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Author Topic: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.  (Read 1700 times)

franti

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It needs to grow until the point where it as, at least, a "Town" and then die off. I have a seed and some working parameters that work well, but I need to get it to die off, which it only did once, and that save got messed up.

I'm asking for two things, really; is there a thread like this before me, and is there I way I can make a civ die via DFHack or some other program?
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Re: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2012, 06:15:16 pm »

Not really. You can insure that creatures die in about 4 years or so, but there really isn't any way to get a civilization to flourish and then die off without just gunning a bunch of worlds and seeing what happens in each one. Someone might have a save around here somewhere that it happens in, but I don't have one personally.
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Re: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2012, 07:00:48 pm »

You could mod humans to be incredibly powerful but not have gender. That would make them all die off after a while.
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Re: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2012, 07:13:51 pm »

making things [BONE_CARN] bone eaters tends to make them die off, it seems, like kobolds.  But not instantly, just much more often after awhile as they cant support themselves well.
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Re: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2012, 08:18:07 pm »

making things [BONE_CARN] bone eaters tends to make them die off, it seems, like kobolds.  But not instantly, just much more often after awhile as they cant support themselves well.

Does not happen anymore.
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Re: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2012, 08:34:48 pm »

it seems like a skilled modder could implant a time-delay genetic kill switch, somehow. using syndromes/interactions, perhaps?
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Re: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.
« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2012, 09:25:23 pm »

lol, syndrome placed in water (I know, you can't).  PARALYSIS SEV:1000 START:10000000000000000000000000000, specific to one species.
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Re: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2012, 07:09:15 am »

lol, syndrome placed in water (I know, you can't).  PARALYSIS SEV:1000 START:10000000000000000000000000000, specific to one species.

you could probably do that with the syndrome in human blood, if you also turn off breeding. not sure though.
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Re: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2012, 07:18:12 am »

Well, kill the whole civ with bronze colossus adventurers, of course !

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Re: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2012, 07:18:17 am »

I don't think humans are simulated down to syndrome-level in world gen.
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Re: Need to get a Human Civ to grow a little bit, and then die off.
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2012, 07:19:08 am »

wait for human merchants with runesmith...
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