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Ixoran:
I've heard it was supposed to be after the army arc. can anyone confirm this?So I'll start. I'm not sure if   quote:  
-Bloat368, GENDER-BASED PICTURES, (Future): You should be able to further specify which graphical tiles are used if you like.
should really be a bloat. I'd like it to be a req.An interesting bloat I could think of is allow multiple tiles to be used for one thing. IE
say you have five different looking goblin pictures, when the game needs a goblin, it picks one of the five you define. maybe add some weight to the randomness too. It could keep tilesets from getting repetitive.I posted all the reqs and bloats and cores for easier discussion
PRESENTATION ARC: A cleaner interface and more interface and display options will make the game more accessible. Better support for translations.Related to Core21, Core50, Core51, Core52, Req37, Req43, Req79, Req142, Req152, Req179, Req180, Req207, Req218, Req258, Req306, Req314, Req320, Req328, Req332, Req338, Req381, Req382, Req383, Req386, Req387, Req388, Req390, Req401, Req402, Req411, Req421, Req430, Req432, Req434, Req443, Req460, Req483, Req513, Req520, Req531, Req546, Req547, Req548, Req550, Req556, Req558, Req559, Req560, Req564, Req566, Req570, Req585, Bloat52, Bloat106, Bloat107, Bloat108, Bloat118, Bloat153, Bloat199, Bloat268, Bloat303, Bloat307, Bloat311, Bloat354, Bloat355, Bloat358, Bloat361, Bloat364, Bloat368 and Bloat379.-CORE
-Core21, SOUND, (Future): Make all music/sounds optional, in groups. More songs (possibly seasonal), incidental music (like spotting the first kobold in a cave, etc.), various combat type sounds and ambient sounds, pleasing interface clicks.
-Core50, TILESET SUPPORT, (Future): Allow graphical tiles to be used for all game objects.
-Core51, SIZEABLE GAME WINDOW, (Future): Allow the resizing of the game windows, and possibly the support of variable width fonts to allow more text to be displayed.
-Core52, INTERFACE OVERHAUL, (Future): A coherent interface, additional options and mouse support.-REQ
-Req37, TRIGGER LINK INTERFACE, (Future): It could be more clear about what you are linking to and what it will do.
-Req43, MOVIE MAKER INTERFACE, (Future): Put fast-forward back in, some other tweaks.
-Req79, JOB CANCEL NOTICES, (Future): Option to turn off job cancel notices. Make it smarter about posting multiple notices in the first place by making jobs handle themselves when they are in trouble.
-Req142, WEIGHT/INJURY INTERFACE, (Future): It should let you know why you can't stand if you press stand. There are a number of other things like this. Carrying capacity and associated notifications are included here.
-Req152, GRAMMAR PROBLEMS, (Future): There are various grammar problems.
-Req179, SMALL PET INVENTORY DESCRIPTIONS, (Future): Pet-in-inventory descriptions need to respect the body of the holder.
-Req180, ENGRAVING LOOK PROBLEMS, (Future): You can see engraving descriptions even if you are off of the facing level.
-Req207, CONSOLIDATE MISS ANNOUNCEMENTS, (Future): Consolidate repeated miss announcements. A few other announcements could also be collapsed.
-Req218, MERCHANT ANNOUNCEMENTS, (Future): Notification when merchants are done unloading.
-Req258, STRANGE MOOD HELP, (Future): Artifact builders are difficult to handle sometimes, especially when you don't even know what kind of building they want. It shouldn't be easy, but the frustration level is too high right now.
-Req306, UNIT NAME ISSUE, (Future): Technical problem with unit name display.
-Req314, LEGEND DISPLAY PROBLEM, (Future): Long history names busted -- it should instead place it on two lines if possible.
-Req320, NAMING ISSUE, (Future): There's an issue with some unit names
-Req328, NAMING ISSUE, (Future): Issue with some unit names.
-Req332, SHORT JOB NAMES, (Future): In certain contexts, it should display shorter job names. When making glass objects for instance, you can't tell what you are making if you don't have the menus tabbed out.
-Req338, MEMMAP ISSUES, (Future): There are some issues with it showing the green and yellow stair symbols improperly on the memmap. The memmap should also highlight staircases, and the symbols for previously seen creatures are currently overdone.
