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[Sirus]

Well, up at the top it says that it recommends keeping your older file. Then it asks if you want to keep it. All the stuff in between is just filler.

[LoSboccacc]

just a bit ranty 

Spoiler: if dwarf fortress was the aurora of rts (click to show/hide)

we need a table, so designate a square to dig and build a mason workshop.

then you need to select squad, filter civilian squads, look for your haulers squad, assign them a pickup stone order at the dig location and then, enabling the check that show worksop as target, add a drop stone order at the mason workshop

now you have the stone so open the mason workshop, select work orders, add work orders, select table under the fornitu..

oh wait, you can't yet. first you need to design a table. open the dable design menu, you need to select various aspects of the table:

• leg count - the more the legs, the more the people can seat at this table
• leg height - the short the leg, the fancier the table and the happier the thoughts; you have to match this with appropriate chairs or the effect of fanciness is reversed
• table form - squared, rectangular, stellar.. more elaborate forms take up more space per people that can seat but provide more fanciness to the room

finish the design of the table with the create button, but you can't build straight away: you need to assign a design job to an architect. make sure the architect as at least a meager office assigned and the architecture job enabled or the design will never end and you will not have any notification about it not progressing.

wait for the architect to finish designing your table, then go back to the mason workshop. open the order menu, open the build forniture tab, assign at least one hammer per mason to the job and select start

you will need a dwarf manning the workshop for all the duration of the job.

now reopen the haulers task group, enable the display of workshop as targets, select the mason workshop and the pickup table action. Now create a waypoint where you want your table, open the haulers group, display waypoints, select the waypoint and drop table.

 

[Flying Dice]

You forgot the part about throwing the table at a squad of goblins at 0.2c.

[MaximumZero]

...waypoints. Waypoints? Waypoints! No wonder I've had so much trouble with minerals.

[RedKing]

Also, needs the part about how you have to research and design all your weapons, but mainly you're gonna wind up using crossbows anyways, because all the other weapons have a 1 or 2 tile range, while crossbows can be designed to go all the way across the map.

And when you find new underground caverns, they usually won't be habitable until you spend considerable time and effort to fix them. (On the other hand, the potential to find ruins of previous civilizations in the caves would be a nice touch.)

[forsaken1111]

just a bit ranty 

Spoiler: if dwarf fortress was the aurora of rts (click to show/hide)

we need a table, so designate a square to dig and build a mason workshop.

then you need to select squad, filter civilian squads, look for your haulers squad, assign them a pickup stone order at the dig location and then, enabling the check that show worksop as target, add a drop stone order at the mason workshop

now you have the stone so open the mason workshop, select work orders, add work orders, select table under the fornitu..

oh wait, you can't yet. first you need to design a table. open the dable design menu, you need to select various aspects of the table:

• leg count - the more the legs, the more the people can seat at this table
• leg height - the short the leg, the fancier the table and the happier the thoughts; you have to match this with appropriate chairs or the effect of fanciness is reversed
• table form - squared, rectangular, stellar.. more elaborate forms take up more space per people that can seat but provide more fanciness to the room

finish the design of the table with the create button, but you can't build straight away: you need to assign a design job to an architect. make sure the architect as at least a meager office assigned and the architecture job enabled or the design will never end and you will not have any notification about it not progressing.

wait for the architect to finish designing your table, then go back to the mason workshop. open the order menu, open the build forniture tab, assign at least one hammer per mason to the job and select start

you will need a dwarf manning the workshop for all the duration of the job.

now reopen the haulers task group, enable the display of workshop as targets, select the mason workshop and the pickup table action. Now create a waypoint where you want your table, open the haulers group, display waypoints, select the waypoint and drop table.

 

You missed a step. The table is just one component in the Dining Room. Now you have to open the room designer and place appropriate furniture, balancing fanciness with maintenance cost and cleaning requirements, and you have to ensure the proper number of servant quarters are attached so that they can serve the dwarves. You may also want to include a kitchen if you don't want to design and build an entirely separate kitchen.

Once that is done you retool your room builder to the dining room specifications and then assign it the task of constructing the room.

Also if you want to save some time you can have the furniture workshop build the table and chairs ahead of time so the room constructor doesn't have to build all that, but the furniture workshop can't build the servant's quarters or fancy light fixtures or the fireplace.

[Repulsion]

So, basically, having a resolution that is not the right size of the ship you are trying to detect just makes it less optimal, as in you detect the ship at a lower range? If you have a 120 resolution sensor, a 800 and 100,000 ton ship will be detected later?

[RedKing]

So, basically, having a resolution that is not the right size of the ship you are trying to detect just makes it less optimal, as in you detect the ship at a lower range? If you have a 120 resolution sensor, a 800 and 100,000 ton ship will be detected later?

Ships larger than the resolution should be unpenalized. So you'll detect the 100kton monster at very long range. But yes, the 800 ton FAC will get much closer before you detect it.

