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Cruxador

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Re: This is insane.
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2010, 12:13:38 pm »

I'd like to imagine that he built this without turning off the invasions or otherwise modifying the game.

"Urist, quick, grab your ax! There's a troll rampaging through the decimal conversion chambers!"
I doubt it... The folks who do the truly awesome megaprojects tend to disable fun stuff.
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Hyndis

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« Reply #16 on: July 04, 2010, 12:20:44 pm »

I always turn off invasions when I want to build something that big as well. Invasions just get in the way and become an annoyance.

For some fortresses I enjoy building elaborate deathtraps and want endless goblin hordes. For other maps peace and quiet is much more enjoyable.
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Beeskee

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« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2010, 12:44:39 pm »

THIS IS MADNESS!
THIS IS DWARF FORTRESS!

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Dagoth Urist

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« Reply #18 on: July 04, 2010, 01:36:18 pm »

But what would happen if you'd divide by zero? ... OSHI-!

No, seriously. What would actually happen? :S
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« Reply #19 on: July 04, 2010, 01:43:36 pm »

THIS IS MADNESS!
NO! this is A FEY MOOD!http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/Smileys/aaron/grin.gif
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Orkel

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« Reply #20 on: July 04, 2010, 01:58:48 pm »

But what would happen if you'd divide by zero? ... OSHI-!

No, seriously. What would actually happen? :S

I want to know aswell.
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Re: This is insane.
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2010, 02:03:42 pm »

In pours the magma, I would expect.
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« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2010, 02:42:28 pm »

But what would happen if you'd divide by zero? ... OSHI-!

No, seriously. What would actually happen? :S

I want to know aswell.
I'm DLing the fort now to test...
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Onyx3173

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« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2010, 02:46:17 pm »

Jeez, I wasn't expecting anywhere near this many responses...
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Re: This is insane.
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2010, 02:48:30 pm »

I'd seen this before, but this is the first time I actually looked at the machinery for the calculations.

W. O. W.  :o
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« Reply #25 on: July 04, 2010, 03:38:53 pm »

But what would happen if you'd divide by zero? ... OSHI-!

No, seriously. What would actually happen? :S

I want to know aswell.
I'm DLing the fort now to test...

It seems that dividing 999 by 0 = b00bs...
I am confirming whether that is true with other numbers...
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Rafal99

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« Reply #26 on: July 04, 2010, 04:12:37 pm »

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/User:Jong

I like how tightly packed the machinery is in this one.
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Re: This is insane.
« Reply #27 on: July 04, 2010, 05:50:15 pm »

People have made programmable computing engines, too.

http://www.geekosystem.com/dwarf-fortress-turing-machine-computer/
...There are no words for how impressive this it. None. I mean, he built a giant 100+ z-level tower that would qualify as a mega project on it's own on top of the thing. And there's an actual fort in there too, not just the computer.
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« Reply #28 on: July 04, 2010, 06:01:03 pm »

What he's done is he's taken a partially finished game, and using that he has Built a computer within a computer. As you said, it's beyond the scale of any other megaproject I've seen.
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Cruxador

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« Reply #29 on: July 04, 2010, 06:42:01 pm »

As for the rest of us, there's only one thing we can do. Use the designs he designed, and build a better computer, bigger, and constructed all with sieges enabled and the underground breached.
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