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Uthric

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Why are we still confined to are embark area in fortress mode but can move
« on: November 30, 2011, 01:39:06 am »
Why are we still confined to are embark area in fortress mode but can move freely in adventurer mode?

i was playing a adventurer going back to one of my old forts and it kinda hit me, what makes fort mode lag so bad yet doesn't affect adventurer mode?


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Re: Why are we still confined to are embark area in fortress mode but can move
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2011, 01:44:38 am »
Adventure mode is turn-based, so lag would be less noticeable. Also your adventurer doesn't have two hundred followers pathing to pretty much everything.
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Re: Why are we still confined to are embark area in fortress mode but can move
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2011, 01:47:17 am »
that would be the one thing i forgot...
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Re: Why are we still confined to are embark area in fortress mode but can move
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 03:46:28 am »
And in adventurer mode the player can't explore the underground as he does in Dwarf mode.
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Re: Why are we still confined to are embark area in fortress mode but can move
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2011, 10:55:37 am »
Quote from: peskyninja on November 30, 2011, 03:46:28 am
And in adventurer mode the player can't explore the underground as he does in Dwarf mode.

Digging no, exploring yes: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Cavern#Adventurer_Mode
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Re: Why are we still confined to are embark area in fortress mode but can move
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2011, 03:08:46 pm »
Lag is even an issue in Adventure Mode. Toady has mentioned needing to handle the cities in new ways for this reason. I assume a lot of the NPCs will be abstracted rather than having the whole lot pathfinding tile at a time all the time.
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Re: Why are we still confined to are embark area in fortress mode but can move
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2011, 04:02:42 pm »
While I love the idea of a "pathfinder" job that would travel semi-randomly to other places, revealing stuff, I dont think it would be worth the lag of dealing with other places.
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