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vihaKirbonium Next time I die, I get a free sundae! from Limbo City Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Robosexual
Next time I die, I get a free sundae!
#2076: May 14th 2013 at 9:26:25 AM

I shal be a Legendary Swordsman before one of you monsters absolutely destroys Beigeknife in a torrent of burning magma and ARMOK-ORDAINED FUN. Aw hell we all know that's the point anyway. I just want to see how many hilarious ways I can go out before this place combusts. Last time I had a dorf on a succession game, I died no less than 8 times, each previous dorf becoming a Legend in his craft. Needless to say, it took for-krutzing-ever for the overseers on that game to send the fortress into a massive tantrum spiral.

"'LEEROY, JE- *shot in the head*' - the battle cry of the Viha." — Madnessincarnate
Ringsea He Who Got Gud from Fly-Over Country,USA Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
He Who Got Gud
#2077: May 14th 2013 at 9:33:40 AM

[up][up]Your fine last I had it

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#2078: May 14th 2013 at 1:43:22 PM

Hey Ringsea it says can't access the archive. Is there a dl link of some sort you can give that works instead?

Also you uploaded the world gen file.

edited 14th May '13 1:45:42 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?
TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#2079: May 14th 2013 at 1:47:32 PM

Ok go into the folder you have DF in, find the data folder, and then the save folder.

edited 14th May '13 1:47:44 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?
Hyokai Since: Dec, 2009
#2080: May 14th 2013 at 2:57:43 PM

[Sorry to interrupt, but I think I have a way to kill our frame rate (and enemies) while doing !Science! in a manner befitting our location in the desert]

edited 14th May '13 8:05:27 PM by Hyokai

Ringsea He Who Got Gud from Fly-Over Country,USA Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
He Who Got Gud
#2081: May 14th 2013 at 3:12:52 PM

BLARG. I try to do the data-save thing, but it won't let me choose to upload those files. Can I just upload my entire game, or email it. Or something. I have no idea why this won't work.

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#2082: May 14th 2013 at 4:47:28 PM

Put the save in a .zip or .rar file and upload that.

Hyokai: We are trying to free up frame rate not fully murder it.

edited 14th May '13 4:47:50 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?
Hyokai Since: Dec, 2009
#2083: May 14th 2013 at 8:10:01 PM

[up]Er.. you tell me, what would something like this do to our frame rate if it was sparingly used:

Earlier today I discovered Impulse Ramps and [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=120935 rhesusmacabre's]] results on testing them, and my forum avatar accurately represents my grin at the realization: Dwarven Synchrotrons! Or, as I prefer to call them, ☼Dwarven Carticle Accelerators☼note 

Description:
The carts are started from four points surrounding the accelerator (A through D)which immediately hit the first two impulse ramps each to jump the tracks and enter the accelerator loop. The carts are prevented from any further jumping by being forced to circle the loop at ever-increasing speed until one of the two bridges are lowered. The small 1x1 bridge in the top right allows emergency shutdowns against the backstop wall (E).
Access to the chamber can come from the locked doors to the lower right maintenance tunnel (keep cart storage down this tunnel), in the exit tunnel (keep locked and unoccupied when firing), or from the control room. The lever near the corridor to the chamber controls the 5x1 bridge acting as a door into the chamber.
In the upper right and lower right corners of the control room are two levers that raise the blast shutters in front of their respective windows (purely aesthetic, I assure you). The levers in the upper left and lower left control the doors into the exit tunnel, machinery access hatch, and maintenance tunnel, respectively.
The quartet of levers in the upper half of the control room lower the safeties on the individual cart insertion tracks (clockwise from top-left, A, B, C, D).
In the bottom half of the control room is the lever controlling the emergency stop bridge that leads to the backstop at (E).
In the center right of the control room is the lever that raises and lowers the bridge acting as the release for the accelerated carts into the exit tunnel. Two or three times around the accelerator loop should give each cart the equivalent speed of falling down 31 to 39 Z-level ramps.

