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[smjjames]

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AUSTRALIA, HERE COME THE DWARVES!

I got rid of the snow display during world gen, made scorching areas available again, and added parameters and parameter sets to make worlds that are surrounded by water on all sides for people that like that look.

The top portion looks like the northern section of Australia, most of the big contient looks like Africa and part of the Middle East and that island in the southeast looks like China.

Anyways, good that the snow effect is gone now. I always found that annoying as it made good regions invisible, especially in the colder northern/southern parts of the world

[JanusTwoface]

I was looking for an answer and all I could find was this on the summary thread on the wiki:

There is a system in place that will try its best to keep your schedules staffed, going so far as finding replacements when soldiers get hungry/tired, as well as forcing soldiers to stay on duty if no replacements are found.

How fine is the new military scheduling system? Specifically, could I set a squad to be on duty one season, sparring one season, being non-military one season, and doing classroom work with their mst trained member during the last?

I guess that's really five questions, first is it possible to schedule like that and the rest for each of the possibilities.

On a related note: If such schedules are in, how granular can they be? Years, seasons, weeks, days?

Thanks!

[Mel_Vixen]

One problem is see is that on this map are rivers that start and end in the very same lake.

[smjjames]

they started walking into water 6 of 7 deep if there was an available ramp, then scrambled right back out.

This also happens sometimes with civillian dwarves where if you have an available ramp and there is water that is more than 3 or 4 deep, and their path takes them in a way that they will try to use said ramp, resulting in job cancellations. Using a restricted path designation generally fixes this. Just letting you know if you weren't aware of this already.

@Heph: You mean the lakes that are in the mountain basins? That might just be a case of the river having nowhere else to go. Or possibly a remnant of the river that worldgen puts down initially.

[monkeyfetus]

I don't mean to nit-pick, but... What does that map have to do with FotF?

[smjjames]

Its one of the preview maps that Toady posted on the devlog of ocean being completely around the world edge. http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html

[Rafal99]

"Skeletal" slugmen and other oddities no longer occur (you can still get zombies).

 Now there's a hard mental image to generate.  A skeletal invertebrate?  What would that even look like?

As for arthropods I would imagine they would look almost the same, since almost all their surface if made from chitin exoskeleton. Although they would be empty inside.
For invertebrates without exoskeleton it is really hard to imagine, I agree.

[monkeyfetus]

Ahhh. I had visited the dev_list page so much it had been cached, so I couldn't see the newest update.
Edit: Oooh, I'm really liking the worlds surrounded by ocean.
Edit2:

"Skeletal" slugmen and other oddities no longer occur (you can still get zombies).

 Now there's a hard mental image to generate.  A skeletal invertebrate?  What would that even look like?

As for arthropods I would imagine they would look almost the same, since almost all their surface if made from chitin exoskeleton. Although they would be empty inside.
For invertebrates without exoskeleton it is really hard to imagine, I agree.

Well, the algorithm rots away everything but connecting tissue, bones, and chitin. Still, I don't know how it would handle a skeletal slugman

[Rafal99]

I don't mean to nit-pick, but... What does that map have to do with FotF?

It is a good habit to hit Refresh every time you look at the devlog, just to be sure.


Also I don't like how sites are currently created in a certain pattern. It is especially noticable at the Medium island map Toady posted. Look at the middle-right part of it, at the forest retreats. They are placed in a rows, with 6 tiles space between each other. I assume that Toady uses an algorithm that puts a new site in the closest available suitable tile, while keeping that distance. Would be nice to put more randomness into it to get more realistic looking placement.

[Mel_Vixen]

Well there are ways to achive that. for example you can seek for places with water, food, shelter etc in a certain direction and if you find one you can create there a settlement. Keeping a ceraitn distance might be helpful thought.

[Grax]

Also I don't like how sites are currently created in a certain pattern. It is especially noticable at the Medium island map Toady posted. Look at the middle-right part of it, at the forest retreats. They are placed in a rows, with 6 tiles space between each other.

And this is good. Now we can build our tanks without rudders. Just set the direction and start engines. 

[JanusTwoface]

I don't mean to nit-pick, but... What does that map have to do with FotF?

It is a good habit to hit Refresh every time you look at the devlog, just to be sure.

Or subscribe to the RSS feed. Then the dev log tells you when it updates!

[monkeyfetus]

I don't mean to nit-pick, but... What does that map have to do with FotF?

It is a good habit to hit Refresh every time you look at the devlog, just to be sure.

Or subscribe to the RSS feed. Then the dev log tells you when it updates!

The dev_list page was cached. It wasn't until I realized people were quoting a new update that I realized it and cleared the browser cache.
It's kind of ironic. I visited the page so frequently hoping for an update that it got cached and prevented me from seeing when one finally arrived.

[Untelligent]

Also I don't like how sites are currently created in a certain pattern. It is especially noticable at the Medium island map Toady posted. Look at the middle-right part of it, at the forest retreats. They are placed in a rows, with 6 tiles space between each other. I assume that Toady uses an algorithm that puts a new site in the closest available suitable tile, while keeping that distance. Would be nice to put more randomness into it to get more realistic looking placement.

Making towns about the same distance apart makes sense to me. For instance, most of the small towns around where I live are all about seven miles apart or so, supposedly because when they were built that's how far a horse could carry milk before it spoiled.

[Lancensis]

Making towns about the same distance apart makes sense to me. For instance, most of the small towns around where I live are all about seven miles apart or so, supposedly because when they were built that's how far a horse could carry milk before it spoiled.

Wouldn't it make more sense to ride a cow to the other town, and then milk it there? Be fresher that way.