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Personally, I like giant rooms, and although Supports aren't currently necessary for keeping the roof up, I figure it may be nice to have them there for aesthetics.

In any case, down to the suggesting.

I would like to see supports capable of spanning multiple z levels.
I figure this could be done in a similar manner to bridges, with identical material costs, but vertically.
The player would select a floor tile, and position the support. He could then extend the support vertically upwards from the floor tile, with the selector X turning red when it ran out of room, as with bridges. It would then go to a materials selection screen, as do bridges.

Probably this should require access to all levels the support occupies, so the dwarf would have to build it a level at a time. This would also necessitate them being able to be built from an adjacent tile.

My suggestion is to allow creatures with [grasp] limbs to clamber up a single level onto a ledge above. To do this they could possibly be placed as 'on ground' when moved to the tile on the level above.

This would be incredibly useful for moving as an adventurer, and would make walls less of a gauranteed thing for defence, as goblins could simply climb up on them.

This is about the third or fourth time this has been suggested, and Toady, as far as I know, will implement a better menu, eventually. It doesn't hurt to give him ideas on how to lay it out.