Addommondȗl, "Cloistergrave" the Succession Fortress

i run fortresses with 200+ dwarfs on a steady 60 fps

 

nerf

my units movement are slowed down when i got too many dwarfs

(the rest of the comp doesnt lagg though... f.ex. i can run a movie next to DF and the movie remain at high fps)

 

thats because dwarven fortress has a limit to howmuch it will use of the processor, its a safety switch to prevent A; superspeed dwarfs when your computer can run it easily and B; prevent your pc tubes clogging the OS when a lot of stuff is rendered


its an attribute of proper coding

 

but it only use 1 of my 4 cores leaving me with more than plenty of capacity left... it makes me sadden.

 

if you use windows there is a partial way around by setting it up as high priority

i bet rampantandroid can help you with that

 

i suppose that your quad cores combined with each other when you put them into an oven

 

i never put the quad cores in ovens

i just have a very good computer because of work

i just found it comedical that a game that looks like dwarf fortress needs so much power

 

exactly, although i woudnt mind if they code in a "global memory" for the dwarven, whereas they remember what path previous dwarfs used and build on that to get somewhere, it would lighten the pathing cycle (the main slower when you have lots of dwarfs)

 

Yeah but then if it picks a retarded path your dwarves are stuck with it.

It would be kinda funny though when you put in a new tunnel to ease traffic and the dwarves don't use it out of habit (for a while)

 

woudnt real people not do exactly the same?

im thinking about a variable that uses the how "traditional" a dwarf is to calculate how often he will use the old trusted path

freethinking dwarfs will use the normal pathing cycle more often, as they find it fun to explore, when they finished to there destination, a route will be drawn consisting of 15 to 30 tile paths, using the path means the dwarf will walk from tile 1 to tile 30, then check "do i want to take the next path, or do i want to start using normal walking routine again?" if it takes normal walking routine from there, he will in turn draw an alteration path from the previous ending point, if a certain path isn't used for an entire season it dissapears

also im not thinking about a path is the road from start to finish, but more like a 15-30 tile path that ends where another 15-30 tile path starts

because of these strips of 15 to 30 tile paths, dwarfs will occasionally run past a corridor and then go back on there steps a few paces when using the next path, but as soon as a dwarf finds a more economical route (by not passing by the corridor) everyone will take the more economical new route

this could make the pathing cycle 25% lighter if you have a 50% traditional dwarf population, and it kinda makes sense too, people do it just the same if not less organised

 

*Bump*

Fortress update?
If it fucked up we could start a new one in an easier environment, and perhaps use dig deeper?

 

Suggestion: begin the fortress in a terrifying climate, with magma vein, water source, flux stones and 500 size CAVE

and a chasm and/or demon pit just for the hell of it

 

Magma pipe/vent/pool and a bottomless pit in a 1x1 space perchance?
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-701-shortestfortever

 

this died

 

*blame the people ignoring their turns*

 

Yeah that's right. It's time for a little discipline, I think. I'm going to remove Majortom and Nattaboy from the rotation. Should we have empty take his turn now, or should we start the 2nd round?

 

definetly 2nd round.
gief a "fun" enviroment ^_^

and by fun i mean the DF type

edit: get some max sized caves and then enbark on the corner of the cave tiles... that way u get _all_ the inhabitants despite only seing a small part of the cave (which means u can get all the normal stuff on the map aswell) :D
+make sure to stop the clock at like... year 10 or something... more mega beasts that way

 

please ,please,please give the first 2 years to exp. players

i have no interest in playing in such badly designed fort like the first one was.

 

/agree