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Re: "World generation takes a long time: 20 minutes on 2GHz, over 1 hour on 400M by E. L. Koba 09/07/2006, 10:20pm PDT
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

Ray of Light wrote:

Is this a joke?



I don't want to pass myself off as any kind of Dwarf Fortress guru. I've only just started playing it. But from what I can gather, that shot is just a small portion of the world and the game rejects a number of possible worlds that your dudes would get killed in until it finds a suitable one. Of course, with the worlds I'm given and my own low skill, I suspect my dwarves are killed much more quickly than they would be if I had simply been given a rejected world. A less hospitable place for my characters could only happen if the game generated and then ran FDISK.


the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!


Yah, it creates a huge fractally generated world, with room for like 50 different forts. Then it simulates ~1000 years of history, which creates the civilizations, place names, heros, legends, etc.

Example generated world
Some crazy guy's fort

It also has a rougealike rpg mode built in where you can just travel around the world and kill shit. If your character dies, then he becomes a legend in the world, along with whatever killed him. Also some mode I haven't tried out where you can bring a group of dwarves to re-conquer one of your abandoned forts.

But yes, those are the "graphics".
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