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[Rip0k]

This one has been bugging me for ages...

Not an expert here, but I somehow recall: When Toady implemented opportunities he said all creatures use them, even adventurer when you just push arrows. Correct me if I'm wrong ;]

[Halconnen]

This one has been bugging me for ages...

Not an expert here, but I somehow recall: When Toady implemented opportunities he said all creatures use them, even adventurer when you just push arrows. Correct me if I'm wrong ;]

They do. It's why being knocked unconscious is now extremely lethal even in good armor. Before opportunities, you'd just get dinged all over. Now it's over with a few perfectly square critical strikes to the head.

[Footkerchief]

This one has been bugging me for ages...

Not an expert here, but I somehow recall: When Toady implemented opportunities he said all creatures use them, even adventurer when you just push arrows. Correct me if I'm wrong ;]

They do. It's why being knocked unconscious is now extremely lethal even in good armor. Before opportunities, you'd just get dinged all over. Now it's over with a few perfectly square critical strikes to the head.

Yep:

I know I just said I was done with features, but I was on a roll and did aimed attacks and random combat opportunities. Enemies do it too. It shakes up the combat flow quite a bit, and you'll occasionally see them use their secondary attacks when opportunities come up. Opportunity maxes out on unconscious opponents and enemies also know how to pick the best strikes, so fights can be finished quickly now. Now I'll get to the pre-release cleaning, he he he.

[Rose]

Well, it makes sense that they'd be able to slit your throat when you're down.

[Rockphed]

This one has been bugging me for ages...

Not an expert here, but I somehow recall: When Toady implemented opportunities he said all creatures use them, even adventurer when you just push arrows. Correct me if I'm wrong ;]

They do. It's why being knocked unconscious is now extremely lethal even in good armor. Before opportunities, you'd just get dinged all over. Now it's over with a few perfectly square critical strikes to the head.

Oddly enough I survived for about 200 turns after going unconscious against a marksdwarf.  Last I saw before giving up was said marksdwarf getting swarmed by ducks.  I love this game.

[monk12]

I love it when that happens. More than once I've been saved from an ambush because a herd of something-or-other blundered into the battle and made a royal mess of things.

[PTTG??]

Which is why adventurers should always carry a loaf of bread; it's better to have the ducks with you than against you.

[NW_Kohaku]

Which is why adventurers should always carry a loaf of bread; it's better to have the ducks with you than against you.

Bread does not exist, at least, until Toady upgrades the cooking system.  Instead, we can only have cave wheat flour, and something dubiously called "biscuits" that can be made from any two (very loosely defined) "edible" substances.  You know, like sewer brew and prepared fly brain biscuits.

[monk12]

Which is why adventurers should always carry a loaf of bread; it's better to have the ducks with you than against you.

Bread does not exist, at least, until Toady upgrades the cooking system.  Instead, we can only have cave wheat flour, and something dubiously called "biscuits" that can be made from any two (very loosely defined) "edible" substances.  You know, like sewer brew and prepared fly brain biscuits.

Two great tastes that taste great together! Nutrition dwarves love, the taste ducks crave!

[Untelligent]

That's why I always carry a couple loaves of bread with me to mash the fly brains into a paste suitable for cooking. Dwarven bread makes for a good mortar and pestle.

[Mike Mayday]

T Baughn/Toady: how would you judge the difficulty of coding switching between two tilesets during the game (for displaying maps)?

[~Q~]

I note that the current curses and effects seem to be hardcoded into the game. Is there any reason for this, or have they simply yet to be pushed to occupying the raw files, pending being further expanded upon?

[Urist McDepravity]

Sure it should probably go to suggestions board, but cant help myself from thinking that proper solution to undeath is not pulping, but introduction of managed fire. Dwarfs should use torches as weapons to fend them off, and burn corpses w/out resorting to magma.

[Karlito]

I'd like to disolve the mangled undead bits in barrels of lye.

[NW_Kohaku]

I note that the current curses and effects seem to be hardcoded into the game. Is there any reason for this, or have they simply yet to be pushed to occupying the raw files, pending being further expanded upon?

As far as I understand it, it's because the current interactions are basically kludgy.  Toady put in hard-coded effects as (yet another) placeholder to just get things released, and will put it down as another "when he has time for it" thing to actually make the system robust enough to make modding and procedural generation possible.