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[Gondana]

It would be usefull to have tags that allow you to set the way one entity will react to the precence of another entity.

Eg if I wan'ted to make the Zorra and Lake-monsters go at eachovers throughts I could have;

On the Zorro [NEMISIS:LAKE-MONSTER]
And on the Lake-Monster [NEMISIS:ZORRO]

Or if I wan'ted two entitys to be simbiotic, such as the wolves and the wolf-peaple I could have;

On the Wolf [ALLIE:WOLFMAN]
and on the wolfmen [ALLIE:WOLF]

[Draco18s]

Ally.

[Warlord255]

I've observed that most cave creatures will cohabit, but there are random deaths that leave me puzzled; the only conclusion I've come to is that they fight randomly.

A system like this would be good for, say, setting up hunter-prey relations with wildlife (once Toady fixes the bug that makes everything go extinct from hunting), or setting up more dynamic monster relations.

Other necessities, of course, would be some default designation tag, e.g. [HOSTILE_ALL] or [HOSTILE_NONE], which would then have exceptions; for example, a wolfman having [HOSTILE_ALL] and [ALLY_WOLF] would kill everything but wolves.

First things first, though, wildlife extinction needs to go before we can allow them to fight each other officially.

[Silverionmox]

It would be usefull to have tags that allow you to set the way one entity will react to the precence of another entity.

Eg if I wan'ted to make the Zorra and Lake-monsters go at eachovers throughts I could have;

On the Zorro [NEMISIS:LAKE-MONSTER]
And on the Lake-Monster [NEMISIS:ZORRO]

Or if I wan'ted two entitys to be simbiotic, such as the wolves and the wolf-peaple I could have;

On the Wolf [ALLIE:WOLFMAN]
and on the wolfmen [ALLIE:WOLF]

(useful, presence, wanted, lake monsters at each others throats, nemesis, entities, symbiotic, wolf people)

Useful to implement that would be behaviour to put up mock fights, in which creatures don't fight to death. That way, there can be confrontations between opponents of similar strength without ending in a bloody corpse every time. Also useful for bar brawls, mating competitions, territorial defense, etc.

[Tormy]

Good idea. This would be a very neat feature in adventure + fortress mode also. Different entities could live together peacefully this way. I like it. 

[korora]

I think this is the kind of thing DF would do in an emergent way, rather than hard-coding/raws.

[Warlord255]

It would be usefull to have tags that allow you to set the way one entity will react to the precence of another entity.

Eg if I wan'ted to make the Zorra and Lake-monsters go at eachovers throughts I could have;

On the Zorro [NEMISIS:LAKE-MONSTER]
And on the Lake-Monster [NEMISIS:ZORRO]

Or if I wan'ted two entitys to be simbiotic, such as the wolves and the wolf-peaple I could have;

On the Wolf [ALLIE:WOLFMAN]
and on the wolfmen [ALLIE:WOLF]

(useful, presence, wanted, lake monsters at each others throats, nemesis, entities, symbiotic, wolf people)

Useful to implement that would be behaviour to put up mock fights, in which creatures don't fight to death. That way, there can be confrontations between opponents of similar strength without ending in a bloody corpse every time. Also useful for bar brawls, mating competitions, territorial defense, etc.

Male Mountain goats ramming their heads together? Sounds awesome!

[Demonic Gophers]

I've been thinking that a useful tag would be something like [FRIENDLY_TOWARD:ENTITY:#], where a low number would indicate enmity, and a high number would indicate friendliness.  This wouldn't completely overrule ethical conflicts and agreements, but would make the entities in question more or less tolerant of them.  Optimally, it would also take over from the current enmity between snatchers and non-snatchers in Fortress Mode.