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[oolon1]

I'd still like to see a menu option for simply exiting the game without any further questioning.  Sometimes I open the wrong fort accidentally, or need to reset to a previous save, and sometimes I just want to close the game right away.    Seems like a practical enough command, but more a decorative one since it doesn't affect game play.

Thanks.

[ravensword227]

If you play in Linux under Wine, you can close your shell and the game immediately exits.

[Arven]

You can also just ctrl+alt+delete in windows and it closes fine.

[Aquillion]

The thing is, a fast-save like that leaves the game world in an unusuable state.  This is fine if you know what you're doing and plan to restore to a backed-up save, but it would probably cause problems for a lot of new players who have no idea that "quit NOW!" will corrupt their save files.

[GauHelldragon]

I think the point of not being able to quit without saving is to make the game more challenging. It's like nethack. If you make a mistake, you can't just go "oh well, i'll just reload my old save game." if your dwarves die, they are dead forever!

[Talith]

i would love to see this, as many times i start an area just to take a look at it, or play around with it, and have to resort to ctrl+alt+delete to end the process so it doesn't save.

[JT]

I'm with GauHelldragon.  If you want to "quit NOW!", close it down with task manager and restore from a backup (since you'll get an inflate error -3 if you close it down without saving or restoring from backup).

Legitimate users should always quit and save, because the game world is supposed to be self-consistent and linear.