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Micro102

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Amount of tiles in large world map
« on: November 13, 2009, 11:23:00 pm »
Got bored and so here is a fun fact for all of you who don't know. In the largest map on dwarf fortress, including z-levels, a world map has 15582914150400 (15 trillion) tiles.

Have fun exploring!
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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2009, 08:55:01 am »
Wow. that's a lot of tiles.
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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2009, 02:31:22 am »
If DF didn't use deterministic procedural mechanics to remember what each tile was, it'd take over 14 tebibytes (terabytes on the 1024 scale) per byte per tile to store on your hard drive.
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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2009, 02:50:37 am »
Sweet purring maggot! That is a lot! The math nerd in me feels soooo satiated now.
« Last Edit: November 25, 2009, 03:45:45 am by igdfilm »
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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2009, 06:29:28 pm »
If it didint use those deterministic mechanics....how fast would it be?
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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2009, 06:37:36 pm »
the mind simply boggles.  That's so enormous....incredible. 
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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2009, 06:38:55 pm »
Quote from: Micro102 on November 25, 2009, 06:29:28 pm
If it didint use those deterministic mechanics....how fast would it be?

Incredibly slow; it would have to find each tile i those 14 terabytes; no mean feat.
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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2009, 06:42:47 pm »
bleh it sounded like a win lose situation.
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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2009, 06:50:05 pm »
In terms of area (not counting multi-z) it's about as big as that other DF, Daggerfall.
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Micro102

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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2009, 07:18:01 pm »
Bleh Daggerfall's randomnism was poorly done.
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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2009, 04:08:24 am »
Quote from: Micro102 on November 25, 2009, 06:29:28 pm
If it didint use those deterministic mechanics....how fast would it be?

Imagine your adventurer has no skills and is lugging around a hundred anvils, with one severed leg.

About that fast.
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Re: Amount of tiles in large world map
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2009, 10:42:06 pm »
Quote from: Count Dorku on November 26, 2009, 04:08:24 am
Quote from: Micro102 on November 25, 2009, 06:29:28 pm
If it didint use those deterministic mechanics....how fast would it be?

Imagine your adventurer has no skills and is lugging around a hundred anvils, with one severed leg.

About that fast.

Why is he lugging around a hundred anvils.... oh wait he's a dwarf. Nevermind.
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