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Author Topic: TEMPERATURE should be removed  (Read 802 times)

rlbond86

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TEMPERATURE should be removed
« on: June 27, 2010, 07:02:06 pm »
The current temperature system is slow, complex, and unnecessary. It's not worth the drop in FPS for what has such a small effect. Magma should be "hot", tiles adjacent to magma should be "warm", and everything else should be "normal." I suggest the current system be removed due to its negative effect on the game.
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Re: TEMPERATURE should be removed
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2010, 07:03:07 pm »
Or you can just turn it off.

Edit:  To be sure, this is a less polished repost of the "Temperature should be abstracted' thread that you just posted in, only less genuine because it's ridiculous unlikely Toady's just going to flat out remove the temperature system from the game.  There's no real need for both threads.
« Last Edit: June 27, 2010, 07:05:54 pm by Capntastic »
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Re: TEMPERATURE should be removed
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2010, 10:58:09 pm »
Besides, quite a few people like the full temperature system.
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Re: TEMPERATURE should be removed
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2010, 01:34:16 am »
The temperature system is great, allowing complex death traps like the infamous cryo-trap, encasing entire sieges or caravans in ice instantly.

The problem with the temperature system is that it is horribly resource intensive, and as DF is only a single core game you only have about 3ghz to go around.

The game just needs a lot of optimization, everything from temperature to pathfinding. Until that happens FPS will continue to doom more forts that goblins, magma, tantrum spirals, and HFS combined.
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