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Author Topic: Make elements of Background selectable individually  (Read 504 times)

HenAi

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Make elements of Background selectable individually
« on: July 16, 2014, 02:36:30 am »

Since there's three variables for the background of a new adventurer now, it can get kind of hard to get the exact combination of starting location, god and social status you want.
So I suggest making it possible to cycle through the values of all three individually and having a separate key for the way it currently works (i.e. pressing r -> random background).

A map that shows where the starting location is located on the world map would be great to have, too, but I figure that'd be significantly more work.
Just being able to cycle through the variables rather than through random combinations would already be a great help.

Edit: For completion's sake, I guess it'd be four variables with level of worship (i.e. normal/ardent/dubious etc).
« Last Edit: July 16, 2014, 02:51:05 am by HenAi »
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Uristsonsonson

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Re: Make elements of Background selectable individually
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2014, 12:22:49 pm »

I believe that the eventual plan is to stop generating adventurers altogether and allow you to play as different historical figures. Instead of creating a parentless, history-less demigod from thin air and recruiting Cacame as him, you can just begin as Cacame.
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HenAi

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Re: Make elements of Background selectable individually
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2014, 12:59:44 pm »

Toady has talked about making it possible to take over historical figures, but not as a complete replacement to being able to create a fresh character.
Either way, it seems like being able to take over historical figures is still quite some ways away, so this would be useful even if it was just a stop gap.
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