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[PieMaster1134]

Does anyone know the specifics on improving room quality for nobles?

Is it merely the size of the room, the quality of the items within or smoothing/engraving the room.

Frankly I have no idea what they want.

[o_O[WTFace]]

They like all of that.  Larger rooms with more smoothiness and more engravings and more buildings in it, especially statues.  Basically anything you put in it adds to the value of the room, and increasing the value of the actual floors and stuff does too. 

[DiscoPony]

http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Room

The value of the room is essentially the value of the objects in the room plus the value of smoothed or engraved walls and floors.  I think the material of the surfaces in the room has an affect on it as well, so obsidian walls would be worth more than microcline walls

The size of the room, I believe, has no direct affect on its value, other than allowing you to stuff more crap into the room, and engrave more surfaces.

You can also make the nobles believe it is worth more by putting things they like in the room.  If they like things made of gold, putting gold items in the room will increase its worth (for them) more than for somebody who has no preference for gold.

[PieMaster1134]

Awesome, now my nobles can be quiet.

Another question regarding engravings. Is there a way to read them in fortress mode?

[gtmattz]

k

[LordChess]

If you engrave a floor, then build another floor over it, are both floors counted towards the room's value?

[Dwarf fort 27]

I wish.......
The more valuble room= the happier noble= the less demands= more probobal suicide.....im goin to hell

[slink]

Also, if you want the full detail of the engraving with "k", you need to change one setting in your init file.

I have heard that putting a floor over an engraving not only does not add the values together, it also destroys the engraving.

[gtmattz]

I have heard that putting a floor over an engraving not only does not add the values together, it also destroys the engraving.

This is the troof.  I use this to get more masterpiece engravings on the floor of rooms I want to be really valuable, simply build floors over any non masterpiece engravings and resmooth/engrave, repeat as necessary until all the floor tiles are masterpiece.

[bluea]

The room size does affect the room's value - because there are more floor and wall tiles. Even without smoothing or engraving, an extra wall or floor tile is still an increase in the room's value.