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[wierd]

You mean AMD drivers.

ATI was bought up by AMD some time ago, and they no longer really call any of their offerings ATI anymore.

Otherwise, I agree though. Their windows drivers are horrible. Seriously, why do they use a kludge like .net to write their drivers!? Can't thy just use the win32api, and the microsoft C compiler?! Their code would run much faster, and use far fewer dependencies, and as such, be much leaner and less prone to having issues.

But noooooo. They drank the .net koolaid, and now their drivers suck balls.

Don't even get me started on the way they handle their driver packs.

My latest home build is an intel i7 with a sexy nVidia PCIe 16x in it. Works great.

[Whackjob]

Well, most of the problems seem to be behind me.  I am now educating myself on one thing at a time.

Right now, I'm focusing on the agricultural arts.  I need yet learn many things.  What's an efficient way of setting up the food processing and production lines?  Should I just build, in example, 3 still stations, and then put a single plant pile there, and trigger it for everything?  Separate piles for each plant?  There are some plants I want to both mill and brew, in example.  How can I ensure both stations get an equal ration of the plant?  Is it worthwhile to heavily process foods?  I know it adds to the value, but do the dwarves even care?  Do they distinguish between a crushed mouse corpse and a luxury meal made from fine flour, milk, eggs, and whiskey?

[Loud Whispers]

Eh, if you turn down finely minced mouse brain prepared by the best cooks in the world you don't have good taste in food.

[Whackjob]

Heh.  Probably!

Still trying to get a handle on an effective military.  I had one recent round (yesterday?) where I had a six man squad up in the second year, encased and equipped with iron armor and weapons, had them training, and sent them out to confront a goblin ambush.

I lost every single one.   My militaries stink for some reason.

[Loud Whispers]

Heh.  Probably!

And that was coming from someone who doesn't have good taste in food

Still trying to get a handle on an effective military.  I had one recent round (yesterday?) where I had a six man squad up in the second year, encased and equipped with iron armor and weapons, had them training, and sent them out to confront a goblin ambush.

I lost every single one.   My militaries stink for some reason.

Need more than six Dwarves with a year of training to call it a military. Have a good core of conscripts, large number of them too. Either through extended training or through the fires of war, eventually they'll all become first rate soldiers. If it worked for the Sumerians, it'll work for your Dwarves.

[Whackjob]

My main issue is I don't like to cut corners.  So no falling seed traps or danger rooms.  Even if it means I gotta figure out other ways of impaling cats and infants.

[Loud Whispers]

By training I meant actual training, through demonstrations, sparring and live combat.

[Whackjob]

I once embarked on a place that had easy access to lignite, chalk, and iron ore.  I made tons of steel.  In year two I had a squad of six encased in steel, and a simple goblin ambush  destroyed them all.

I think perhaps my problem is I generate too much wealth too quickly, thus bringing in worse foes.  Is this a thing that happens?  Should I stick to living and eating dirt until I have stronger defenses?   

[Loud Whispers]

A squad of six Dwarves is just six Dwarves in fancy armour. Now, fifty Dwarves in fancy armour...

[Dorflord]

Is it worthwhile to heavily process foods?  I know it adds to the value, but do the dwarves even care?  Do they distinguish between a crushed mouse corpse and a luxury meal made from fine flour, milk, eggs, and whiskey?

In addition to the added value, if a dwarf eats a prepared meal with one ingredient that they prefer to consume (Check the status screen) they will get the "has had a wonderful/fantastic/other adjective meal lately. This is a nice way to improve the odds that the meal your dwarf chooses to eat (the closest item in absolute distance[ignoring walls etc.]) will be a meal that gives them a happy thought. For this reason, I like to ensure that my fortresses produce or import as many varieties of food as possible and set everything to cookable (except seeds) in the kitchen menu. Beware that cooked plants yield no seeds, so I usually keep 50 or so seeds of types I grow forbidden. I also forbid the cooking of any booze, as many a fort in my control has fallen from Urist Ramsey churning out *Quarry Leaf Roasts* made with swamp whiskey. Whiskey, whiskey, everywhere and not a drop to drink.

[Whackjob]

Something else I wonder about:  Crossbow weapon traps.  Do they fire bolts, or are the crossbows simply swung about in club fashion?  If they DO shoot, can they target and hit creatures not normally vulnerable to traps?  Like forgotten beasts?

[Loud Whispers]

Oh the shoot. They shoot good. Though they won't hit fbs unless the trap is webbed. Even then, webbers'll get through.

[Whackjob]

fbs?  Also, do they shoot at things a few squares away from the trap?  Or just what stands on the trap?

[Loud Whispers]

1. Forgotten beasts [usually FBs but I forgot]
2. Just on the tile.

[Whackjob]

If I wound a Forgotten Beast via some other method, they could still be hit by traps then, correct?  Like if they collapse on one?  I just want to verify that they aren't completely immune.  And if they ARE, is it that the weapons fire, but do no damage, or that the Forgotten Beasts is so Forgotten that the trap Forgets to fire?