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[Reudh]

Question to those experienced modders, does [SKILL_RATE:SKILL:0:NONE:NONE:NONE] make it so that caste can NOT use that skill, or does it cause them to simply never gain experience?

[Putnam]

Question to those experienced modders, does [SKILL_RATE:SKILL:0:NONE:NONE:NONE] make it so that caste can NOT use that skill, or does it cause them to simply never gain experience?

Except for user intervention, both. With user intervention, only the latter. You'll never find that particular caste using that skill in generated circumstances, but the user can force them to.

[Reudh]

Ah, so if I make a caste that has certain skills unusable at 0%, they can use the skill but worldgen will lead them to the skills they get bonuses to?

If they are player controlled, then I assume the player can over-ride that, force them to use the skill but not to gain anything from it? (ie, always at 0 exp Dabbling?)

That's alright, i wasn't planning on having them player controlled... but individually defining which skills can and can't be used is a chore indeed.

[Putnam]

Ah, so if I make a caste that has certain skills unusable at 0%, they can use the skill but worldgen will lead them to the skills they get bonuses to?

No, it's just that they tend to get more experience in that skill, so they become that job. It's very... natural.

[Reudh]

So if I have some skills with 200% exp rate (OP, but just so I can see that it works) and some with 0%, they will most often become the skills with 200% exp rate. That is, if a dwarf has 200% to masonry and 50% to stone crafting and 0% to wood crafting,

- The masonry skill is twice as likely to be taken due to the fact that the skill is learnt at twice the normal rate.
-The stone crafting skill is half as likely to be taken due to the fact that the skill is learnt at half the normal rate.
- The woodcrafting skill will not be taken as a job because 0% won't gain exp at all?

[EmperorJon]

Yes, they are named after what they're best at, and if have no woodcrafting skill then they'll always either be better at something else, or be equally bad at everything and be a "Peasant", as far as I know.

[ArKFallen]

Alrighty my turn is done. I've added 3 creatures. A cerberus megabeast that can breathe up to 3 gouts of fire at a time and is heavily muscled. The Firusk, a giant 6 tentacled mollusk-esque night creature that shoots fireballs (should attack forts because of its attack_trigger), it's mostly dangerous to undeveloped militaries and grassy places. And finally the gold fish, fish-like creatures made of never rotting cheese that bleed milk. They don't air drown and can be milked about once a month or butchered for a stack of cheese.

[Robosaur]

We need to contact the next person :O

[Person]

I did, they're working on it.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

This seems interesting.  Sign me up!

[GreatWyrmGold]

We are not to modify dwarves at the present time. This may change.

I was thinking of making a completely different race.

Like the dwarven castes in Deon's Genesis mod?
There's so much one could do with that.

More or less, but mostly cosmetic/minor changes between races. Maybe criminals would have a dagger that they always have, and MAYBE gully dwarves would have a couple of minor powers, but that's it.

I think I should get to work once I have some time, in case I can't find time later.

[Reudh]

Well, I'm drawing up ideas for a non-player civ that has castes with various affinities- smaller crafters who excel at learning to craft, are near useless at other skills, soldier castes with high strength and combat affinities, and etc.

I was thinking of having them all able to inject venom via a horn on their heads, with different effects per caste... the smaller castes having more defensive venom (numbness? mild paralysis = sluggishness) and the stronger castes having offensive venoms (mild necrosis, permanent fever or blisters maybe? Swelling?)

[Crazy Cow]

Toss me on the turn pile, eh?

[Dunamisdeos]

I'm going to add megabeasts.

Nyancat for one. He will blaze by at speed 10 at a high homeotherm, leaving fire in his wake.

A Nyancat has come!
A flying poptart covered in sprinkles!
His adorable cat face is covered in gray fur!
Beware his deadly rainbows!

Don't worry. I have many ideas that are not meme-centric.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

My changes will probably have something to do with one or more of these:
A) dragons
B) Stargate
C) Magic the Gathering
D) Something I come up with later...