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[Naros]

Incidentally I just started an unmodded .12 map, converted to .14 before embarking, and then started playing it in .14, and I'm getting the expected schedule of invaders (actually a bit brisk, ambush in the second year), so mods/no mods has nothing to do with this as far as I can tell.

You call that brisk?
I tend to get ambushes in the second season (or was that third?) prettymuch all the time.
But that may be related to my obsession with carving most of my forts in Obsidian.

[FleshForge]

Well, I've never had an ambush in the first year, and lots of forts that weren't ambushed until the third year, so yes I'd say an ambush in the second year is on the fast side.

[Quatch]

I can't seem to do the .12->.14 trick.  My worlds have no goblins listed in the civ screen, which I assume means they all died in world-gen.  Tried 20 times..only thing I edited in the raws was removing the clothes they wear.  Any thoughts?

Well, try with clothes. If that is still a problem, then you know at least it isn't your modding reducing their survivability.

Does clothing still provide significant armour bonus compared to naked? It did for a while at the start of 31.*?

[Jiri Petru]

Perhaps the lack of invasions has to do something with the complete lack of goblins in the world? The populations are listed in the legends, but if I take an adventurer to visit a dark tower, not only the tower is not there (as to be expected, I know the maps aren't done yet), but also no goblins spawn in the map. I was unable to locate even a single member of a goblin civilisation... and dwarves neither.

[Knigel]

Does clothing still provide significant armour bonus compared to naked? It did for a while at the start of 31.*?

As far as I can tell, just wearing something keeps dwarves from being injured by a bunch of weak attacks. A macaque scratching a leather cover leg a dozen times is far less dangerous than it scratching an uncovered one.

[darkflagrance]

Perhaps the lack of invasions has to do something with the complete lack of goblins in the world? The populations are listed in the legends, but if I take an adventurer to visit a dark tower, not only the tower is not there (as to be expected, I know the maps aren't done yet), but also no goblins spawn in the map. I was unable to locate even a single member of a goblin civilisation... and dwarves neither.

I've also noticed that the populations of .13/.14 tend to end up only 10-30% the size of populations in .12 worlds. If something is world gen is killing off goblins or preventing them from spawning, that could also be a logical cause of the lack of ambushes.

[Juason]

When a year passed in Fort mode, does a year pass across the World?  I've always wondered if other civilizations continue to evolve over time as your fort is evolving. 

Also, which world-gen file shows the goblin population?  The last few .12 worlds I've genned haven't shown any goblin #s in that file, though I see the goblins on the world map when looking for a place to embark upon.

[Veroule]

While I always love to see new versions, I'm afraid .13 and .14 have been unplayable for me. Quite literally, I can't get the damn thing to start.

 I keep getting "failed to start because application configuration is incorrect" error messages. Tried re-installing (well, deleting and redownloading, same dif) and no dice. It's the Windows SDL version if that helps.

This is an error message generated by one of the MSVC dlls.  It is looking for a .MANIFEST even though it shouldn't.  All of the older dll files are available as a seperate download.  I found my system only required "Microsoft.VC80.CRT.MANIFEST" to be added to the DF folder.

I'm having that same error and I want to play DF on my new(ish) computer. How would I go about adding that file?

You can download the older dll's and related files from here.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/old_dlls.zip
Unzip that wherever you like then copy the needed .MANIFEST files into your current DF folder; or you can just unzip all of the old dll files into your DF folder.

I am hoping that Toady figures out why it is looking for the older manifests.  I haven't found any dependency for those older dll's.

[Juason]

Hurgh, I am running into a new problem now.  I am unable to save my game!  Auto-Seasonal saves work, but when I go to save upon exit, nothing happens.  Any idea what might be going on?  I tried cleaning out the save directory of everything except the one spot I am working on, but that didn't seem to work.   

[alexxeno]

I must say, Thank you. For what ever reason, the game is running faster on my computer. Instead of taking an hour to do world gen it takes minutes, and instead of minutes to load a save, it now takes seconds. Cheers mate.

[Naros]

Hurgh, I am running into a new problem now.  I am unable to save my game!  Auto-Seasonal saves work, but when I go to save upon exit, nothing happens.  Any idea what might be going on?  I tried cleaning out the save directory of everything except the one spot I am working on, but that didn't seem to work.

Are you using Windows 7 and did you 'install' DF to Program Files?
There's a lot of rights and virtualisation going on there.

[Juason]

I am using Win7 64-bit, but don't know what you mean by Installing it to Program files.  The folders are just scattered on my desktop for the time being.  I was not having this problem previously with .14 so it may have something to do with taking a .12 world, dropping it into my .14 save directory, converting it and then starting a new game.  Any ideas on how I might fix it?

[greycat]

Are you running the df_savegame_updater.bat batch file to convert the save folder?

The... what?  This is quite literally the first time I've ever heard of such a file, or the need for one.  Is this something that's included in the Windows releases, or something that's supposed to be downloaded separately?  There's no such thing in the Linux releases, that's for sure:

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~/df_linux$ find . -iname '*update*'
~/df_linux$
Not that a Windows batch file would work on Linux, but... y'know....

[Uristoteles]

I am unable to save my game!  Auto-Seasonal saves work, but when I go to save upon exit, nothing happens.
...I was not having this problem previously with .14 so it may have something to do with taking a .12 world...

I had the same problem with a reclaimed .12 fortress, I thought this was caused by the reclaim function (which is buggy as I heared), but maybe it wasn't.
[saved my rl though, since I was forced to think about playing another season or not every now and then]

[FuzzyDoom]

While I always love to see new versions, I'm afraid .13 and .14 have been unplayable for me. Quite literally, I can't get the damn thing to start.

 I keep getting "failed to start because application configuration is incorrect" error messages. Tried re-installing (well, deleting and redownloading, same dif) and no dice. It's the Windows SDL version if that helps.

This is an error message generated by one of the MSVC dlls.  It is looking for a .MANIFEST even though it shouldn't.  All of the older dll files are available as a seperate download.  I found my system only required "Microsoft.VC80.CRT.MANIFEST" to be added to the DF folder.

I'm having that same error and I want to play DF on my new(ish) computer. How would I go about adding that file?

You can download the older dll's and related files from here.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/old_dlls.zip
Unzip that wherever you like then copy the needed .MANIFEST files into your current DF folder; or you can just unzip all of the old dll files into your DF folder.

I am hoping that Toady figures out why it is looking for the older manifests.  I haven't found any dependency for those older dll's.

Worked like a charm. Can't wait to see how this computer plays DF! Hopefully I'll get above 40 FPS...