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Fortress players will be angry about everything, particularly with the “lack of new features” (despite having multi-tile trees, possibly 3D veins, and all the new plants and special sites). Adventure mode players will get angry about dying in new ways, despite the new sites and evolution of the world.

Yeah I tend to agree with this. In some ways it's making me even not look forward to the next update. Then again I've always been critical of Toady's development strategy and priorities.

hopefully the game will be updated on a more frequent basis from now on though.

History says otherwise. The pattern is to have a major release followed by a period of some activity before going dark again. There will generally be some loose threads that aren't trimmed once the dark period begins, and your enjoyment of that major iteration of DF will hinge greatly on how those loose threads impact your play, because you can't count on a fix.

Life's too short not to backup interesting sites.

And with world-gen taking ever longer, I'm far more likely to hang on to the really good ones.

I went another way. I standardized most (90%) of the materials.

If the game has 200 different creatures, and each has 10 bodyparts, and you can make leather/thread out of them, and you can make 20 different items with this, you have thousands upon thousands of different item types to keep track of.

I only have 1 of each. Leather is Leather, every Leather item is just that, "leather" item. No custom names in front. All trees give "wood" and so forth. Same goes for blood, silk, meat, milk, bones, you name it... I left some things in for flavor, but I had reports from players that had about 25% increase in framerate (even with temperature on) and one posted that his 150 dwarf-fortress was still running at 150 FPS.

I'm curious about this for aesthetic reasons. I'd much rather have 50 'Wooden Doors' than 50 different entries for oak, ceder, pine, whatever... even if there were no performance gain.

Details?

Who are you and why are you playing a roguelike ?

I'm just someone that doesn't always equate 'less complex' with 'dumbed down'.

I for one wouldn't complain if the all the necessary steps that need to be taken just to make dig a well in DF were *ahem* 'dumbed down'. There are some people that like everything you need to go through in order to do what should be basic things, such as building beds before you can build...a bed... :/

I've learned not to argue with people whose identity of Dwarf Fortress is built on those grounds, because they and I are in it for entirely different reasons. The above sort of nuisances are things i merely tolerate about DF and hope to see go away as future versions (EDIT: Or entirely different products) get more refined.

Also no game can beat DF in complexity. We shall win.

That's not necessarily a good thing. 

My dwarfs live in above ground houses, digging underground only for storage basements and raw materials.

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