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[Acanthus117]

I'd love to be able to be ambushed by raiders or bandits in Fort mode. That would be really fun.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Yeah, an organized group of people who want nothing more than your money...

It would be better than kobolds, especially if bandits don't get [TRAPAVOID].

[Rockphed]

So, they would come in with bags, path to a stockpile full of finished goods, and then take whatever they can shove in the bag?  That would be awesome!  Especially if goblins started doing a similar thing in addition to their myriad other ways to bother players.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Those artifact booby-traps will be even more useful now... (door holding back magma positioned such that it needs to be opened to get to the artifact)

[darkflagrance]

So, they would come in with bags, path to a stockpile full of finished goods, and then take whatever they can shove in the bag?  That would be awesome!  Especially if goblins started doing a similar thing in addition to their myriad other ways to bother players.

It would be like current thief invasions, except instead of a single robber, there'd be an entire ambush squad pathing to the rarest item in your fort.

[Areyar]

I'd suggest bandits have a random priority list for their objectives and work their way down that list depending on whether there is a way to path to it. (it not being in a fortress counts as a pathing fail.)
Were the pathing problems with (locked) doors, climbing and digging solved? (for invaders)
Priorities can have a value linked to pathing cost, as well as high pathingcost near any dwarf/tame critter and especially doors.

e.g. a gang is spawned on the side of your map. it decides it's priorities are {artifacts>food>finished goods>prisoners}, all artifacts are deep within the fort, behind many doors and past a multitude of dwarves, so it decides to raid the nearest food stockpile(sp), the nearer finished goods SP has a lower priority causing a higher overall pathing cost to make it appear further away.

[Toady One]

Hopefully I'll be jumping back in to catch up on all the questions now that I'm out of my pre-release bubble.  Though if it is an explodey release, it might be a few days yet, he he he.

[Mel_Vixen]

... i need to adjust my inner "toady has released clock" i am roughly10minutes behind shedule. THanks toady!

[Urist Imiknorris]

I knew something good happened. I was overcome by this inexplicable satisfaction about ten minutes into my calculus class.

EDIT: Toady, adamantine's impact/compression/shear/torsion/bending/tensile yield/fracture values have been changed to 5000000 from their original 4000000. This makes adamantine impossible to mine. Was this intended and if so, was there going to be another tag to make slade unminable?

[DalGren]

Aah, the truetype font support~
I shouldn't be asking more questions specially when there's some long line, but...
Will it be possible to have, with truetype fonts enabled, support to avoid fonts resizing when zooming? I'd like the map to get smaller/bigger, but the text to remain static.

[Neonivek]

Hopefully I'll be jumping back in to catch up on all the questions now that I'm out of my pre-release bubble.  Though if it is an explodey release, it might be a few days yet, he he he.

Yeah Toady's releases tend to be a bit unstable.

[Patchy]

Ok, what can I say... I really dislike the sprawl thing. Dunno if its actually the cause of it, but genning a 65x65 world in .13 takes nearly triple the time it did for me in .12(about 5 minutes to 15 almost 20) with the same settings. Though I can probably fix that with shorter gens, no more 500 to 1000 year old worlds for me, unfortunately. Also the sprawl just covers so much territory, while there was still plenty left and I could probably find a decent site on the leftovers if I had tried, but it was a bit exasperating.

I guess I just don't like worlds genned in .13. So here comes a question since I know that this is a major change and dunno if prior versions would be fine in this one. Could I gen worlds in .12 and use them in .13 without any ill-effects and sprawl magically appearing?

[Totaku]

From what I recall, yes, you can actually do that. But only with fortress mode. Adventure mode supposedly doesn't work very well this way. The spawls do indeed cause a massive lag to world genning as well as waiting for things to load up. But I think I'll put my vote in as well as request for a lighter sprawl load. To allow more areas to access and quicker loading. (Not that I mind it now, it would just make things easier.)

[Neonivek]

I'd think the incredable slowness would go away eventually since the sprawl is just one step towards that goal...

[Quatch]

And thats worldgen time. You only do that very infrequently, so it taking even an hour or two isn't a big deal. Remember, the end goal is that you don't gen new worlds every game, but keep re-using the same one.

If you have too much civilization, perhaps you can turn down the number of starting civs? would that make the area covered by civ smaller? Otherwise, a shorter history might actually help you here too, by giving less time for expansion.