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[Niccolo]

3 years ago when I bought this comp I was able to play that size. It was ~34_08 that that changed to 10 by 10. Now days I'm limited to 8 by 8. I still have no lag except on season change. My comp is a then cheap ~655$ Asus 4 gig single core with a cheap ~50 dollar graphics card built in. I guess hardware could make a big difference. Most comps are Multi-core. Muti-core comps divide their power between their cores. This game is single threaded so only one of your comps cores can do anything with this game at a time.

Now to make you hate me.

As I type this post I've realized I have 18 tabs open between 3 window. 5 are open on Youtube vids with 2 others open to podcast sites, 2 are open on facebook games, & the rest are in this window, Forums/art sites/everything else. I love this comp & love having no lag with all that going on. & I play DF with all that going on. Normally it's only 12 tabs open.

xD That doesn't make me hate you. The only reason I don't have a stack of videos open right now is my internet would cry uncle, since apparently my ISP employs literal monkeys to be their code monkeys. My computer can handle that level of activity pretty easily. Really, it just makes me think that you like having a decent computer to work on (Unlike, say, my mother who insists on not updating from her steam-powered thing).

What I don't get, though, is how you could run a 16x16 embark. I suppose initially it wouldn't be too bad, but once things get going wouldn't the FPS edge into frames-per-minute territory? I'll admit I've never tried, but still... Late-game antics on a 6x6 scale seem to proceed at a comfortable 20 FPS or so for me. What is the framerate like?

[gbrngfol]

A small tip for people with lag issues. Delete the sound files. The game will run about 25% faster without them.

[reality.auditor]

A small tip for people with lag issues. Delete the sound files. The game will run about 25% faster without them.

Lol wut?

On topic: my best hunter just tried to hunt Giant Cave Spider, with predictable results. Additional four casultaties while trying to kill it.

[Exitstrategy]

I just found out you don't need to link stone-fall and cage traps to a trigger mechanism. Super facepalm.

[DiezIrae]

My mason getting possessed and making a chalk door with yak bone that isn't even more worth than a bone cage trap made by a child. Damn, face palmed hard.

[Leatra]

...

A helluva story.

[FuzzyZergling]

My mason getting possessed and making a chalk door with yak bone that isn't even more worth than a bone cage trap made by a child. Damn, face palmed hard.

Palm blowgun, which used up one of my valuable steel bars (my map has no flux or coal).

[Matthmatt1213]

Definitely when I found out that you could assign a manager instead of going to EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOP and setting the jobs there. That took forever.

My second face-palm was when I found out you could use the status screen to slaughter animals instead of searching for them in your fortress and manually setting them to be slaughtered.

[strongrudder]

My mason getting possessed and making a chalk door with yak bone that isn't even more worth than a bone cage trap made by a child. Damn, face palmed hard.

Are artifact doors still indestructible? Because if they are, this is still an unexciting artifact, but a potential fortress-saver.

[Scow2]

My mason getting possessed and making a chalk door with yak bone that isn't even more worth than a bone cage trap made by a child. Damn, face palmed hard.

Are artifact doors still indestructible? Because if they are, this is still an unexciting artifact, but a potential fortress-saver.

While they can't be destroyed, they can still be dismantled - The door can be rebuilt, but it lets enemies through when taken down.

[strongrudder]

Hmm. I'm probably out of date, then - my last artifact door was in 31.18. When I got trolls, they just stood around the door and glared at it. X)

[Rockphed]

Hmm. I'm probably out of date, then - my last artifact door was in 31.18. When I got trolls, they just stood around the door and glared at it. X)

Trolls take down doors by glaring at them!  How did we not see this before?

[Kohmelo]

Planned easy way to destroy sieges fast. -> Made path with bridges to cavern full of forgotten beasts. Siege was destroyed in seconds BUT now I have poisonous area at my gate and 3 forgotten beasts waiting/Hiding in the area killing anything they can catch...  Every way to contain so called Forgotten beasts problem is "stuck" because for some reason there are bodies all over my bridges...

Well... My champion has already killed about 3 forgotten beasts in this incident so i need to hope he can kill the rest too... Just need to figure a way to flush that poisonous dust/vomit/blood away from my front gate...

Champion seems to be badass enought... Been ambushed about three times when going out and she killed 20 gobbos on those ambushes... Getting a feeling they are only ambushing her for some reason...

[Lolfail0009]

My first caravan of this fort!

The merchants left all the shit on the yak bulls! No chance of trade!

[Murder yak bull]

I just realised the consequential Loyalty Cascade in motion.

[DiezIrae]

My first caravan of this fort!

The merchants left all the shit on the yak bulls! No chance of trade!

[Murder yak bull]

I just realised the consequential Loyalty Cascade in motion.

Dwarf Fortress: Of Yaks and Loyality... And Booze, never forget the Booze.