This is probably the friendliest and most helpful forum on the internet, in spite of (or maybe because of ?) the cruel background of the game. Please don't endanger this by trying to impose new rules on what people may say.
Much as the game and in particular the UI, this forum works fine because of all its 'flaws'. It's alive because people present the same questions and views over and over again, allowing everybody to reconsider, to be helpful or just to boast with their knowledge.
If you don't like people talking about UI, Necro... don't go to the threads talking about UI.
Seconded.
I say because of. We work out all our aggression by dropping goblins and kittens into spike pits.
I would have to agree. Stephen King said something once about everyone needing to feed the mental alligators now an then, be it through horror films and books, or whatever. it satisfies the aggressive impulse. I've noticed that often the more dark the subject matter, or at least violent, the nicer people often are.
I miss the whiny, unrealistic dysfunction of the .40d nobility....
I have such fond memories of boiling them alive in their own juices, and feeling completely justified in doing so...
Nothing quite deserves that in the current version. Nobles do actual work, they don't make unreasonable mandates with impossible to obtain materials (like slade beds!), and they don't get into pissing matches over the price of plump helmets. They even take longer to go apeshit when they don't get their way now. You can almost safely ignore their pampered little asses these days. Not so back then, when nobles truely knew how to press a player's buttons, and not the other way 'round.
It may sound masochistic, but I would dearly love a config option to get "the full enchelada" again. Turning on the elven and human diplomats with dfhack is good, but nothing quite brings the same joy to my wicked black heart quite like boiling the bloody baron alive with blistering hot magma for murdering my essential production crew for failing to meet his mandate for slade scepters and platinum beds, or for going on a homicidal rampage because he didn't get his "item in bedroom" he was ranting about.
(Laughs wickedly)
Agreed. Other than one mayor annoyingly demanding constant traction benches, and my queen wanting gauntlets and/or ballista arrows every five minutes, nobles have lost their edge.