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Cheddarius

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Re: The Little Questions Thread
« Reply #1050 on: January 31, 2010, 02:41:26 pm »
Is the next release going to have blood/vomit as a fluid? Could we have cisterns of blood? COULD WE WATER OUR FIELDS WITH RIVERS OF LIFEBLOOD?!?!
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SethCreiyd

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Re: The Little Questions Thread
« Reply #1051 on: January 31, 2010, 03:37:19 pm »
Dumping elves in lakes of vomit would be pretty fun.
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« Reply #1052 on: January 31, 2010, 03:37:30 pm »
Quote from: Garth on January 31, 2010, 02:35:50 pm
How does one check the framerate the game is running at?
As far as I know there is no console for DF...

Poke through the init file. You can change the settings to show it at all times.
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The *large serrated steel disk* strikes the Raven in the head, tearing apart the muscle, shattering the skull, and tearing apart the brain!
A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The Raven has been knocked unconcious!

Elves do it in trees. Humans do it in wooden structures. Dwarves? Dwarves do it underground. With magma.

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Re: The Little Questions Thread
« Reply #1053 on: January 31, 2010, 03:40:09 pm »
Thanks for all your help!  ;D
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Garth

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« Reply #1054 on: January 31, 2010, 04:29:00 pm »
Oh WOW...
The game runs, ON AVERAGE, at around 15FPS....
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« Reply #1055 on: January 31, 2010, 04:33:00 pm »
Quote from: Garth on January 31, 2010, 04:29:00 pm
Oh WOW...
The game runs, ON AVERAGE, at around 15FPS....

Welcome to Dwarf Fortress.
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« Reply #1056 on: January 31, 2010, 04:35:02 pm »
Or, do as me.  Change pop cap to 20, and FPS cap to 1000.  I run about 250 fps with my friendly 26 dwarves + whatever else at the screen, dropping to 125-175 in case of sieges.  Requires: lots of drowning/cave in traps for defense. :-P
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Quote from: Rat Of Wisdom on February 10, 2010, 02:08:19 pm
I'd do that, but I don't think dwarves have words for "fair" or "logical".

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« Reply #1057 on: January 31, 2010, 04:35:26 pm »
Quote from: assimilateur on January 31, 2010, 04:33:00 pm
Quote from: Garth on January 31, 2010, 04:29:00 pm
Oh WOW...
The game runs, ON AVERAGE, at around 15FPS....

Welcome to Dwarf Fortress.
More like welcome to my shitty netbook of a laptop...
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« Reply #1058 on: January 31, 2010, 04:42:15 pm »
Quote from: Garth on January 31, 2010, 04:29:00 pm
Oh WOW...
The game runs, ON AVERAGE, at around 15FPS....

DF really requires a high-end PC with a fast processor.

I'm managing about 8FPS currently, but with a lot of dwarves and stuff.
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The *large serrated steel disk* strikes the Raven in the head, tearing apart the muscle, shattering the skull, and tearing apart the brain!
A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The Raven has been knocked unconcious!

Elves do it in trees. Humans do it in wooden structures. Dwarves? Dwarves do it underground. With magma.

Garth

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Re: The Little Questions Thread
« Reply #1059 on: January 31, 2010, 04:48:40 pm »
I've got about 30 dwarves, a river near my fortress, and plenty of mining going on...

On a 1.6 intel ATOM processor clocked at like 1.2ghz....

I need a new laptop. :-\
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« Reply #1060 on: January 31, 2010, 04:55:28 pm »
Quote from: Skorpion on January 31, 2010, 04:42:15 pm
DF really requires a high-end PC with a fast processor.

What DF requires is a rewrite, as even on high-end PCs it doesn't necessarily run smoothly. I don't really want to start a long-winded discussion on this topic, I'm just giving you my two cents, namely that having a top-notch rig is not a surefire way of running this game at high framerates; I can't stress this enough, as I want to spare people the disappointment of upgrading their rigs and still having this game run like shit.
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Garth

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« Reply #1061 on: January 31, 2010, 04:58:43 pm »
Quote from: assimilateur on January 31, 2010, 04:55:28 pm
Quote from: Skorpion on January 31, 2010, 04:42:15 pm
DF really requires a high-end PC with a fast processor.

What DF requires is a rewrite, as even on high-end PCs it doesn't necessarily run smoothly. I don't really want to start a long-winded discussion on this topic, I'm just giving you my two cents, namely that having a top-notch rig is not a surefire way of running this game at high framerates; I can't stress this enough, as I want to spare people the disappointment of upgrading their rigs and still having this game run like shit.
That's what I've began to think. Judging by how many people complain about low FPS when they have a decent system running.
What baffled me is when I found out this game was still in ALPHA...
It seems pretty complete to me, then again I'm just an idiotic teenager playing a complicated game.
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Cheddarius

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Re: The Little Questions Thread
« Reply #1062 on: January 31, 2010, 05:18:39 pm »
Beta will be the game of the next century.
When Dwarf Fortress leaves beta and becomes a full-fledged game, it will require hundreds of supercomputers to run and will perfectly simulate radioactive decay. This is how hardcore Toady is.
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« Reply #1063 on: January 31, 2010, 05:21:16 pm »
Quote from: Cheddarius on January 31, 2010, 05:18:39 pm
Beta will be the game of the next century.
When Dwarf Fortress leaves beta and becomes a full-fledged game, it will require hundreds of supercomputers to run and will perfectly simulate radioactive decay. This is how hardcore Toady is.
Dwarf Fortress isn't in beta yet. It's still an alpha. :P
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Garth

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« Reply #1064 on: January 31, 2010, 05:28:36 pm »
We'll get IBM to partner to build a supercomputer and a team of coders together to get the game done fully :U
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