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[Xonara]

Whoah. I knew you had a lot on your plate, but this kinda puts things into perspective. I'm looking forward to the underground changes in particular

[Larington]

There is one other interface issue thats occured to me, currently as far as I can tell the site finder will put some considerable effort into checking all available sites and then presents you with just one potential candidate even though there might be several on any given generated world. Perhaps it would be better instead if an array was produced of sites that match the criteria on a per-biome basis (IE you wouldn't get 20 match entries in one biome, that'd probably be a bit much). This would reduce the amount of time spent playing around with the site finder options until a tempting site comes up.

[Areyar]

oh yeah. seconded.
a tweak that has the 10-20(init) best matches listed and allows to cycle through them.
(showing the seach-and-found parameters for each one, like during the search itself)

[Mechanoid]

Considering the underground is getting more features in the 3D, i really hope that the depth of the map is adjustable, and that the size constraints can be reduced to just one local tile.

Nothing like hitting a chasm feature for the Nth time at level -70, and still running at 100 frames per second... [And drowning the bastards with that third cave river!]

[Xonara]

I'd like a way to adjust the embark site size once you've started your fortress. If you started a little 2x2 fort and you don't think you have enough room, just expand the site and you're good to go. If you think you have an excess of your land, shrink the site. When shrinking the site all units we be shoved inside the new boundaries and everything else would be saved in case you want to expand the site again.

[G-Flex]

Shrinking would probably be a hell of a lot easier than expanding, depending on how the game actually calculates what's in a local square.

[Felblood]

Felblood cancels sleep: Worshiping toad.

It's been said before, but Toady deserves all the kudos we can give.

The stuff under the Squads tab in particular fulfills so many wishes I wasn't even aware I was wishing for them, until I saw them on that list.

[numerobis]

"# Soldiers that are standing down should sort out their equipment according to their settings, trading up if proper, generally sort out their belongings"

I lost a champion recently because I got distracted between telling him to take off his +armor+ and putting on masterwork stuff, and sent him against some bowgoblins wearing only a very nice steel cap.

The entire new release looks fun.  I can't wait to send in bug reports play it.

[Pruvan]

I can't wait to send in bug reports play it.

Heh, ouch. Let's hope Toady won't have too much trouble with bugs, since he has to rewrite a lot of stuff over and over he might be forgetting some parts left and right. I wouldn't be surprised if a few forgotten cases popped up.

[Warlord255]

I can't wait to send in bug reports play it.

Heh, ouch. Let's hope Toady won't have too much trouble with bugs, since he has to rewrite a lot of stuff over and over he might be forgetting some parts left and right. I wouldn't be surprised if a few forgotten cases popped up.

I believe you fail to understand...

Bugs involving dwarves' lungs exploding at the wrong temperature, sending flying Ribs into other dwarves' skulls will be SO MUCH FUN TO REPORT.

I CAN'T WAIT EITHER.

[Aqizzar]

I can't wait to send in bug reports play it.

Heh, ouch. Let's hope Toady won't have too much trouble with bugs, since he has to rewrite a lot of stuff over and over he might be forgetting some parts left and right. I wouldn't be surprised if a few forgotten cases popped up.

Let's be clear, I honor the Toad.  His work is incredible and awe-inspiring.

But after the last big countdown, the first release included a bug where "sleeping" creatures just fell unconscious trying to sleep, eventually dying of thirst.  A game-crippling bug that took a half an hour to catch, after months of preparation.

This release will include as close to a realistic treatment of material physics as any game, maybe any program, ever made, with thousands of material entries to make and test.  Likewise, the most detailed bodypart arrangement system seen outside medical software.  Bad things are going to happen.

[Felblood]

Yes, but they will be the best bad things to ever happen in any game, too.

I can't wait to watch a poison breathing dragon die from inhaling the poison he just exhaled.

[JoRo]

I can't even guess what the comparable 'sleeping sickness' bug will be.  Seeing how complicated the bodies are, I guess something like 'rampant hair growth renders all dwarves immobile masses of beard' or 'misplaced decimal causes kittens to have meter-thick skin', but I'd guess that the body stuff will get the most testing.  It will probably be something more innocuous seeming.
My best bet would be something in the underground features, since it seems like there's probably enough randomness in there with world-gen that a few hundred people generating worlds might be able to get an underground pond inside of a magma pipe inside of a giant cavern inside of another magma pipe or similar disastrous combination.  The 'bottomless pit + magma pipe' thing all over again, except even better.
Whatever the day-1 problem is, it'll probably be fixed by day-2.  I kinda look forward to getting the regular 'bugfix' patches again.
Mods are going to create so many weird problems, though. 

[amjh]

Familiarity with individual weapons, attachment to them, weapon mentions in legends

Chapion speardwarf: Adamantine spear? But i love my pointy wooden stick!

[Tormy]

I can't wait to send in bug reports play it.

Heh, ouch. Let's hope Toady won't have too much trouble with bugs, since he has to rewrite a lot of stuff over and over he might be forgetting some parts left and right. I wouldn't be surprised if a few forgotten cases popped up.

I believe you fail to understand...

Bugs involving dwarves' lungs exploding at the wrong temperature, sending flying Ribs into other dwarves' skulls will be SO MUCH FUN TO REPORT.

I CAN'T WAIT EITHER.

Exactly. Even the bugs are fun in DF...at least most of them.  This is yet another proof, that DF is truly unique!