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I guess how easy it would be to change depends if it's a magic number or some sort of global constant. If the former, Toady just lose some of my respect.

Anyway, what's the DFHack plugin/command to change timescale? And if it's not covered by LNP, where can I download it? As I've said, I'd be perfectly happy if it is just DFHack/mod, though would like it as built-in feature eventually.

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It's not realistic, and it by no means furthers the simulation.

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The current timescale isn't realistic and it's too fast in fortress mode, especially for a newcomer. I mean, a month takes what, an hour? How am I supposed to prepare myself for a first winter while making cool fortress? Meanwhile some DF god could want some extra challenge in the form of shorter timescale, and thus having to think on his/her feet in order to quickly prepare defenses and food sources.

How does a newcomer prepare themself?

Pause very frequently and, while paused, designate multiple tasks. As a somewhat seasoned player, it's what I do anyway. And at that point, making the game seem to go faster seems superfluous.

I think learning how to use pause and multitask effectively is a normal part of the learning curve.

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Quote from: Untrustedlife on March 06, 2016, 09:09:15 pm

I have never seen sleeping bandits in adventure mode when its not night time, was it night time?

Practically every time I walk by a wandering bandit camp,* day or night, they're all inside the tent sleeping.

* Meaning the little *'s that appear on the map screen, that if you walk up close you see a campfire and 1-3 squarish white "tents," usually containing 0-5 random individuals and 1 "leader." I at least assume these are bandits or invaders of some sort since they tend to appear surrounding a hamlet.

[Yeah, just realized I'm probably creating confusion between bandit camps and invader camps]

considering some 'invader' camps might be refugees from ruin towns escaping to better land which could happen if you have an invading party that seems to like wrecking sites than claiming them.

The ones you see sleeping in tents, with lots of civilians among them, and no camp symbol on the map are positively not bandits. They may be invaders or refugees. That bug has been around a long time.

Ach.  Any way to tell the difference?

It seems like its much easier to climb up than down.  Can anyone confirm this?

I've noticed the same. Dwarves will happily climb out of holes (say while channeling out a garbage chute) but will refuse to climb back down.

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Clearly, I should more closely investigate this.

Good starting point on the wiki.
[/quote]Thanks. 

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Quote from: Dirst on March 06, 2016, 02:45:39 pm

The current axis of Good-to-Evil lands will be replaced the a system based on Spheres... one of which is Death.  Sounds like an interesting start to what a Death-aligned land might be like.  If unit actions can affect Sphere alignments, the necromancer towers should definitely do something like this by way of making the land Death-aligned.

Would these spheres compete with each other like civilizations do, or would they be fixed like the current good/evil system?

They might eventually be moved out into the raws, but at the time of the transition they would be the same fixed set of Spheres that govern DF mythology now.

Clearly, I should more closely investigate this.

I like to build castles. It's a thing. And I stopped, or at least modified my designs when it came about that the goblins allegedly learned to climb.

But then, I've also noticed that they're not particularly enthusiastic climbers. Last fort had an exposed trade depot for a while, elevated on a dais that was later enclosed. And during one siege I noticed a few trolls had made it up? But in spite of this most of the goblins seemed content to stay at ground level. And it seems like weapon-bearing goblins don't bother to climb, presumably because they like to keep their hands free to slice, slash, and bash.

Has anyone noticed if goblin climbing has been a serious game changer for fort defense?

Looks kind of busy, visually and probably in practice, though it might be that I tend to build wider and bigger to accommodate crowds.

Also, put his on dfma (dwarf fortress map archive) so we can get a bigger picture of it. They could use some more activity. 

Of course not every Dwarf Fortress player is a mass murderer  !

It's kind of hard not to be on adventure mode, since most of the challenges are met by killing people.

But I always feel weird when it comes to those bandit camps...tents full of perpetually sleeping brigands, many civilians by trade, and the only reasonable thing to do is walk in and paint the walls with their blood. And they don't even wake up! I almost wish that they would so at least it'd be something vaguely resembling a fair fight.