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[EmeraldWind]

Yay for 0.34.05!

I wonder if that fix that cleans up syndromes from ghosts gets rid of the necromancer ghosts?

I thought that was a rather neat emergent feature, so I hope not.

EDIT: Shoot, it looks like it did.

[MiniMacker]

I have this compulsory feeling of having to restart and make a new world every update that gets released, to the point where I do something else until the updates start to slow down a little. But it's a pain to not know how many more updates there are going to be.

I need to cut down on the coffee.

[eux0r]

I have this compulsory feeling of having to restart and make a new world every update that gets released, to the point where I do something else until the updates start to slow down a little. But it's a pain to not know how many more updates there are going to be.

I need to cut down on the coffee.

cutting coffee wont help, im like this too and i dont even drink any coffee to begin with

[Footkerchief]

You mentioned removing the ability for the vamp to accuse children. Does this mean that child vampires are not possible?

Toady confirmed in the other thread that child vampires can occur:

What about child vampires?  Who gets blamed then?

Yes, what happens if a child is a vampire?  Can they not be accused, or can children no longer become vamps by drinking vampire-blood infused water sources?

Witnesses will still report whatever they saw.  The bug fix only refers to vampires making up stories.  Accusing adults instead of children and especially babies is more credible.

[Toady One]

Although unless people have seen otherwise, I think they probably don't come up in world gen, because they never profane temples.  They will come up through conversions etc. later.  Child vampires created in forts (by your evil management antics most likely) can still be accused by witnesses as it stands, and I haven't done anything to block their creation.

[ggg]

Development log
Development page

The purpose of the thread is to discuss current developments.  Specific bugs should be reported on the bug tracker, and specific suggestions belong for the most part in the suggestion forum.  Questions and comments about the development page or DF development somewhat more broadly work here, though any contentious topics that lead to derails are discouraged -- there are threads for those too.

If you have specific questions, I'll try to answer them all, although it is difficult to respond to everything when it is busy.  I'll lean toward questions that involve current developments to avoid pulling the entire suggestion forum in here.  In the past, we've all found the practice of making questions green works pretty well.  You do that like this:

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[color=limegreen]making questions green[/color]


Just fix the god damned bugs...

Anyone who tells you that creating new content/options is better than fixing bugs has never been involved in the software industry. The game is broken. Why modify a broken game?

[Putnam]

uh

wow

um

what is he doing right now???

Belligerence will not help you when you are demanding that someone do something they are currently doing.

[monk12]

As first posts go, less than stellar.

[Urist McDepravity]

The game is broken.

Works for me. You are, obviously, doing something wrong.

[Footkerchief]

Just fix the god damned bugs...

Anyone who tells you that creating new content/options is better than fixing bugs has never been involved in the software industry. The game is broken. Why modify a broken game?

Bug-fixing is already the current focus of development.  You can read about upcoming bug fixes on the devlog.

[Neonivek]

To admit the game IS broken

Just not in the same way he is suggesting.

[Rafal99]

Just fix the god damned bugs...

Anyone who tells you that creating new content/options is better than fixing bugs has never been involved in the software industry. The game is broken. Why modify a broken game?

This is rude.
If you were ever involved in software industry you would know that no software is bugfree.
And Toady is well aware there are bugs and so dedicates several releases to fix the important ones. But some bugs will obviously remain and this can't stop futher development of everything else, partially because some bugs can't be properly fixed without extending the underlining mechanics.

[Kogut]

Just fix the god damned bugs...

Anyone who tells you that creating new content/options is better than fixing bugs has never been involved in the software industry. The game is broken. Why modify a broken game?

This is rude.
If you were ever involved in software industry you would know that no software is bugfree.

Yes, but obviously almost all important parts of DF is somehow broken (clothing - 2481 and 3942, nobles - 3453, military - 535, healthcare - 1582, weapons - 2712 and 2327, cleaning - 425, ghosts - 3708, stacks - 3898, dodging - 4550, sieges - 4552 etc)  - and it is not a "mild and funny bug" but a "serious, irritating" - in result game for me is not playable.

Spoiler: buglist (click to show/hide)

bug #2481 - Dwarves will claim new clothes when theirs is worn (xClothesx) but not wear it
bug #3942 - Dwarves owning broken clothing. Clothes don't rot, ANNIHILATES FPS.
bug #3453 - Baron/etc. cannot appoint baron-appointed nobles, such as the Dungeon Master
bug #535 - Equipping weapons/armor on military is erratic
bug #1582 - Injured dwarf in bed in stocked hospital ignored by idle doctors
bug #2712 - weapons, especially whips, cut through steel armor like butter
bug #3708 - Ghost names that can't be engraved on a slab and nameless slab engravings
bug #425 - Dwarves Not Cleaning Blood
bug #3898 - Entire Bone Statcks are used in Reactions instead of a single Bone
bug #2327 - Blunt weapons extremely ineffective, extended single combat with groundhog
bug #4550 - Dodging into river/lava/from cliff etc
bug #- Siegers waiting by bodies of dead leaders
bug #4856: Immortal Dwarf (... Yet unconcious) [or any other creature]

[MiniMacker]

And a lot of that stuff has been resolved, just not all of it.

I recall the Healthcare being a death-trap for any and all dwarves. Now we have the occasional stuck patient, but it's far better than before.

[MrWiggles]

We just had a big who ha over bugs, we don't need another one so soon, the new forumite can go back ten or so pages and enjoy the reading.