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Hi,
- Expanding the underground visibility bubble by 50%. At least enough to see the progress bar when placing objects or planting crops. Larger would be nicer. It's nightmarish trying to dodge archer arrows when you're under anything.

I agree to that, and I would go a step bexon that in adding an option to make everything "above" you invisible (without enemies of course ;)).

- If down or up is held in an in game menu, like inventory or shopping, the selection should move in that direction to the first and second selection at the normal rate, then selection should proceed down or up at an increased speed without the need for a second button press at any point. Individual presses should otherwise remain as normal. Would make shopping a lot easier.

Good Idea I would liek that too.

- Implement mouse aiming (making use of the run and gun already in the game) and use of Mouse1 and Mouse2 for action 1 and action 2 when clicked over the item in question.

- Mouse wheel up and down support for scrolling through menus

I'm not sure if that will happen, because the gamestyle atm is, the pure keyboard controll, but I agree with you mouse controll would make it alot easier in many aspects (it would be needed to make a rebalancing if mouse controll would be added)

- Free build (within range of player) with placement, dig or construction via mouse rather than tapping to face another direction and jiggling around to find the sweet spot for placing blocks

Personaly I don't like that, because atm you need to build your "fortess" so, that it is easily extendable, with your changes that wouldn't be the case anymore, becuase you would be able to build large parts without moving.

- A non ranked non permadeath mode with a trigger to initiate the next wave but otherwise the same building speeds, starting inventory and item prices. For those who like to build but also like to fight and experiment. The permadeath survival mode is fun, but chilling out would be a nice option

Sounds good in my ears but I think it may be a little bit early for that, I would like it more to have less gamemodes atm but faster updates for those than the other way.

Biro

Happy to hear that you enjoy the game.

>>- Expanding the underground visibility bubble by 50%. At least enough to see the progress bar when placing objects or planting crops. Larger would be nicer. It's nightmarish trying to dodge archer arrows when you're under anything.
>>I agree to that, and I would go a step bexon that in adding an option to make everything "above" you invisible (without enemies of course ;)).

I'll try to increase the size of the cone of vision and to add a special key combination (to be determined) to increase this cone of vision temporally (this will be more of less equivalent to making everything over the player to be invisible).

>>- If down or up is held in an in game menu, like inventory or shopping, the selection should move in that direction to the first and second selection at the normal rate, then selection should proceed down or up at an increased speed without the need for a second button press at any point. Individual presses should otherwise remain as normal. Would make shopping a lot easier.
>>Good Idea I would liek that too.

Good idea

>>Use of the mouse

There were already several discussions about that, and I want to make this game to be playable by several players in the same computer.
So, unless I have a very good reason, I wont add the mouse in the game play.

>>free building

Biro gave a good idea of the situation.
The game is far more immersing and strategic if you can only build things around you.

>>A non ranked non permadeath mode

In addition to Biro reason, I an extra concern with that:

In the game, time is a rare resource. And this will become even more true in the next release. So, a version with illimited time between waves would be kind of cheating. And I know that there is nothing more efficient to kill interest in a game that to use cheat codes. => I feel it will be not interesting.

However, I understand that people like to build fortress for fun, and that it would be fun to test/defend it.
So, in the building mode, in the future, I might add the possibility to add some of the towers, and also add a new object that will "create/attract" small quantity monsters when you use it (this will be an option when creating a building game).

In this configuration, the monsters will not become more and more resistant with time/waves, they will not burn with sun, and they will not be able to dig through walls (not to break your constructions). However, you will be able to add a lot of them, so it will be a nice thing to chill out and just kill a lot of monsters.

While we are on that topic, where can I configurate my favorite button?

It would be nice if the game was a little bit to tunnel builders ;) sometimes I want to build a large tunnel under my fortress in case of an emergency, but the problem is, that I can't orientate underground, that was what I meant with making the higher levels invisible.

*favourites the favourite button*

Thanks achoum!