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[rtg593]

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 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!

Anybody see that on the website? He's starting work on making everyone interact with each other, things more intelligent, governments, bandits, and cults have goals they actively pursue...

And allow npc's to surrender to you if you sufficiently intimidate them! For that he's putting in non-lethal combat.. I think the part about sending that surrendered bandit back to his leader with a message is pretty stinkin sweet :p

What are your thoughts on the latest dev-log?

[Nega]

Sounds awesome!  :D

[luppolo]

it looks like people will be able to finally start to get serious with megaprojects again without fear to be interrupted by wild Updates!

[Argonnek]

I wonder if I, as an adventurer, could join a bandit gang and eventually take over a human fortress? Oh the many possibilities. Though I am eager to knock some poor bastards out with my fists or a mace.

[Hammerstar]

Yeah, read it on my way into the forum just now.

Been having a kind of crap day so far, but now I've got a big fat stupid grin on my face.

[Loud Whispers]

Non-lethal combat?

Hmm... Captains of the guard...

[lignition]

Non-lethal combattorture...
This sounds like a good Idea.

[Lexyvil]

The potential for Adventure Mode is too grand. I'm glad to see that it will be updated more.

[Corai]

Finally. I can do this.


1. Get kobold


2.Be kobold


3.Torture kobold horribly


4.Take over kobold cave


6.MURDER. EVERY. ELF.

[lignition]

6.MURDER. EVERY. ELF.

You can already do this, but non-lethal weapons might include elf limbs.

[Corai]

6.MURDER. EVERY. ELF.

You can already do this, but non-lethal weapons might include elf limbs.

Forest retreats dont exist, so you cant kill them all.

Elf genocide! Gotta kill them all!

[Loud Whispers]

Corai's guide to the galaxy.

• Step 1: Be yourself!

...

• Step 6: OH GOD HIDE THE BODIES HIDE ALL THE BODIES!

[lignition]

6.MURDER. EVERY. ELF.

You can already do this, but non-lethal weapons might include elf limbs.

Forest retreats dont exist, so you cant kill them all.

Elf genocide! Gotta kill them all!

Solution: Mod elves so they build normal towns.

[DrKillPatient]

Non-lethal combat?

Hmm... Captains of the guard...

And hammers will finally be useful in Adventure Mode:

"Do not fear me, townspeople! As you can plainly see, this man is quite alright: he's lost nary a drop of blood to my 48,000 successive hammer blows! Regardless, he's moreso a sac of finely granulated bones than a man at this point. Still, however, quite alive and conscious."

"'Tis right. Hark, I see it quivering... Rejoice, for this adventurer is the harbinger of peace and nonviolence!"

[Neonivek]

Hammers already have a use in Adventure mode in that they have a really easy time breaking bones. (I can certainly disable creatures more easily with a hammer/mace then I can with a Sword)

Their problem is that they have an impossible time actually killing anything giving them a HUGE weakness to creatures immune to pain.