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[Atomic Chicken]

Alright, so the fortress I've made has gone straight to hell; I forgot about the bug wherein everything underneath an ocean biome gets flooded by seawater.

Well, this is one is new to me. Ironic really, as I was considering building an underwater fortress myself. Is the bug submitted on Mantis?

I wouldn't be surprised if someone took up the challenge of pillaging the fortress despite the problems you mentioned, so just upload it. I'll put a suitable warning in the fortress description on the front page.

I agree with Bralbaard; a flooded fortress sounds like quite an interesting place to explore. Too bad about the framerate issues though.

[Eric Blank]

I think it is known on the mantis. Or at least it should be, since it's been around for a LONG time.

I may well end up having to leave the fortress designed specifically to be flooded, and prevent the water from moving around as much as possible so it minimizes the hit to your FPS. It probably wont be 100% effective at stopping the water flow. Other ideas include draining it all away into the caverns, which would butcher your FPS, or setting up some elaborate means to set fires throughout the fortress to evaporate it away, which would butcher your FPS. Or ask really, really nicely for a proficient dfhack scripter to write a script which, like, removes all the water or some shit. Dfhack's liquids command, setting the entire map to 1/7 water would technically work but you'd probably have to reveal the map to do it and any empty spaces where water was floating in mid-air like the caverns would have to calculate paths down and flow around until they equalize, which would still hurt your FPS.



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I'm trying to upload the save at the moment. It may take a while, I suppose.

I did manage to increase the FPS upon visiting the site by sealing off most of the water outlets. It no longer threatens to burn down my rig, so hopefully nobody else will die of old age exploring.

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Here's the save: http://www.mediafire.com/download/bi6gfd5asfpr8kk/The+Museum+-+Turn+58c.7z

Let me know if anything goes horribly wrong.

[kesperan]

All I know is it had a flesh-based body, bled grey goo and shot fireballs and breathed fire. And is grey, presumably. It might have been a scorpion with tentacles.

Found one.. It's quite an exotic critter:

Euch... that is even ickier than a tentacled scorpion. Sounds quite challenging to draw.

And if Eric Blank has finished his for, I guess that makes it Th4DwArfY1's turn now, if he's finished his other game commitments.

[Bralbaard]

I hope I'll have some time to draw this weekend.

Here's the section of the map with the new fortress Frozenabbey, and indeed, Th4DwArfY1 is up next.

[kesperan]

That is certainly going to be a challenge to reach with a new adventurer!

[TD1]

Sorry, still busy. 

You wouldn't mind putting me one down on the waiting list?

[Bralbaard]

No problem.

I'll Check if atomic chicken has time, I only moved him down a few spots quite recently, so he might be busy as well.

[Atomic Chicken]

No problem.

I'll Check if atomic chicken has time, I only moved him down a few spots quite recently, so he might be busy as well.

I'm unfortunately still too busy for a turn at the moment. Could you move me down the list again?

[Bralbaard]

Done.
That makes it Strangemood's turn.

[StrangeMood]

Thanks, I'll try to do my turn the next couple of days! Deadline is Friday, right?

[Bralbaard]

You picked it up today? In that case you can play until the end of the weekend.

[StrangeMood]

You picked it up today? In that case you can play until the end of the weekend.

I'd appreciate time until the end of the weekend, yeah

[StrangeMood]

I won't be able to complete my turn this time due to RL issues. Can you skip me? Apologies! 

[Bralbaard]

Sorry to hear that, I enjoyed your last adventure, even if it was short.

Th4DwArfY1 and atomic chicken were to busy to play a few days ago, I guess that hasn't changed.
That makes it Timeless Bob's turn.

Strangemood, should I move you down the turn list like the others, or do you want to be removed from the list?

[Timeless Bob]

I have the save downloaded and will be beginning my turn today.  (Bit sooner than I was expecting, but that's a pleasant surprise in this game!)