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[TheChosen]

Great. There goes my productivity for the next few days.

[Kipi]

Goodbye life, see you in March!

[Julien Brightside]

Necromancers can write books?
Are the books random generated on topic? So you can end up with necromancers writing about botany or small woodland critters?

[Footkerchief]

Wait, did you add KNEES!?
The flying copper arrow strikes you in the left knee, tearing the muscle! It has lodged firmly in the wound!
Urist McDragonborn has become a Guard.
Also, slain colossi now turn not only into themselves statues?

Knees (and elbows) have been in the game at least since 31.01, but I don't think you could hit them in combat before now.  Maybe relsize tweaks or something?

Do you mean that bronze colossuses turn into statues of random historical figures etc?  That bug has been in since 31.01.

[Jotwebe]

A new df on valentines day? Toady shall be known as Ömzanor, or crusher of hearts in the common language.

Awesome, of course.

[FearfulJesuit]

A wild Skyrim reference has appeared! Beware its...


...Wait, I just mixed up Pokémon and Forgotten Beasts....


Anyway, Armok bless you, Toady. Armok bless you.

[Orkel]

Worldgen is several times slower than before. Must be all the cities and tracking every object in the world and whatnot. Genning year 304 atm, takes about 30 seconds per year and slower the further it goes - glad I capped it at 350.

[dwarfhoplite]

aawsome! I'm having a week off right now....

[TicklemeFeather]

Thanks toady for all the hard work.

[Starver]

Worldgen is several times slower than before. Must be all the cities and tracking every object in the world and whatnot. Genning year 304 atm, takes about 30 seconds per year and slower the further it goes - glad I capped it at 350.

Well, so far my first worldgen is... not sure...  On year 230-odd of (I think) 250 years[1].  Whatever, I chose the middle-ground option in each line of the table... except for having the largest worldsize.  (Yeah, that might do it.)

Also, am running this on a Vista laptop with only 2GB of RAM, as opposed to my usual XP Desktop with a quite sufficient 1GB of RAM, so I can blame the machine spec as well.


However, as I can't really play it yet (am at work), that's not an issue.  And I can try it out on the better machine when I get home.  (Or utlise one of the many other machines, like this one, under my control, but this particular one is running a complex Perl script, which I don't want to abort...)

Still, the fact that it exists is news to be happy about[2].  And if .34.02 comes out before I get .01 working, no loss!

(Toady, I'm sure you don't need another "thank you" from li'l ol' me, but the sentiment is there if you do feel like having it.)


[1] I don't usually use the "tabular" worldgen starter, and usually use the more customisable one, which would send me usually all the way to year 1050.

[2] Save for the fate of my .31 fort which I was about to go back to after longer time than I had planned being unplayed.

[Toady One]

I'm glad people are mostly enjoying the game so far!  Yeah, world gen is slower.  I can still squeeze something out of it.  It's mostly the goods being shuffled around and processed as far as I can tell.  That mosquito thing is definitely a bug.  I haven't looked into it yet, but if they are the only creature acting up you can just delete them from your "raw/objects/creature_bug_slug_new.txt" until I sort it out.

Toady: Will the next release also be a year off, or will we get back to more common releases again for a while?

There should be several bug fix releases, with the first being in some days.  After we do that for a while, I'm not sure how things will work out.

Will the fortress mode that filled the map with refused dead parts and skeletons change this worldmap square to evil?

He he he, it probably should, but nothing happens.

Toady, you are awesome.

Also, by 0.34, can we assume the game has 1/3 of all the content you want to have in the full version?

Something like that.  But if we get to 1.0, I doubt that would be the end of it.


I'm going to bed now for a bit.  If the forum dies (it was being a little iffy earlier), I should have it turned on again in my afternoon.

[yamamushi]

Currently at around 5 hours of a 550 year very large worldgen, sitting at year 253 at the time of me writing this post. I'm running that worldgen on a MacBook (OSX Lion) with a 2.4ghz processor and 8gb of ram.

On another laptop, at about 30 minutes into worldgen, same world params. Year 208, though it's getting slower as it climbs past 200. That laptop has a Core i7 2.8ghz (~give or take a few) with 12gb of ram running Windows 7 64bit.

I'm going to leave the two running and hopefully one of them will be finished by the end of the day without the problems people have been reporting with new worlds loading.

Thanks Toady!!!!


Edit: Both worldgens crashed at around year 270. Couldn't wait any longer, lowered max year to 250 so I could get in and start playing. I'm interested to see what it would take to get a max everything worldgen to finish.

[Neyvn]

Awww... World Gen speed not increased for me... Oh well...

OOOOOOOOooooohhhhhhh... A TOWER!!! It shows up on the civ in around 10 tile radius around it. So building my FIRST FORT right next to it...

[Rose]

http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-28820-waterfallofdoom

river and river valley seem to be... disjointed.

[Siquo]

Ah, now I know what happened that killed my first tryout: Adventure mode took 100% cpu, the current ubuntu version on this laptop has a bug in the drivers for this cpu, and the whole thing overheated and then clocked down significantly, making it unplayable.
I still think having a sleeping gameloop for adventure mode instead of a while(true) {getkey();} construction would be a major improvement.

OTOH, the game itself is totally awesome so far (I don't want to appear ungrateful or whining! I love it!)