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Sirbug

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Do animal men become friendly when get named?
« on: October 04, 2013, 10:10:54 am »
After fighting some ant men in caves and losing many miners and woodcutters to them, I noticed few friendly ant men crawling around.

Is a known fenomenon? Because I can't explain their existence otherwise.
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Cool, but wouldn't this likely lead to tongues having a '[SPEACH]' tag, and thus via necromancy we would have nearly unkillable reanimated tongues following necromancers spamming 'it is sad but not unexpected'?

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Re: Do animal men become friendly when get named?
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2013, 12:36:14 pm »
yeah, that seems to be the case. Named creatures can turn friendly. I've seen it many times when animal men kill a FB in the caverns, I've never seen it with names earned from killing dorfs.
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Re: Do animal men become friendly when get named?
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2013, 02:47:26 pm »
I've seen it happen that hostiles that aren't invaders turn friendly after killing one or more fortress members, including pets. They can still be marked as a target for a kill order, and will become hostile again immediately if attacked, but in the mean time they can safely be ignored (although they always make me nervous).
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Re: Do animal men become friendly when get named?
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2013, 02:54:44 pm »
another use for nobles, kittens and cat-lovers has been found
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Re: Do animal men become friendly when get named?
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2013, 12:51:51 am »
Quote from: Garath on October 04, 2013, 02:54:44 pm
another use for nobles, kittens and cat-lovers has been found

I don't have nearly enough nobles.
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Cool, but wouldn't this likely lead to tongues having a '[SPEACH]' tag, and thus via necromancy we would have nearly unkillable reanimated tongues following necromancers spamming 'it is sad but not unexpected'?

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Re: Do animal men become friendly when get named?
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2013, 06:08:55 pm »
Quote from: Sirbug on October 04, 2013, 10:10:54 am
After fighting some ant men in caves and losing many miners and woodcutters to them, I noticed few friendly ant men crawling around.

Is a known fenomenon? Because I can't explain their existence otherwise.
Is that... Professor Pym?

(*crosses fingers that he didn't get his obscure superheroes mixed up*)
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Re: Do animal men become friendly when get named?
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2013, 08:59:20 pm »
In a previous fort I had an amphibian woman blowgunner (or spearwoman?) that became friendly after killing a FB before the thing was revealed to me. Died to another FB later on though.
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