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What I think would be interesting would be playing as a writer in adventure mode...

It has been done amazingly before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotrek_and_Felix
Felix was a traveling poet 

Values and Noise guide

Noise and other things that are not necessarily visible by the player could be displayed as a color or value much like notes are currently displayed by going to a menu option.

To make myself clear with an example. I want to know what area of my small fortress has little noise, and high value for bedrooms, or just high value for a tomb. I would press the key "Shift-V" (or something) And values of the tiles are displayed flashing between the normal playing visuals and the values.

What do you think world? Good idea?

I really like the idea of having reactions when a thing is used. Ex: Sitting, using door - oooooooh when an item is picked up. Think treasure room for your artifacts with a Giant Cave Spider Guardian that shoots out at the thief when he picks up my perfect Ruby

\data\init\interface.txt

All the binds are there.

Can I have both up down right left and 8462?

BTW nice mod. Animals so far acted right. My hoards of dogs i bought at startup chased a giant wasp away
-CAPTIN

I have my hands on a textbook of biology 

I find the current biology in DF lacking. Don't you?

Please add anything else you can think of:
Food webs. - animal eats animal etc
This brings into question the interaction of different species in their biomes. Not all animals just eat and get eaten by each other.

Carrying Capacity(maximum critter count) designated by the amount of producers(trees and brush) which is dependent on the biome itself. Climatograms http://images.google.ca/images?q=climatograms&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Succession. after a fire, small weeds take over, and then more hardier slowly growing plants come etc etc forest if the biome permits.

Population Density - I think this is covered in the raws already.

Competition from other animals, Predation, Parasitism and disease, Drought and other climate extremes. Dwarf-caused/"Intelligent being" distrubances to the environment all contribute to population size.

Environments should be always changing. Populations should adapt to a certain amount of change.

... oooooogh Aquaculture - the raising of aquatic animals for dwarf consumption. tehe?

and simply... evolution! with a lot of this tied in to it all.
What are your thoughts?

So... i have been creeping around the forums for about a month and a half now and finally got motivated enough to get an account.

I suggest in the upcoming version a feature in the raws to direct to a more suitable music collection.
Players would either drag music in, or direct to the files. Then it would just shuffle them and play. Much better than the same flamenco guitar over-andover-andover again.

and I know I can turn off the music in the data/init. Its just a suggestion to add to the user-friendlyness of the game. I have no clue how to mod it to do so.