██████████████████████████████║║++║█^(Access Tunnel & Cart Exit)
██████████(Entry)███████████████║║++║█|███████████
════════════════════╗█████████║║++║█████████████
++++++++++++++++++++++++║█████████║║++╠════╗████████
++++++++++++++++++++++++║█████████║║++╪++++║████████
════════════════╗+++║█████████║║++║■B++║████████
████████████████║+++║█████████║║++║b+++╚════╗███
████████████████║+++║█████████║║++║║++++++++║███
████████████████║+++║█████████║║++║╚++++++++║███
███████████████╔╩═╪═╩══╦══════╝b══╝╚+++++E++║███
███████████████║ó+++++ò╬bA■b═╚╚╔╚╚╚╗b════║++║███
███████████████║+++++++╬b++++++╝+++╔++++++++║███
███████████████║+++++óó╬b++++++╝+++╔++++++++║███
(Control Room)█████║+++++óó╬b++++++╝+++╔++++++++║███
[1Z Higher?]███████║+++++++╬b+++++║╚╗╗╗╝╔╔═b■C++║███
███████████████║+++++++║+++++++╗+++═++++++++║███
███████████████║++++++ó╬b++++++╗++++++++++++║███
███████████████║+++++++╬b++++++║++++++++++++║███
███████████████║++++++ò╬b++++++b+++++++++++¢║<—(Hatch cover to underworks
███████████████║ó++++++╬b++++++■D+++++++++++║███housing bridge machinery)
███████████████║ó+++ó+ò╬b+++++++++++++++++++║███
███████████████╚╦═╪═╦══╩═════╦bbbbb╦═══╦╪╪╦═╝███
████████████████║+++║████████║+++++║███║++║█████
████████████████║+++║████████║+++++║███║++╚═════
████████████████║+++╚════════╝+++++║███║++++++++ ——>
████████████████║++++++++++++++++++++║███║++++++++ (Maintenance Access)
████████████████║++++++++++++++++++++║███╚════════
████████████████╚═════════════════╝████████████
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So, in operation, I can see it going like this: Once the carts are loaded onto points A through D, the safeties for each are disengaged (changing the bridges from walls to 1x1 tracks) to allow the carts into the loop. Once each cart hits the two up-ramps in its loading spur, it should have enough speed to jump the track and enter the loop. Once the cart(s) are loaded, they should enter a perpetual loop that keeps the carts from jumping the tracks by having walls at the turns, or bridges in their "up" positions.
The carts can be stopped by lowering the 1x1 bridge to allow (supposed) safe shutdown by diverting the carts into the backstop at (E), or the 1x4 bridge can be lowered to allow the high-speed carts to shoot off into the targeting tunnel of your choice. Additionally, magma might be allowed to enter and exit the chamber or exit tunnel at a point that allows the carts to fill with it before leaving and colliding with targets.

Since this !Science! is being conducted in an underground test chamber beneath a desert, I suggest the name for the dwarf responsible for inserting the carts be "Urist Freeman".

There has got to be an easier way to present this, besides an in-game screenshot for something I don't have installed. What I pasted into the text entry, what I drew in Notepad, and the end result all differ from each other.

edited 14th May '13 8:46:13 PM by Hyokai

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#2084: May 14th 2013 at 8:15:52 PM

I have a sneaking suspicion it would further murder the frame rate which from reports has been thoroughly mauled. Once I get the save and clear up the FPS a bit we will see. I have my own evil plans.

Who watches the watchmen?
Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
Overlording the Underworld
#2085: May 14th 2013 at 8:28:15 PM

[up][up]I support that naming scheme.

Journal of Journeyman the ??? Date "What a dream"

I just woke up from the most . . . something dream of my life. I don't know what to make of it. Armok was a mad scientist stitching together dead cats and dwarves into Centaurs. He gifted to them to other people like me, but the lazy gits wouldn't do any work!

I must know what it means.

(In short, I modded. Tried to use pets to get around slavery issues, and it failed. Oh well, my dreams of twenty to thirty person embarkations will have to wait until further advancements.)

edited 14th May '13 8:30:51 PM by Journeyman

Hyokai Since: Dec, 2009
#2086: May 14th 2013 at 8:39:56 PM

Well, had my earlier idea for a massive booze explosion been feasible, I could have unveiled my idea for the Terrible Rate-Increase Nullifier Incorporating Tremendous Yield test to be performed in the Tower of Decadence.
I guess I'll have to be content with whatever Tuefel's got in mind; I've been waiting for a couple months to see it.

