Well here's a community game mode I been testing to see if it's doable.
The idea is through use of Dfusion (and mass companion-ising codes) and Dfmode we can build up small armies to send in battle like in the arena gladiator game modes only with more grass.
the game mode will go through 3 phases,
attack, defend, build/sabotage.
Each player gets to start with one general/leader for their army and could if they live long enough through their build rounds could add another sub-leader.
the goal varies with each game but default is to kill off all leaders to the other players army.
each player goes through three phases Attack, Defend and build, before the end of a turn.
the Attack phase is when you rally up troops to go on the hunt for the opponent. Which last about some days which then you must find a place to retire. Retiring can only be done with an adventure mode player and not a body swap one due to not finding out how to unlock that feature yet. until then you have to rally with your general/leaders and will lead to a risk of killing and losing your army.
The Defend Phase is the other option where you in put your rally army in alert for any attack on your base or bases doing this will prevent you to Attack, you could set up gaurds on the base so that you could leave the site more secured. oh and you can send scouts(body swapped players) and of lucky try to intercept invaders
the Build/Sabotage stage is when your on a fort site, you can build for a short period of time before the game auto abandons so save often and have back ups for bad aborts.
During this small window you can build new items or if on a enemy fort exploit Fort mode uses and make their lives a little harder. Build and Sabotage comes after an attack or defend phases and you can only sabotage if a player(body swap or adventure mode controlled) is on the fort site. You could prolong a build or sabotage time if the site in normal fort mode or reclaim mode last netting you a pass on the hidden timer that would auto abandon you. If you reclaim a your site(or build a new one close by your adventurer) for any reason (like for resetting the timer on your turn) you need to know that reclaiming(through DFmode swap over) it will over throw the group number and all men on the base prior to the reclaim must either be resign that number(through use of Runesmith or proper DFusion coding to do just that) or stuck in friendly mode until you enlist them to your army you can leave them in that state for defending the place but be warned they will rust in skills.
notes
To swap between fort mode and adventure mode safely you must use DFmode and switch to the wanted mode then save the game. DO NOT unpause the game while doing this and is better to be on the save menu while you do the swap.
In case they say no to joining you use the adv_tool "make creature follow" or the addons I made for DFusion.
This is all under a shared game so play nice on levels of not playing as someone else character.
Hopefully I can set up one game of this.
Oh and if you use Necromancy to say build your army then Best luck on doing that.
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