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Huggz

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Slow Dwarves?
« on: April 03, 2010, 07:32:26 am »
Has anyone else noticed that their dwarves seem to be incredibly slow? I designated a 20x3 corridor and a 10x10 room and it has just got to late spring, they still arent finished. Im not lagging, they are just moving REALLY slowly...
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Nexii Malthus

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Re: Slow Dwarves?
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2010, 08:32:26 am »
First off, learning curve of skills is much tougher now, attributes are harder to gain. (This also means your not going to get an entire fort of legendary comedians any soon thankfully)

So dwarves are going to be much slower, you will have to start specialising earlier.
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Re: Slow Dwarves?
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2010, 09:16:22 am »
Even moving, they are just going so damn slowly, I reckon around half normal speed... It takes 2 seconds to mine an up/down stair...
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Re: Slow Dwarves?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2010, 09:18:05 am »
The new version is a lot more processor-intensive.  You may want to turn on the FPS counter to see what you're getting.  I used to get 100FPS consistently until I had about 50+ units on the map to bog the pathfinding down in 40d, but now I get a stable 65-70FPS with just the starting 7.
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Lemunde

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Re: Slow Dwarves?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2010, 10:14:48 am »
I noticed that they work a lot slower when they're hungry, tired or thirsty.  Since they'll now try to finish a job before they go take care of their own needs it's probably a good idea not to dig out large areas all at once.  Dig out a few rooms or hallways and then let them take a break.
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Re: Slow Dwarves?
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2010, 10:47:15 am »
Hopefully a patch makes it slightly more lenient. I want them to finish their current workshop jobs, pulling levers etc. without cancelling them to drink/eat, but then starting dozens more is just overdoing it. It is obvious they move slower when hungry etc though. Somebody was hauling a dolomite block to the bar stockpile but he moved about one square in the time it would take an average dwarf to cross an entire 3-tile-wide embark area.
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Re: Slow Dwarves?
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2010, 12:10:23 pm »
Yeah, I'm finding I have to micromanage some tasks that I usually keep on repeat.  Although I did see my furnace operator run off to grab a drink before he moved on to making coke. Who knows?
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