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General Discussion / 21 day trial for Eve Online
« on: July 11, 2011, 06:46:39 am »
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DF Modding / Getting rid of unknown ghosts
« on: July 04, 2011, 06:41:02 pm »
This often leads my friends into a fruitless google search.
If you don't have a name to engrave on your Slab (i.e. it's missing from the engrave menu in Craftsdwarf workshop and you checked and checked again) and there's an undead Ghost bothering you (or littering your Unit List) go get hold of current version of Runesmith app and when the game is running find your ghost (the unit list there in Runesmith can be sorted by name, yeah) and go to Flags tab and mark both 'Dead' and 'Killed' flags and then write your changes into memory (the floppy disk -- Diskette -- icon) . You can then safely disconnect the tool from the game itself by pressing disconnect (the broken plug icon).
This works for any ghosts, naturally, but you can have a Slab engraved for your favourite miner that met his or her unfortunate end in magma whose corpse is now unreachable, can't you?
If you don't have a name to engrave on your Slab (i.e. it's missing from the engrave menu in Craftsdwarf workshop and you checked and checked again) and there's an undead Ghost bothering you (or littering your Unit List) go get hold of current version of Runesmith app and when the game is running find your ghost (the unit list there in Runesmith can be sorted by name, yeah) and go to Flags tab and mark both 'Dead' and 'Killed' flags and then write your changes into memory (the floppy disk -- Diskette -- icon) . You can then safely disconnect the tool from the game itself by pressing disconnect (the broken plug icon).
This works for any ghosts, naturally, but you can have a Slab engraved for your favourite miner that met his or her unfortunate end in magma whose corpse is now unreachable, can't you?
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DF General Discussion / Finnish LP question
« on: July 04, 2011, 06:01:04 pm »
As many of us, I also enjoy playing DF while listening to some LP on background (spoiled by captnduck, really) and I stumbled upon this LP on youtube which is (at least it says so) in Finnish. Which made me wonder does Finnish really have words like 'highlight' and such words of English origin in its vocabulary? Are there many? Do speakers just casually mix-in the foreign words, like many communities in my native corner of Internet use to? I would've asked the author, really, but uhm, I don't really speak Finnish and I don't want to go around offending people privately or I am just a little shy. It's more fun in public, either way.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Rant on FPS and stuff
« on: July 04, 2011, 04:29:20 pm »
/rant
It's getting to the point where there's no much reason to invest time into a fortress if even on a 3x3 shallow not even 40 z-levels embark with serious abuse of dfh autodestroys and removelitters and dumping from stocks and DAS' and no moving liquids at all the FPS drops down under 100 and then never recovers by the year 20. This without going into the whole 'exploring caverns' stuff (I wonder if I should just danger-room-insta-legendary military into godly skills and go there by year 3 or something so the game doesn't turn into a silly slideshow) and only a few magma forges with stale lava underneath the impassable squares. Megaprojects? Hope you have fun having the game on alt-tab for hours every day for months upon months at your 3 fps and maybe your grandchildren will see it through.
The whole thing about 'your civ's king is dead; you should've checked beforehand in legends' is getting kind of old really, also. Then again, if I need to temporarily add [aquifer] tags to sedimentary stones in order to embark in the first place, I am maybe expected to also check for monarch availability with a third party tool like prospector or something. While on subject of finding a suitable site, it's rather surprising, to say the least, to see types of stone layers replaced by vague 'Shallow metals' = copper everywhere, 'Deep metals' = copper everywhere variants. 'Flux Stone'? You might get it or you might not, no Flux Stone in biome? You might very well still get it if the cards on hand say so. Adding NOEAT to kobolds manually wasn't a good idea of mine either, now that I think of it, too. Ridiculousness of the whole constant struggle with pets and their owners and their litter and their movement is pretty much madness on the level of every 200 billion of thousands of body parts of every god forsaken creature or dwarf getting covered in blood, or pus or water.
Add to this some demands by nobles like 'make aluminum beds', miserable justice system that works against all that is just and hospital silliness with infections abound and you get a blood-red exclamation mark in the place of a serious dwarven fortress. The unit list that's going for decades is also kinda old, though Runesmith and Therapist and whatever helps some. The names of risen ghosts of entirely unfamiliar entities missing from slab engraver menu is just a nice touch to it, what can I say.
fake-edit:
It's just occured to me that maybe if we do need to view legends to see if there are any monarch figures available to the chosen civilization, perhaps it should also somehow recognize the fact the civilization in question is only known for the incredible feats of their Wood Burners and Lye and Potash and Cheese Makers and other generally useless rejects.
It's getting to the point where there's no much reason to invest time into a fortress if even on a 3x3 shallow not even 40 z-levels embark with serious abuse of dfh autodestroys and removelitters and dumping from stocks and DAS' and no moving liquids at all the FPS drops down under 100 and then never recovers by the year 20. This without going into the whole 'exploring caverns' stuff (I wonder if I should just danger-room-insta-legendary military into godly skills and go there by year 3 or something so the game doesn't turn into a silly slideshow) and only a few magma forges with stale lava underneath the impassable squares. Megaprojects? Hope you have fun having the game on alt-tab for hours every day for months upon months at your 3 fps and maybe your grandchildren will see it through.
The whole thing about 'your civ's king is dead; you should've checked beforehand in legends' is getting kind of old really, also. Then again, if I need to temporarily add [aquifer] tags to sedimentary stones in order to embark in the first place, I am maybe expected to also check for monarch availability with a third party tool like prospector or something. While on subject of finding a suitable site, it's rather surprising, to say the least, to see types of stone layers replaced by vague 'Shallow metals' = copper everywhere, 'Deep metals' = copper everywhere variants. 'Flux Stone'? You might get it or you might not, no Flux Stone in biome? You might very well still get it if the cards on hand say so. Adding NOEAT to kobolds manually wasn't a good idea of mine either, now that I think of it, too. Ridiculousness of the whole constant struggle with pets and their owners and their litter and their movement is pretty much madness on the level of every 200 billion of thousands of body parts of every god forsaken creature or dwarf getting covered in blood, or pus or water.
Add to this some demands by nobles like 'make aluminum beds', miserable justice system that works against all that is just and hospital silliness with infections abound and you get a blood-red exclamation mark in the place of a serious dwarven fortress. The unit list that's going for decades is also kinda old, though Runesmith and Therapist and whatever helps some. The names of risen ghosts of entirely unfamiliar entities missing from slab engraver menu is just a nice touch to it, what can I say.
fake-edit:
It's just occured to me that maybe if we do need to view legends to see if there are any monarch figures available to the chosen civilization, perhaps it should also somehow recognize the fact the civilization in question is only known for the incredible feats of their Wood Burners and Lye and Potash and Cheese Makers and other generally useless rejects.
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