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non square could be the underlying thing, this one is long and narrow, and it doesnt happen to any fortress.  i was thinking maybe a sneaking action, except it is a siege and i didnt think they did that, i have been ambushed there and fended them off rather nicely, but then i tightened up the security to prevent the sneaking and the siege came.   so, the non-square edges-in-the-middle thing is a bug, and has it been reported?
 

king is definitely going military.  the planters went on strike there and just about everyone died like from 200 to 50 that was how i really knew i had vampires, they were the only ones that weren't miserable starving and parched.  that being said my living military was useless, but king vamp took care of the brain of each and every berserker, unarmed and unarmored.  im building a royal suit that opens near the main entrance, but is separate from those that need food and drink. 

would sending my king vamp into the face of his enemies armies eventually get me a living king?

Logem Rigothmorul, king vampire has come!

!?!?

Edit: i suppose i should explain some.  im not one for !!science!!  i just tell my dwarves to get to work.  so im building a nice fortress, nothing super yet, not even ready to tap my gold veins, and this guy shows up.  in unit status he is sixteen, basically unbreakable, unbelievably strong, incredibly quick to heal, and rarely sick, but clumsy.

i havnt really noticed a whole lot of vampirism, oh a couple of drained bodies over the years, but they seemed to go away as the goblins slaughtered my dwarves when they didnt make it over the drawbridge in time or i didnt get it up in time... anyway, assumed dead.

so... i have no idea where this is going.

i loved EE1 those were the days.  more recently it doesnt run on vista, any ideas?  i might have to find an old copy of XP just for this game really, though a lot of thing ran better on XP.  EE was great, the campains were quasi real like age of empires, and the scope of the game got really big.  and i think it is one of the only ones ive found that let you import your saves into the map editor and then back to the save.  just absurd, place a cliff all the way around your base, a space age defense on top, couple extra resources and start the game.  stone age opponents get zapped by your favorite towers... like i said absurd.  i had almost forgotten prophets too, silly of me.  rise of nations was good, but didnt hold a candle to ee in a lot of ways, but then i played a lot more ee.  id love to get this working again.

I think he's saying that there isn't enough contrast between a highlighted item on the main menu and a non-highlighted menu for him to differentiate between.

If that’s the case you should try and play around with the brightness and contrast settings on your monitor.  I don’t think that there are any options in the init files that will make your situation any easier.

Malt_Hitman has got it, it is the contrast between highlighted and non-highlighted.  My monitor is a tv screen on the other side of the room, and most other things look good with respect to the brightness settings and such, so id really like to get dwarf fortress to change its text color.  I really don't think this has been figured out anywhere else, and I'm willing to do just about anything short of dwarven sacrifice, but im out of ideas / skills.