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As for seasonal music, i would ask you for log files, otherwise i have no starting point as for what might cause it.

Thank you. At last some constructive answer.

You can also try 1x1 embark - get nano fort utility. 42*42 tiles is little space, but it is huge performace boost and lowers memory consumption too - that embark should not lag and be much faster to load and save.

And since this is suggestion thread: I suggest that game should allow 1x1 embarks by default. Maybe little warning that is its too small embark for most players, but it should be option without having to use utility.

Quote from: guitarxe on May 28, 2012, 03:45:29 pm

Wouldn't it be easier to link some of these tutorials from inside the game instead?

Wiki is linked.

I am just looking at "?" screen.

1) wiki link is not differentiated from rest of text, nor is it clickable or selectable with keyboard.
2) actual links are being selected by +/- keys, not tab and shift-tab, nor are they clickable.

That is ... just ... well ... why? Sigh.

I do not think that complaining about lack difficulty in this game is fair.

It is not targeted at hardcore "ima bettar that u!" competitive player, but rather at builders, designers and explorers.

If there is ever "campaign" mode, game should, of course offer apropriate challenge.

Bedides, right now, challenge is not mechanics, but user interface - once that is fixed, mechanics can be tuned and most inapropriate exploits fixed. But you need to make people stop battling UI before you can make then battle goblins.

Main problem with UIs is this: Sheer amount of stuff. And it gets worse with every release because new creatures are being added (trees, minerals, item types ...). This ever increases screen clutter. Golden medal goes to interface for bringing items to depot - it is the one part that handles required sorting and filtering well. Contrast with Grime medal for actual trade interface which has nothing of that sort, yet is closely related.

It is hard to find items and creatures.

Secondary problem is organization. Menus show their history of commands being added. New features are not incorporated to existing structure, but being added. Why is there z-animals menu when there is u-animals menu which can both be merged? both are very late adition or had recent makeover.

It is hard to find commands to do something with items and creatures you had trouble finding.

Tertiary problem are inconsistencies. Same actions often have different commands. Similar concepts completelly different implementations.

If you found what to do and how to do it, you can't apply that to ther parts of game.

I wonder why toady never simply took month or two to develop stable and robust widged library - "item list", "being list"

I discovered this: http://roguebard.eptalys.net/

Looks like great source of aditional music - I am inclined to add one track per season from this site.

Thanks. Is there a changelog somewhere?

Not really. Most changes are in soundpack anyway.

Well, I did like to make mechanics, crafting, stonemason and gem cutter shops, filling queue with mechanism, stone jug, block and cut stone/encrust on repeat while disabling those shops for legendaries.

Automated no-oversight needed training which will now be a bit harder. Quarrying for stone might be required to sustain it now.

Sure there's many ways to get around this by, basically, hacking the game.

But that's not the thing.  Shouldn't the game be more playable out-of-the-box so to speak?  Rather than requiring us to download hacking utilities to not make dwarves jump off a waterfall?

It definitelly should be playable out of the box.

DFHack and Therapist and other tools should not be used as answer to bugfixes/feature requests. They can be used to remedy situation temporarily, but game should not devolve to state where you wait for tools updated for new version before you can play it.

I suppose ability to remove ramp from above would be fair suggestion as far as ramp-removing is concerned.