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[Starver]

NB: A that would need to be a real mouse, e.g. mus musculus domesticus

[Eric Blank]

Can I not use the local field mice? My cats have been helpful enough to provide some occasionally

[PlumpHelmetMan]

I personally find deer mice to be more responsive.

[Starver]

Oh, of course any mus will do, and even apedemus or peromyscus[1] with a minimum of fuss, but some of the other murinae can be a bit difficult to handle, and only an expert in configuration should really attempt anything further out into the muridae.

I mean, I don't want to suggest you have to conform to some difficult to conform hyper-specific restriction... That would be silly!


[1] Though you definitely can't use tragulus kanchil without a conversion dongle.

[brewer bob]

NB: A that would need to be a real mouse, e.g. mus musculus domesticus

As a kid, when I heard my dad had bought a mouse for the computer I literally thought we got a real mouse. Oh, the disappointment when it was just a piece of plastic connected to the computer. 

[PlumpHelmetMan]

I had a hamster as a kid, but I'm pretty sure hamsters are only Mac-compatible.

[King Zultan]

What about a rat, I mean it's just like a mouse but bigger so I don't see why it wouldn't work.

[Uthimienure]

Require DF to be played by rats only.

[Nordlicht]

Every rat has to play DF by 2025, else time will end.

[King Zultan]

Well at least when time ends I'll die knowing that I did my part to try to save the world by being a rat that played Dwarf Fortress.

[Starver]

(...but you won't die. You'll just no longer continue to live. )

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[PlumpHelmetMan]

(...but you won't die. You'll just no longer continue to live. )

In a bid to make an apparent sustainable boost in performance, Toady directly links FPS to real-world time. But not in the way yooouuuu thhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnkkkkkkkkkkkkk..............

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[Eric Blank]

Buy dozens of supercomputers and run DF as a server on them. Players can connect to them, run df instances off them. Like the old df "multi-player" system we had back in, what, 2014? That was awesome. Only your internet latency matters.

I would totally accidentally delete the embark party's supplies and instantly embark again. What a rough playthrough THAT was. If someone renewed that utility we could have loads of fun with an adventurer party in real time

This would be a good suggestion if not for the expense of NASA-grade servers

[King Zultan]

That's why we should go to NASA and steal their servers!

[PlumpHelmetMan]

Tarn must join NASA and gain access to their servers.