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[Keldor]

I was playing an adventurer when I came upon a coin bearing an engraving of <something> which related to the building of a hovel in the year 8.

Now,  correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the images on coins depicted people and events of earthshaking importance to the minting peoples.  Perhaps there is some significance to this random peasent building some shack over a millennium ago that I'm missing?  XD

It's obvious that events need some sort of importance stat, to separate battles and coronations of kings from municipal zoning policies during the age of myth.

On a somewhat related note, I noticed engravings of plump helmets, sweet pods, and even quarry bushes in a temple in a HUMAN town.  Factions sshouldn't make engravings of items they don't have access to.

One more thing - coins should typically have their fronts  engraved with the image of the current ruler at time of minting.  Just think how cool this would make coin collecting!  :-)

[Capntastic]

This isn't really a bug- it's just there's not much in the way of real big events during world generation yet.

[Sean Mirrsen]

The ruler-on-front-of-the-coin is actually a nice idea, and is a likely candidate for an entity tag. As for important events...  yeah, there are hardly any events at all in the world, just founding sites, constructing buildings, and the movings/marriages/deaths of various people. I guess anything specific done by the adventurer is a more likely candidate than any generic event (like the killing of a dragon - in that sense, events should have an "awesomeness" measurement, that is relatively difficult to measure), but until the world is a lot more fleshed out, there's hardly anything of note to record.

I think books, once they make it into the game, especially history books (I won't be surprised to see fiction books appear in DF...) will be an interesting read once worldgen and gameplay events are recorded more appropriately. Just think, you might start an adventurer, go to a shop, and buy a book detailing how an adventurer of yours impaled a titan on a birchen spear in the year 1062. Not to mention buying or building your own home and setting it up with furniture...

[Stij]

quote:Originally posted by Sean Mirrsen:
<STRONG>
Just think, you might start an adventurer, go to a shop, and buy a book detailing how an adventurer of yours impaled a titan on a birchen spear in the year 1062. Not to mention buying or building your own home and setting it up with furniture...</STRONG>

It would also be cool if your events were exaggerated over the years, too. Like, if you killed a Giant Cave Spider as an adventurer and then told someone about it, a few years later you might see a book called "[your adventurer's name] and the Massacre of 500 Spiders" or something like that.    

Dunno if that would be possible, though.

[Aquillion]

quote:Originally posted by Keldor:
<STRONG>I was playing an adventurer when I came upon a coin bearing an engraving of <something> which related to the building of a hovel in the year 8.

Now,  correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the images on coins depicted people and events of earthshaking importance to the minting peoples.  Perhaps there is some significance to this random peasent building some shack over a millennium ago that I'm missing?  XD</STRONG>

It was year 8.  Think about our own myths, legends, and religions...  anything that happened 8 years after the dawn of the universe would be important.  That may very well be the first house ever built.

[Lord Nightmare]

I'm thinking like the white house on the reverse of a nickel.

LN

[Chariot]

quote:Originally posted by Lord Nightmare:
<STRONG>I'm thinking like the white house on the reverse of a nickel.

LN</STRONG>

thats not the white house, its Monticello. it even says it on the nickel right under the picture

[ February 10, 2008: Message edited by: Chariot ]

[Sean Mirrsen]

quote:Originally posted by Stij:
<STRONG> It would also be cool if your events were exaggerated over the years, too. Like, if you killed a Giant Cave Spider as an adventurer and then told someone about it, a few years later you might see a book called "[your adventurer's name] and the Massacre of 500 Spiders" or something like that.      

Dunno if that would be possible, though.</STRONG>

Let's say you got a quest to kill a Philosopher in a nearby town. You sneaked up and killed him with a thrown stone. Would that yield a book called "[Your adventurer] and The Philosopher's Stone"?
 

[ February 11, 2008: Message edited by: Sean Mirrsen ]

[Alfador]

quote:Originally posted by Sean Mirrsen:
<STRONG>

Let's say you got a quest to kill a Philosopher in a nearby town. You sneaked up and killed him with a thrown stone. Would that yield a book called "[Your adventurer] and The Philosopher's Stone"?
   

[ February 11, 2008: Message edited by: Sean Mirrsen ]</STRONG>

Then you save a hostage from a goblin fortress.
Then you recover a lost !!artifact!! from a magma flow.
Then you join a religion.
Then you investigate a scandal of nobility.
Finally, your adventurer dies and a book is written about the burial chamber you are assigned by the fortress you are allied with.

[ February 11, 2008: Message edited by: Alfador ]