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Try to get the machine life Taxa to appear in your world and get them to be the next civilized species. Now that's hard as hell to do without cheats.

I'm not sure if this has already been mentioned but even after unsubscribing from some posts that don't belong to announcements I still keep receiving updates.

Polls are double edged weapons. If possible, Toady should allow them for everyone only in the mod and stories subforums and DF unrelated forums where they could do the least harm and be useful. In any other forum, only admins should be able to create them.

The reason is that forums tend to be used as a "democratic" way to harass people, often admins. When people disagree with others, instead of reasoning out their differences they try to rally out all those who agree with them with a poll. And even if they loose the voting the post stays there as a testament of their displeasure. Is a passive-aggressive way of legitimizing a flamewar.

I used the case of snow as a pseudoliquid that accumulates in levels but doesn't flow. The idea is that in the lowest accumulation levels they would allow movement but after that they would need to be digged to allow movement.

But the main idea here is that pseudoliquids can flow or will flow up to a point. Like the sand example, if the difference in level of two cells is higher than a threshold then there would be flow. But below the threshold the sand would remain static. Unlike water where any difference in level causes the liquid to flow back and forth between cells.

Escalating.

Scaling.

Well you got the point 

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I rescued some sites that had fallen into the ocean after the cliff smoothing.

Erosion!

Toady didn't intend cliff smoothing to work as erosion (as far as I know). It's just there to remove cliffs which block the way for dwarves and adventurers. Which means there will be no cliffs on the next version. It's just a temporal thing (again, as far as I know) that will be removed once more advanced movement options are included that permit escalating cliffs or something similar.

Well, sandy loams are mostly compacted sand mixed with clay and stuff. They would act just as regular stone.

If fact we could have a whole family of pseudoliquids with different properties. Some, that flow, others that don't.

Extra suggestion. Add liquid and pseudoliquid specifications to raws so that modders can add different kind of weird stuff. Maybe petroleum

Also, stuff like alcohol and beverages should be handled as proper liquids. If I drop a full barrel and it breaks the liquid should spill and dwarves should mass around it and start licking it from the floor to avoid wasting it.

About the CPU. Toady has implemented code that prevents CPU hogging with large bodies of liquids like oceans. He only makes calculations with flowing liquid cells. The thing I mentioned about restricted flows on pseudoliquids is precisely to take advantage of those liquid optimizations so that flow calculations happen even less on pseudoliquids.