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[orius]

Will this update re-introduce goblin/dwarven/elven sites to adventure mode?

Current signs point to no.

But it is one of the things Toady said that he wants to bump up, so it might be in subsequent releases. If we're lucky.

I'm hoping it will, at least for the goblins and dwarves.  The elves are supposed to have tree cities which will probably require more work, but I'm not sure the tree-huggers will actually have anything useful in their towns. 

[BradUffner]

I'm hoping it will, at least for the goblins and dwarves.  The elves are supposed to have tree cities which will probably require more work, but I'm not sure the tree-huggers will actually have anything useful in their towns.

Other than the multitude of elf shaped autonomous training dummies?

[Techhead]

Given the Gods' more active state in recent releases (with curses and such), what are your plans for adventurers concerning conversations with their deity of choice? Even if it is something as simple as an occasional "Leave me alone, mortal, I have more urgent matters to attend to."

[Cruxador]

So, if I'm reading the devlog right, which I'm quite possibly not, does this mean we'll be getting Metal Gear Fortress: Tactical Goblin Action for the next release?  If the "Breaking into fortified locations" section of the Hero-dev pages is relevant, then this will be pretty exciting.

It sounds like that's the goal, but I wouldn't necessarily expect ever aspect of it to go in for this release.

[Mercanthyr]

Will it be possible for your fortress to become a goblin slave camp while you play?

Ideally we'll be able to do that.  There's a lot of specific interface etc. associated to being in that position though.  It's similar to bandits messing with your site beyond murder and stealing (which we have), but even more complicated.

When I read this, I though... yeah when ARE we going to get to enslave goblins to work in our mines? I'm not sure that is what you meant though?

[MrWiggles]

Will it be possible for your fortress to become a goblin slave camp while you play?

Ideally we'll be able to do that.  There's a lot of specific interface etc. associated to being in that position though.  It's similar to bandits messing with your site beyond murder and stealing (which we have), but even more complicated.

When I read this, I though... yeah when ARE we going to get to enslave goblins to work in our mines? I'm not sure that is what you meant though?

I'm pretty sure the question was, 'Can we still run our Fort, even when it gets taken over by invaders?'.

[Mr S]

And arrange for some unfortunate accidents for the Goblin Overlords on a grand scale!!

[Chthonic]

The elves are supposed to have tree cities which will probably require more work, but I'm not sure the tree-huggers will actually have anything useful in their towns.

Eventually, I would hope that my adventurer will be able to wander into an elf village on foot and leave riding a grizzly bear or a giant eagle.

[O11O1]

The elves are supposed to have tree cities which will probably require more work, but I'm not sure the tree-huggers will actually have anything useful in their towns.

Eventually, I would hope that my adventurer will be able to wander into an elf village on foot and leave riding a grizzly bear or a giant eagle.

THIS.
DO WANT.

This is also the thing that can make the tree-huggers dangerous in a war, all the pets they bring.

[Rockphed]

Regarding attack speeds: Are there any plans to implement variations on the speed of readying your weapon again after a blow? I would imagine that after swinging a giant axe blade or granite throne one would require a lot of time to bring it back up to a readied/guard position compared to a more conventional weapon, to give an extreme example.

I am fairly certain that such things are already in the process of being implemented.  See this section of the recent FotF reply by Toady One.

I interpreted the "pre-strike period" he mentioned as meaning time taken winding up for an attack, rather than recovering from the last one. I don't know how necessary it will be in his new combat plans to differentiate between the two, but I can imagine that being able to do so would be useful.

There was also a post-strike period mentioned.  That said, I think he isn't done with it yet.

I have yet to muck around with the raws, but it'll come up very soon once I go back to that stuff once I'm done messing with entity claims.  I imagine attack raws will need basic speeds, perhaps broken into the pre/post strike periods, and that these'll be subject to attribute/skill improvements in many cases.

[Greiger]

I don't know why this just struck me now, but I always wanted to mod in smaller and larger crossbows.  You know, low power high reload speed vs, punch a hole in adamantine 2 days to reaload things.

The way it currently stands I had to settle for making the heavy crossbow two handed.  But the way it's looking we'll be able to set relative weapon speeds!  Yay! Finally, the ability to make repeating crossbows that can't penetrate copper but fill the air with bolts!

And with that, a completely off topic question: Does two handedness of a crossbow(or any ranged weapon) have any effect on the rolls when being fired, like it does with melee weapons?  It only matters for mods since vanilla crossbows are apperantly always used as one handed weapons, but when I tried to ‼science‼ it myself my results came up really inconclusive.

[Neonivek]

Ok question time!

Toady how are you going to marry creatures who have incredibly fast and sudden strikes but cannot do it often (Like snakes) and ones who can attack often?

For example a snake

[monk12]

Justice of the peace?

[Rockphed]

Ok question time!

Toady how are you going to marry creatures who have incredibly fast and sudden strikes but cannot do it often (Like snakes) and ones who can attack often?

For example a snake

The real problem only arises if a snake can do their strike and then move a significant distance before striking again.  There is a quote from toady mentioning that attacks will probably get pre-strike and post-strike wait times.  So a snake will probably have no pre-strike time, and a post strike time similar to the current crossbow firing delay.

[O11O1]

Ok question time!

Toady how are you going to marry creatures who have incredibly fast and sudden strikes but cannot do it often (Like snakes) and ones who can attack often?

For example a snake

Presumably the preacher need also be a ninja just to survive the ceremony.