Oh god. It's even realtime (almost)... What am I talking about? An isometric visualizer for DF, it's awesome.

Dunno if it has parameters or w/e, but it renders every 200ms for me.
Visual Fortress 3D is also pretty cool. Though not exactly perfect for visualizing fortresses so much as the outside. Inside of mountains, things get odd.

EDIT: While I'm thinking of it, anybody be interested in a succession game?

Numpad + and - alters the autoreload rate, AFAIK.

I might be.
How would we go about doing it? One year, no rules, do what we want (to progress the fortress)?

Sounds fine to me. We would likely have to repeat rulers before the fortress failed, unless we managed to run afoul of some cave spiders right away.

im up for a succession game
Im on IRC etc

Why are there two threads about the same topic?

Because we're trying to irritate you out of your anal-retentive habits. Calm the ♥♥♥♥ down. The succession thread and this one serve two separate purposes.

for starters the old one is almost nine months old and buried beneath 6 pages of crap and secondly gaming is where discussion about DF belongs, I wouldn't mind if all these posts were added to the original and then the original got moved here, but this is the most appropriate place for discussion of dwarf fortress, but since the old thread is so old what's the point?

in other news dwarf fortress release is imminent, all the new features are done only tests and bug fixes left now and the merging of the updated SDL/openGL display stuff.

New release? What does it entail?

Reasonably powerful Carp, in all likelihood.

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.p ... #msg398829

Who cares if its in the wrong section.

That is fixable.

Merge threads.

I agree with THOR on this.

Merge threads.

Dward Fortress, it's about time Scope used the search function.