This is why my largest capital ships typically mount three different sensor arrays: a resolution 1 with a few million km range (anti-missile radar), a resolution 16 with 30-40 million km range (an anti-FAC radar, will drop this to lower resolution if the enemy is known to use fighters), and a very large system with resolution 100 and a range in the hundreds of millions of km (anti-ship/system sweep radar).

[LoSboccacc]

just a bit ranty 

Spoiler: if dwarf fortress was the aurora of rts (click to show/hide)

we need a table, so designate a square to dig and build a mason workshop.

then you need to select squad, filter civilian squads, look for your haulers squad, assign them a pickup stone order at the dig location and then, enabling the check that show worksop as target, add a drop stone order at the mason workshop

now you have the stone so open the mason workshop, select work orders, add work orders, select table under the fornitu..

oh wait, you can't yet. first you need to design a table. open the dable design menu, you need to select various aspects of the table:

• leg count - the more the legs, the more the people can seat at this table
• leg height - the short the leg, the fancier the table and the happier the thoughts; you have to match this with appropriate chairs or the effect of fanciness is reversed
• table form - squared, rectangular, stellar.. more elaborate forms take up more space per people that can seat but provide more fanciness to the room

finish the design of the table with the create button, but you can't build straight away: you need to assign a design job to an architect. make sure the architect as at least a meager office assigned and the architecture job enabled or the design will never end and you will not have any notification about it not progressing.

wait for the architect to finish designing your table, then go back to the mason workshop. open the order menu, open the build forniture tab, assign at least one hammer per mason to the job and select start

you will need a dwarf manning the workshop for all the duration of the job.

now reopen the haulers task group, enable the display of workshop as targets, select the mason workshop and the pickup table action. Now create a waypoint where you want your table, open the haulers group, display waypoints, select the waypoint and drop table.

 

You missed a step. The table is just one component in the Dining Room. Now you have to open the room designer and place appropriate furniture, balancing fanciness with maintenance cost and cleaning requirements, and you have to ensure the proper number of servant quarters are attached so that they can serve the dwarves. You may also want to include a kitchen if you don't want to design and build an entirely separate kitchen.

Once that is done you retool your room builder to the dining room specifications and then assign it the task of constructing the room.

Also if you want to save some time you can have the furniture workshop build the table and chairs ahead of time so the room constructor doesn't have to build all that, but the furniture workshop can't build the servant's quarters or fancy light fixtures or the fireplace.

+1

this game makes DF appear streamlined in comparison 

[Scelly9]

So, there's no way to fix the freaking laptop problem? I have been sitting here for the past hour going: just...a...few....more...PIXELS.

[Repulsion]

So, a resolution 1 sensor is... good for anything? Why would you never use anything but resolution 1, then? Is it range penalty?

[Austinthecat]

So, there's no way to fix the freaking laptop problem? I have been sitting here for the past hour going: just...a...few....more...PIXELS.

As far as I know, no. I had to haul an old monitor up from the the basement just to play it.

[Bremen]

So, a resolution 1 sensor is... good for anything? Why would you never use anything but resolution 1, then? Is it range penalty?

A resolution 1 sensor will detect anything within its range, yes, but a resolution 100 sensor would have 100 times the range, but be penalized for anything smaller than size 100.

[LoSboccacc]

So, there's no way to fix the freaking laptop problem? I have been sitting here for the past hour going: just...a...few....more...PIXELS.

Reduced height windows option + alt move program

[RedKing]

So, a resolution 1 sensor is... good for anything? Why would you never use anything but resolution 1, then? Is it range penalty?

Well, the GPS (grav pulse strength) is a function of (resolution * size), and range is a function of (resolution * GPS).
(The actual formula, as listed on the tech creation page, is Range = Strength * Size * SQRT(Resolution) * EM Sensitivity * 10,000km, although that's just for the base range for detecting anything at or above its resolution.)

So a resolution 1 sensor will detect everything, but the actual pulse strength is relatively weak. That doesn't matter so much at close range, but it means it won't be strong enough to detect even very large ships after much distance.

A really BIG resolution 1 sensor would detect further out but if you're trying to detect say, a 5000-ton warship, then a resoution 80 sensor is going to have a MUCH higher GPS for the same size sensor, and thus detect the same ship much, much farther out than a resolution 1 sensor of the same size.

Even just using a 500-ton ship as an example (with Grav Strength of 28 and EM Sensitivity of 14, since that what I've got in my current game):

Size 1, Resolution 1:
Detects a 500 ton ship at 3,920,000 km

Size 10, Resolution 1:
Detects a 500 ton ship at 39,200,000 km

Size 1, Resolution 10:
Detects a 500 ton ship at 12,390,000 km

Size 10, Resolution 10:
Detects a 500 ton ship at 123,900,000 km