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[King Mir]

Right now it seems no one is able to generate even a medium-sized world with a history longer than ~400 years or so.  The memory usage tops out and the game freezes or crashes.  Do you think that this is an issue that requires better optimization of code, or do you think it can be dealt with by changing the way save files work?  Is it something you can or want to address directly, or do you need development in other areas to progress before you can tackle this?

if you have the RAM for it look up DFLAA it allows dwarf fortress to use more RAM. does not help fps much but prevents crashes.

You don't actually need more RAM to benefit from DFLAA. It will work and prevent 2Gb limit crashes on all systems. If DF uses more memory than you physically have, then it will run slow, however.

[Untelligent]

It's also possible that he'll just get a basic easily expandable framework in place, and then add things like temple worship to that framework when he adds temples, for example.

We already have temples.

[bombzero]

so why is everyone complaining about realistic bar requirements?

personally, it sets off every part of the realism obbsesed sections of my mind when i see that breastplates and mail shirts are one bar.

(also have fun with clogging halls with serrated discs‼)

[Areyar]

so why is everyone complaining about realistic bar requirements?

personally, it sets off every part of the realism obbsesed sections of my mind when i see that breastplates and mail shirts are one bar.

(also have fun with clogging halls with serrated discs‼)

Oh please!
1 piece of stone is used for a trinket like a mug, but is also enough to carve a mansized statue from or build say a metre section of wall. Reality in quantity is not really an issue in materials yet, even if material qualities are very much detailed.

[Cruxador]

It's also possible that he'll just get a basic easily expandable framework in place, and then add things like temple worship to that framework when he adds temples, for example.

We already have temples.

Yeah, but only as physical locations. I guess making people go hang out there for a while wouldn't be too hard, but then it would lead to more religion development and add up with other things and before you know it the release is taking a year again.

[O11O1]

so why is everyone complaining about realistic bar requirements?

personally, it sets off every part of the realism obbsesed sections of my mind when i see that breastplates and mail shirts are one bar.

(also have fun with clogging halls with serrated discs‼)

Oh please!
1 piece of stone is used for a trinket like a mug, but is also enough to carve a mansized statue from or build say a metre section of wall. Reality in quantity is not really an issue in materials yet, even if material qualities are very much detailed.

Quiet, or else toady will make our masons use more stone!

Wait, we got too much of that stone stuff anyway.

[bombzero]

so why is everyone complaining about realistic bar requirements?

personally, it sets off every part of the realism obbsesed sections of my mind when i see that breastplates and mail shirts are one bar.

(also have fun with clogging halls with serrated discs‼)

Oh please!
1 piece of stone is used for a trinket like a mug, but is also enough to carve a mansized statue from or build say a metre section of wall. Reality in quantity is not really an issue in materials yet, even if material qualities are very much detailed.

Quiet, or else toady will make our masons use more stone!

Wait, we got too much of that stone stuff anyway.

thats actually a good point.

although walls/floors should only take 1 stone anyway. fuck realism there, takes too long to build walls as is 

[CaptainArchmage]

I think I've gotten a potential source for the worldgen crashes. Whilst genning a Large world with maxed out everything, I was getting a year progression of around 1 year per second or two. The worldgen was set to run for 200 years. It kept on advancing at that rate until year 174, when DF crashed because of some leaks in some NSCFArray, NSCFNumber, NSCFDictionary, and SDLQuartzWindow and a bus error.

I tried worldgen again with a different random seed and fewer caves, and the progression was a little slower. It also crashed after reaching around 120 years or so with a similar error. So far I've only run three worldgens in DF2012. The first was successful, but in 0.34.01 and the worldgen only ran up to 100 years.

Running worldgen a third time was successful. It achieved a similar progression rate through years, but only went up to 100 years.

I've run four worldgens in DF2012, with the first one in 0.34.01 successful. It seems like any worldgen beyond 100 years is likely to result in crashes from these leaks. The other three were in 0.34.02, as documented.

For the 0.34.02 worldgens, minor personal mods were used.

[Andrew425]

While I love the fact that families are coming to my fort do you think you will reduce the amount of children that come every wave?

My first spring wave I got 38 children.

I now have 50 children out of 90 dwarfs.

[runiq]

While I love the fact that families are coming to my fort do you think you will reduce the amount of children that come every wave?

You can do that yourself. See <df_folder>/init/d_init.txt.

[EmperorJon]

I think the baby/child cap is for pregnancies not migration, so that won't work.
Personally I really like the new migrants, the only issue I see with them is that everyone has low skills. I think this is mainly because people die a lot in world gen... and the economy seems to fail too, so your dwarves aren't too skilled.
Once that's sorted out it'll be nice to see the higher skilled dwarves arriving later on.
I can imagine the fort going through realistic waves; the first 7, skilled enough to do what needs to be done and determined to survive, then the rush of low-skilled migrants and poor families looking for a new life, then once your fort becomes more and more famous and prosperous, more and more important and highly skilled people arrive.

[mctribble]

Does vampire feeding pose any actual threat to the victim in adventure mode?  I tried to feed on an unconscious bandit as a combat technique, but after five or six times decided it didn't seem to be doing anything.

edit: and since you're probably reading this anyway, this is a great place to point out that DF is quite possibly the best game ever made, despite its status as being buggy and incomplete.

[O11O1]

What I have noticed about the new migration waves is that while people may have low economic skills, there are a lot more people rolling around with 'Competent' and 'Adequate' in the military skills, armor user and speardwarf and such. I kinda like having the slight kick start to my military.

Which reminds me, is the phenominon of miners and woodcutters dropping their weapon once drafted at all intended behavior? It seems to me that if I need a soldier -right now-, or if I'm still really new to the game, that I would select the semi-combat folks to my military (miner, woodcutter, hunters) and expect them to already have their weapons.

Just as a related suggestion, when I draft dwarves with marksmen skills, it'd be nice if it auto-added crossbow to their equipment list upon assignment, though still let you drop that after drafting. Or perhaps via an init option.

[Footkerchief]

Which reminds me, is the phenominon of miners and woodcutters dropping their weapon once drafted at all intended behavior? It seems to me that if I need a soldier -right now-, or if I'm still really new to the game, that I would select the semi-combat folks to my military (miner, woodcutter, hunters) and expect them to already have their weapons.

Just as a related suggestion, when I draft dwarves with marksmen skills, it'd be nice if it auto-added crossbow to their equipment list upon assignment, though still let you drop that after drafting. Or perhaps via an init option.

Here's the report for that bug.

[MagmaSolutionsInc]

I guess it was because of people who named their chars Rape Raperape The Rape of Rape.

That doesn't really give a good image of the game for random bystanders 

Ok, I'm sorry about that. but it was funny at the time!