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[Dunamisdeos]

So I'm going to build this fortress that can comfortably house and fully support 1000 dwarves. At least thats the current benchmark goal, Maybe we will up the popcap after it hits 1k. Highest i've gotten was 500 with 20-30 fps. Unnessessary animal life is destroyed. I'm pretty sure I've got the logistics handled, but does anyone have any advice on huge megaforts?

Another requirement is that I can't just think about functionality alone. I need aesthetically pleasing fortress design. Also, practical megaprojects must be involved.

Right now, the main defenses are currently under construction. It consists of a 15z high, 56x48 area carved out of the side a mountain, with a long bridge at the bottom of a ravine over a river as the main entrance, which is behind a waterfall. It features an effective cave crocodile-deployment system, which drops 30 angry reptiles directly onto an invading force. Does anyone else have any fantastical, but ultimately doable and possibly (probably?) practical mechanisms of defense to add to this beast?

Current Features:

5 Crossbow squad posts behind fortifications
Death-Drop-Pit (retractable bridge by lever)
3 sets of Serrated Blade traps interspaced along bridge, 5 traps of 10 blades per set.
CCD system (Cave Crocodile Deployment System)
Barracks, Dining room, food storage for soldiers.
One Ballista Battery, 5 wide.
Main and Secondary Controlrooms.

[SRD]

You will never reach 1000.

[Black_Legion]

You will never reach 1000.

[POP_CAP:1000] and NO invasions should falsify this statement... a !true if you will.

[miauw62]

Dont atomsmash, dont caravan.
These remove quite some fps from your forts, because items carried from the map/atomsmashed are still loaded in memory, for some mysterious reason, thus decreasing fps.
You better mod in some 'destroy 20 stones' reaction.

[Dunamisdeos]

Yea i've got the population cap all set, and i've got invasions ON. I mean, there's no accomplishment to it if I... how do you say... stack the odds in my favor? The real end goal here is to upload this massive complex for adventure mode play.

As you can see, however, I have sicknasty automated defense systems. This should greatly decrease the number of dwarves killed by said invasions. I've even tested fate by mining out a bit of candy.

But EVERY FPS SAVING TRICK IN THE BOOK will be required. So you're saying that every caravan takes a permanent bit from FPS?! I did not know this. Is there a way to counteract this without turning off caravans?

[SRD]

FPS death I mean, he won't reach 1000 before his computer shits itself and wraps its dick into a knot.

[Dunamisdeos]

My computer can do that thing you just said to your computer any day of the week.

Will dumping things into magma completely remove them from memory?

[miauw62]

Yea i've got the population cap all set, and i've got invasions ON. I mean, there's no accomplishment to it if I... how do you say... stack the odds in my favor? The real end goal here is to upload this massive complex for adventure mode play.

As you can see, however, I have sicknasty automated defense systems. This should greatly decrease the number of dwarves killed by said invasions. I've even tested fate by mining out a bit of candy.

But EVERY FPS SAVING TRICK IN THE BOOK will be required. So you're saying that every caravan takes a permanent bit from FPS?! I did not know this. Is there a way to counteract this without turning off caravans?

You could buy everything, but they would still take stuff away.
Its not 100% confirmed, but in the operatoin FPS bomb thread, atomsmashing and carvans taking stuff from the map took away fps.
You should read it.
To above, im not entirely sure, i didnt do it.

[arphen]

Dont atomsmash, dont caravan.
These remove quite some fps from your forts, because items carried from the map/atomsmashed are still loaded in memory, for some mysterious reason, thus decreasing fps.
You better mod in some 'destroy 20 stones' reaction.

Atomsmashing should definitely be safe, as should custom reactions that destroy objects with no products, and I'm still running tests on vaporizing, but they should be safe if you do that, but just melting (instead of vaporizing) leaves items in memory as a lump of melted goo.

If you dash out advice please read up first.

[Loud Whispers]

So turning off trade should help with this? Or just not trading?

[Dunamisdeos]

nono, that's fine. I'm not as familiar with the various stickies as I should be, please continue referring me to other threads. I'll check this out,m thanks for the advice. please keep it coming =)

[Vanaheimer]

Mod out unnecessary clothes, extraneous trees, that sort of thing. Helps a LOT. Or just do it on Masterwork, where all of those things are a click away :lol: