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The thing is, before this goes in, we need a way to reduce buildings to ruins through play, "onscreen".  Currently, Megabeasts can reduce buildings to ruins in world gen, but that's all.

If you want to see a world where every structure is in ruins, incidentally, put this 'Monster Island' in your world_gen.txt:


...this will create a pocket universe overrun with megabeasts, who will quickly kill all the races and reduce their cities to ruins.

The main issue I have with this is that, right now, legendary dwarves are a big part of the 'reward' that the game has for players -- they're what players shoot for.

So, yes, they have to be obtainable in a reasonable timeframe.  And as for odd skills having legendaries -- I would rather see it changed so skill has a more dramatic impact with them.

Any dwarf that completes an artifact, though, is certainly legendary by definition.  The fact that so much legendary amazing stuff like artifacts and stuff happens in the player's fort when it hasn't happened so quickly in the rest of the world is, I think, just one of those things you have to suspend your disbelief for.  Most players don't want to play the quiet village where absolutely nothing happens for a hundred years -- they want constant monster attacks and strange moods and, yeah, legendary dwarves.

The truth is that there's also a lot more planned in the game for the future that will make losing more fun -- more adv. mode stuff, more large-scale politics so your dead fort still means something, etc.

I like the wide variety of skills (and the wide variance in skills, with occasional super-skilled dwarves.)  It makes the game more interesting to decide how you're going to use an immigrant with many different unrelated skills.  It's also fun to occasionally get a super-dwarf and have to decide what you're going to have them focus on, or if you're going to build the necessary industry to put their skills to work.

That kind of randomness adds to the game by adding variety -- in different games, you'll get a different assortment of immigrants, and you have to adapt your strategy to them rather than just mechanically doing the same thing every time.  Much better than it was before.

Yes, it does.  Increasing skills increases your attributes like before, but now different skills increase different attributes, and your gain is based on what your original values were.

It's now only visible on their detailed description screen (and there are many more stats.)

Not yet.  Blood isn't cookable yet, either.  Both of those are logical suggestions, though.

The real reason blood is sold by merchants at the moment is because poisonous blood is meant to be a commodity...  but they're not yet aware of what sort of blood is a useful poison and what isn't.  So they just sell everything.