Bay 12 Games Forum

None of my games end in brutal murder anymore. No goblins lay siege. No kobolds steal or kidnap. Very few giant beasts prowl the land. No titans show up. Nothing forgotten raises forth from below the earth.

It's been like this for the past dozen or so worlds I've created. Nothing EVER shows up to kill me regardless of what my world settings are. Am I the only one experiencing this? What's the problem? What happened? I play Dwarf Fortress because of the senseless brutality and sheer difficulty in keeping things going. What's the point if it all just ends up being Baby Hand Holding Simulator?!

I think that there should be an additional alert queue for certain things such as lack of specific resources to perform certain duties, or the discovery of valuable ores and stones while mining. It annoys me to no end that my screen is constantly flooded with 'discovered jet' and 'cannot perform Plant Seed task' alerts. Therefore, I propose that there be a separate queue for alerts of this nature. Whenever one of these alerts is received, a flashing exclamation point pops up in a corner of the screen alerting you to the presence of information that you might want to know.

The announcements screen can be kept open for important events such as Strange Moods and Thieves and Sieges. That is information that we might want to know about quickly, so would continue to scroll across the screen like it usually does.

I just get so tired of seeing the same message play over and over again, especially when I've already acknowledged the problem and am currently working on a solution to it. It grinds my gears.

'Job Cancelled: Cannot weave cloth from plant thread'
'Job Cancelled: No milk-able creature available'
'Job Cancelled: No Available Source of Fuel'
'Job Cancelled: Lack of Tanned Hide'

I KNOW! STFU!

Bah.