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Life is, in a word, recursion.

With the singer tag, maybe put in an additonal variable, that goes from 0-2, where 0 is the aforementioned attractive effect, 2 is a repulsive one (banshee scream that makes everyone flee perhaps?) and 1 is a neutral effect, all with the relevant mood effects.



edit; typo

Back compatibility won't be an issue if he manages to squeeze it in before the next update, as it will break compat anyway. Also, just out of curiosity, what were you making that required two units of fuel?

Already in, albeit without it specifically being a gem.

From the first page,

Living Rock: (I) A true endolith, perhaps a "breed" of rock exists that repopulates itself using a system similar to Conway's Life algorithm. Providing an endless amount of stone, it could be a rather large nuisance: blocking tunnels, filling rooms, and potentially encasing sleeping dwarves.

Nah, just make the cistern with a sloped bottom,

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Does it mean that making room for better graphics is just as bad as "palin' around" with the pro-graphics terrorists that hate America's youth?

The spinning *bad pun* strikes the forum in the thread. The thread explodes in gore. The forum has been struck down.



On topic;

Like I said earlier, I'm happy with ASCII. Hence I derive no real value from the graphics updates, and would much rather the time is spent on the current arc.  If Toady can seperate the various characters used in different applications easily and quickly, go for it. However, I have a strange feeling that this is going to be a long and painful task.

Hence, I look it as this; we take a significant chunk of time off developing something that is going to be enjoyed by all (seriously, army arc + adventurer skills? I might just get me a credit card so I can actually donate), to spend it instead on something that is going to be enjoyed by maybe half the population? I'd rather not.

Toady will get around to it eventually. However, let it happen when it happens, don't try and rush it in (and probably introduce a whole swath of new bugs in the process).

I understand this will probably be at odds with several people, but meh, it's how I feel about the subject.

Honestly, I prefer KoE's idea. Think about it, if the flow that pushed the imp into the grate lasts for more than one tick, the imp can get pushed through multiple tiles.
KoE's increases the time taken to traverse the filter, hence increasing the likelihood the current will end, and the imp will be trapped.

Further, KoE's idea allows for safer extraction of the captured imps for fire turrets.