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I don't mind the UI so much but my biggest issue is they got rid of the keyboard controls.

I really wish they'd put some actual effort into the graphics of the game. Even some minimal animations would be nice.

I actually think this type of suggestion/thinking is not good for the game. the mystique of dwarf fortress is that it's a game that plays in your imagination, not on the screen. the point of the ascii visuals is to give a player enough context to understand the state of the world, but it's intentionally obtuse so fun arrises from your brain having to color in all the details. any suggestion that tries to add more polish to the graphics brings you farther away from where the fun lives

Going to have to agree to disagree here. Graphical polish would make it much more enjoyable for me, and I spent enough time with the ascii version back in the day to get used to it.

Good thing is they can and do have both styles.

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