Hi there,
First of all, sorry for any spelling/grammar mistake i could make. English isn't my native language.
This said, i am a new forum member, long time lurker and a few topics decided me to join (i should say that this board looks great, i could already thank a few people here for the help they unknowingly provided to me). I've discovered DF about 4-6 months ago. I started with the 40d19.2 release, which is really great to start the game as there's no game breaking bugs and as the military is waaa..ay more user friendly than now. This game is a little gem. Thank you Toady One and Baughn for this awesome work.
I've built around twelve fortresses in 40d, the first ones died of cat demographic explosion, drowning and total lack of defenses. I've yet to deal with magma, as apparently it's kinda hard to find some with standard settings and while staying out of very dangerous areas. However a few survived, like
Bloody Axe my last, and favorite one. With more than 50% of the dwarfs drafted in the military and with a mighty axe shaped 15 Z-level building made out of goblinite and glass. Totally useless building by itself, but still freaking awesome (and quite handy to "dump" captured enemies). It's around 12 or 15 years old now and slowly dying of FPS issue - my computer is kinda outdated. I'm not talking about this for no reason (well, not entirely), as I'm wondering something.
Does elves ever declare war ? I know there's a wiki for this kind of question, but information there are contradictory at best. I've seized all their wares and killed them through drowning for like 6 years, i keep killing the forest no matter what they are asking, without result. My military and my trained dragons (yeah i've added a few tags there and there) are getting bored. Will they declare war in 40d19? Or is there any way to speed up the process by adding/removing a few tags ?
Same question applies to humans.
I've also recently started playing with the 0.31 edition, now that the worst game breaking bugs have been killed, as my fortress is quite young i have not noticed any major difference apart from the caves (which are great, i can now make underground structures of several Z layers without having to micromanage tons of channel orders). The only issue about is the military GUI, i'm an heavy military user and having several squads of 10-15 champions was a common thing to me in 40d, but now, the GUI has driven me totally out of it i'm "cheating" with bridges and traps instead. I know that the GUI overhaul has to be done later, which is - to an extend - logical from a programmer's point of view, but still, even without the more or less manageable bugs it's a pain to use and goes against common sense. It will also be a bigger pain to re-code when Toady will start rewriting the GUI. I just hope it will have at least a little overhaul before you're really starting optimizing the UI. Well that was my
little rant :p
Did i said i loved the randomly generated monsters? I guess i didn't, it's now done
I also noticed something weird in 31.06, when i look at the 'c'ivilization screen, there's an "Unnamed lizard" civilization. Is that a bug or will it get a name when i will encounter them?
EDIT: Sorry for the false post, i've hit the wrong button too soon.