-Req381, MOOD WORKSHOP, (Future): There should be additional indicators of which workshop has been taken over by a mood dwarf.
-Req382, OFFER CONFIRMATION, (Future): A confirmation might be helpful for making offerings in the depot.
-Req383, RAW FISH NAME, (Future): Raw fish might need to be renamed for clarity
-Req386, PERSISTENT CURSOR POSITION, (Future): There are some mode changes in dwarf mode where the cursor position should persist.
-Req387, TOTAL PROFESSION NUMBERS, (Future): There should be a way to view the total numbers enabled for each labor list item.
-Req388, ROOM QUALITY DISPLAY, (Future): There should be an easier way to view the quality of a room.
-Req390, JOB INFORMATION, (Future): You should be able to view more information about jobs so that you can better understand how to complete them and what you have available to do so.
-Req401, PREMATURE TRADE SCREEN EXITS, (Future): It's easy to skip out of the trade agreement screens without knowing what happened.
-Req402, SAVE TO MAIN MENU TRANSITION, (Future): Need a prompt after save has completely successfully, and it should finish cleaning before asking you to press the key.
-Req411, ZOOMING AROUND, (Future): It would be useful to have more ways to get between object screens and zooming to objects between all of the views.
-Req421, BUILDING NAMES, (Future): Custom names for buildings. For stockpiles they can be inherited by containers.
-Req430, JOB POSSIBILITIES DISPLAYED, (Future): When adding jobs to workshops, it should be more clear which jobs could actually be completed at that time.
-Req432, SETUP SCREEN CHANGES, (Future): Various minor changes to the dwarf mode setup screen. It should be easier to see the skills of the dwarves you are bringing and you should have more of an idea what the equipment you are bringing it for. It should update the profession names of dwarves as you change their skills.
-Req434, MESSAGE CONTROL, (Future): All messages should be optional with optional pause-zooming. There should be optional building completion announcements.
-Req443, UNIT-JOB SCREEN IMPROVEMENTS, (Future): The unit-job screen should be improved in myriad ways, though the options people have requested are too numerous to fit in a simple screen.
-Req460, INITIAL RIVER DISPLAY, (Future): It needs to initialize river flow directions before the rivers are initially displayed.
-Req483, BLOOD VISIBILITY, (Future): Blood of all types should be visible on whatever color stone it falls on.
-Req513, FOOD PLURALS, (Future): Food items need plurals (for the description screen for example).
-Req520, EASY-TO-SKIP MEETING SCREENS, (Future): It's too easy to skip passed important meeting screens by pressing space.
-Req531, IMPROVED WORLD MAP DURING EMBARK, (Future): The tiles on the world map should be more representative of what's actually there.
-Req546, MORE FARM FAILURE INFORMATION, (Future): Farms need to explain more carefully what's going on when there's a biome or other conflict with available seeds. If you don't have any farmers, it should let you plant and fail before telling you.
-Req547, AUTOSAVE NAME CONFUSION, (Future): Autosaves that are loaded can generating somewhat confusing save names that have multiple seasons.
-Req548, IN-GAME INIT OPTION ACCESS, (Future): You should be able to change any reasonable init option within the game (flows as numbers, etc.).
-Req550, CEILING INFORMATION, (Future): You should be given at least some information about the ceiling above a tile in certain circumstances.
-Req556, SAVING SOUND OPTIONS, (Future): You should be able to save sound options back to the init file from the sound options menu.
-Req558, MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ITEMS IN USE, (Future): Some sort of indication such as TSK for items that are in use from views other than the building item view with more information about what's going on available from the item's screen.
-Req559, POST-EMBARK LOAD INDICATOR, (Future): After getting through the final embark screen, it can leave you hanging for quite a while.
