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[RadPanda]

Ensure your dream-hats are on tightly, but not so tight as to impede circulation.

Hark:

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07/17/2010: Yesterday I messed around a lot with sparring and skill demonstrations and made sure they were moving between them properly, and I balanced out some of the timers and skill increases there. The combat rebalancing had had an effect on sparring injuries, which had already been a bit of a problem (and have historically been a major problem), so I put in some more safeguards there. I also found that anybody that was bleeding modestly would take a dive and decide they needed to be carried off to the hospital, even if the bleeding subsequently stopped. That's fixed now.

Today I took some time to think about the site/population rewrite that's the foundation of a lot of the future developments, mainly having your own sites in adventure mode, having sprawl/rural areas, villain groups, and having more dwarves live around you off-map in dwarf mode. Since I'm aiming for the 22nd or 23rd for the next release, I'm not sure if that rewrite is going to fit or not. I'd like to take some small steps on the dev page each time I release, but this one is larger and it still needs to be done early. If we wind up with some more days of bug fixing and then the site/pop rewrite first thing for the release after the next one, I wouldn't be surprised.

We are the forums, the collective voice of the glory of the Fortress. We politely remind all present not to attempt to eat the vermin.

Don't you love where we are now, according to the Great Toad? What we sail towards? Militaries are unbroken. I rejoice! I have something I can do now, in the glorious new combat!

But hark, this next point is wondrous news. This means there may well be dwarves outside soon. The homeless? Will they starve and die? Do we bury them, too?

Modders, think of what the implications are for the improvements to zombies, to wastes, to towns. I am truly happy.

[fanatic]

I am happy about military getting fixed up. but im not sure i love the second point. looks like it will postpone tackling performance issues to an unknown date.

Ant i find this bad.

[Organum]

You sound like religion, and I've played enough Tales games to know nothing good can come of that. D:<

Speaking seriously, I don't know what he means by dwarves that live around you. Around your embark? Like your fortress is a city, and they're the suburbs? It's an interesting concept. We'll have to wait and see how it plays out.

[Fenek]

I long for politics and global economy (and of course working fortress economy) in DF, and looking at those proposed additions makes my inner dorf cry from joy as it's, as I reckon, first step to fulfilling those longings

Can't wait for waging wars, answering calls from your sovereign, stacking coins so high that I could build tower out of them, dealing with bandits, immigration and emmigration, wiping goblins (and elves!) of the face of the world, dabbling in feudal structure, sending out envoys to humans and such.

My personal wish is being able to bribe some of the elf's factions to start a civil war amongst their brethren and then subjugating survivors under a *steel low boot's* heel 

Can't wait indeed

[Heavenfall]

It's all good!

[Chattox]

Honestly I think there are a fair few nasty little bugs still left behind that really should be fixed before moving on to new things, as they are likely to compound bugs in the new additions or be forever unfixed and annoying. Still, the great Toad continues to toil over a hot keyboard day in day out, so all will be fixed eventually.

Just glad I can come along for the ride. And the magma.

[Jordrake]

Let rejoicing be unimpeded and the celebration be rampant and sexual.
*Waves arms in the air in a manner that having bones should prevent.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

I'm really excited about the sprawl idea.

For one thing, I'm a little tired of the unrealism of making a single 5x10 plot for 200 dwarfs, but the idea of managing more or larger farms doesn't really appeal to me.  Getting a single farm in a hurry is an interesting challenge; managing irrigation, seeds, and processing of more would be tedious.

I can easily imagine the promotion to a barony attracting settlers, who then send frequent, small caravans.  That would permit more realistic food management, more realistic fortress design, and more realistic sieges.

At biome borders, I can easily imagine caravans from the north bringing sunshine, not just to trade to your fortress, but to trade with caravans from the south bringing elk meat, with your fortress collecting taxes on the trade.

I think there are a lot of really cool things that can happen from this.

[Ricky]

funny you mention that,

i made a challenge fort for myself: a farm fort
all above ground, build a homestead, a barn, and cilos

ill have  roughly 238 10x10 above ground farm plots, along with a dairy farm, and a meat farm

[cbpye]

I'd like to see dwarves other than the founding seven capable of making a decision to migrate away from a fortress.

Also, there could be dwarves/humans/elves in the countryside that like to visit your fortress and take in the sights.  Tourist Resort Fortress.

[Bryan Derksen]

When a siege comes to your fort it should be preceded by a wave of panicked civilians seeking refuge. Would be nice if they needed to eat food but weren't part of your fort and so couldn't do any work tasks - it'd make the decision to seal the fort and wait out the siegers a much more realistic challenge with all those extra mouths to feed. Alternately, if you choose to lock _them_ out, they get massacred by the siegers and in future years the lands around your fort are unproductive due to the lack of peasants working them. A nice tradeoff.

[shibdib]

im all for anything toady releases that makes the game cooler.. duh


but id love to see a few releases dedicated to fixing mid to endgame fps

[RadPanda]

When a siege comes to your fort it should be preceded by a wave of panicked civilians seeking refuge....make the decision to seal the fort and wait out the siegers a much more realistic challenge with all those extra mouths to feed. Alternately, ...they get massacred by the siegers and in future years the lands around your fort are unproductive due to the lack of peasants working them. A nice tradeoff.

I am automatically supportive anything involving waves of panicked civilians. Also, I'd be interested in playing around with infection vectors for zombie-plagues (maybe just madness would work? Blood gets everywhere!), if those are currently applied to creatures not citizens of your fort.

..and then we get to play with a fun [ENABLE_PLAGUES]Y|N in the init file