Just a few tools, that will help you get through the UI, once they have been updated to work the the newest DF version: Dwarf Therapist: Allows you to easily manage dwarf jobs among other stuff. http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=39229.0 Stonesense: Generates an isometric view of your fort in real time http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=43260.0 And of course, for a simple fix, Graphic Tilesets! Like this one: http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.php apparently there's a bug that doesn't let the tilesets work or something....
my tileset work.... (aint sure if its the same one as u linked) however there is a known bug, if you do a world generation then certain tiles will not display and appear blank instead. fix: reload the game.
Nah, DFs visual aspect is incredibly lacking, I've got no problem with people who want to play with ASCII, that's cool, but playing with a tileset is basically fixing a flaw with the game.
yea don't yell at people who don't want to stare at a mud interface if they don't have to. hell the other thing I'd want in ideal world is a game ui that doesn't involve so many hot keys.