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Author Topic: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing  (Read 4125 times)

Katt

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Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« on: April 06, 2009, 05:47:07 am »
I turned off weather to boost my FPS, apparently in the middle of a rainstorm. The rain kept falling.. helpfully filling up all my empty lakes, but, less helpfully, causing them to overflow and flood my map!

I turned weather back on, and waited at least 2 years, but the rain hasn't stopped yet and neither has the massive flooding.

I made a couple movies over on the DF map archive showing it: http://mkv25.net/dfma/browsemovies.php?fortressName=Breachshot

Now that I have the flood contained it's less annoying, but still... of all the strange things to happen to my fortress I never expected this one!

Version is 40d.
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2009, 06:36:26 am »
Build a huge ship and bring 2 of every animal on it.
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2009, 08:56:52 am »
Quote from: Keilden on April 06, 2009, 06:36:26 am
Build a huge ship and bring 2 of every animal on it.

Please?
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2009, 09:21:33 am »
There would be people to love having to deal with a slowly rising flood.

Are you sure that you turned it back on? Maybe try turning it off and then on again in the init?
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2009, 11:41:16 am »
Quote from: Carcer on April 06, 2009, 09:21:33 am
There would be people to love having to deal with a slowly rising flood.

Yes, if I were you, I'd just leave it...a whole new kind of challenge fortress. You could move aboveground, or build towers or huge drainage systems...and you could always make a second fort to play normally.
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2009, 12:36:49 pm »
Well, the videos already show a trench routing to a chasm, so the problem of the map flooding itself is fixed. I was gonna suggest a nice Atom Smasher setup.

Course, now I'm going to go off and recreate that issue myself.
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2009, 04:45:19 pm »
It might just be your map. I know I've seen maps that A: rain forever and B: don't evaporate their 1/7 water.
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2009, 05:34:00 pm »
Quote from: Fossaman on April 06, 2009, 04:45:19 pm
It might just be your map. I know I've seen maps that A: rain forever and B: don't evaporate their 1/7 water.
Now that's a bug.
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2009, 05:36:29 pm »
Quote from: Fossaman on April 06, 2009, 04:45:19 pm
It might just be your map. I know I've seen maps that A: rain forever and B: don't evaporate their 1/7 water.

Funny story, I found one of those "rain forever" maps but it was already raining when I got there so I though that the random tile changes to blue were magical faries from the "Sceren" setting :-[
I latter quit because I was compleatly isolated form every civ :(
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2009, 09:03:13 pm »
Quote from: Fossaman on April 06, 2009, 04:45:19 pm
It might just be your map. I know I've seen maps that A: rain forever and B: don't evaporate their 1/7 water.

It's not the map. I've played with weather on for a while and it never did anything like this. It only started when I turned weather off in the middle of a rainstorm.
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2009, 11:19:59 pm »
Ohsnap, you can have endless rain by turning weather off in the middle of a rainstorm? Thats AWESOME.  ;D
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2009, 05:10:49 pm »
Quote from: Hyndis on April 06, 2009, 11:19:59 pm
Ohsnap, you can have endless rain by turning weather off in the middle of a rainstorm? Thats AWESOME.  ;D
The amount of fun I'm going to have with this glitch is huge.
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2009, 12:32:50 pm »
I mentioned this in a thread a while ago, nobody believed me. :'(
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2009, 08:59:38 pm »
You should be able to stop the flood by putting a roof over the ponds, right? I think that's how that cistern over a pond thing works... open a bridge above it when it rains to fill it up, close it when it stops raining to prevent it from evaporating.
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Re: Rain won't stop, lakes overflowing
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2009, 07:29:07 pm »
Turned off weather in the rain, will the pools overflow on there own or do i need to pump or channel or something?
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