-Req560, WORKSHOP PROFILE CHANGE, (Future): When setting workshop profile dwarves, it would be useful to be able to order the list in various ways (by relevant skills, unit type, whatever).
-Req564, MORE CUSTOMIZATION FOR UNITS, (Future): You can set their type names, but being able to set colors or custom tiles should also be possible.
-Req566, SKY AND ICE, (Future): Need to make ice and sky look different, since there are conflicts at night.
-Req570, VEGETATION TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE AND EMBARK READOUT, (Future): It needs to check temperature tolerances for local vegetation in embark, or else the tree/shrub density could be misleading.
-# Req585, SNOWY WORLD GEN MAP, (Future): The map in world generation is always covered with a lot of snow as it thinks it is the beginning of Spring.BLOATS
-Bloat52, INTERFACE MOVEMENT, (Future): More ways in the interface to get between different unit/building/item views.
-Bloat106, JUSTICE INTERFACE, (Future): Give more information on the justice screen.
-Bloat107, THIEF INFORMATION, (Future): Give more information about how much thieves have stolen.
-Bloat108, IMPROVE HISTORY SCREEN, (Future).
-Bloat118, INTERFACE MOVEMENT, (Future): Improve ability to hop between interface screens, especially when viewing items, jobs, buildings and units.
-Bloat153, MORE UNIT SCREENS, (Future): Other helpful versions of the unit screen for various purposes. This could just wait for tiles and access to graphics and scrollbars and so on.
-Bloat199, MINING/CUTTING ANNOUNCEMENTS, (Future): It could announce when current reachable wood-cutting and mining jobs are done.
-Bloat268, SCREENSHOTS, (Future): Ability to have the game output a screenshot easily.
-Bloat303, NOISE POLLUTION INDICATOR, (Future): It might be helpful to have more of an idea where sleep-disturbing noise is coming from
-Bloat307, DESCRIPTIVE INFO, (Future): Ability to see genders information more easily in adventure mode. Ability to see other descriptive information as it comes in.
-Bloat311, UNIT INVENTORY DISPLAY, (Future): Ability to see inventory somewhere on the unit profile screen.
-Bloat354, SAVE KITCHEN SETTINGS, (Future): You should be able to save settings in the kitchen screen for later games. Applies to some other menus as well.
-Bloat355, TAKING NOTES, (Future): It would be nice to be able to take notes on both the embark screen world map and during the regular game that you can view later.
-Bloat358, MACROS, (Future): You should be able to make keyboard macros to perform complicated repetitive actions.
-Bloat361, EMBARK PROFESSION UPDATE, (Future): As you change skills on the embark screen, it should show the dwarf's resulting profession.
-Bloat364, SITE RECTANGLE INFORMATION, (Future): Sites should be able to give additional information about what is in their world map
-Bloat368, GENDER-BASED PICTURES, (Future): You should be able to further specify which graphical tiles are used if you like.
-Bloat379, LEGEND SUBSET SELECTION, (Future): The legends screen is virtually useless once enough objects and events have been discovered. You should be able to select subsets in various ways, whether by creature type or building type or time period or event type or even using a map to go by geographic area.[ June 01, 2008: Message edited by: Ixoran ]

Willfor:
Toady actually said recently in the Future of the Fortress thread that he would be trying not to tie himself to any arc, because he doesn't want to be working on any individual things for a huge portion of time. (looking at his trials on roads and such in the current arc, I don't blame him)He has however said that after army arc is finished, he will be working on some graphical things, and tutorials to improve people's chances of sticking with the game.

Ixoran:
That makes a whole lot of sense.
I would just like to get a shinier UI and and some tiles out of these "graphical things"  :D

Align:
please add some line breaks to that CODE segmentEDIT: Thank you.
Um. What is there to discuss? I guess more mouse support would be nice, too.[ June 02, 2008: Message edited by: Align ]

Draco18s:
CODE TAG ANOMOLY!

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