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[Pirate Bob]

New development log:

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I got my first reaction moment today. I was in a fistfight with a goblin thug that was harassing the town, and due to my fighting/situational awareness/wrestling skills, I was able to choose the option of catching a goblin's incoming punch with my left hand, a move which was then turned into a wrist lock. We'll probably make it harder to initiate wrestling from scratch, so that just jumping in and grabbing people will be hard to do without inviting a reaction against you. All in all, the rewrite is going a little slower than I'd like, but I'm continuing along with it.

Oh man, the more I read those development logs the more I want this update. It's gonna be freakin' awesome.

I think for my next adventurer I will need to add [CIV_CONTROLLABLE] to bat men .

[Cruxador]

Okay, i cant be bothered to search the first few pages to see if this was already asked but...


Will the "living world" update re-introduce dwarven/goblin sites?


If so, it would be very awesome.
Finally getting around to killing that over-5000-kills-law-giver-clown would be nice.

It's not inherent, as in that's not what "living world" means. But it would be fairly reasonable to include with other general site changes, and Toady has mentioned wanting to do it before too many years pass.

[Redrick720]

I know "don't embark on evil areas" is a solution to that.. but, well, is that really an improvement to the last version?  Not being able to use evil areas at all?

...

I guess that my feeling is that they just reanimate too fast, and too many times.  Everything that dies becoming immortal and hostile doesnt seem sustainable, given how DF works, and assuming that this is how it is meant to be, I guess I just prefer the old evil biomes that were playable, if hard.

Those biomes are for people who want battles early in the game (i'm one of those)
you do know how to deal with those dead guys right?
also, they're a great way to train your militia
(unless you're at war with a civilization upon embarking at an evil biome, in that case, you're just screwed)

[scriver]

...That post is over 5 months old, Redrick

[tahujdt]

New development log:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I got my first reaction moment today. I was in a fistfight with a goblin thug that was harassing the town, and due to my fighting/situational awareness/wrestling skills, I was able to choose the option of catching a goblin's incoming punch with my left hand, a move which was then turned into a wrist lock. We'll probably make it harder to initiate wrestling from scratch, so that just jumping in and grabbing people will be hard to do without inviting a reaction against you. All in all, the rewrite is going a little slower than I'd like, but I'm continuing along with it.

Oh man, the more I read those development logs the more I want this update. It's gonna be freakin' awesome.

I think for my next adventurer I will need to add [CIV_CONTROLLABLE] to bat men .

Ant men drones are better. They can fly and have four arms.

[Spish]

Ant men drones are better. They can fly and have four arms.

But they're also tiny and get charged down easily, by everything. I'm going to assume they also suck at wrestling, due to their size.

[JimiD]

Giant Ant men drones?

[Kriby]

Will the non-lethal system shouting wake nearby sleeping creatures?

Making nightly raids less of a slaughter..

[MrWiggles]

That's an interesting question. I dont know how sound is propagated in Adventure Mode at all. Its pretty much N/A in fort mode, and the things that do produce sound, produce way to much of it, and doesnt get effected through the medium its traveling through.

[chronicpayne]

Im having a brain anurism watching the same few peices of refuse re animate OVER AND OVER AND OVER filling up another whole stockpile with their new undead remains.
This is dumb. Period. What is the fun in something that just spams itself over and over and dies in a single shot?

Once is enough

[blue sam3]

Im having a brain anurism watching the same few peices of refuse re animate OVER AND OVER AND OVER filling up another whole stockpile with their new undead remains.
This is dumb. Period. What is the fun in something that just spams itself over and over and dies in a single shot?

Once is enough

Evil biome or necromancer? In the former case, magma it; in the latter case, find it, then magma it.

[nocker]

Regarding 07/02's update, isn't this a perfect time to tackle editable multi-racial entities and review the limits of what goes into the race definition and what goes on the entity definition? For example, the profession names currently go into the racial files and that's alright, but I keep thinking that it'd be awesome if entities could have adequate names for these too (with the entity names having priority). So if I have a dwarf with a spear, he can appear as a "Speardwarf" or as a "Dwarf Legionary".

Personality traits also go entirely on the racial definition, which supports a purely "by nature" model. Civilizations (representing the "nurture" aspect) could have their own set of personality modifiers, and each individual creature would have a personality that was some product of nature and nurture.

Finally, Ethics go currently on the racial file, which is entirely unjustified. They define the social contract, so their place should be on the Entity files.

EDIT: Nevermind about the Ethics, I got confused by the wiki saying that they're used "to determine how races feel about various issues". Which is another point showing how race and civilization are strongly coupled right now.

[Knight Otu]

Finally, Ethics go currently on the racial file, which is entirely unjustified. They define the social contract, so their place should be on the Entity files.

Ethics already are in the entity files.

Whether this is a good time to change multiracial entities and expanding entity limitations, I'm not really convinced. I mean, all of that is certainly up to review (or even part of) in the coming works, not just the Hero role, but also what used to be the caravan arc releases and army arc, but at the moment we're just at entity claims to sites.

[Makbeth]

With the changes to site ownership recently, will evil and good stop being attributes of biomes and instead be the result of good or evil historical figures spreading their influence, so that their extent changes over time?

[Manveru Taurënér]

With the changes to site ownership recently, will evil and good stop being attributes of biomes and instead be the result of good or evil historical figures spreading their influence, so that their extent changes over time?

Doesn't sound like it :>

Current dev page: "Scrap good/evil lands for lands with more variety"

and:

Core94, RANDOMIZED REGIONS AND THEIR FLORA/FAUNA, (Future): The current good/evil regions should be scrapped and replaced by a system that aligns a region to varying degrees with a set of spheres. In this way you could end up with a desert where the stones sing or a forest where the trees bleed, with all sorts of randomly generated creatures and plants that are appropriate to the sphere settings. It's important that randomly generated objects be introduced to the player carefully during play rather than just being thrown one after another to allow for immersion, though there's also something to be said for cold dumping the player in a world with completely random settings, provided they can access enough information by looking/listening and having conversations, etc. Requires Core92.