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[zchris13]

No. I refuse to be perfect for my dwarves.

[yggiz]

I am supportive of display stands other than dumping and forbidding in a spot or stockpiles-in-room. I would love customizing rooms of Very Important Dwarves with objects that they love, and decorating barracks and dungeons and such similarly.

About decorative quality, I think that value as it is currently handled is just fine. Maybe those =grates= have that extra level of detail and craftsmanship, like fine, authentic, Amish wooden furniture. If you have access to Antiques Roadshow, see how much Dutch colonial furniture for a century or so ago goes for. There is artistic value that is just worked into the overall value of the product, even if =cabinet= holds the same out of socks as -cabinet-.

I like to think that no-modifier furniture and crafts are the baseline. Anything above that is superior quality, just by varying degrees. McDonalds would put no-modifier chairs and tables in, while your local casino would shell out for exceptional and masterworks in their grand dining halls.

I like large amounts of utilitarian furniture, and a few awesome piece to go where I want the awesome stuff. New immigrants become dabbling masons and glassmakers just for that purpose. I want 100 doors, and I want them all the same!

[Impaler[WrG]]

A stand could be a explicity made furniture item much like the Armor and Weapon stand or it could be created by using a special menu option to place placing a block of any type which becomes quasi-furniture (I think we should be able to use blocks in this way for tables, chairs and a few other uses, naturally the blocks give mild unhappy thoughts).  You can then link mechanisms to the stand to 'trapify' the stand, it will act like a pressure plate but responds to the item on the stand, any item will trigger the on state and the absence of any item causes the off state.  A common theif will be fooled by the stand and just grab the item triggering it.  But a Master thief will try to put a bag of sand or some other convenient object on the stand and this will have a chance to fool the trap.

[G-Flex]

About decorative quality, I think that value as it is currently handled is just fine.

Except there's something wrong when the mechanisms you build are better at decoration than things actually made for decoration.

[Eagleon]

About decorative quality, I think that value as it is currently handled is just fine.

Except there's something wrong when the mechanisms you build are better at decoration than things actually made for decoration.

I don't really think so. http://www.ericfreitas.com/gallery.php Check out his mechanical stuff. I'd much rather have a clock like that than any sort of chair or static sculpture, no matter how opulent.

[inaluct]

About decorative quality, I think that value as it is currently handled is just fine.

Except there's something wrong when the mechanisms you build are better at decoration than things actually made for decoration.

Agreed.