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Wait for the next release. I want usable mugs damn it!

55 (71.4%)

We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

17 (22.1%)

I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

5 (6.5%)

Total Members Voted: 77

[Corai]

Splint was pleased with writing a story lately. He had a fine drink lately. He has been irritated by the sun lately. He madea satisfying aquisition lately. He stopped caring about continuity snarls recently. He has regained a small measure of sanity recently. He lost soldiers named after friends to tragedy recently. He suffered a savage mug-beating recently.

...

Corai has been pleased recently, he has seen pure win recently. He has taken joy in other's distaste. He has done insane things in PMs recently. He has done this wrong recently.

[Hanslanda]

... I'm somewhat less and somewhat more confused now.

[Mr Frog]

Okay, I'm all caught up with the stories and incidentally of the opinion that we desperately need to share our story notes with each other occasionally, in light of the fact that we seemingly, impossibly, have more distinct canons than authours :V

[Hanslanda]

Okay. I'll go first:

Story of Urist
Uh...
Start writing.
? ? ?
Profit.

Story of Hans
Start writing
? ? ?
Profit.

What are story notes?

[Mr Frog]

Better yet, who cares?

[Paintbrushturkey]

I waa getting animated corpses my framerate fluctuates between 50 and 37 dependign on how much shit is trying to kill other shit ;-) (mostly)

as to what i'm running
ASUS G73JH with a ATI Radeaon 5680 12 GB ram and an i7-740 ;-) shame df isn't written for multicore machines eh?

[Reudh]

It's not written for multicore machines because multicore machines didn't exist when this was first being written. What you can do is massively overclock one core to within an inch of its life and have a great cooling setup, and set DF's processor affinity to that core, and its priority to High.

That way you should get ~300 dwarves running at 70-100fps comfortably. It'd cost you money in electricity though!

[Mr Frog]

I'd like to add multithreading to the list of things that we please do not bring up.

[Paintbrushturkey]

TO LATE :-P
anyways revamping the smithing industry atm (have gotten 1 armorsmith to legendary he is busy banging out adamantine armor atm, much to fishers delight, i can see her zippign back and forth from the danger room to the forges and back lol, sorry splint but i think i'm buildign a backlog of enormous proportions (so far there are about 450 pieces of armor to be made, pray i don't get to the clothing industry before the year is up ;-), as it is you seem to have trouble approving the managers orders at the rate that i give them...) I think you can just sit back and enjoy my commands rattle through LOL although you may have to get someone to mine more ores....

[Splint]

Well my intended training force rework obviously will be unneeded (Desperate times and all, hence danger rooms. Ordinarily I'd be against them, but given our.... Circumstances I'll allow it.) BUt I'll take care of reequipping and reorganizing everything I must.

[Megaman3321]

as to what i'm running
ASUS G73JH with a ATI Radeaon 5680 12 GB ram and an i7-740 ;-) shame df isn't written for multicore machines eh?

I take solace in the probability that your i7 isn't a Sandy Bridge architecture Also, why are you running an ATI card while playing dwarf fortress? NVIDIA cards historically have had better OpenGL support.

You have 450 pieces if armor made? Jeez you work fast...

What are story notes?

Remember back in English Comp when you had to make outlines? Kinda like that.

[Hanslanda]

First letter from Urist to Baron *This word written here is illegible, smudged out by blood* 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

To our Great and Majestic Baron,
Your humble servant Urist Okablokum greets you from the border fortress of Spearbreakers. If you recall, I was sent here under your orders to die a horrible death assess the strategic situation here. After overcoming my horror arriving here, I realized that this task will take far more effort than I had realized. First of all, the defensive position of this fort changes nearly every other year. I've seen a new entrance put in and closed up, a perfectly good entryway ignored for no apparent reason, and the original entrance is apparently completely inoperable. That, sir, is just the entryways.
Most recently, they have begun a full scale mobilization of their military. I've seen dozens of dwarves training in the most improbable of places. Old mineshafts, the forges, personal bedrooms, by the original entrance, I even once saw them performing some kind of hideous massed combat excercise in the barracks. Their smiths have begun working nonstop, since about a week ago, they've churned out enough armor for twice as many dwarves as they have, with orders for far more on the way.
I've found the dwarves that reside here to be the most disturbing interesting part of my mission. It seems that almost all of them are batshit insane have peculiar eccentricities that in no way interfere with their prowess at their jobs. In fact, these eccentricities often help them perform their obligations. Another odd thing I have noticed is the massive amount of mugs. They're everywhere. I don't mean there are a bunch in the dining room. I mean they are literally everywhere. I've found mugs in places no mug should ever go. If you send a return letter, I recommend you request they either start exporting the mugs faster or start making fewer of them.
In closing, I will require as little as two more months, and as much as a whole year to finish my mission here. It is my hopes that the caravan master reaches you safely to deliver this letter.

Sincerely,
Urist Okablokum

What are story notes?

Remember back in English Comp when you had to make outlines? Kinda like that.

I was joking. I know what story notes are. I just don't have any for this stuff.

[Megaman3321]

Ah okay


And what's wrong with our mugs? I like our mugs

[Hanslanda]

To Urist, pretty much the fact that the mugs are approaching critical mass is what's wrong with them.

[Splint]

I think that's everyone who survives to make it here's reactiopn: WHY ARE THERE SO FUCKING MANY MUGS!?