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« Reply #600 on: July 27, 2013, 07:21:19 AM » |
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In some of the info it is mentioned that HQ will give your colony quotas every so often for certain items. Will this just be for standard resources, wood, stone, etc. or will HQ occasionally ask for more exotic items, 20 dragons teeth, 10 goblin heads, etc?
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« Reply #601 on: July 27, 2013, 07:25:13 AM » |
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They will start out being quite mundane and will grow more exotic over time.
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« Reply #602 on: July 27, 2013, 07:40:34 AM » |
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I am currently re-writing the way the dwarves decide what to do so that it is a centralized, synchronized system using the Hungarian Algorithm rather than the current decentralized, asynchronous system (which just randomly assigns tasks). The biggest and most embarassing bug right now (aside from crashes) in the prototype is one where the dwarves just sit around doing nothing because of a deadlock in task assignment. They will try to build the same room over and over even if there are no proper resources or if its already built. They will also sit there doing nothing because the resource they want to gather has been taken by another dwarf. My solution of just reserving items to certain dwarves did not fix the issue, since the dwarves are still assigned goals even when they are impossible to achieve. The new system will be "goal centric" rather than "agent centric". It will look through all the potential goals (gathering, digging, building, etc), and see which dwarves can fulfill those goals. It will then optimize an assignment of dwarves to tasks, and will have a queue of tasks for each dwarf. It's gonna take a while to make this work, but even if I don't I will still release the prototype tomorrow night. |
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« Reply #603 on: July 28, 2013, 09:59:45 AM » |
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« Reply #604 on: July 28, 2013, 10:23:18 AM » |
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« Reply #606 on: July 28, 2013, 12:22:31 PM » |
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Our early bird tier ($8) is all gone! Demo coming by 8PM EST tonight!
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« Reply #607 on: July 28, 2013, 12:32:51 PM » |
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 Congrats on reaching the halfway mark! You're absolutely going to make it. This is actually the first and only project I've backed on Kickstarter so I really wish good things to come of it for you. |
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« Reply #609 on: July 29, 2013, 11:23:17 AM » |
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The new system will be "goal centric" rather than "agent centric". Why not "pineapple centric"? |
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« Reply #610 on: July 29, 2013, 04:58:45 PM » |
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well done with the kickstarter guys, great to see! :D
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« Reply #611 on: July 29, 2013, 05:16:49 PM » |
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Thank you! Things have been happening a lot faster than we can react. I've been getting dozens upon dozens of emails a day, and now that the prototype is out, we're getting dozens of bug reports as well. I think to avoid burning out I'm going to take it a bit more slowly, avoid responding to *every* email, and get some friends to help me respond to questions (especially since most of the questions we get are answered in the FAQ already).
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« Reply #612 on: July 29, 2013, 06:15:29 PM » |
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The new system will be "goal centric" rather than "agent centric". Why not "pineapple centric"? Pineaple detonate that's why  |
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« Reply #613 on: July 29, 2013, 06:45:29 PM » |
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« Reply #614 on: July 29, 2013, 06:47:31 PM » |
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It's done no reason, unless mayan calendar apocalypse
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« Reply #615 on: July 30, 2013, 02:52:53 AM » |
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I was playing DF and realized that dwarfs are actually very much communists  I mean they share all the resources, get the same stuff independent of the work they've done and they don't get paid. Since DC is quite similar in those ways, it's quite funny that DC Dwarfs are capitalists XD |
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« Reply #616 on: July 30, 2013, 04:14:39 AM » |
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Indentured servitude? Economic slavery?
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« Reply #617 on: July 30, 2013, 03:30:29 PM » |
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I tried the game and it seems very cool!
It was hard to get the dwarfs to respond to my commands though. I also got a crash a couple minutes in when I dug a deep pit then told some dwarfs to go dig somewhere else, while they were in the pit.
Interesting. It could be that they are trying to plan out of the pit, but can't, then repeatedly call the planner over and over. |
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« Reply #618 on: July 30, 2013, 03:32:13 PM » |
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I was playing DF and realized that dwarfs are actually very much communists I mean they share all the resources, get the same stuff independent of the work they've done and they don't get paid. Since DC is quite similar in those ways, it's quite funny that DC Dwarfs are capitalists XD In DC you will pay your dwarves. They will then have to buy goods from the stockpiles to use them. So you make back a significant portion of the money. |
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« Reply #619 on: July 30, 2013, 04:55:47 PM » |
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You were featured twice on Indiecomplex.net!
But who cares we have 2 readers.
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