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Do you like the vague names, or do you want real names?
Knife, Pistol, .45 Semiauto, etc. Do you like it like this, or would you want more real names?

Keep things as generic as possible. Don't even mention the caliber, just make it "light pistol" or "heavy pistol". If you use real names, you'll end up having to implement half a gazillion of different guns (with negligible difference in game terms) just because people complain that their favorite isn't in the game yet.

I would eliminate spray cans as actual items and just subtract some money whenever spray cans are used.

More minor things:

- Tailoring (as in making clothing, not selling T-shirts) appears to be too profitable while being completely free of danger. Coupled with the low costs of most activities, this makes money a non-issue during 99% of the game.

This could be addressed by increasing tailoring materials cost (which has the additional benefit of making stealing fine cloth more useful) and/or assigning costs to activities that are currently free (liberal disobedience - costs for props; hacking, costs for internet connection/computer maintenance; general upkeep costs per Liberal - food, etc.)

- It would be interesting if the court could also hand down fines instead of (or in addition to, hehe) prison terms.

- Training street sense by stealing cars (and then breaking off the attempt) is a recipe for RSI, but pretty much the only way of getting it to a level where the other activities that train it (selling brownies, mostly) can be done without getting arrested immediately. Also, graffiti evidently only trains street sense if the artist actually gets spotted. A Liberal doing anything in public while being wanted by the police should also get some street sense training if he isn't caught.

This could be addressed by having spraying graffiti generally train street sense, and maybe by liberal disobedience training both persuasion and street sense (since it benefits from both of these skills).

- Managing large numbers of recruiting sessions is also a recipe for RSI. Recruiting could be changed by having each Liberal hold only one session for all of his candidates per day. This eliminates the danger of missing an appointment, which could be replaced by having the recruiting session turn sour if there are too many candidates, or candidates with widely differing views (e.g. bank manager plus a bunch of hippies - session turns sour and some or all of the candidates leave).

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Originally posted by Tetsu:
<STRONG> but I was curious if people would see this as *truely* invincible as I think it is, or if theres a way that goblins could get past it.</STRONG>

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I'm still waiting for goblin sappers to be implemented. Then you'd have to put up some emergency walls and/or try to attack them in their tunnel.

And for _real_ nastiness, how about sappers that try to flood the fortress with water/magma ?

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Originally posted by Tamren:
<STRONG>What i normally do is knock out big apartment blocks made up of 3X3 rooms.

It certainly keeps the dwarves happy, but i find myself lacking for room.
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Why ? You've got several Z levels to stack dwarf lockers on top of each other.

I usually make my bedrooms 2x3, using a slight variation on the "living pods" that can be found in the wiki. That makes 14 bedrooms per floor, and it can go down until I hit the bottom of the map.

Somehow, a bit of rotten meat ended up in a kitchen, but none of my dwarves wants to take it to the refuse pile (I've also tried marking it as "Dump") - it just gets ignored (and yes, there are unemployed refuse haulers standing around).

How do I get rid of it ? Do I need to remove the kitchen and rebuild it ?

Related to this, could there be an option to mark magma vents on the regional map ? Right now I spend more time looking for them than actually playing the game (yeah, I'm a perfectionist, so what   ).

As far as I've found out through the wiki, wild animals (except for fish in streams/rivers) don't restock.

Would it be possible for the game to keep track of wildlife density and have animals migrate out/in if the density is too high/low ?

Hey, that's just what I wanted to post !

Anyway, I second this idea.