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[Telgin]

I don't think any kind of cloud based source control will really help Toady.  I mean, I guess it could potentially make deployment a tiny bit faster since he can just run svn's push / publish command, but since DF is closed source that's about all it can do: store the compiled binaries and resources.  It would really just remove the need to FTP the files to the server, since he's still got to put the ZIP file together.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Toady said he doesn't want to put DF out into the cloud. I think it's in the recent Software Engineering Daily interview.

[FantasticDorf]

So, if immigrants now bring their values with them, does this mean that now you will be able to take say a goblin (or an elf? not sure which) into your fort and make him a butcher so he can butcher dwarf (etc.) corpses since goblins (or elves?) are ok with butchering intelligent beings?

Nope.  The interface for building jobs still uses your base civ.  I'm not sure how it could work -- perhaps you'd have to assign the unusual critter to the workshop profile or something.

Drawing more questions off this statement, would this be indicative of seperated 'hired guest' labour roles mainly constraining them to military service and roles that cannot compel ethical conflict (such as the highlighted elven butchery in the uppermost quote) perhaps illustrated by a modified UI?

Eg: forseeably if animal men receive any improvements following the introductory launch release phase of thier occupancy within your base, would you be able to set them additional labours not typically assigned to workshops? IE: task amphibious races to unrestricted building functions in underwater/lava (with magma safe clothing) settings such as the breaching of aquifers due to [nobreathe], or task legendary climbing ability flying races to scaling inaccessible rough wall verticality in order to build walls/haul/deconstruct?

Very much looking forward to the new release within the next set of hours, certainly the air is wrife with excitement. 

[cochramd]

I've got plenty of questions on my brain, but only three not related to the new release:

1. When do you plan to have children and spouses inherit noble positions from their dead parents/spouses? While it's convenient that I can get rid of the nobility with a single unfortunate accident, it sucks knowing that all the work you put into making your baron/count/duke some very nice rooms with very nice furniture will be for naught once they croak.

2. On a related note, do you have plans to make the children and spouses of nobles act like nobles? No, I'm not a masochist, why do you ask?

3. I know you said you'll be planning on hunting down bugs for a while, but what new features do you plan to work on next?

[Dirst]

Thank you for the answers, Toady.  Oh, and the new release, too. Awesome!

[JesterHell696]

Thanks for the answers Toady.

[kemoT]

Thanks Toady!

[GoblinCookie]

1. Is there any hope that with the upcoming development dealing with prehistory that we will finally see the dark fortress [CHAT_WORTHY] bug fixed allowing us to raw define chat worthy nobles for civs with dark fortress sites?

2. At what point do you intend to switch to 64bit and what kind of new features will this allow you to implement?

3. Now animal people are in the spotlight, are you going to implement something like [LAYER_LINKED] for surface animal people giving them basic weapons and armour. 

4. Also, are you going to add in stone weaponry to equip both surface dwelling animal people and potentially the existing layer-linked ones as well.

[CLA]

Will adventurers be able to write diaries at some point?
Basically, every recorded event (dingo attacked, killed a deer, wandered around, climbed mountain) you could maybe find in legends mode, written in a paper we carry around, which can be found by other adventurers.

[Untrustedlife]

I've got plenty of questions on my brain, but only three not related to the new release:

1. When do you plan to have children and spouses inherit noble positions from their dead parents/spouses? While it's convenient that I can get rid of the nobility with a single unfortunate accident, it sucks knowing that all the work you put into making your baron/count/duke some very nice rooms with very nice furniture will be for naught once they croak.

2. On a related note, do you have plans to make the children and spouses of nobles act like nobles? No, I'm not a masochist, why do you ask?

3. I know you said you'll be planning on hunting down bugs for a while, but what new features do you plan to work on next?

Inheritance is already a thing as of version 40.xx, but it depends on the nobel.
Check out world activation on the wiki for more info.

[iceball3]

2. At what point do you intend to switch to 64bit and what kind of new features will this allow you to implement?

It seems, primarily, 64 bit will permit almost arbitrarily large fortresses and almost arbitrarily large worlds with almost arbitrarily long histories and very large populations. Of course, there are the processing limitations on speed and whatnot, but people will be a lot less likely to hit the memory limits anyway now.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Congrats on the yearly update. Been having lots of fun so far with the new discussion interface in adventurer mode.

Toady: One of my biggest dreams as a modder would be the ability to lock the use of certain outfits and entity items to certain genders and positions (No men in dresses, royal guards/champions with unique outfits and weapons, different professions having preference for different outfits like priests). Would this be able to be added easily along with making clothes in various sizes for multi-creature forts?

[Anonymax]

2. At what point do you intend to switch to 64bit and what kind of new features will this allow you to implement?

It seems, primarily, 64 bit will permit almost arbitrarily large fortresses and almost arbitrarily large worlds with almost arbitrarily long histories and very large populations. Of course, there are the processing limitations on speed and whatnot, but people will be a lot less likely to hit the memory limits anyway now.

if that happens i'll have to buy a 64bit pc just to play DF

[LordBaal]

Chances are you already posses one. The vast majority of current CPU's are 64bit, in fact from a few years it has been like that. What happens is that the 32 OS used to be/are more popular or commonly found.

Most likely you just need to buy a 64 bits windows or install a 64 bits distro of linux and install more RAM (I recommend at least 8 for 64bit OS).

[Pseudopuppet]

I've noticed that you can restrict visitors from coming into your taverns, libraries, and temples. Will this ever extend to being able to ban certain races (of both visitors and your fort's own population) from accessing these locations? Like let's say I'm okay with letting human visitors and animal people hang in my taverns but elf visitors aren't allowed anywhere near my beer. Or let's say I want to treat the elves that are already within my population unfairly.