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knutor

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Odd Attributes
« on: December 03, 2011, 11:30:07 am »
Hello,

I am examining my countess and she has two attributes, that I have no idea what they stand for.  Are they just for flavor text or do they apply to some deeper relationship.

1)She shakes her finger up and down when she's trying to remember something.
2)She stiffens up when she's surprised.

Any ideas what that might mean?  Neither show up in Therapist.  I'm trying to keep her happy and get a baby out of her.  Haven't had much success yet, in  royalty.

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Re: Odd Attributes
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2011, 11:31:11 am »
Those are mannerisms, not attributes.  I don't think mannerisms do anything.
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Re: Odd Attributes
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2011, 11:36:46 am »
Odd, because the mannerisms are listed right in there with her traits.  Would her mannerisms determine her fertility or mate choice maybe?  I'm confused, I took the advice of another poster and built gem windows around her bed chamber, in the hopes she would spend more time in her bed.  I upgraded it to the best quality.  I left access to her bed, and she sleeps in there, but she won't produce a child.  I'm gonna try putting a caged pig in there, she likes pigs for their smelling.

Now I'm back at 200 pop, from another peasant birth.  Uck!

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Re: Odd Attributes
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2011, 11:51:53 am »
Is she married?  They need to be married before they'll have kids.  And in DF spending more time in or around bed should have nothing whatsoever to do with getting married or having kids.
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Re: Odd Attributes
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2011, 11:55:21 am »
I'd assume it's like skin, eye or hair colour, it's just for flavour, though I have wondered if there's any benefit to a dwarf liking a colour that occurs in the hair, eyes or skin of other dwarves. As far as I know, the only deciding factor in fertility is whether she's married or not, and if she is she'll regularly drop sprogs unless her husband's dead or the pop cap was reached at the time of conception. Unless her bed is in the middle of the meeting hall, spending time there isn't going to find her a husband.
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Re: Odd Attributes
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2011, 01:07:38 pm »
This only has one purpose : Making the game deeper and in the future it will allow the player to have a stronger "relation" with a dwarf.
So instead of having a hole full of semi-brain dead bearded midgets you will have a fort full of dwarfs each one with his traits and personality.
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Re: Odd Attributes
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2011, 01:28:07 pm »
Okies.  I was worried I was missing something important.  If its just flavor text, that's okay.  Just wish it wasn't mixed in there with the important trait text. 

Nope, she's not married.  I'm in a tantrum spiral at the moment in this fortress.  I built it 13 stories tall out of marble, with lotsa traps all over the place, but I can't handle the sieges, after going royal.  I've got one squad full of adamant but its the mass pitting that is killing me.  I can't stay ahead of it.  I have 24 caged enemies laying around, and all my dwarfs are busy.  I've turned my training off and have the troops hauling, until I can get ahead on mass pitting and bolts, and get my defenses back up to a safe level.

I'm contemplating adding another mass pit, that drops out onto the catapult range bullseye.  But I haven't had much luck so far, siegecraft is just slows me down.

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Re: Odd Attributes
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2011, 01:59:28 pm »
if a dwarf has a trait "fidgets when lying" dont give them liar as skill?
dwarfs with agressive mannerisms easier to tantrum?
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Re: Odd Attributes
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2011, 02:15:48 pm »
Quote from: Garath on December 03, 2011, 01:59:28 pm
if a dwarf has a trait "fidgets when lying" dont give them liar as skill?
dwarfs with agressive mannerisms easier to tantrum?
Nope. All the mannerisms do is work as flavor text. Nothing more and nothing less.
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Re: Odd Attributes
« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2011, 04:28:04 pm »
I thoroughly enjoy reading the descriptors for the wild animals around my fortress. Fur of chestnut and eyes of cinnamon? How my hunter dwarfs resist such tasty descriptors.
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