Hello everyone! I've been playing for only a couple months but am roughly familiar with most of the game at this point, and have thus begun to lurk the forums. And in my lurking and seeing of a glorious new version and such, and that new fancy arena mode, I thought I'd comment.
I'm most of the way through a d40 (I think that's how you refer to the last version to come out? I have the Mayday version that was current until April 1) Mega Construction. Well, perhaps not very mega but certainly a construction, an arena roughly based off of a football stadium's shape but on a smaller scale. It's about 6 stories tall and maybe 15x20 in size.
Anyways, I'm making this arena and trapping nasties to fight one another for Fun and I think about the new version, and that new arena. What if you could designate an area as an Arena? That way you could set up chairs and stuff and then release animals into the arena, and dwarves would flock in to watch. Or you could set it, sort of like with the trade Depot for "Trader Requested" but instead it'd be "Spectators Requested" and people would show up for the fight. And get good feelings from seeing animals dismembered unless it was a favorite animal or another dwarf or something.
So, what do you think?