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Dfhack r5 / Stonesense Overlay

More Graphic Item tiles (tools, toys, crafts, hardcoded tiles)

Bugfixes / Balancing

Warlock Update

[Mithril Leaf]

A vanilla dwarf fort can mine straight down and get adamantine in the first year. There is no progression in this game.

Its quite hard to mod, too. It can be done now with Roses upgrade scripts, which adds upgrades, counters and timers... so if I do start to use that a lot, I could make a race with such a clear progression, most likely that insect race, or something similar. But not dwarves, nor humans I am working on atm will get it.

I personally would be very pleased with such a progression in the insect race, it was one of the most appealing things to me about (I believe) LFR's research system. I might be thinking of old Genesis though.

[greycat]

LFR is the one I was thinking of, specifically.  I haven't looked at Genesis in a very long time, but I don't think it really had "research" as such.

[omniclasm]

"Progression" would only have a place if forts didn't die to FPS after 6 years. Finally getting something fancy then waiting several hours at 20 fps before a siege is hella boring.

There's also the fact that skill level is more important than anything else. After a couple years, a couple dwarves in leather armor with a copper spear can wipe out entire sieges. If progression is taking you 5-6 years, then it's going to be a "win more" situation.

The way sieges are set up is also counterproductive for a progression setup. Sieges happen with a small one, then the next one is full bore. After a couple years, you hit the "you're either going to survive or you're not" point.

[Meph]

"Progression" would only have a place if forts didn't die to FPS after 6 years. Finally getting something fancy then waiting several hours at 20 fps before a siege is hella boring.

Depends on your machine.

Skill level is an issue, yes. As is the skill level on the invaders. If each invasion would get "skill level +1" for each consecutive attack, that would be great. This way they slowly get harder to beat.

[Mithril Leaf]

"Progression" would only have a place if forts didn't die to FPS after 6 years. Finally getting something fancy then waiting several hours at 20 fps before a siege is hella boring.

There's also the fact that skill level is more important than anything else. After a couple years, a couple dwarves in leather armor with a copper spear can wipe out entire sieges. If progression is taking you 5-6 years, then it's going to be a "win more" situation.

The way sieges are set up is also counterproductive for a progression setup. Sieges happen with a small one, then the next one is full bore. After a couple years, you hit the "you're either going to survive or you're not" point.

All the more reason to have some high quality endgame siege enemies! Things you really won't be able to beat without several squads of highly trained soldiers or at least a full one of legendary plate armored ones.

[greycat]

"Progression" would only have a place if forts didn't die to FPS after 6 years.

They die to Masterwork DF upgrades before that.

[Meph]

"Progression" would only have a place if forts didn't die to FPS after 6 years.

They die to Masterwork DF upgrades before that.

Surprised to see the Warlocks overtaking the manuals.... perfect excuse NOT to work on manuals.

[somebears]

"Progression" would only have a place if forts didn't die to FPS after 6 years.

They die to Masterwork DF upgrades before that.

this.


EVERY DAMN TIME!

[Meph]

If its any consolation, the same thing happens to my forts. Every time I start a community fort, it dies because it became outdated so quickly.

[Tirion]

For some reason, the game always crashes when I reach worldgen year 2. On both my computers. Garden of Gaia. Any idea why?

[BigD145]

If its any consolation, the same thing happens to my forts. Every time I start a community fort, it dies because it became outdated so quickly.

Why do you keep shooting yourself in the foot?!

/joking*

*maybe

[Meph]

If its any consolation, the same thing happens to my forts. Every time I start a community fort, it dies because it became outdated so quickly.

Why do you keep shooting yourself in the foot?!

/joking*

*maybe

Because modding is more fun than playing, at least for me

Tirion: Nope... maybe try the LAA patcher, or different worldgen settings. Any errorlog you could post?

[BigD145]

I just opened up this version and DF is crashing when quiting. Dwarf, Ironhand, default font. Well, it would be default font but it's not. It's automatically switching to Ironhand and F12 does nothing. After selecting quit, DF just crashes (Dwarf Fortress has stopped working). Trutype font is greyed out in the settings program.

Windows 7 x64

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Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: Dwarf Fortress.exe
  Application Version: 0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp: 4fcc9488
  Fault Module Name: twbt.plug.dll
  Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp: 5380c009
  Exception Code: c0000005
  Exception Offset: 0000342b
  OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
  Locale ID: 1033
  Additional Information 1: 0a9e
  Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3: 0a9e
  Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Not much in the errorlog

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MAGNETITE: Smelt Ore Not Found, Token - ARSENIC_POISON
Unrecognized Inorganic Token: METALLIC_YELLOWSAND
Unrecognized Inorganic Token: METALLIC_WHITESAND
Unrecognized Inorganic Token: METALLIC_BLACKSAND
Unrecognized Inorganic Token: METALLIC_REDSAND

I haven't even genned a world. I just opened and closed DF.

[Meph]

I just opened up this version and DF is crashing when quiting. Dwarf, Ironhand, default font. Well, it would be default font but it's not. It's automatically switching to Ironhand and F12 does nothing. After selecting quit, DF just crashes (Dwarf Fortress has stopped working). Trutype font is greyed out in the settings program.

Windows 7 x64

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Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: Dwarf Fortress.exe
  Application Version: 0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp: 4fcc9488
  Fault Module Name: twbt.plug.dll
  Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp: 5380c009
  Exception Code: c0000005
  Exception Offset: 0000342b
  OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
  Locale ID: 1033
  Additional Information 1: 0a9e
  Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3: 0a9e
  Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Not much in the errorlog

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MAGNETITE: Smelt Ore Not Found, Token - ARSENIC_POISON
Unrecognized Inorganic Token: METALLIC_YELLOWSAND
Unrecognized Inorganic Token: METALLIC_WHITESAND
Unrecognized Inorganic Token: METALLIC_BLACKSAND
Unrecognized Inorganic Token: METALLIC_REDSAND

I haven't even genned a world. I just opened and closed DF.

Just change your Printmode back to 2D. Its the OpenGl your system has problems with. You need to disable Item Graphics first, thats the new option on the first tab.

[BigD145]

Ah, the item graphics thing. Okay. That fixed it.