damn copper! I compulsively have every metal I can smelting, and I have SO MUCH COPPER. Any ideas on what to do with it? Copper armor sets have been made for the whole fort.
Disclaimer: Whole fort does not include voidshard and kexels clad military.

Quote from: Broseph Stalin on August 07, 2013, 05:18:21 pm

I experienced a sudden drop in FPS and tried to counteract it by killing all unnecessary animals, deleting superfluous items, and designating smaller areas for mining and woodcutting. About a minute ago a warning popped up to tell me that I had ten minutes left on my battery. I turned the powerstrip off with my foot and my laptop had been using a fraction of it's processing power.

*Proud to use a tower for maximum processing power. Tower of Power!*


Anyway, my whole fort has crossbows. And bolts. And I still have too much damn copper! I compulsively have every metal I can smelting, and I have SO MUCH COPPER. Any ideas on what to do with it? Copper armor sets have been made for the whole fort.
Disclaimer: Whole fort does not include voidshard and kexels clad military.

Holy crap, how did you managed to doublepost more than 12 hours apart 

How about a subforum in either DF General Discussion or DF Gameplay Questions? A newbie pack would be pretty noticible in either of those spots since it's where they usually comes to seek help or ideas.

I don't know if there'll be enough activity or content to actually susiant one, but it'd be nice for newcomers or infrequent players.

Maybe I just missed it but is there any way to allow certain stone types for certain activities? One for stone crafting and one for masonry etc? I wanted to use the higher value chalk I have for making some trade goods without using it all up in case I need it later.

Not through the stone screen, but you can do so using stockpile link, since it's different workshops. Have stockpile give to the workshop and set them up to accept certain stones only.

Do note that the workshop will only take from linked stockpile set to give to it and give to stockpiles set to take from it.

Quote from: Broseph Stalin on August 07, 2013, 05:18:21 pm

I experienced a sudden drop in FPS and tried to counteract it by killing all unnecessary animals, deleting superfluous items, and designating smaller areas for mining and woodcutting. About a minute ago a warning popped up to tell me that I had ten minutes left on my battery. I turned the powerstrip off with my foot and my laptop had been using a fraction of it's processing power.

*Proud to use a tower for maximum processing power. Tower of Power!*


Anyway, my whole fort has crossbows. And bolts. And I still have too much damn copper! I compulsively have every metal I can smelting, and I have SO MUCH COPPER. Any ideas on what to do with it? Copper armor sets have been made for the whole fort.
Disclaimer: Whole fort does not include voidshard and kexels clad military.

Copper in every dwarf's room and hand, what else?

But with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, I would assume that every little bit (sorry) of optimization would add up to speed the game up considerably.

Bitwise operation's relatively minor optimization move, and is pretty readable if you use the right constant to represent things. However, it doesn't works for everything. And well, really, algothirm matters far more with modern compilers ( which is very good at optimizing code itself but not the structure ).

Heck, with how much stuff's in the game, better optimization here and there aren't likely to do much, redesign and rewriting would probably do far better, but it'd take a few years just to do at this rate.

Use a dice or coinflip to assign jobs if you can't figure out who gotta do what!

Though Tunmoritar's personality looks most promising as an leader, partially from handling stress and being organized.

Come to think, it looks like all of this batch are prone to addiction and thrill-seeking, too.

pretty sure toady does not care if we make money off youtube videos. He does not have legal standing there anyways since as the people making the films we own the copyright to the film

I believe it could be argued that he does have legal standing under DMCA, or at least are considered important enough. Though those technicality's really beside the point when he's not interested in such thing. Only thing I've seen him take a stand against is those that's tried to modify or copy the internals of DF and claim such as their own, and that is pretty much a violation of copyright in first place.

Either way, showing it off's all good

do gauntlets/boots always count as a pair? let's say i make two pairs like this:
*left gauntlet* and -right gauntlet-
left gauntlet and *right gauntlet*

do i have to equip them as pairs or can i forbid the bad ones and just use the good ones from different pairs?
funny game...as soon as one question is answered, another ten pop up

Boots and gauntlets as equipment usually counts as a pair, there're occasionally buggy instances, but it seem to be if you tries to set uniform to have like socks and boots at once or gauntlet and gloves/mittens at once. Letting dwarves dress themselves up haven't given me trouble.

They'll automatically upgrade to most valuable allowed equpiment that'll fit. And no, they aren't required to be in pair that was created, I often end up a bit too much of one side or other of gauntlets being superior and it haven't given any issue so far.

The wiki says there's bonr chestplates, but I have not been able to craft them in any workshoo.

Afghani84, yes they count as pairs. It's sufficiento assign one high boot to your military dwarves.

Not in vanilla stuff, it can be modded in, though. http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Armor#Material