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Yeah I agree that we need some way to output strings including in their concacnated forms.

A few years back a Korean player actually came up with a way to export combined strings as they appear in game, and output an incomplete dictionary. Basically, these string arrays can be mapped to translations that then injected as a separate layer using native SDL funcitonality, which also relies on truetype fonts and unicode support.

If there is native support for this kind of data structures and truetype fonts (which I belive will be here very soon for the Steam version). Then not only it will help displaying the localized texts, it will make translation much easier and the product much much more sensible like RJCV mentioned.

There gonna be only two queens in europe soon.

kinda brings a sentimentalism of trend of history....

I enjoy the little niche here, with DF as it is, and probably what it will be.
Going big implies all sorts of things. Other than Toady's(and Threetoe's) "Life's work" as mentioned above. Going big and commercial means accelerating the production, and bringing the certain low tide of players' and/or investors' attention to come sooner, which is harder to get through, than what it is now: updating moderately slowly but steadily. Just as you are tired of playing the current version, the hope of upcoming major updates arises.
And for a great game DF is, commercialising is almost sure to bring prominent sum of new(er) players to it, whose passion for a game would dull over time, as we always do =)
That with the forthcoming emergence of future games in the same category, as what has been seen late days, e.g. Gnomoria, A Game of Dwarves and possibly Castle Story, The Dig-build-drink-fight-n'-lose-for-fun type of games. That means at certain point, a vaccum of new player would come for DF, and as most commercial game would come to a silent death, I suspect that would be true to DF if it commercialise, and such death might very well come much earlier than what would be a 1.0 finale down the current course.
And speaking of the crowdfunding thing, the projects' failing rate is simply too high. As much as a half on Kickstarter.

All in all, I wish Toady good health and don't change mind. So DF would be a game to play for my lifetime.

Okay this definitely reminds me of Minecraft !FUN!

a quick suggestion:
in the settings.exe, could you make the tooltip show the state of an option?
sometimes with different OS setting, part of the script of some buttons just doesn't show, especially the ON/OFF part. It has been very frustrating.

or simply make the button wider please.

I let the command line window print all  plug commands
and then I typed in "prospector", with returning message saying it's not a recognised command
It got me thinking, and suddenly I realised it was said in the top post as example, I should be using "prospect" instead of "prospector".

What a big confusion.

I'm learning mandarin and a bit of basic chinese. I don't really read or speak it well yet but I'm working on it with a bit of QQ help. I might be able to help you all though. If you want to, could you link the community? :p

Yes, indeed! Since you use QQ, you must know QQ群, go and search 165624149(not user ID) and I'll fill you in.

Is there a file I an edit which gives embark locations more iron..? This mod seemed to make Any form of iron, or any basic "Warfare metals" nonexistant, and It's really difficult as a somewhat new player to go about making a military when I can't even make the most basic metal equipment...

You may try and change mineral scarcity in advance world generation parameter to a lower number though.
Or you can go to raw\inorganic_stone_genesis and change the [ENVIRONMENT:] token of iron ores, to make them either appear in current environment more often, or in additional environment.
Better do both if you feel it is really a serious problem for you.
For the sake of FUN, I also suggest to harvest goblinite and its counterparts for a long term healthy metal production.

you can link a hatch cover to a lever and shut it as long as you like.
and what do you mean by "walked through" on the same level or different?