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Just a little thread where the community can post forts they are making or worlds they've built and talk about them.

I'm just very curious.

In python language importing the 'time' module allows for text to come at you in timed phases.
Seeing as toady is going for a story telling approach to his game I thought it wouldn't be too outlandish
to propose using a similar function to 'time.sleep()' to describe what you see around you.
Perhaps, allow it to be within a players input of given turns to search which may lead to you
becoming more immersed in the surroundings around you. For example. Say you take 30 turns to search a given area
 you will see (in a town by example) "a person juggling for entertainment... he dropped his balls shortly after... a young stout dwarf entered the area and punched the human in the upper left tooth... which sailed away in a bloody arc. ... ect"

Of course this would all have to tie into a radial line of sight and probably couldnt be designated down to 1 tile for realism.

Are there any experienced C language programmers that can answer this question for me?

Is it possible to declare an array and write a code that will increment the size(index total) of the array if needed?

example:

int age[10];
           ^ we want to increment this like a variable.



[Variable example]:



#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
int x;
 x = 0;
       if (2 == 2)
       {
           x++;
       }         
printf("%d",x);
getch();

return 0;
}

Don't know if this has been suggested or not but, I have noted toady saying something about being able to go into these battles you see in legends mode. However, I would like to suggest maybe giving us the option to watch say 200 turns worth of the battlefield they occupy like a movie.

The concept is really simple. I almost don't even want to suggest it because it probably has been talked about alot but, i cant find anything about it so...

Half-walls.. Walls you can see over directly but will still hold 3/7 water without overflowing. unlike fortifications which will expel it mercilessly.
If anyone knows anything ingame already that acts like this, please let me know asap.

I think this idea needs attention from DF players.

Originally Liamar had suggested a better design designation system. I wrote this in his post and would like a discussion on the idea either here or on his post. I believe it deserves some spotlight.

"I can see this being done in a separate menu maybe using a mouse painting system. After which you can set to place anywhere on the main map.

Dwarfs would then I would assume have to always start with floors then prioritize corner walls and fill each section of wall from the outside in; unless toady decides to make a system that builds it all at once with wait times suggestible by space consumed.  However, that eliminates a lot of what dwarf fortress is.

Another option would be to allow us the option of prioritizing the corners ourselves to avoid dwarven confusion (paint by numbers anyone?). This could also lead to a new noble that uses the architecture skill or at least a more advanced form of it. Depending on how Toady would prefer something like this to work. [edit: I am however fancying the paint by numbers/colors idea even if it uses the um kh system already in place. 1. it takes a huge workload off of toady to make everything dwarf operated with little user input using logic which will always be buggy because its not organic. 2. it would be a heluva lot of fun. 3. it would make a great architecture simulation program that may even be useful to the experienced architect for testing out design and build methods.]

Architecture could definitely be more user involved using say crafting materials to bring up such a menu and at an architects workbench/office."