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When they're standing there all peacefull BEFORE you clicked deny or accept their petition, the dwarves seem to regard them as entirely harmless and will happily go into the middle of the goblin army and pick up socks to store in bins.

I feel like the sight of a goblin army waiting for a parley should make the dwarves think the water buffalo feces are about to hit the blades of the windmill and scare them so they run away.

I suggest to add a whole new mode to the game so that you can play as a megabeast.

I think it would be hugely fun to assault sites as a beast and watch the inhabitants flee in terror. The thought of attacking as a forest retreat as a dragon and watching the flames consume everything is also very appealing to me.

You could also assault your own retired forts.

If beast mode pulled numbers from legends so you get a list of the most deadly and destructives creatures in the history of the world plus the most deadly rampages, it would surely be fun to try and be the top beast of the world.

Also you can challenge yourself by playing as a forgotten beast made of vomit or fire.

Citadels in towns are nice and all, but sadly I can't really go there. All the people crammed into the tower grinds the game to a crawl, often times also crashes it.

I suggest redesigning the citadels to space out the residents more, and hopefully this can help enough with the FPS so it becomes a joyfull thing to visit them and not an activity of anguish.

1) Make the tower taller, like twice as tall. Then they have more levels to hand out on.

2) Create maybe 3 different towers. One for the white-collar workers like architects and lawyers. One for the ruler and his closest people, like his family and bodygards and the most high-up people. And one for the sort of lower hangarounds like the religious people.

3) Maybe some of the citadel-dwellers could be put out into the town as such to decrowd the citadel and spice up the city. The religious people could hang in temples, the law-oriented people could be in some sort of justice hall etc. I think cities would be cooler without it being like so divided with the town has just like shop keepers and peasants and the citadel is just jam packed with "important" people. It would be nice to sometimes spot an archtect or a judge on the street or in the tavern.

So in my current fort I have workshops set permamently to decorate with shells and bones.

A side effect of this is that I cannot trade with the Elves, as pretty much everything is decorated with shell and/or bone and they don't take that.

Anyway, I have ignored the Elven caravan for like 6-7 game years as t's no use trying to trade with them anyway, and noticed I am not getting any Elven diplomats either since I traded with them like 8-9 years ago.

I got one warning about curting trees down, since then I have logged most of the surface a couple of times and there's logs lying everywhere and didn't even get another warning. (I just cut the trees for fps, but have coal and lignite for the furnaces.)

So I am just wondering if the Elven diplomat mechanic depends on you trading with the Elven caravan?

The station order seems to make them stand in a random-looking way within like 5 squars of where you place the station order.

IMO it needs to be changed.

I walled of the caverns with a nice long wall with fortifications. Then 100 serpent men attack from this place and end up crowded together behind the fortifications.

So seems like a PERFECT job for marksdwarves with like 100 defenseless serpent being sitting ducks in a crowd.

But NO - they only shoot if they're standing right next to the wall. And the station order doesn't get more than 1 or (if lucky!) 2 dwarves standing next to the wall, the rest of them are standing a few squares away just looking at the proceedings. You can shuffle them around, but all it does is switch who's the 1 or 2 guys shooting and who's doing nothing.

It was going to take simply forever killing 100 serpent men that way - so even though conditions seem 100% ideal for markdwarves with a humoungous crowd of helpess enemies behind fortifications, they utterly failed and I had to try cave-ins instead to deal with them.

Solution: Make it possible to station the dwarves IN A LINE.

You can choose between a right-left angle or an up-down angled line. So when you click you either get 10 dwarves in a line filling 9 squares east of where you clicked OR you get 10 dwarves in a line filling 9 squared to the south of where you click.

Even cooler would be if you could simply paint the shape you want them to stand it, that way you can place them as you want. Like maybe if your fortifications aren't just a simple line, only being able to paint the formation would make it possible to get them to shoot.

