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Quote from: nenjin on February 16, 2012, 05:04:17 pm

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So what's the point of TrueType?

Would allow virtually any font windows can display to be used in DF. A lot of other effects can be laid into TT too.

Unfortunately it's still not quite ready for DF primetime.

Ah so the game doesn't have to tell me to advance a step by pressing "the ground tile". That would indeed be good.

Exactly, no more need to use duel tiles, like the bag with the phallus symbol.

Personally though, I wish that the tile map was freed up like the character maps, no hard coded, multishared tiles with a preset limit. Let Phoebus and ironhand really bloom as the awesome artists they clearly are. Oh, ditch the 80 tile minimum width thing too so tilesets can be larger!

Great work Phoebus, DF becomes a thing of beauty with your tiles. Roguelike ascii is fine(being an avid roguelike fan brought me to DF), but DF's complexity combined with toady's particular ascii choices makes it look like barf out of the box to me.

Quote from: Toady One

One more day with this stuff and I shouldn't have to mention the sponsorship stuff again before the release.

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the sponsorship stuff again before the release.

Won't be tomorrow. A few days, a week, we may never know 

I'm gonna say mid February at this rate. I'd love to be proven wrong though!

HURRY, LOCK THE THREAD! THE NECROMANCERS ARE COMMIN-NO STAY BACK! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHh!!!

If the upcoming version of DF tells us anything, it's that Toady loves necromancers!

Got to agree, handy tool there kurokikaze!

I chose a nice looking volcano close to a river to embark upon. I cannot remember the biome for the area(was too distracted by my volcano hunting) and was a little disappointed to see no trees or grass anywhere on the map when I arrived, although the entire surface seems to be about 99% clay/silt clay.

However, when I channeled out a layer of clay, grass started to sprout where fresh clay was exposed. I thought it quite odd, though now I can feed my grazers.



Anyone else had similar experiences? How I can coax some trees to spontaneously sprout on the surface too? Should my embark have started with grass but got glitched from the volcano? Should I bother scum saving and checking the biome or is this a well known mechanic/bug in play?

Maybe Dwarfs bring in grass seeds in on their beards that are inadvertently spread around while channeling?

So Toady's gotten a 300k offer to license DF?
Damn. That's a lot of cash. I know I would have probably caved in, because hey, 300k.

Good for him to stay strong though. He's got balls.

I think that was an offer for the name alone. Tarn turning it down to protect his life work as selling the dwarf fortress name would impact the game negatively.

I wish the interface would get some love before DF gets too much lime light though. Even a weeks break from coding just to reorganise the UI(not even fundamentally overhaul it) or if touching the UI is such a sin then add a 'new to the game walkthrough tutorial' option where the players hand is held long enough that the UI becomes intuitive to them would help to retain some of the inquisitive users that come in from the publicity but are driven off by being lost and confused (anyone feeling the need to debate this, instead go and take a read through the many 'your first DF experience' 'your first memory of DF' etc posts and you'll see a clear recurring theme).

Tarn may not care about the money, but holding onto another 5-10% users who might otherwise leave prematurely(as in the above mentioned threads i'd wager it's a much higher percent) could make the difference between between programming it up in a small apartment, drinking strange tasting water(been there and understand his dependance on soda) and one bad meal a day as opposed to programming in a fancy 2 story home with meals prepared for him by his personal chef.

I'm surprised that constructed walls cannot be engraved. Countless ancient civ's could clearly build stone walls, smooth them(even to the point where a wall looked like a singular peice of stone) and set engravers to work on decorating the surface. I also like an above suggestion that engraved walls should also be able to be taken back to a smoothed surface for engraving something else.

Building natural rock and hiding the area behind it, apart from satifying the OCD inflicted among us, seems like an odd proposal to me. How does one build natural rock formations(apart from pouring magma and water in there) and then forget what was behind it?

Buying out the elves stock of cloth and doing nothing with it hasn't worked in curbing them from bringing more, but then, I guess they always bring more of what you buy from them the following year anyhow.

I'm sure i've read that log stocks were what counted for the quota before, it's entirely possable the poster was misinformed, but I was certain that me breaking my quota was due to their logs at the time.. Didn't know you could access the quota from the civ screen though. *goes off for some testing*

Cheers for the mod link also!