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jak9090

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1050 year history.
« on: March 08, 2012, 01:30:58 am »
Has anyone managed to get a 550 year history, let alone a 1050 year history?, my comp can't handle much more then 250 years it seems, I left my computer on overnight generating 1050 years, and when I woke up it was at 291 :/, so yeah...total DF noob here btw.
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2012, 01:33:35 am »
You can try genning smaller worlds, but yeah, genning long histories is going to wreck your compy in this version.
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2012, 01:34:04 am »
I did manage to get a smaller world to 1050, barely.
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jak9090

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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2012, 01:43:26 am »
I've only ever done a large map lol...i'll try gen a medium sized one with 550 years, thanks for the help guys.
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2012, 03:35:03 am »
In a small region I can gen for as long as I want. :) Added lots of megabeasts and set the parimeters high the last time I genned. Imagine my disappointment when it stopped on 300 because titans were felled like wheat.
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2012, 04:02:52 am »
On a medium world I got to the late 200s before my comp started to lock up.
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2012, 04:30:15 am »
I've had a 2000 year history with megabeast spam and few civs on a tiny world, when trying to breed dragons.
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2012, 06:50:02 am »
I decided to see how far into the 10000 year maximum I could get overnight on a large map. I was at 5000ish when I last checked, I went to sleep and found it had crashed in the night. Amazingly, on my aged laptop I was ticking over a year every few seconds.
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2012, 07:06:28 am »
I finally got my main laptop back, it's an UX31.

I think it's maybe the SSD hard disk (also one of the main reasons to buy it), but with this I can easily generate even large worlds to 1050. It takes like maybe 20-30 minutes for a medium region and runs in the background no problem.

Edit: genned a standard large region to 1050 as an experiment. It was started right after posting and finished at the time of the edit, in approximately 30 minutes.
« Last Edit: March 08, 2012, 07:37:41 am by Hotaru »
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2012, 07:38:49 am »
slightly OT here, ive searched but yet to find a reasonable answer:

What are the main effects of having a longer vs. shorter history. Benefits and drawbacks, major differences, etc..   Obviously a longer history takes up more ram.
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2012, 07:40:08 am »
Most of the edium world, i could try a small worldtime my horrible comp locks up at 215 around on a large world before slowing down, and iv gotten to around 300 on a medium.
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2012, 07:59:10 am »
My worlds can barely get to 250 on medium now...T-T
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2012, 08:15:57 am »
Before 34_02 I could hardly get 300-350 years generated (medium/large).
At the current version (I got 34_04 and noticed a new one released) I can actually generate 1050 years for a large region in about 30-40 mins?

The different version of Dwarf Fortress gave me about 500-800% increase of performance (atleast the generation part).

My generated worlds are a bit more evil, more beasts, more civilizations and everything, so probably need more resources than a default region choice.
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Re: 1050 year history.
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2012, 08:36:11 am »
With 65x65 (or smaller) I can get history any lenght I want in, like, ten minutes. I haven't ever tried to generate long history to bigger worlds.
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