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1) There's something I've always wondered and I never read anything about it: when you smash stuff, does it actually really disappear from the gameworld? Or are there any "artifacts" left behind eating up resources one way or another? Would it actually be better to burn stuff in magma or destroy it by putting it into flowing water for long periods of time?

2) When you drop stuff on a smashy bridge from above, while the bridge is raised, ie has created a wall tile on the z level below, said stuff lands on the z level above and rests there, as if it was floating. Now what USED TO happen when you lowered the bridge, the items wouldnt "remember" to fall down, but you could remind them using a retracting bridge. Does that still happen or will items now notice it's time to fall?

Heil Godwin's law. 

What about the storage in those shared bedrooms?

One big room, lotsa beds, lotsa decoration, one chest, one cabinet. All the beds designate as bedrooms the size of the whole thing.

How will the storage be used?

I never completely understood how the displayed framerate is tied to the actual gamespeed in DF, basically the difference between g_fps and fps sorta eludes me, so please excuse how I will abuse the vocabulary in the following post:

I mean, a game like this could run at 25 frames per second, you wouldnt really notice it doesnt run fluid. The fastest dwarves at a proper gamespeed wouldnt look like they are lagging around. The real question is ... how long does stuff take ingame. When your computer is fast enough to calculate all the stuff that is going on, so the things that are happening dont appear slow, it's fine.

I believe a videocard that renders 200 frames per second, even simple ones like you get from DF runs at a higher temperature than one that draws only 60 or even 30 frames. So, I bet, in the long run, it shortens the lifespan of the vidcard 

that's clearly a rorschach test.

I can see a dwarf failing to do the wutang thingy with his fingers and breaking his pinky in the process.

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Not saying CS is the greatest thing ever, but I think it was quite interesting and indeed different when it came out.

I have this little theory, I never bothered to research. But I'll tell it anyway.

My guess is, the original CS mod team were a bunch of young nerds, maybe 20-25 tops. Great ideas and all, not much clue about "real" gamedesign. they wanted to create a tactical shooter with realistic feel (if I remember correctly, that's what they told the world back then, too). You can -sort of- tell that's what they aimed at because of all the nifty stuff you can buy but nobody ever uses or all the nifty maps noone ever plays. (I'm looking at you, cs_mansion)

Then they neglected to give the game the necessary changes it needs to be played more tactical and slowpaced. And when the game ended up being quakelike, I'm not sure they even noticed  No, seriously, they probably did, but I bet it would have pissed off the quickly growing fanbase if they had a taken what would have been a sharp turn then.

What I'm getting at is this: it tried to be rainbow six (there wasnt any rainbow six back then, im just using the name to make a point) and ended up being quake in rainbow six clothes. People liked it, but I thought its a waste of time, since we already had quake. These days we actually have rainbow six, too, there is no real need for CS anymore.