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[Cheese]

I've tested the time in an in game day several times and narrowed it down to 22-25 seconds. Anyone have different times or something? If not then we have the seconds in a day 

[Djohaal]

It depends on your frames per second, someone who gets like 5 FPS is going to have days that last far longer. A day is like some 2800 cycles (someone correct me, maybe it was 1200?), each cycle being a frame on the FPS counter.

[zergl]

Except that this heavily depends on how many FPS you get.


An ingame day is exactly 1200 steps/frames from what I've read, so if you have 100 FPS a day will take exactly 12 seconds and by power of deduction (and basic maths) I guess that your fortress is running somewhere around 50 FPS.


fake edit: beaten, but yeah. 1200 I think it was.

[Cheese]

O_O Kewl

[AtomicPaperclip]

So it takes a bridge approximately 2 hours to raise/lower?

[Rastaan]

...So that guy was dragging his broken body over the ice for seven hours before bleeding to death?

[Ultimarr]

...So that guy was dragging his broken body over the ice for seven hours before bleeding to death?

DO NOT THINK ABOUT IT!!! It causes great mental stress. Like a miner mining out atleast 1000 pounds of rock a day, or soldiers pounding on a goblin for four hours strait without breaking the armor. Not complaining, just warning you of the dangers. Watch out, or you might just go crazy.



hehehehehe....

[Duuvian]

I think it's done this way because dwarves would have to move much faster to be on a time scale where they eat and drink twice a day or something. That would take even more CPU. It's abstracted in such a way that dwarves instead eat one large meal instead of several smaller ones, to save trips, sort of.

A more realistic timescale would be an excellent goal for DF2015 or DF2020 possibly though, depending on improvement in computer performance. Perhaps a scalable timescale.