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Author Topic: 40d6 - Trouble Generating Pocket World  (Read 1377 times)

Tahin

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40d6 - Trouble Generating Pocket World
« on: January 01, 2009, 06:14:36 pm »

I don't know if this has been reported yet, but based on a quick search, it doesn't appear that it has.

I just downloaded and unzipped 40d6 (Linux) and I attempted to generate a pocket world. It took over 1000 tries and multiple warnings before it finally gave me one.

It looks to be a relatively normal pocket world with a relatively interesting history, but the sheer number of rejections in its generations (related to dwarves dying out, based on the warnings) strikes me as bugged.

The only thing I edited prior to generating the world is my init file, so here it is, in case I somehow screwed something up.

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Sorry if this has been reported before or it's just that I got very unlucky. Just seems that 1000 rejections due to dwarves dying out in a row seems kind of odd.
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Re: 40d6 - Trouble Generating Pocket World
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2009, 11:54:15 pm »

Pocket worlds are notoriously difficult to generate.  3000+ rejects.
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Re: 40d6 - Trouble Generating Pocket World
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2009, 12:58:22 pm »

Yeah, despite the fact that individual rejects are almost instant, they add up quickly and can take a long time. This isn't unique to 40d6.

Try a Smaller or Small world, they tend to generate really fast.
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Re: 40d6 - Trouble Generating Pocket World
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2009, 03:28:13 pm »

Huh. That's odd.
Never happened to me before.

Thanks.
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Re: 40d6 - Trouble Generating Pocket World
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2009, 04:35:26 pm »

Try making the worldgenner end in year one. Very little would happen, preventing dwarves from dying out.[/untestedspeculation]
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Re: 40d6 - Trouble Generating Pocket World
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2009, 05:00:14 pm »

Try making the worldgenner end in year one. Very little would happen, preventing dwarves from dying out.[/untestedspeculation]
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Re: 40d6 - Trouble Generating Pocket World
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2009, 10:09:47 am »

I have consistently seen large numbers of rejects with pocket worlds in all versions, it is quite normal.  The only thing I found to be bugged with it is the window that pops up after a certain number of rejections.  One of the options is to keep retrying and not pop up that window again for that rejection type.  I find this option does not work, and the window will often repear just a few hundred rejects later.
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Re: 40d6 - Trouble Generating Pocket World
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2009, 05:46:02 pm »

I have consistently seen large numbers of rejects with pocket worlds in all versions, it is quite normal.  The only thing I found to be bugged with it is the window that pops up after a certain number of rejections.  One of the options is to keep retrying and not pop up that window again for that rejection type.  I find this option does not work, and the window will often repear just a few hundred rejects later.

With a different rejection type.
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