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I'd just settle for corpse pyres. Frankly most of this stuff shouldn't even be usable anymore - giant gouges, caked in blood and gore.

I think they train with them.

As for the noble thing...well, that will be fatal. Eventually.

I've noticed little change in farming - the earlier versions DID make harder, because of that damn cancellation bug. I've noticed no changes since it was fixed.

As for FPS, I've noticed slight improvements. Very slight. Toady mentioned he did some limited optimizations on rivers and they appear to have yield secondary dividends across the board.

Generating worlds is fun, but sometimes you just need to tip the scales in favor of one side or another to get that "perfect" little world you want. My suggestion is a simple one - a "handicap" modifier for a civilization/creature/whatever to make it a little more resilient to the rigors of time during world generation. My inspiration for this? Mario Kart.

You see, two players start but one isn't very good, so has has his opponent play with a handicap so the race is more even - the better player moves slower. In the end the race is evened - or in my proposed suggestion, "bent" or "skewed" in favor of something.

In the context of Dwarf Fortress, I've already kinda...explained. Basically it will give specific creatures a leg up. Like Dragons? DRAGONS ARE ULTRA SURVIVABLE! Like marmots? MARMOTS ARE ULTRA RESILIENT THROUGH HISTORY! and so on and so forth. Naturally this wouldn't...really, effect adventure mode's combat, merely the history leading to that combat. The end population.

And so my suggestion ends. Mainly I considered this because I wanted to see more dragons....then I thought about it...and maybe I wanted to see more Yeti too. And here we are.

Well, whatever happens, Toady has his acolytes no matter what. I'm on board for the long haul.

I can understand a man with a vision. A man with a goal. He keeps it to himself because he wants to keep it "his" vision. The minute, the very second, someone forces or leverages him into changing his vision is the moment the point of the entire project is lost. Because it is not his anymore.

There are developers who constantly sacrifice their creativity, talent, and vision for mere money. We call them console developers.  We all know how that goes, we all know what happens. They make money at the cost of their very souls.

What I'm trying to say is this - Dwarf Fortress is a single man's mad goal and purpose. It is his fey mood. We are all just pedestrians and witnesses lucky enough to be present as it is being created.

Yeah...kinda...er..did...all that. It's to the point where you know precisely where the issue is, but can't find it anyway. You know, tunnel vision.

I guess I'll just wait around for our friends in the mod community to complete that creature editor. It seems to be my best hope for less frustration.

Most likely we'll see it in future version...s. But like others said, we will have to settle for building on engraved walls.