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[Talvieno]

All those mechanisms, all those axles... I almost feel sorry for your dwarven slave laborers. But not quite.

[PhantomXD]

Power lines. There is much.

Over 9000?

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[MaximumZero]

All those mechanisms, all those axles... I almost feel sorry for your dwarven slave laborers. But not quite.

Why would you? They're making history. With their beards.

[BloodBeard]

Power lines. There is much.

Over 9000?

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Almost.

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It's going to be 4 or 5 times more when the other gears and pumps are built, which has me thinking of power reactors. I thought my OU-reactor design would be alright in providing all the power, and it can, but I can only imagine the lag it would produce. It would probably hurt FPS more then the A.I, so i'm thinking about using wind. If I pave the sky with windmills I can output 50-60k Uristwatts. I don't know how much lag that many windmills would produce but its got to be better them 200 pumps constantly moving water around.

The good news though for people cringing at the power requirements and wondering if you'll even be able to run it yourself, the amount of power NEEDED will be roughly a quarter of that if everything was running at once. A very large chunk of the gears are deactivated at any given time, moreso even when you're typing something on the display because whole sections need to be deactivated in order to work on an individual section.

[sobriquet]

Clearly the next step after initial product implementation is to equip the terminal to a radio transmitter, some nanofactories (we'll definitely have matter synthesizers by the time DF is fully done), and let it build itself in real life, with people as the dwarfs.

Just saying.

[Mego]

Clearly the next step after initial product implementation is to equip the terminal to a radio transmitter, some nanofactories (we'll definitely have matter synthesizers by the time DF is fully done), and let it build itself in real life, with people as the dwarfs.

Just saying.

And then...

PROFIT!

[BloodBeard]

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What's that? Giant shadow? I'm sure it's nothing. Get back to work.

[Loud Whispers]

It's happening.... DwarfNet is going online.

[Urist Imiknorris]

This isn't going to be Dorfnet. It'll be GlaDORF.

[Musashi]

With magma instead of neurotoxins.

[Loud Whispers]

With magma instead of neurotoxins.

Guess what the surprise is.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Obsidian.

[BloodBeard]

Support system for the wind farm is complete:

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I won't build the windmills yet, they'll just cause unnecessary lag. All in all it can support 704 windmills which when you subtract the costs of support gears and the axles connecting them will output 23,234 Uristwatts, or 2,323 dwarfpower if you will. I don't know if it will be enough but i'm hoping.

So comes the moment i've been dreading. I don't have anything else to do but start linking pressure plates... *sigh*

Updates from this point forward may contain crankyness and an increased number of obscenities.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I don't think windmills cause lag at all actually. Think about it - wind isn't actually represented in the game, so a windmill is just a 3x3 building that makes power.

[Mego]

Updates from this point forward may contain crankyness and an increased number of obscenities.

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