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[tahujdt]

Toady, do you find public speaking daunting? Have you had much experience at it?

Toady, are you annoyed by all these unrelated questions?

[irdsm]

Toady, do you find public speaking daunting? Have you had much experience at it?

Toady, are you annoyed by all these unrelated questions?

Toady, Boxers or Briefs?

[Cruxador]

Toady, do you find public speaking daunting? Have you had much experience at it?

Toady, are you annoyed by all these unrelated questions?

Toady, Boxers or Briefs?

"Well right now we only have thongs in the game, he he he."

[tyrannus007]

People have talked about this in the last few pages, but I don't think it's been put in green yet, so...
In games like SimCity, you can set the simulation speed to slow, medium, fast, very fast, and so on. How feasible would a similar system for Fortress Mode be? Maybe the slowest speed could the same as adventure mode, while the fastest speed would be the same time scale we currently have (72x).

[Aseaheru]

Uh... dude? i think that question will be answered with "why might you want to do that?"
besides, its called saving and restart the world gen.

[PTTG??]

People have talked about this in the last few pages, but I don't think it's been put in green yet, so...
In games like SimCity, you can set the simulation speed to slow, medium, fast, very fast, and so on. How feasible would a similar system for Fortress Mode be? Maybe the slowest speed could the same as adventure mode, while the fastest speed would be the same time scale we currently have (72x).

Well, the main slowdown is pathing and unit movement. Unfortunately, those can't be sped up to 72x real speed, so dwarves just eat only once a month (or however often it is) and they only sleep a couple times a year for a few weeks each.

Basically, DF runs as fast as it can already. It can't go any faster. If we slow everything down, then nothing will get done because it'll take two days real-time for a dwarf to get from one end of the dining room table to the other.

Not that I don't like the idea. In fact, in ten years when computers are 100 times faster (that is, 6 or so cycles of moore's law), then it will be totally possible to do just that and we can have an in-game controller.

[Zavvnao]

In far future releases, can there be dreams about past lives when the world is more developed? Like the Scions in the Fireborn games or the book "Years of Rice and Salt?"

[Putnam]

That's waaaaaaaaay out there, and the answer is probably "maybe, yeah, but we're not thinking about that at the moment".

[thistleknot]

btw (answering the social questions on this page), toady did do a live interview to a college campus... can't find it right now.

[DG]

Toady, do you find public speaking daunting? Have you had much experience at it?

Toady, are you annoyed by all these unrelated questions?

btw (answering the social questions on this page), toady did do a live interview to a college campus... can't find it right now.

If you want to see Toady's speech, you can see the recorded stream here: http://www.twitch.tv/ccp/b/396300023. Skip to 5:21:30.

[Inarius]

Toady, can you speak a little about Scamp's diet ? Does he like dry cat food ?

It's just another unrelated question, but...it's about Scamps.

[mastahcheese]

Toady, can you speak a little about Scamp's diet ? Does he like dry cat food ?

It's just another unrelated question, but...it's about Scamps.

I think Scamps is a pretty cool cat, he burrows into box-springs and doesn't afraid of anything.

[Eric Blank]

I would be terrified that he'd lay between the springs and one of the support bars of the bed and end up getting squished when you sat on it. Cat's don't often have that much forethought, though.

[FearfulJesuit]

Scamps lives on a pure and wholesome diet of Electronic Arts employee meat.

[LordBaal]

Buagh... that must taste bad, specially if is executive meat. That is rotten even before the butcher.