Bay 12 Games Forum

I also feel this game has gone way past the level of "roguelikes" and would greatly benefit from a modern interface.

The biggest boost to graphics with the least amount of coding would be to fix it so that minimum screen resoultion can be 1x1. Once that's in place, the players can create large and beautiful tiles with maybe 48x48 icon sizes. Can pack a lot of art into a space that size.

My whine is the ppoor documentation on how the military squad - alert - schedule system works, along with a couple *DOH!* type moments that I am comfortable blaming the interface for. Some comments on the wiki lead me to believe that several squads -- and even individuals within a single squad -- can be given separate orders within a given alert. Like station Abe at North guardpost, George at South guardpost and have Herb the Archer defend the region. That's the kind of order I'de like to copy/paste.

Have you ever tried to make a squad and suddenly your squad leader is replaced by the incoming dwarf? It's a bug I tell ya. Interface Refinement.

In order to search through my dwarves, I've come up with a naming convention that's been working pretty good for me.

Ordinary humble worker-bee type dwarves keep their randomly generated name
Soldier dwarves, which I need to be able to pick out of the list frequently, get names with one syllable. Dan, Frank, Kate, Steve, Claire
Nobles get names with two syllables. Daniel, Erik, Betty, Marcus
And 3+ syllables are for special people.

Then I can tell if someone important died from the last wave of aggressors, and who to replace

For for doing rotations at any angles. http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Road

There's a section on Specific room quality grades on the wiki site, with some example sizes and what grades they come out for given furniture.

Finally figured out what all those cats are good for: Titan fodder. Because Kitty McNuggets is the next best thing to Titan In-A-Box.

And purchasable companions, from The Cute Kitty in the red light district. I'de have a rich craftsdwarf that has a fan operator, grape peeler, maseuse, barmaid and dance troupe.

Also, a rope made from mermaid's hair could have special properties, like maybe it can bind a prisoner.