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Yea, those are definitely solutions to me, but not to an 80 year old guy who puts a picture of a girl working out in a certain position in his carefully arranged "My Documents" folder so that he knows where his most important files are.  Any kind of sorting of this folder is an absolute catastrophe for him, and so it would be more trouble than its worth to clean it out and start over.  Basically totally pc illiterate, and approaches it so methodically that i would have to do more than reinstall, i would have to recreate his entire environment down to even icon positions.

This is a continuing problem i'm noticing in people who have gotten malware, and im just wondering how it works and if there is a way to fix it without a cpu genocide.  Reinstalling Firefox is easy, but Reinstalling IE is pointless and kinda never really solves these kinds of problems, probably because you can go up and down versions but not really get rid of it.

I made a mod that let me play as all races with nobles, but other than that, I have always played vanilla.  I didn't like the way graphical sets couldn't distinguish between periods and dirt.  Also I play on linux.

I  just thought of this today!  a bee bomb, or throw-able bea hives would create a storm of angry bees that would create a lot of X has been sung by a bee! spam, and send everyone in the vicinity, friend or foe running

The worlds largest elven zoo zoo of elven females.
Change your goblin tags to civ_playable  start in a forest close to elves.  Without mods you will have issues with military, but thats not the point, you NEED cage traps LOTS of them.  After a few merchants leave unhappy prepare to be ambushed.  Fill your towers with lots and lots of elves.

On topic, the only thing that might make me worry is if burrowing enemies could drill through walls, rendering all defense null.

HOWEVER!!!  It would be an improvement if besiegers brought catapults/balista's that could blast through walls. A defense would be either having your own, or "reinforcing" your walls with double walls, one layer being wood/metal.

I think the only thing that would stop me from playing would be if they went windows only .NET, required some garbage like gfwl signin, any kind of drm, or if the linux vesrion stopped being supported or upgraded to an incompatible GLIBC. (or sold themselves to EA haha)

Does world history occur while you are playing in fortress mode?  Obviously you would have to have a really long surviving fortress.  but what im trying to say is do things happen in the outside world other than the gobs/hums/elves warring/trading with you, and the megabeasts/vamps/weres's attacking you.

A previous character ate a lot of parts of a badger sow, yet was still hungry.  they kept eating until full, but still hungry?  I don't want to promote ascii bulimia  but it would have been nice to hurl, and eat something with more nutritional value?

A dwarven civilization, even if overflowing with food, must still move its animals from pasture to pasture like nomads.  A more permanent solution would be the "Feeding trough"

The feeding trough is a rectangular lidless box created by carpenters.  They are placed in pastures and stocked with the appropriate food by animal caretakers.  Animals will congregate around the trough and not starve.  This will allow for a more permanent pen/pasture, even in an all stone area.  Almost all grazing animals may use the trough.  In times of GREAT desperation, Dwarves may eat from the trough, but get a bad thought  "was humiliated by being forced to eat like an animal lately"

Generally the more feeding troughs the better, as few will cause fights between animals.

It may be a little, too much to ask for but insane dwarves also can eat from the trough...