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[Xangi]

It occurs to me that almost all the stealth issues and non-stealth NPC vision issues can be solved by one change: If an NPC is attacked by something, make it face the attacker. This would not only solve the "NPCs don't seem to understand when you jam a battleaxe into their torso while behind them" issue, but also the issue of being behind someone while not sneaking and being able to do the same.

EDIT: Stuff like this http://puu.sh/a77VW/f069341da0.png

Anyway, everything else is pretty good, but waiting for some AI fixes before I get too deep into adventurer mode. It's not stopping me from already making more horrific monsters to butcher adventurers though, heh.

[snjwffl]

A quick clarification on Archereon's comments about the clones (his information is probably coming from my thread here): the clone didn't attack me autonomously (though it would run from me on its own); I ordered it to do that.

[Sutremaine]

Upon generating a new adventurer anyway, I note that dwarves, goblins, and elves are already size 70000. Cheers!

EDIT: No wait, that's me getting my region folder mixed up.

[Rockphed]

Getting a crash when I ask about a site's trade partner relationship stuff.  I have a save with the conversation started, I just need to figure out how to zip/rar it.

[Toady One]

If that was yours it worked -- in any case, that should work now.  Or at least that case of it.  Various other fixes posted on dev log/tracker.

[thburns]

May not be the proper place for this, but I'll give it a go. Was wondering if, with all the new plants and other things, if the frame rate drops sooner in a game? Or is it comparable to 2012 version on same machine?

[palu]

There's the running world stuff,  in large enough worlds that'll kill your FPS.

[greycat]

To expand on palu's point: the new version continues the progress of the world (outside of your fortress) continually in the background.  You get a small glimpse of this when you start a new game (after world gen or fort-retire or adventurer-retire) and you see two weeks go by on the game's calendar.  If those days go really slowly on your system, then your FPS in fort mode are going to be abysmal as well.

Size of the world and length of history are the two main factors here.  "Medium" (129x129) or larger worlds are not recommended unless you're very patient.

Toady has said he's going to optimize this continual world progress.  It's his top priority after fixing the crashes and other major bugs.

[Dunamisdeos]

I have crashes when entering new sites (moving from the wilderness to a town, between towns, vice versa). It's not every time, but the majority of my overworld movement crashes are right at that point.

[thburns]

To expand on palu's point: the new version continues the progress of the world (outside of your fortress) continually in the background.  You get a small glimpse of this when you start a new game (after world gen or fort-retire or adventurer-retire) and you see two weeks go by on the game's calendar.  If those days go really slowly on your system, then your FPS in fort mode are going to be abysmal as well.

Size of the world and length of history are the two main factors here.  "Medium" (129x129) or larger worlds are not recommended unless you're very patient.

Toady has said he's going to optimize this continual world progress.  It's his top priority after fixing the crashes and other major bugs.

Cool no problems on world gen so far. Which is good since I had to downgrade to another PC till I get mine fixed. Keep up the good work toady!

[Icefire2314]

Awesome work Toady.

Out of curiosity, my game lags considerably whenever starting a new game (after generating and then selecting fortress or adventure, not tried with legends). It gets to the calendar screen and then the game takes quite a while to start. Is this because of history progressing or such, or could it be a bug?

EDIT: Nevermind, after some further reading I answered my own question.

[KingKaol]

There's the running world stuff,  in large enough worlds that'll kill your FPS.

Does the world really calculate often enough to cause continuous FPS loss? It seems like updates could be more infrequent (once per season or year or something).

[Alev]

There's the running world stuff,  in large enough worlds that'll kill your FPS.

Does the world really calculate often enough to cause continuous FPS loss? It seems like updates could be more infrequent (once per season or year or something).

In adventure mode, the conversations at least slow you down to crazy levels. Goblin sites can take up to ten seconds for one move.

[KingKaol]

There's the running world stuff,  in large enough worlds that'll kill your FPS.

Does the world really calculate often enough to cause continuous FPS loss? It seems like updates could be more infrequent (once per season or year or something).

In adventure mode, the conversations at least slow you down to crazy levels. Goblin sites can take up to ten seconds for one move.

So it's more local activity that is the slowdown rather than large-scale? (Haven't played adventure mode yet in the newest version)

[Alev]

There's the running world stuff,  in large enough worlds that'll kill your FPS.

Does the world really calculate often enough to cause continuous FPS loss? It seems like updates could be more infrequent (once per season or year or something).

In adventure mode, the conversations at least slow you down to crazy levels. Goblin sites can take up to ten seconds for one move.

For adventure mode at least, and on a  pocket world. Don't try anything larger than a 'small' world, as the lag gets even worse.
So it's more local activity that is the slowdown rather than large-scale? (Haven't played adventure mode yet in the newest version)