Ok, since I am back from the mental hospital (no joke, I've really been there) now, I have a few new questions, and none of them is release date related (wink wink nudge hint):
As seen in dig and carpenter, digging is done by selecting an area in a fairly dunger keeperish manner, and the carpenter seems to be a fix size rts building, is there any buildings like that that have the ability to be varied sizes like in dungeon keeper (build a circle shaped lair or just a long line etc etc)?
As seen in the carpenter movie, there are armor stand and weapon racks, does this mean that your dwarves have to run to get equipment before they are able to defend the fortress?
Will dwarves have their own equipment such as 'this dwarf has an axe +4 +4 and this one has an crossbow of accuracy', or are they dependant on the equipment racks/stands?
Will the dwarves get older? Would seem kinda bad if 20 of your most elite dwarves died from old age just before one of those Dragons attacked... *shudder*
Are what attacks the dwarf fortress completely random or can you trigger invasions somehow? Having that Dragon attacking just in the beginning when you have just managed to build a carpenter seems kinda overkill.
Will there be a King Dwarf that is a considerably more experienced and powerful dwarf or are the leader sitting on a cloud above the fortress commanding his troops like it was a game of some kind... *cough*
Gold. Loot. Booty. Call it what you will, but will you be able to loot say, the human invaders for equipment and valuebles, and will there be some sort of treasure vault containing all your gold/gems/etc? And will dwarves have their own gold, or do they all stash at said vault?
Will the dwarves all sleep in large barracks (lairs from dungeon keeper style) or will they each want their own bed in maybe even their own room? And what options for food is there? Can one farm indoors perhaps?
Will there be diplomacy and trading with other civilazations? I'm sure those humans would be nicer and not invade if the dwarves traded some of their nice equipment for gold or other stuff.
Will there be mages laying waste to the enemy troops in fireballs, caveins, etc?
Will you have the ability to make a dugged up area be filled with rock like before you digged it?
Will the enemy have diggers?
Will there be several levels that one can build on, and will there be enemies present inside the mountain, such as those goblins and balrog in LotR?
Resources, trees are gotten from chopping that I can understand, but will they regrow? And iron and other resources, are there veins of these resources or are there like, neverending rock filled with iron that one can mine forever?
That's all I can think of now. Please give a tad more extensive answers with preferably more than 3 words.
Here are a few extras I came to think of, and that is what the various symbols is. In the carpenter movie, you start with 1 bright white dwarf, 3 gray and 1 yellow, what kind of dwarves are those?
And how many kinds are there? What are those small c that seems to be running around the yellow dwarf (builder dwarf?)?
There also seems to be some sort of resource cache north of the dwarves, consisting of 6 % (iron?), an u with an ´over, and a spade thingie. What are the different kinds of resources?
There also seems to be a great deal of , and ´ inside the mountain itself, what are those?
[ October 15, 2004: Message edited by: The_Ancient_Sleeping_Dude ]