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Uzu Bash

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The value of hospitality
« on: February 22, 2016, 09:17:20 am »
This is actually one of the big ones in world traditions. Greek morality myths in which the gods get pissed enough to smite people for hospitality failure are probably the best known examples, but not the only ones around the globe.
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Re: The value of hospitality
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2016, 11:26:29 am »
Hospitality is already a sphere, so there's a chance for gods and such to enforce such things on generated civilizations.
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Re: The value of hospitality
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2016, 03:10:40 pm »
But it isn't yet a value, which is what my OP was specifically about.
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Re: The value of hospitality
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2016, 06:59:17 pm »
Yeah, it seems strange that hospitality isn't a value yet
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Re: The value of hospitality
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2016, 08:58:21 pm »
Well, how would it be measured? Amount of food given away free to non-residents staying at the tavern? Amount of profit allowed to non-Mountainhome caravans? Idle dwarves just hanging around in their rooms, waiting for some hungry / thirsty / sleepy dwarf to walk by so they can invite them in? (That last one would be perfect cover for vampires, btw.)

It's all well & good to want something, but try to suggest ways in which it could be implemented, as well.
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Re: The value of hospitality
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2016, 06:59:10 am »
With the upcoming introducing of adventure mode housing, hospitality should be a value. Player/AI stances on this would produce some interesting behavior: traveling NPCs or groups could ask/demand shelter, loyalty cascade may ensue depending on response, etc.
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Re: The value of hospitality
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2016, 08:08:46 am »
Quote from: peasant cretin on February 24, 2016, 06:59:10 am
With the upcoming introducing of adventure mode housing, hospitality should be a value. Player/AI stances on this would produce some interesting behavior: traveling NPCs or groups could ask/demand shelter, loyalty cascade may ensue depending on response, etc.
"No, we're not sheltering the 'poor wounded kobold', and that's that!"
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Re: The value of hospitality
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2016, 06:17:38 am »
Quote from: SixOfSpades on February 23, 2016, 08:58:21 pm
Well, how would it be measured? Amount of food given away free to non-residents staying at the tavern? Amount of profit allowed to non-Mountainhome caravans? Idle dwarves just hanging around in their rooms, waiting for some hungry / thirsty / sleepy dwarf to walk by so they can invite them in? (That last one would be perfect cover for vampires, btw.)

It's all well & good to want something, but try to suggest ways in which it could be implemented, as well.

Lots of values are presently in that have no practical application in the game mechanics.
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