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I just hope that rewalling allows us to  expand the mountain out. Nothing says overly complicated Dwarven engineering schemes like building a rock dome over the Elven forests in order to protect their trees from the Sun's deadly rays. Hey, what are all those Elves doing coming at us with Bows; are they throwing an archery tournament in order to thank us?

Actually, I'm wondering why Tanners don't make higher quality leather like Weavers make higher quality cloths.

As for the engravers, engravers can also cut out facades and the like as well as smoothing walls. It makes sense that you could learn how to carve half of a statue embedded in a wall by carving out a full statue.

Do you run into such crashes frequently? Are you using mods? If not, it sounds like you might want to send Toady the files so he can figure out the problem.

As for having a quick, take the first region option: I'm not sure how the game chooses what to discard, but it might be nice to be able to control the parameters, at least until more precise world-gen options are added.

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Originally posted by Sowelu:
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Oh yeah.  And just for the record?  The one thing that suspends my disbelief more than anything else, is the fact that you can build bridges out of talc.  Talc should NOT be used for structural building!  Trade goods maybe, but certainly not mechanisms either.</STRONG>

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While I like your ideas, I wanted to point out that Soapstone, which is a talc-schist composed primarily of talc, has in fact been used for architecture:

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Soapstone has been used in India for centuries as a soft medium for carving. But infortunately the world wide demand for soapstone is threatening the tiger's habitat. The Hoysala Empire temples were made from soapstone.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapstone

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Originally posted by Skyrage:
<STRONG>I would like to see one sleep change in the dwarf mode - namely dwarves should NOT go on breaks immediately after sleeping.

They have slept, they should be totally rested, and breaks right after sleep = lots upon lots of wasted time.</STRONG>

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Nothing like being drafted into the army early in the morning to kick a lazy dwarf into gear!

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Originally posted by gimli:
<STRONG>Nah imho 2d would be much much better for this game then 3d. 2d would be perfect. Bird's Eye or top down view for example.</STRONG>

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Bird's eye is top-down though, isn't it?

Anyways, there are plenty of possible setups. The easiest would be like was used in the early Ultima games, since it is basically the exact same setup as a roguelike display, just with tiles. Isometric 3/4ths display would also be a fairly easy, although there might be some visability issues depending on how high you make walls and such. If you wanted to be really fancy you could use a pseudo-top down setup with optical illusions to give depth, like were used in most of Squaresoft's SNES games; that would take the most artistic skills though, and issues of overlapping might make it less than optimal for gameplay use (not to mention that it would require more coding on the part of Toady than the other options).

Anyways, that is all stuff to think about way down the road; best not to try to build a graphical setup before we know that it would work with whatever plans Toady has.

Really, I think the bones and shells should drop when the raw fish is prepared at the fishery, in order to better mirror the way things occur at the butcher shop. (Unfortunately that would mean that bringing along 2 point turtle would no longer give you free bone and shell, but I think it would be a fair trade for being able to cook fish.)

It would really depend on the civilization you were dealing with; I would imagine that for some societies, it would be the greatest of honors to have your skull on display in the royal throne room.