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::Savok: I don't think that Pong will work (timing of p-plates isn't good at all)
 
::Savok: I don't think that Pong will work (timing of p-plates isn't good at all)
 
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Easy pathing fortress layout (not to scale)
 
 
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Trade Depot and main stairs entrance (walls/fortifications omitted).
 
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Below this level, replace down stairs with up/down stairs.
 
 
 
Residential buildings fitting for the resulting space blocks (to scale)
 
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Since Toady seems to use a volumetric instead of a planar approach* to distance calculation/pathing for jobs, this makes access to all areas for the dwarves very easy and lowers the amount of collision detection for entities. On my machine this enables me to play with a headcount of over 150 (where 100 was my previous maximum for personal endurable game speed).
 
 
(*) Volumetric means changing the z-level up or down by one is always a distance of 1 - regardless of the distance to the nearest stairway. This leads to "weird" behavior like dwarves ignoring nearby resources since the same resource is directly below the destination, one Z-level and hundreds of steps to the next stairway away.
 

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