Rotpar Always 3:00 am in the Filth (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Always 3:00 am in the Filth
#2087: May 14th 2013 at 9:33:38 PM

I must admit, uploading the program is a perfectly Dorfy thing to happen. It's like Urist running to load the catapult and delivering the boulder to the clown.

But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you.
Azreal341 Since: Jan, 2011
#2088: May 15th 2013 at 8:59:49 AM

I think the following is an accurate in-character summary of upload problems:

Azreal's Journal Date: Unknown

Today I dreamed that I fell asleep and dreamed that I fell asleep and dreamed that I fell asleep and dreamed that I fell asleep and dreamed that I fell asleep and dreamed that I fell asleep and

The sentence continues half the page.

And then I dreamed I woke up and went to work only to wake up and go to work only to wake up and go to work only to wake up and go to work only to wake up and go to work only to wake up and go to work

This sentence continues for the rest of the page.

And now I'm not sure if I'm actually awake or not. Furthermore my booze keeps disappearing. Krutzing Rotpar.

Hermunster Fio is Best Commando from Over There Since: Jan, 2013
Fio is Best Commando
#2089: May 15th 2013 at 2:32:33 PM

Hermunster's Log, V-D Day:

After countless weeks of rioting, chaos, and acknowlegding work orders but idling in the Great Hall instead, the rebellion against Ringsea's insane, even by Beigeknife's standards!, rule has finally collapsed and the mad-dwarf has abdicated the Overseership. Political prisoners and children were freed across the Fort and all are celebrating mightily before the time comes to nominate a new overseer.

Even as I write this, I'm sitting in the Great Hall with my children and husband, feasting on plump helmets and drinking fine mead. After so much has happened it almost feels surreal but I'm so happy to have my whole family back together again! To see my angels laughing and playing with my husband at the table, as if nothing had ever happened to tear us all apart fills me with joy. And my husband; I've never been so proud of him. He was the one who took the keys and freed the children from the IHOP as Ringsea's so-called rule collapsed.

As I see all the Fort celebrating as one, I can honestly believe that the future holds good things for us here in Beigeknife.

Ringsea He Who Got Gud from Fly-Over Country,USA Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
He Who Got Gud
#2090: May 15th 2013 at 2:50:48 PM

[up]The children were happy! YUNOHAPPY??!

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Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
Overlording the Underworld
#2091: May 15th 2013 at 7:05:40 PM

The Iron Skirt needed to drop, and it did. tongue

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#2092: May 15th 2013 at 7:32:17 PM

I am helping Ringsea sort out the save issues I will let you guys know as soon as we get the issue taken care of.

Who watches the watchmen?
Ringsea He Who Got Gud from Fly-Over Country,USA Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
He Who Got Gud
#2093: May 16th 2013 at 2:53:43 PM

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=7659

Maybe this'll work. I turned it into a ZIP.

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Caspellaer Since: Sep, 2012
#2094: May 16th 2013 at 5:28:18 PM

I'm pretty sure that's the world gen file again.

Ringsea He Who Got Gud from Fly-Over Country,USA Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
He Who Got Gud
#2095: May 16th 2013 at 5:41:25 PM

It's telling me it's the world parm thing, which the wiki says it what I want.

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TuefelHundeNIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
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#2096: May 16th 2013 at 5:55:47 PM

We want the actual save folder. It contains all the important bits.

Who watches the watchmen?
Ringsea He Who Got Gud from Fly-Over Country,USA Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
He Who Got Gud
#2097: May 16th 2013 at 6:01:54 PM

... What would that be called and what not? I can't just upload the "save" for whatever reason.

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Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
Overlording the Underworld
#2098: May 16th 2013 at 6:55:25 PM

It'd be the folder titled "Region __" with the number of whatever region Beigeknife is. It's inside the saves folder.

Ringsea He Who Got Gud from Fly-Over Country,USA Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
He Who Got Gud
#2099: May 16th 2013 at 7:03:13 PM

When I open the Region 1, which is Biegeknife, it gives me the "Raw" and all the unit and art stuff. What do?

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Caspellaer Since: Sep, 2012
#2100: May 16th 2013 at 7:09:37 PM

... Did you abandon? Because that is not something you want to do.

edited 16th May '13 7:10:00 PM by Caspellaer


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