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[smariot]

Linux!!!!!!

I'm playing in Linux with WINE. It works 'perfectly'. Perfect in this case meaning identical to how it works in Windows, which is admittedly less than perfect.

[Andir]

Linux!!!!!!

I'm playing in Linux with WINE. It works 'perfectly'. Perfect in this case meaning identical to how it works in Windows, which is admittedly less than perfect.

We just have to wait for the native client... these things take time.  When it's merged with the 40d# line things will be better for us Linux users...

(also, FYI Footkerchief:  I'm most definitely a he.  )

[Durin]

From bug log -- "   Adventurers and dwarves melt in rain/water"

One of the reasons I have been loathe to play the fort I started was this.  It seems that most the active players are not as concerned with this...  Does this just happen very rarely, or is the work around easy, or at least easy for some types of players, or why is this not something anyone is mentioning?

The descriptions I have seen of it in action seem to indicate it is a real fortress breaker, so I am curious as to why I seem to be the only one in this thread so far who is sort of waiting on this fix before continuing playing.

Thanks!  And yeah, I'll add mine to the litany of voices praising the speed with which major fixes are being implemented.  Very appreciated by the world weary Alpha tester.

[Footkerchief]

^^^ It's dependent on worldgen parameters in ways that aren't yet entirely clear.  Some worlds don't seem to get it at all.  There's a good chance your fort would be fine.

[Greiger]

I imagine that even if you have a world that has that issue you could just turn weather off too.

[monk12]

From bug log -- "   Adventurers and dwarves melt in rain/water"

One of the reasons I have been loathe to play the fort I started was this.  It seems that most the active players are not as concerned with this...  Does this just happen very rarely, or is the work around easy, or at least easy for some types of players, or why is this not something anyone is mentioning?

The descriptions I have seen of it in action seem to indicate it is a real fortress breaker, so I am curious as to why I seem to be the only one in this thread so far who is sort of waiting on this fix before continuing playing.

Thanks!  And yeah, I'll add mine to the litany of voices praising the speed with which major fixes are being implemented.  Very appreciated by the world weary Alpha tester.

Neither I nor the other handful of DF players I know personally have encountered this one. I'm muddling by with a shoddy military until training works right, but there's plenty of other stuff to explore till that gets squashed.

[Andir]

I think the melting has more to do with temperature than rain... at least from my reading of the comments.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

I have not encountered this bug in any of the 31.0x fortresses myself, so I can confirm that it is probably a question of luck at the moment.

I suggest you do not worry too much about it and start playing anyway...

Deathworks

[smjjames]

Yea I guess you're right, I'll go and take a stab at messing around in Fort mode, arena mode is starting to get a bit boring and could do something else for a change.

[Urist McRamirez!]

when will the port be? I cant be the only Mac user...right? 

[daoist]

After your first rainfall you'll know if your dwarfs are going to melt or not. If so, just generate a new world and try again. It's not like you're going to be 70% into a megaproject and your miners start melting.

[AbacusWizard]

when will the port be? I cant be the only Mac user...right? 

iFeelyourpain.

[zxcvmnb]

[...]
Transparency is always good in the dev proccess.
[...]

I'm not so sure about "always". I think in this case it's a very good thing, but in some other closed-source projects, such tranparency simply led to massive crises at even the slightest hiccup, with flamewars immediately erupting over which bugs the developer ought to deal with first, trends in the rate of progress, whether it was acceptable to mention the delay at all, the possible causes, the fate of the project, the fate of donations, plans for replacement projects, etc.... Fun times. That isn't likely here, though.

[Geti]

when will the port be? I cant be the only Mac user...right? 

Surely you can get WINE of some sort working. DarWINE isn't too terrible afaik, but then again I'm not using osx so I wouldn't know.

[EsnRedshirt]

Has anyone noticed some extremely long load times in this version compared to the last one? (0.31.01-02). I aborted loading a game after it sat on the load screen for 25 minutes. Thinking it was possibly the world, I tried to gen a new one- and stopped it at year 324, since it was taking around 40 seconds per year... Wondering what's up with that; I haven't seen those sort of slowdowns before.