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I'm finding that I went from 7 dwarves to 150 fairly quickly.  Now with a large fortress, events are happening so fast that I literally have to pause the game every few minutes and take thirty minutes just to assess the damage.  Just a few minutes produces enough events that it's quite a chore to read through the several announcements and reports (some of which have already lost their zoom ability).  The messages go by so fast, I literally don't have time to read them on the screen as they flash by.

I'm currently processing at 100 fps cap (per the Mac dwarf builder).  I realize for people that have been playing DF for years now probably don't mind speeding things up.  However, I'm curious if anyone tweaks their fps lower for a more natural game pace and what that is? 

Along with that argument, shouldn't a more optimal beginner fps cap be set by default?

More use of wheelbarrows in general is planned. And suggested before. Please use the search function. And make your suggestion go into mire detail than the title. For instance, how do you suggest we deal with the issue of not having enough barrows for all refuse haulers?

wow, who freed you from the bowls of the earth?

I'm only about a week old here, but thanks for the suggestions.

Yep, construction jobs will "reserve" stones, and the plebes won't touch them.

However, forbidding them, unpausing (so the job can fail) then unforbidding and marking them for dumping will unreserve them and off they go.

I didn't notice any unfinished business.  Thanks!  I'll take another gander about.

I have a few pesky rocks holdin' up a construction project.  I can't seem to find any dwarves brave enough to give 'em a he-ho.  I'd really like them moved.

To add to this strangeness, I've talked with my Dwarf Therapist and ordered her to take everyone off everything except cleaning and stone hauling - and I've tried a few other housekeeping options as well.  I can't seem to get those rocks to budge.  As you can see, the dump pile's only a few toes away.

Funny thing it is, I have a construction project several beards downstairs and these idle freeloaders would rather climb that lot to drag those stones upstairs to this here rock dump before even givin' a glance at the front gate project.  They'd remove every blasted one of those rocks only to loaf around in the mess hall awaiting a better order.  Blasted!

Any ideas?

Awesome suggestions everyone.  Thanks!  That helped.

Apparently some rich guy came on /v/ and let people vote on who he gives $50k too, and /v/ voted for Toady. Then this screenshot was posted...

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l306/Zerocyde/1355789411032_zps8172ab23.jpg

Any idea if it's true?

So what?  I'm only like a day old in DF time, but I can tell you that 'might' pay a quarter year's worth expenses while T is developing full time.  I hope he did get it.

New player here. I used DwarfBuilder.app 0.34.11 to install DF on Mac OSX 10.7.5. I can play fine. I wanted to save a game file per http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Saved_game_folder, but I can't find the folders/files. The system must be different on a mac. Is it possible to make saves? Can someone point me to instructions?

You've probably already figured this out, but just in case...

Find where your DwarfFortress.app was created.  It should be at /Applications directory if you left your settings to default.  Right click on the app in your Finder and select Browse App Contents.  Dwarf Fortress is going to be in the Contents/Resources directory.

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I have to say, I'm brand spanking new to DF and this little plugin is amazing.  It's exactly what I needed.  My thanks to the Dev!