Fantastic. Truly fantastic. That is the only response that I can give to this.
However, I understand that no graphics sets have been created that can be used effectively with this version, correct? I mean, it's only been out for a day. It's not like we're expecting them to update a tileset on a vast scale in a day.
As I find it difficult to understand the current ASCII format, I shall amuse myself by inspecting the wiki on a variety of features, most likely the new military positions and whether or not Generals actually exist, as opposed to militiamen.
I must also ask as to what the Forced Administrator is, as one of his functions appears to be "LAW_MAKING", and seems to control a "conquered region"?
Graphics are different from tilesets and the difference is really quite simple: the tileset is a file with a bunch of (mostly) two color shapes on it for drawing the whole ground. Default game takes everything from a tileset called curses. The mayday pack used one similar to Belial.
These are just a single rectangle image of mostly pink squares (in d## versions you could use png files that had actual tranparency instead of pink fill.)
Graphics are used exclusively for living things that move around the map except for vermin. A text file specifically directs any animal/person to a full color image file and says what square of space in it to use. You could make graphics shaped like letters if you wanted but they don't automatically get adjusted to yellow or red or such.
This works very much like a tileset but it just isn't as hard coded.
But who am I kidding? You weren't interested in learning how it works 
Oh come now, being sarcastic like that is just really unfair. I'm not an idiot, although thank you for explaining it to me. I did give it a chance originally, but because I already knew about Mayday's graphics, I decided that trying to learn it wasn't really worth my while when I could get something that looked a lot better to me.
I also have to say that Mayday did really well with that new version, and I must thank Darkerson several times for sending it to me. I mean, that opening sequence looked like someone had just carved that out of stone.
Out of curiosity, have some of the nobles like advisors and consorts been removed or were they simply not added to the DF2010:Noble page on the wiki?
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