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Quote from: a smiling bearded cretin on October 12, 2014, 02:41:08 pm

Does anyone know how many fractional ticks there are in one full tick? Or how many "," in one "."?

IIRC reading from an official source that "," waits for 1 moment, and "." waits for 10 moments. Might have been the devblog.

Ummm...wasn't I the one who said that here? Repeating what Toady had said, BTW.

EDIT: Though I didn't mention the counterattack game, just answering a question, while your linked post does go into detail about said "game". I should stop posting at 4AM

If I recall correctly vampires only come when you hit 80 population or so?
Recently I only play with 50-60 population limit so my fort is always vampire-free.

I used to identify vampires using the old fashioned way. That is giving every new arrival a nickname or temporary profession name, for example, newb1, newb2, etc.
I will check the (u)nit menu constantly to see if any of those new dwarves eat, drink or sleep and when that happens I will remove the temporary name of that unit.

I think you can also create a squad of those new arrivals and tell them to station inside a locked room? I never tried that but guess it should work.

Sieges only come at 80+. IIRC vamps can always come (nowadays; back in .34 there were two hardcoded migration waves which were guarenteed to be vamp-free, in addition to the starting 7). While I'm not sure about how the selection is done, I'd think that they can be selected with equal chance as anyone else.

Someone should set up a worldgen vamp syndrome (if such a thing is possible) to get a large part of the dwarven population made into vamps, and check immigration. Also are the starting 7 still generated, or are they pulled from historical?

Old issue. In fact, so old, I wondered if we had a Ñ wandering around, like we did once before.

What was the error message?

"Needs a position, a unit ID or both, but not neither!"This message is displayed if you supply invalid parameters.

It looks like (from my limited experience with Lua) params are passed as name/value pairs:
x=%integer%  y=%integer%  z=%integer%     Sets the teleport destination, xyz can be found with the 'showpos' parameter and 3D cursor
unit=%unit_id%   Sets the unit to be teleported. Unit ID can be found by selecting the unit in question and passing 'showunitid'

I'm not sure, but I think that, in .34.11, the adventurer was either UnitID 0 or UnitID 1. I'd try 1 first, worst that would happen is that UnitID 1 was something very unpleasant.

IDLE... What does the I stand for..?

I Don't Labor Everyone

Check what his favourite items are and appoint him a mayor? Or a baron if you don't have that yet. Lazy leader is good for diplomatic relations.

If they are idling with "No job", they will probably be chatting it up with the idle population. And making friends.
Might become mayor, it's possible.

If you have DFHack, reveal _does_ work in adventure mode, so you can use that to look for an exit.