This makes it possible to build fortificationed walls and get the dwarves to shoot through them.

Tbh fortifications are kinda useless if you can't get the dwarves to shoot through them.

(Yes I know at a certain skill level, they can shoot through also if standing away. It doesn't help, fortifications should be usefull also if you just draft a bunch of random dwarves.)

I managed to get furniture gem-encrusted without too much hassle.

The beds got various attention by the jeweler, resulting in some of them being encrusted over an over again, raising their worth to like 3K dwarfbucks. They actually look like artefacts with many spkes, images and so on. I guess they sometimes get so encrusted because I make the beds some time before I need them, so they get to stay longer in the encrusting area.

So you slap one of those bad boy into a 2*2 smoothed bedroom, and it's a grand bedroom just from the bed.

I'm more worrying now about ending up with a lot of bedrooms that are so good the nobles will get angry about it.

What I did was:

- Only one stockpile in the fort set to accept cur gems and the furniture I want to encrust, beds, statues, chests, cabinets.
- Stockpile must not have bins, otherwise they get encrusted.

The gemcutter is right next to the stockpile.

The manual part of is that once in a while, you need to toggle the gemcutter shop from only taking from the furniture stockpile and encrusting, and when it runs out of gems you switch it to take from everywhere and cut gems. I have another jeweler on the other side of the stockpile set to cut gems in perpetuity to replenish the gem/furniture stockpile.

As a bonus, I built workshops crafting workshops set to decorate with bone, ivory, shells, hoos. And a metalsmith set to stud with [which ever metal I don't need for anything else really, like led or zinc.] I didn't chain these or anything, but just banked on them hitting the furniture from being next to them. And it works. They do decorate the furniture, along with many random items. They seem to prefer crafts, armor and clothes.

But it's not a problem to me. It's actually mostly usefull, as all the non-worn clothes are getting so much bling-bling that an xsockx becomes worth like 300. So I can fulfiill my trading needs almost only with worn clothes that I want rid of anyway. I haven't checked if anybody gets happy thoughts from wearing super-expensive armor or clothes.

So the furniture has like gems, bones, shells, studs in copious amounts. It's a breeze to get high quality bedrooms. It's also easy to get the temples to 10x value, just make a few statues once in a while and they get so decorated they're worth a lot.

As a negative effect I almost can't trade with the elves, as pretty much everything has got shells or bone on it, which means the elves won't take it.

All you need to do is to check on the encrusting workshop every now and then to se if you need to toggle it. For me this is an easy way to get high quality bedrooms - especially in this fort because I haven't found gold or platinum yet.

It's very troublesome when you want to tell about your exploits.

If you killed 7 night trolls, you have to search for the story and then tell it 7 times. This you need to do every time you get to a new site and you want to increase your rep.

I assume the search will be fixed in the coming update.

BUT can we get added functions like:

1: "Favorite stories". Have 10 slots of the stories you usually tell. This way you can skip the searching and just click "Tell story > Favorite story > and BAM."

2: Really big meta stories!

As it is, you never really can tell people how awesome a hero you are. If you have 130 kills, well good luch with telling about all 130 stories in a tavern. You'd need like a spreadsheet to cross of the ones you'd told, and even if you managed to do that, it would take really, really a long time to tell 130 stories. IDK, like an entire day IRL.

So if you could co like Create metastory > Enter story name [My kills] > Add stories to metastory > Save.

Then you could tell about ALL your 130 kills in one go, and you'd get the recognition you deserve.

For RP it also feels weird that it's literally impossible to say "Hey guys, I killed 130 goblins! How cool is that?". And instead you need to be like a super boring guy, telling the details of when you killed goblin 23, 24, 26 .... 130.

It's also a mechanic that doesn't work. It's intended you tell about your exploits and get rep, but you can't do it due to the UI. If you have like 140 kils you're proud of, I tell about like 2 or 3 before I get tired of hitting ................. to get it done.