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Glad to hear you're keeping yourself busy with interesting work!  I hope you end up having the time (and inclination) to keep working on Ogre; I'd love to see the result of the time you've put in so far.  Also, if you find that you're just not able to keep going on it, you might consider open sourcing the code as long as there isn't anything in there that's licensed or that you need to keep closed for other reasons.

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Now that is how glass should look.  The magma cube looms greatly.

If you're building multi-z above ground constructions, you'll eventually want to use scaffolding to build walls you couldn't otherwise access.  Most people seem to use floors for this when they get started.  For example, they'll build a line of floors such that dwarfs can build walls on top of existing walls one level below, and then remove the floors one tile at a time.

I recommend using up/down stairs instead.  Just like floors, stairs provide support and allow orthogonal access to designated constructions.  Unlike floors, stairs also allow for up and down travel, which makes access easy and intuitive.  They can also be deconstructed from below, which makes removing unwanted scaffolding a breeze.

The lack of reply leads me to interpret the last comment as a forfeiture.

Mitchewawa, it seems that you are up.  The fort is crazy, big, and complicated.  Taking a turn is no easy task, as you've seen from the quickness with which others have bowed out.

Are you game?

So, there are three glass towers coming out of the lake halfway up.  Two are pretty straightforward.  You may have noticed the other looks pretty odd.  I'm not happy with how it turned out in Overseer or Stonesense, but I really like the idea and I'll have to give it a shot again some time.

I wanted to make something with an organic look.  Something reminiscent of a tree or a vine.  I decided to have a small circular tower spiral as it goes up and have branches "bud" off as it goes around. Like I said, I'm kind of dissappointed with how the result looks in the visualizers, but I think it actually looks alright in the game as you scroll levels.  Maybe that's because the game requires so much imagination, and I'm just seeing what I want to see rather than what's there.

Either way, I put together a .gif that might give a better impression of the rotation and branching I was going for:

Thanks for uploading the map!  I went over and started putting in some points of interest.  I'd like to help make it as comprehensive as possible, but right now I need to get to sleep.