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Originally posted by PTTG?:
<STRONG>With the new version visible in the distance, and only a few (abet large) items on the "to-do" list, Perhaps it's time to start considering what to do with the Wiki</STRONG>

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It might just be easier to mark every page with a 'refers to version xyx' tag and then remove them as we edit pages. As long as we can list the ones it still exists on I don't think it would take that long to remove most of them.

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Originally posted by PTTG?:
<STRONG>P.S. Also add a "How Wikis are not fourms" page, too.</STRONG>

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There is a lot of cross over, but if your reading the wiki it's easier to ask there and as there is less chatter anything resolved stays there longer. On the other hand anything useful is added to articles anyway.

Possibly the funniest stuff I've read in a long time. I'd love to give it a go if I can work out how to be on at the right time (gmt + 1 here as well) and if you need another player. Although probably not till after your next session or so cause currently I'm up a stupid hours on Monday morning.

Hmm try picking any two sheer cliff walls in the real world. What are the differences? Materials, okay so we have that. Vegetation and wild life, we have that. Rivers/lakes, also in the game....

Okay so the cliff face is slightly more flat and samey than in the real world but that will change a little... I think you give real life too my credit for it's variation  

hehe, I like it although the only bit that actually made me laugh out loud was the eBaum's World link going to the SA thread.. genius...

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Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>Haven't done much with 3D projectiles, mostly because I haven't decided how to handle gravity.  I think parabolic paths might be a bit annoying, but it's possible to make it work.  Then a lot of the real-life effects will come for free, if it tracks the speed in finer increments and so on.  It's mostly an interface/shooter AI issue, but that can be handled.  Not there yet though.
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I'm not sure it would matter much, historically projectiles other than siege weapons where never aimed upwards much. And don't forget that these dwarfs of ours cut out tunnel high enough that a dragon or a colossus can stand up in them, unless they take up more than one z-plane now?

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Originally posted by Symmetry:
<STRONG>From my limited knowledge of the DS DF would render much quicker on it than it does on the PC.  You'd probably run out of ram before embarking though   </STRONG>

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Render speed shouldn't be an issue in either case, the opengl title system used is fairly basic and fast (look at your gpu usages while it's running), the cpu time on the other hand is excessive. Probably this could be significantly improved if someone was porting and thought carefully about each step but that would be a lot of time and currently there is no way the processor on a ds could handle it at a high frame rate.

The 50-60% utilisation on multicore machines rather then the 50% when core restricted could easily be any of the third party libraries used. For example fmod is used for the sound and music.

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Originally posted by Talion:
<STRONG>How about a towers game?
No using any space dug out, every room must be constructed.
Optionally, set a limit to the size of each tower so you have to create lots of interconnected groups of towers.</STRONG>

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Interconnections must be four levels up or higher   and no individual tower level can be larger than 11 by 11 (shift arrow key is 11 squares).

Oh and bonus points for stone block towers.. dwarves are not shoddy builders