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[Sheb]

The classical notion of specie is already fucked up anyway. Nature doesn't like neat categories, and like to mess with our definitions. (See ring species for exemple. Amongst plants the notion of specie is almost meningless. Same with all the organisms that reproduce asexually.)

I wonder what would the interactions between allele be. Would Dwarve be dominant over the recessive Elf? It'd be so messed up. :p

[Eric Blank]

I had a very long discussion with one of my geology classmates about speciation and evolution, because she just wasn't eble to figure out quite how it worked, and the fact that I didn't know exactly how it worked either didn't help.

There's a reason I'm studying to be a geologist instead of a biologist. At least it can only get half as confusing as figuring out how complex animals work.

[Sheb]

Plus, rocks won't bite you, stampede you or give you some weird disease. (Well, except for cinnabar).

[Kassil]

The game employs realistic lighting: All areas that are Inside, Underground, Dark are represented by completely black tiles. The only way to "see" what is on each tile is by 'k' looking around, and even then, the text is dark gray on black.

This will come with the addition of pitch rigs to tap trees for flammable sap and both pockets of oil and oil-bearing stone in the deeps. Coal can also be used. All of it can be used to make light sources, all of which gradually burn out and need a steady industry going to keep your fortress lit.

[Kassil]

Plus, rocks won't bite you, stampede you or give you some weird disease. (Well, except for cinnabar).

Any rock that makes your Geiger counter click faster than normal can give you a weird disease.

[Sheb]

Well, highly radioactive natural rocks are rare. Even pitchblende is quite safe to handle.

[chevil]

Miners who are disoriented for any reason (including both drunkenness and excessive sobriety) lose their picture-perfect sense of direction and spatial awareness, resulting in things like accidentally digging a non-level floor and driving their pick right through your bedroom ceiling, or tunneling off in the wring direction entirely and plowing right into the lake.

That would make miners almost useless because when aren't dwarves drunk? And sober dwarves are even worse. Just immagine the hangover you would get after being drunk for so long.

[Blizzlord]

Miners who are disoriented for any reason (including both drunkenness and excessive sobriety) lose their picture-perfect sense of direction and spatial awareness, resulting in things like accidentally digging a non-level floor and driving their pick right through your bedroom ceiling, or tunneling off in the wring direction entirely and plowing right into the lake.

That would make miners almost useless because when aren't dwarves drunk? And sober dwarves are even worse. Just immagine the hangover you would get after being drunk for so long.

Alcohol has the reverse effect on dwarves. A drunk dwarf is just as clear minded as any normal human. It is when they are sober that things go wrong.

[Broseph Stalin]

Alcohol has the reverse effect on dwarves. A drunk dwarf is just as clear minded as any normal human. It is when they are sober that things go wrong.

I subscribe to the theory that dwarves have a genetic hangover that's been building since the dawn of time and the only way to hold it back is by an endless supply of hair of the dog.

[TheBeardyMan]

Areas of flat land surrounded by mountains should have a chance of being supervolcanoes.

[Riloki]

Areas of flat land surrounded by mountains should have a chance of being supervolcanoes.

I.... I thought the idea... was bad suggestions.

*mentally pictures digging down about five layers before hitting magma which SPEWS UPWARD! in a massive cloud of fire and death, filling an entire swath of the map with lava and killing all the elves and trees and raise the savagery rating on all the biome near those affected*

.... Hidden Super Fun Stuff.

[WealthyRadish]

Breaks, meals, and naps take place realistically with the time scale, meaning that every 5 in-game hours they engage in one of those activities, or the equivalent of about 2 seconds at 100 FPS.

[ccoolleeiiss]

-Military gets upset about having to train for a long time without fighting anything.
-All dwarves get a bad thought whenever a hostile has been on the map more than a season.
-Relatives and friends of military dwarves get upset/worried whenever the dwarf is fighting.
-Mandates to not make things (for a given time period)
-Religious figgures capable of issuing perminant mandates (effecting trading or use of certian goods)
-Dwarves getting a bad thought whenever there is a party they don't attend.
-Dwarves with low confidence and/or social skills refusing to attend parties and then getting a bad thought about it.

While those would be horrible, they would also kinda be reasonable.

[Niyazov]

if dwarves die at 150ish and elves are immortal, what would their offspring be?

[Blizzlord]

They would still be immortal, but since elves can't handle alcohol they eventually die as the booze slowly breaks down and degenerates the body. I'd say about 90 years before the cell walls dissolve and the bones snap due to elvishness.