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[noodle0117]

As wonderful as they are, I am too lazy to bother installing tilesets.
But i'm fine with my playstyle.

[Lancezh]

Speaking from a lazy head myself, i just downloaded the LNP and clicked on the tileset, and then start dwarf fortress Thats it.

[Indricotherium]

Speaking from a lazy head myself, i just downloaded the LNP and clicked on the tileset, and then start dwarf fortress Thats it.

Trickery!

[Mickey Blue]

Heh, I actually installed the LNP waaaaay after I was no longer a newb by any standards (doesn't mean I'm an expert.. But when who is?) just for simplicity. 

[cephalo]

Call me crazy, but I have trouble 'reading' the fancy tilesets. I prefer the character graphics, although not the default character set, I use a square one that's bigger and nicer. Too many glyphs have multiple meanings depending on context, and I don't like seeing a volcano that looks like a weapon trap, or a lever right in the middle of someones name, etc.

[Mickey Blue]

Indeed the symbols in writing were my biggest issue with many fancier tilesets (though I'm told many of those issues are less of a problem these days).  It sometimes got to the point it was hard to even read what was being said.

[Falesh]

The only writing issue I have noticed is possibly the full stop being replaced by a symbol in the Phoebus set I am using. I never even thought of writing as being a possible issue during play until I read it here so it must be pretty much perfect now.

[Anathema]

Seeing things like levers appearing in someone's name is, as far as I know, a bug - I know it happens when you try to apply an old tileset to a new patch, maybe other circumstances can bring it about as well. But anyway it shouldn't happen if you have an up-to-date non-buggy tileset - at least not to letters, the only characters I see getting replaced by graphics (with latest Mayday) are punctuation, which is still very readable.

[cephalo]

To clarify, what I meant by 'reading' I meant what's going on in the screen. Having graphics in mid sentence is survivable, but it bugs me when a glyph is supposed to represent two completely different things, and the more it looks like one of them, it must look less like the other. For me, I don't think it looks better that way. I find it aesthetically awkward. A character set is more cohesive with itself.

[Urist Imiknorris]

To clarify, what I meant by 'reading' I meant what's going on in the screen. Having graphics in mid sentence is survivable, but it bugs me when a glyph is supposed to represent two completely different things, and the more it looks like one of them, it must look less like the other. For me, I don't think it looks better that way. I find it aesthetically awkward. A character set is more cohesive with itself.

Like goblin fortresses being displayed as cabinets or quivers and backpacks as chests?

[cephalo]

Like goblin fortresses being displayed as cabinets or quivers and backpacks as chests?

Exactly, thank you. I haven't used a tileset in so long I couldn't think of specific examples. It's even worse when you are looking at the world map. I 'really' like the way the world map looks with the old style character set.

[dr_random]

To clarify, what I meant by 'reading' I meant what's going on in the screen. Having graphics in mid sentence is survivable, but it bugs me when a glyph is supposed to represent two completely different things, and the more it looks like one of them, it must look less like the other. For me, I don't think it looks better that way. I find it aesthetically awkward. A character set is more cohesive with itself.

Like goblin fortresses being displayed as cabinets or quivers and backpacks as chests?

Hey, I like the Phoebus depiction of a ballista arrow as a flying table with a pointy stick attached to it. True, I would not expect Goblins to be very organized, so cabinets might be a strange choice for their settlements - then again: They visit nearly every year - very polite and reliable chaps they are.

[Falesh]

Is there a specific reason the game uses ASCII rather then them making an icon, even if it is a copy of the ASCII currently used, for each object in the game? Even if they copied the ASCII other set makers could use the hooks to create a full set.

[Cheveux]

Is there a specific reason the game uses ASCII rather then them making an icon, even if it is a copy of the ASCII currently used, for each object in the game? Even if they copied the ASCII other set makers could use the hooks to create a full set.

Isn't it already like this? Maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought it worked like that.

[Falesh]

Is there a specific reason the game uses ASCII rather then them making an icon, even if it is a copy of the ASCII currently used, for each object in the game? Even if they copied the ASCII other set makers could use the hooks to create a full set.

Isn't it already like this? Maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought it worked like that.

If it was wouldn't the Phoebus be able to make a dedicated ballista arrow rather then reusing the table?