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There should be a nightly build that auto-compiles every night. I know that it takes ages to do optimisation, but that doesn't need to be done, since it's a nightly, not a release.
We should then have bugfix releases whenever there are enough bugs, then we should have feature releases whenever all the features on the release schedule are done for that release.

Plants right now are too basic to even merit a sponsorship drive. I think that a megabeast drive or a weapon drive would probably be a good one to do.

A UI drive would never be done, since overhauling the UI is more than just adding some RAWs, it's a whole new arc.

I don't think that we should have to worry about controversy in the game. The media will never hear about it, and if they did want to complain, there's plenty as it is to complain about, think about it:

• A bunch of alcoholic dwarves
• Who like dismembering elves
• Who also throw babies goblins into magma

I don't see anything wrong with real plant names to be honest, I think it's more that Toady hasn't bothered figuring out what plants to base it on.

Multi threading would require a lot of work. Like a couple of months to even get it working I'd imagine. All the while, he wouldn't be developing new gameplay features.

Gameplay features mean donations. They are also a lot more fun for Toady to program, he DF for himself, not for others. Multithreading wouldn't get many donations.

Also multithreading would create a lot of bugs, which people would incessantly complain about, more than they currently do.

Multithreading would have rather marked improvements, even if they aren't proportional. If we had temperature on one core, path-finding on another, fluids on another and then the rest on another, we could probably get a 200% performance improvement at least.

One of the main difficulties with multithreading is that really, it would run as slow as the slowest process. e.g. If pathfinding was the slowest process, then in order to remain synced, the temperature etc. processes would have to wait for pathfinding to finish before starting another tick.

This could be fixed by a new system instead of ticks, but that would probably require almost a complete rewrite of the code.

It's planned.

We already had a long discussion very recently about it. I'm not trying to be nasty, but use the search function.

Steam engines have been around for thousands of years, only in the 18th century we have began to use it on mine carts.

Useful steam engines haven't been. The aeolipile doesn't count, as it isn't actually a useful form of power at all.

Dwarf Fortress doesn't really conform to the middle ages theme anyway, as I've said many times before, coke wasn't used by the west until 1709.

An atmospheric engine is probably the maximum that we would get in DF, anything else is too complex.

Monocles would be quite nice, they are in period too. Maybe certain nobles like the bookkeeper would need a monocle/spectacles to achieve a certain degree of accuracy.