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Gnomeknows

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Calender Updates
« on: July 07, 2014, 11:18:51 pm »
No clue where to post, since I'm not sure this is a bug yet,  but:

I started a fortress, it updated from the 1st of granite to two weeks ahead, as Toady said it would.  Now it said "updating world".  Then I abandoned the fortress, and started an adventure game in the same world.  It started updating from the 1st of granite to two weeks ahead.  I'm confused, I thought abandoned fortresses are just "retired" now.

But from what I see, it's erasing the world update all together.  That, or you have to save the fortress to also save the world update?
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Re: Calender Updates
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2014, 11:47:46 pm »
To my knowledge, "abandoning" and "retiring" are both in the new version as distinct things, "abandoning" being what it always has been and "retiring" being to leave the fort in AI controll but still a real, active fort and not a ruin.

I can't speak to calendar oddities, on the other hand.
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Re: Calender Updates
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2014, 12:23:07 am »
Could it be this new feature?
Quote from: Toady One on July 07, 2014, 07:59:51 pm
   (*) The game advances two weeks before each play -- the calendar there still moves slowly when there's a lot of action, as there is in larger worlds, but there are quite a few things I can do soon to speed that up.  Due to the speed of the calendar, new forts in particular also get just two weeks.  This'll probably cause some shenanigans with the caravan (or you'll just have to wait a year in an autumn fort for your first one) until we sort it out.
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Re: Calender Updates
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2014, 01:07:26 pm »
Yeah. Calendar went like this
1st -> start fortress and advance two weeks -> retire/abandon fortress -> start new adventurer game and advance two weeks
Which matches what Toady said.
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Re: Calender Updates
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2014, 07:57:30 pm »
His point is not that it's updating again, it's that it's doing the same update over the same period of time it did originally.

1: Started Fortress, game went from 1st Granite to 15th Granite.

2: Ditched fort, started adventure mode.

Expected behavior: Game advances from 15th Granite to 30th Granite.

Actual Behavior: Game redoes the advance from 1st Granite to 15th Granite.

My guess is that abandoning is different from retiring, like the earlier poster said.
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Re: Calender Updates
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2014, 12:49:45 pm »
Forgive me if I'm wrong here, but aren't there building requirements or something else you have to meet before "abandon fortress" becomes "retire fortress?"   I swear I read that somewhere in a FotF reply or something.

Meh I couldn't find anything about requirements by searching.  It doesn't really address OP's problem anyway.
« Last Edit: July 09, 2014, 01:00:23 pm by Legorara »
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