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[TempAcc]

This is entirely awesome in so many different ways. This will probably take a long time but will be the biggest step in development since the 3D update. It will add tons of depth to both game modes and bring adventurer mode to a whole new level of complexity.

[Kaiser Reinhard]

"It's time to activate the world now."

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I had to post this

[orius]

Yea

From what's up there now, finishing the continuing of worldgen in gameplay might be a good point to release.

It looks like we might also be getting the opportunity to retire our forts soon too.

Being able to retire forts would be a great feature to add to a living world.  Instead of just building forts, the player can choose to build an entire dwarven civilization.  It also goes nicely with the recent training changes adding to civilization knowledge as a whole.  It gives the player a reason to become the Mountainhome now, instead of becoming the Mountainhome only to see that effort wasted when the fort crumbles or is abandoned, a player can take the time to build a truely majestic capital.  Or build a series of forts creating a great empire across the world, and take full advantage of the potential of the largest world map sizes.  Maybe if your civ is at war with the goblins, you can deliberately create a war fort right in their territory to crush them. 

[Wimopy]

A huge step in the evolution of Dwarf Fortress. Right now, the game's only end is death - be it by goblin, flood, "Doh! Wrong Lever" or worse. Of course, you can retire, but that basically means you will either return to that person and die with him or find him and you have two options: Kill or recruit and die together!
After this, I can see a limitless cycle. I've enjoyed RPG games where you start as no one and become a king, seems like Dwarf Fortress is getting there.

I didn't even dream of seeing this for a long time now, even though it was quite evident. We're all with you, Toady!

By the way, a question: Will it be possible to become say, the mayor of a town and control it? If so, would it be by switching into Fortress mode or by ordering people + waiting?

[Untelligent]

By the way, a question: Will it be possible to become say, the mayor of a town and control it? If so, would it be by switching into Fortress mode or by ordering people + waiting?

The answer to that likely depends on how much control over towns mayors end up actually having, when they get around to having control. Wait n' see.

[MrWiggles]

By the way, a question: Will it be possible to become say, the mayor of a town and control it? If so, would it be by switching into Fortress mode or by ordering people + waiting?

The answer to that likely depends on how much control over towns mayors end up actually having, when they get around to having control. Wait n' see.

Toady has talked about the Player being able to control a site, and have folks work under them, and to construct buildings. (There few other things associated with these abilities in Adventure mode.)

And Toady has talked about gaining favor with Entities.

So, even if its not an explicit goal, it might be an emergent capability.

[HiEv]

I would like to the squad members eat and drink when on duty out of their backpacks and flasks instead of waiting to be out of it. But meh, that's something I can live with.

Well, this bug was listed as fixed in v0.34.11:

Bug #2486: Soldiers don't eat from backpacks while on duty

made soldiers eat from backpacks/drink from waterskins earlier

Is that what you were looking for?

[Richards]

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Toady One It's time to activate the world now. The overall idea is that entities such as town governments, bandit gangs, criminal organizations, necromancer cults, etc., will have goals and act to carry them out, replacing losses and reacting to your acts as you arise to interfere or aid them, with a generous helping of tension between historical figures frosted with beast antics.

Some initial work is required, but we're going to try to move through it quickly this time. I'm currently taking the preliminary step of detailing entity claims to sites based on purpose, location, time of day, and so on. Then the plan is to use these to get entity representatives such as guards and dirt bags out on the streets, along with regular citizens with varying views on the entity claims, and to get them all interacting with each other and adventurers a bit. That'll set the stage for the visible realignment of entity claims as the game progresses, and it'll give you some material to work with. Specific quests are going to start to drop out of the game as we proceed, to be replaced by you doing what you want with respect to the various groups and reacting to their direct intervention in your affairs. Now that we'll have the site control situation a little more fleshed out, we're also going include a bit of exposition, both for your home town when you start and when you talk to people in places you visit, though you might still happen upon trouble before you hear anything.

Part of the entertainment will include learning information about the locations of villains, starting with the simple bandit gangs that have thugs harassing people in town. To this end we'll be including non-lethal combat and a recognition by participants and bystanders of the various stages of escalation in the confrontations. Killing a town's miscreants won't generally be sound practice if you don't want to be feared yourself. A sufficiently outmatched opponent will be able to surrender to you, and that should allow you to come through to the villain's hideout or to send a message to the villain. The mechanics included will be general and apply to anybody that can surrender and speak. We'll be improving bandit hideouts for the larger groups, and those groups will divide the time of their members between patrols, guard duty, and their active goals.

These relatively simple setups will give rise to more complicated games as we increase the number of plots and allegiances available for critters. The foundation of an active world which can handle sustained play is the regular advancement of history through birth, death and succession, so we're also going to tackle these early on in the process. More details as we go!

Wow! That sounds great Toady!

I would like to congratulate you on realizing these goals; I know you can do whatever you plan on doing and I hope you don't get side-tracked like you usually do! 

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How long do you think this will take to accomplish?

[Putnam]

No timelines!

[MrWiggles]

It's done, when it's done.

[MaximumZero]

I sure am getting excited about DF again after reading that devblog!
Man, a real, not-real, growing, changing world to have the dwarves and other races adventure in.
It's gonna be amazing. I'll have to learn DF all over again.

That was the best part last time.

I echo this sentiment.

[Rose]

Weren't initial estimates for reaching DF 1.0 of the order of like 10 months or so?

[MrWiggles]

Weren't initial estimates for reaching DF 1.0 of the order of like 10 months or so?

Not with how the game is now. When the game was first conceptualized, yea something like that.

[Untelligent]

That's sort of what "initial" means.

[Jacob/Lee]

Only 2 days and he has the basic bits of the banditry bolted down. I'm surprisingly optimistic about how quickly this update will come despite its size.