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[FreakyCheeseMan]

So, I know a lot of things like this have been suggested, but I don't think this specific one has.

So, Toady's talked about the difficulty of calculated stress realistically, to make a solid cave-in system. Here's my idea- come up with a very rough stress-test system that may take quite a while a run (no framerate issues, it won't happen often), and have a random "Earthquake" event; the earthquake randomly destroys tiles, with a probability based off the "stress" on that tile, and cave-ins proceed as they currently do.

So, if you have a 50-z-level-upside-down pyramid supported by a single tile, it won't instantly collapse, but at the first earthquake that single support tile will be a huge candidate for sudden existence failure.

[Urist McCheeseMaker]

that's a good one. you could recalculate stress every month or so and it'd still be forgivable (better than every frame, at least ), and that way you'd have a real reason to build something that looks awesome, other than "i want it to look realistic"

[lucusLoC]

so would there be a random "earthquake" event and the stresses would be calculated then? i would imagine this would cause a freeze while the calculation is run, but i guess that is forgivable.

i also assume it would be an ini option, but that is unimportant to me.

+1 from me.

[Canalan]

It would pause and center on the epicenter,and during that time it could run calculations.

[Andeerz]

It wouldn't even have to be an earthquake, just a time of month when stresses are calculated.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

It will be the end of all megaconstructions. 

[Vertigon]

just a time of month when stresses are calculated.

I was gonna try to fit in a period joke, but I couldn't think of one.

[therahedwig]

Doesn't have to be, I mean, we can make mega constructions in RL, right?

Of course, construction should be overhauled to allow for the kind of megaprojects we have in RL. I mean, the engineering behind some of them is very dwarfy, but we lack the engineering possibilities.

[Wolfmilf]

Should be optional so you could build weird fantasy megastructures.
Or have some crazy strong material as base :3