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G'day.

I feel a bit silly for making yet another nit-picking suggestion, but here goes:
For my own legibility, text belonging to the same announcement should be indented when sent to a new line. At least when tightly packed.

Taken from the most recent blog-post:

G'day all.
I've just watched the the most recent video release of the graphical version and thought of two suggestions on the spot.
I feel a bit out of place as I'm sure they may have been suggested elsewhere, but I couldn't find any referring to the graphical release under this board.

When assigning rooms to particular citizens, I'd personally find it useful to be able to sort the list alphabetically. The most recent version of this suggestion I could find was from back in 2016, though I thought suggesting it again may be relevant due to the menu work.

Secondly, I had noticed that in the video, creatures disappeared when dropping a z-level despite the level being rendered. I think it would be far easier to track movements if creatures remained rendered, though with the same filter applied as to the z-level. Something similar was suggested just the other day.

G'day everyone.

I've just downloaded the latest update, and I'm very much enjoying the new information interface for Adventure mode.
I'd just like to suggest that Site Government groups could appear in their parent civilisation tab.
Furthermore (I haven't checked, so I wouldn't know if it's already applied) it'd be nice if those groups / civilisations that I'm hostile with would have red names.

That's all for me, thanks for reading.

About 3 days ago, I experienced the strangest glitch I ever had. It took me this long to verify that I hadn't stuffed up in some way.

All was normal, I started up my game and unretired my adventurer. Instantly I knew something was wrong, for I had retired my adventurer in a human town and then unretired in a dwarven hillocks. No biggy, I thought, my adventurer probably went out for a stroll. (It couldn't have been a different save for my adventurer had the same name, armour and the adventurer's log recorded all the same locations and events) I opened the adventurer log to look at the map to find my town 'Flighturges'. I didn't recognise the map at all, I was completely disoriented. That's alright, I thought, I went to my locations tab and tried to zoom to my known locations. They didn't exist, yet they did in the adventurer log. I was baffled beyond words. In one last attempt to make sense of the situation, I opened a map I had of my world. I couldn't match the map with my location. My adventurer was in another universe.

As you can imagine, I was quite upset at the situation. I opened up the task manager and forced the game to crash. Once I restarted it all was normal, my adventurer was in the town that I had retired in, all the locations existed again and I went on as usual. It must've been a dream.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? Is it possible my adventurer had simply moved, forgotten previously known locations, drawn a new map, and that the fault was mine in being unable to match the location? So far I've been unable to recreate the bug, I've done exactly as I have before.

Under the "Other bug fixes / tweaks" section of the devlog it is stated that:

" *"Really attack?" gives more information "

Does anyone know what this is referring to? I imagined that it would provide information on which groups I'm becoming hostile towards, which groups approve of my behaviour and the existing relationship between these two groups when I attack someone.

Ever since I became a lord in Adventure mode, it's quite hard to understand who it is that's on my side, and who isn't.

Also, my Hearths-People constantly remind me that there is an insurrection going on, but don't provide me any information on the leader, their numbers or their location. Is there anyway I can root out information without retiring, viewing the legends mode list and risk my adventurer being overthrown / killed in the un-retirement process?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Yes, another suggestion for gods.

The way in which worldgen creates deities which effectively have power from one corner of the map to another, yet had worship limited to the confines of a single civilisation or village seemed disturbing. In a world which the inhabitants take their lives and their gods seriously, a disturbed feeling is warranted. Although changing this system would have effectively no change on current game play (Such as current Fortress and Adventure modes) it would have impact on world generation and the extent of a players power, when chosen to play as a deity (Whenever and if that would be implemented).

Yes, I understand game play elements involving deities are said to expand within future updates including things like proper worship, however I didn't believe that the current set up was properly evaluated to begin these expansions. So no, I'm not stating that "Deities should get updated" rather "How I imagine the updated deities should behave".

Onto the actual suggestion: Effectively they behave as the nymphs and dryads of forests and lakes. As the world generates certain land features should be possessed by the spirit of their own existence, and these spirits should be effectively limited by their features. i.e. A mountain would be possessed by a 'spirit of mountains' and their power would spread to the extent of said mountain range - and possibly into some of the surrounding country side. Mortal inhabitants of such mountain range would perceive such acts of the mountain spirit and worship it as a deity. The deity may create creatures and titans to virtually expand its influence via their proxy.
Certain extents of this would be that deities hope for and require worshippers to extend their reach beyond their possessed biome and into the sanctuaries and temples of worshippers. Furthermore, it would filter out certain obsolete deities within certain civilisations. e.g. The landlocked mountain worshippers, having never seen an ocean, would not have need or desire to worship a deity associated with oceans - automatically creating a hierarchy of deities within pantheons.

This is not to say this is the only deity of mountains, far north another possible mountain range bearing another civilisation would have their own worshippers and limitations. If and when the player may be able to control one of these deities, they would be provided with another form of individual game play rather than a Fortress or Adventure mode clone.

Hopefully I've been able to communicate my point effectively and within reason. Please critique and include your own suggestions.
Furthermore, I'd like your opinions on how abstract concepts such as deities of death, weather and truth should/could be handled.

The way that the goblins every now and then pop up to steal the dwarven children got me thinking... There are many fairy-tales and myths that goblins and fairies would steal human children and replace them with their own (to cause mischief and whatnot), this child would then grow up believing it is a human and then be chased out of town with claims that it was mutated demon spawn (or something like that  ) or would remain in town getting up to all sorts of no good...

I would like to put this suggestion forward to add more depth to child abduction instead of just 'abduct and rescue'
also before I get bombarded with 'planned' or anything else, I simply posted this to ask people opinion on the matter.