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[knightedskull]

Would have been usefull on my first fortress or two.. till my shit key got jammed during digging lol
works with viewing aswell to help look around the whole map

[Mikko]

Yea I know. How long had you been playing before you found out?

[knightedskull]

Well I discoverd it when I had to use my laptop since my desktop blew... so about 3 months.

[Mikko]

Well I discoverd it when I had to use my laptop since my desktop blew... so about 3 months.

For the first 3 months your game was practically unplayable.

[knightedskull]

Well my first forts were very small.. infact most time was discovering the ways of the dwarf than making a real fort... glad I found out about the shift thing lol

[Jackrabbit]

I used a laptop for the first 7 or 8 months. I got so good I had trouble when I finally got onto the of

[Kishmond]

I have never seen an engraving of a dwarf admiring something before.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

In fortress mode during trade, I noticed something very interesting. While the prices for normal objects were fixed and only influenced by quality and trade agreements, decorated objects with depictions seemed to have a price fluctuation of their own. I had one decorated flask the humans would give me only less than its actual value for. On the other hand, the dwarves offered me more than twice the value of a decorated ring, while other rings just gained about 60% of their value. The ring was decorated with an image of one of my dwarves striking down a kobold. I guess the dwarves liked this idea :) :)

Deathworks

[Mohreb el Yasim]

The shift key + one of the directional keys... really helpful

You have awaken my interest.

Now satisfy it. What does it do?

Sorry I wasn't here to answer the question sooner.
It helps move the designator/look thingy faster(like skips along 8 tiles a time)......my mind is blank for its proper name but you know what I mean.
It really helps when digging or such that requires a large/long field

isn't it exactly 11 tiles that it moves?

[Mikko]

Isn't it exactly 11 tiles that it moves?

Yes indeed it is and it is very important to remember this when trying to be symmetric.

[Rockphed]

Well I discoverd it when I had to use my laptop since my desktop blew... so about 3 months.

For the first 3 months your game was practically unplayable.

For really large designations, I just use the right mouse button to move the cursor to where I want it.

[Jackrabbit]

Isn't it exactly 11 tiles that it moves?

Yes indeed it is and it is very important to remember this when trying to be symmetric.

It is in fact 10 tiles. I had to redo a part of my fort because I didn't know that.

[Mephansteras]

I just discovered that water erodes soil ramps. I have a map (white sand) that has an annual floods in the spring. All of the flooded areas have ramps going up, but not back down. I'm interested to see if they eventually lose the ramps altogether.

[Deathworks]

Hello!

You have annual floods???

What kind of location does have that? I thought they got extinct since we changed to 3D. This could be very, very interesting news for me. So, you have my full attention.

Deathworks

[Mikko]

Isn't it exactly 11 tiles that it moves?

Yes indeed it is and it is very important to remember this when trying to be symmetric.

It is in fact 10 tiles. I had to redo a part of my fort because I didn't know that.

Depends which way you present it: The amount of tiles designated if ENTER -> Shift+right arrow -> ENTER is 11. The amount of tiles the cursor actually moves is 10.