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More Intelligent Titles
« on: September 19, 2013, 01:37:55 pm »

If I am correct, the titles given to adventurers and dwarves in your fortress, are completely random, which is fine and dwarfy, but I believe that in adventure mode you should also gain titles relating to killing of megabeasts or criminals. So if you run around they'd call on you in manner like this: Human McLyeMaker says: Oh your UristMcDragonslay the slayer of Cogterror the Prestigous of Cancer.
If you bragged about your killings to many people you'd increase social skills as well as raising the chance to appear in engravings and artworks.
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Re: More Intelligent Titles
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2013, 07:02:24 am »

They are not entirely random, they are randomized from a pool of words that are linked to the symbols of a civilization, like FORTRESSES, WAR, MOUNTAIN. Other civs might have DEATH, PLAGUE, PAIN, and it will result in different, yet still somewhat random, titles.
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Re: More Intelligent Titles
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2013, 04:40:42 pm »

If the creature has a sphere, they're also partially going to be based on that, so you'll get dragons with titles like "The Gold Flames of Embers".

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Re: More Intelligent Titles
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2013, 09:03:39 pm »

I like the quasi-randomness of titles myself.

They can add a note of whimsy to an otherwise boring monstrosity.
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Re: More Intelligent Titles
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2013, 06:20:52 pm »

Well i was a bit unclear, I like the randomness too, but I'd also like people to speak about my adventurer as what he is (Slayer of dragons, destroyer of a goblin band) and occassionally they would use Dragonslayer instead of the actual name. I mean this as a minor feature
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Re: More Intelligent Titles
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2013, 06:08:17 am »

I think it would be simpler just to add hay bales to the farmer's workshop.
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Re: More Intelligent Titles
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2013, 04:04:06 am »

Well it is possible to use some tables of pre created titles depending on certain situations.
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Re: More Intelligent Titles
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2013, 04:52:01 am »

I think it would be simpler just to add hay bales to the farmer's workshop.
Wrong thread ;)
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Re: More Intelligent Titles
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2013, 02:10:40 pm »

my first soldier to ever get a title had a broken elbow after slicing five or six goblins him/herself.
his title was something like the Unstable Elbow so i don't think it entirely. depends on spheres either. maybe i was just really lucky.
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Re: More Intelligent Titles
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2013, 07:57:40 pm »

All I know is, in the genesis mod one of my dorfs killed a demon leader of gobbieland when he sieged us, and that same dorf is now known as: Lorbam Dumast Ralanist Mamgoz, translated to Lorbam Mouthsabre the Silver Ignition of Dragons.

If he ever dies my life will be over and I abandon fort. plain and simple
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