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[nordak]

Elves still pose a small threat with their war tigers and elephants, not to mention their bows which occasionally get through adamantine armour.

If you read about the people who die to elves in legends, they were either eaten alive or had a oak arrow put through their head.

[KillerClowns]

As Tholtig will attest, the elves have two great advantages.  They never age, and they breed like rabbits.  Hippies with wooden weapons become a legitimate threat when they outnumber you a thousand to one, and can simply murder your children and wait for you to die of old age.

[HmH]

An elf could become king of the dwarves because when dwarves conquer elves, the result is conquest; a new governor is installed, and the populace learns to live under dwarvern law.  All sentient creatures who live under dwarvern law are seen as equal by dwarvern law, be they dwarf, human, elf, or goblin.
A Dwarf cannot become king of the elves, because when elves conquer dwarves, IIRC, the result is genocide.

So the point is, they're Nazis and we're Communists.

♪I am the dwarf who arranges the traps
That will make all the elves keep away
The Druid is dead, and forests are Red!
Let us point catapults at the humans, eh?♪

[Max White]

So the point is, they're Nazis and we're Communists.

Well yes, but only if you turn the economy off, and you should, broken system is broken.

[HmH]

So the point is, they're Nazis and we're Communists.

Well yes, but only if you turn the economy off, and you should, broken system is broken.

USSR had economy. Not market economy and free enterprise and stuff, but the system relied on material rewards to stimulate people and had a concept of private property(your socks are your socks and your bed is your bed, like that), which is the main two things implemented in current DF economy model. It didn't work the way it was supposed to work, but neither did dwarven economy.

[Bromosapian]

How are kings chosen?  I kind of thought of it as an awesomediningroomguyelfking situation in reverse, where it doesn't happen by one conquering the other, more some kind of weird natural choice.  I dont know.

[Biag]

As far as I know, the game builds a king from scratch for every civ at the start of worldgen and then there's some kind of succession law. A member of the king's family will become king when he dies, usually.

[Flaede]

As far as I know, the game builds a king from scratch for every civ at the start of worldgen and then there's some kind of succession law. A member of the king's family will become king when he dies, usually.

More complex systems can be implemented, now, though things don't get too crazy in vanilla. Goblins have a sort of Nietzchian "will to power" thing going on. Demons seem to (usually) trump all comers, there. Don't know about the humans.

[Arkenstone]

WTF?!?  HOW DID THIS THREAD GO SO LONG WITHOUT MENTIONING CACAME?!?!?

[Bromosapian]

WTF?!?  HOW DID THIS THREAD GO SO LONG WITHOUT MENTIONING CACAME?!?!?

I did.  I said a dwarven version of cacame.