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I see two key things that are necessary to let graphics improve dramatically.

First, is open up png support. This is already on the horizon anyhow, should show up sooner or later.

Second, allow the tileset to be extended. our hard limit of 255 different "tiles" is really crippling. Many of these tiles are already overloaded with two or more very different uses in game. If we can get some decent support for doing an extended tileset I think the community would fill in the gaps quite quickly and really make DF look very nice.

As for the maybe some day ideas, It would be nice to extend this into an isometric system like the visualizer is trying to do, but that is a lot to ask for anytime soon I think. This is not to say I wouldn't love seeing it, but I'm not holding my breath for any sort of 3d game display in DF.

I would really enjoy seeing this one show up as a feature one day. It just doesn't feel properly dwarfy without at least dwarf powered mine carts. Actual powered trains of any kind might be asking a bit much since that didn't really start until the 1800's or so. But unpowered minecarts have been around for much longer.

Retro really stepped up and did a ton of work on getting the new information into the wiki quite quickly which has certainly made the transition a bit easier. But I still hate the new system. Sure it's powerful and has potential to do some great things, but it's got a lot of problems as things stand.

selecting soldiers is a huge pain
The old way, 40d uses the same familiar old unit list, you get to see job classifications in color, you get to see full names not sloppily abbreviated names, it works quickly and easily, all in all, much cleaner solution.

The new way (0.31), you get the same information shoved into 1/3 of the screen width, names are abbreviated strangely, it's not in color, it makes no distinction between soldiers already in a squad and everybody else, etc. I HATE IT!!!

Even with some of the crash bugs nailed down already the new military gives me all sorts of headaches.

- height of tunnels, 1x1 1x2 would be good, 1x5 is a bit silly.
- height of larger open space doesn't bother me as is at 5 z levels or so.

World gen parameters to control the height either or both formations would be pretty nifty though.

I kind of like it.

Mind you I plan on using obsidian farming to make the bulk of my fort suddenly because it's going to look like total crap if I don't, but actually being able to find stuff is nice.

I would not object to a world gen parameter on this one though, since I do understand that some people would prefer the world to be a bit less mineral rich. If we do go down this road, the current amount of mineral richness should be the max setting. Can't be letting things be "too" easy.

now this... I agree with. This was actually one of my very first thoughts when I saw the new skill organizations.

We have lava lakes now, It would just be really nice to be able to build a water wheel out of magma safe materials and power it with flowing magma.