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[nunix]

I'm sure I read something about a seed with a lot of rejects being a bad choice.. but I can't find it again, and I don't remember why it's bad to have a lot of rejects. Anyone able to clue me in on this?

[apache1990]

The bad part is the waiting.

[briktal]

They take longer, especially on lower end machines (to generate that is)

[ February 06, 2008: Message edited by: briktal ]

[Tamren]

Zero reject seeds are precious because people with low end machines can use them to generate no-fuss worlds. Highest rejects ive had so far was in the region of 71. Takes so long -_-.

[Gigalith]

I vaguely recall huge (i.e. in the hundreds) reject amounts back in the 2D version. I think. Were they really that high?

EDIT: I downloaded the very first version. It had 21 rejects before it froze. At the very least the old reject went high.

[ February 06, 2008: Message edited by: Gigalith ]

[DJ]

Last night I brought DF to a friend of mine to show him what's that game I've been talking about all the time. So he unzips the game and starts generating, and gets 140 rejects with a random seed. I barely stopped him from cancelling mid-generation as he was getting quite bored of waiting.

[Hakar]

Only 140? I had over 800 last night.

[The-Moon]

Ive yet to see more then 20

Also, i have a 1400mhz athlon and it never takes no more then 10 minutes max to generate a new map. Ive read stuff saying it takes hours to generate maps. But it hasen't for me yet.

[nunix]

Okay, so it's just a convenience thing. I thought I remembered something about high-reject worlds having a lot of difficulties and substandard/prime terrain/minerals.. but that could've been for an older version and no longer relevant, too. Okay, thanks!