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[Talvieno]

I should have a look into modding myself, any tips on how I should start?

    Hmm... Personally, I jumped right into it a little less than a year ago. Using the magmawiki as a crutch, I designed a custom race called "scythods". After that, I started working on other things that never got released, including the infamous manamaids. Jumping right into it seems to be the way to go, I think. If you don't aim high, you won't get anywhere - but the wiki is your friend. On my old laptop I had a good number of the pages bookmarked. Creature tokens, entity tokens, body tokens, etc.
    Contrary to what you'd expect, modding entities is a lot harder than modding creatures, simply because there's so much more that can go wrong, and it rarely gives you an error log for what you screwed up. However, it has a lot fewer potential variables... I'd still recommend starting with creatures. Or armor, or something similar. Modding armor gets old fast, though - there's not much you can do with it, and Toady's system doesn't make a whole lot of sense.


@Tevish Szat: Welcome to the thread.
    I still don't like the idea of messing with the ethics too much - it impacts gameplay a lot more than you would expect. For a non-player race, I wouldn't mind, but if we're having the first multiplayer world, it would be unfair if we gave one side a major advantage. Butchering sapients actually makes the game ridiculously easy - there's literally no end of soap and food after the first siege (or ambush, even). You never have to worry about either of them again.
    Then again, it's just my opinion. A lot of people seem to like the idea of dark dwarves being technically evil instead of just flavorfully so.

[Stoutpants]

I would also love a turn on a succession world!

[Orange Wizard]

I think the dark dwarves should be a non-player race, like goblins or Holistic Spawn. Basically, they're the enemy, and I suppose we could work this into the world's narrative.
Personally, I don't want any mods. At all. We're going to be playing something we haven't yet experienced, and you guys are already planning to make changes to it. Why? We don't know much about DF2013, except for a bunch of random details. We don't know how it will all tie in, we know nothing about the experience D2013 is going to give. We shouldn't change something we've never even seen, just because it would be cool.
I like these dark dwarves. I like the idea of them existing in a game of DF. However, I don't want them in our succession world.
It should be vanilla DF2013 we play, not DF2013: The Mod we Invented Because it Sounded Cool At The Time.

Actually, that's not what this post was supposed to be about at all. But it will only be decided by... A POLL!

[Yuli Vlasi]

I would also love a turn on a succession world!

You are on the list now.

It should be vanilla DF2013 we play, not DF2013: The Mod we Invented Because it Sounded Cool At The Time.

Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. I think... Hmm. Well... true? Maybe. Maybe not. We should really do a poll first.

[Jimmy]

If it's anything like the last few big releases, expect it to need major bugfixing after the release.

[Yuli Vlasi]

If it's anything like the last few big releases, expect it to need major bugfixing after the release.

That means we shouldn't start the world immediately. We also get some time to test the new features.

[mastahcheese]

i like unicorns
My wife trolled me while I was away from the computer.

I've put up a poll to be the decider on whether or not we should mod the new version when it's released, as Yuli proposed.
Personally, I've voted for no mods, if this is the fort for the first succesion world, it should just be the world that Toady One has crafted for us, not our own design. I love the idea of a player-run war on the forums, but maybe in a different tread. Here, I think we should stick with the basics.

[TheKaspa]

I second mastahcheese.
While modding Dark Dwarves would be great (and I'd like to playsee a Dwarf-DDwarf war), it's true that it's better to wait at least for the inevitable bugfix.

[kahn1234]

The megaprojects using the resources from one fotress were bad enough.....

imaging the resources from dozens o fortresses.....

UBER MEGA SPACE PIERCING PHALLUS!

PLANET CRACKING MAGMA CANNON!

Huge network of underground tunnels.

etc etc

[TheKaspa]

We will finally reach the stars

[Jimmy]

i like unicorns
My wife trolled me while I was away from the computer.

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[Yuli Vlasi]

Alright, I'm convinced. No mods.

[Inarius]

I would like to be part of it.

And, like many people : no mods ! Not yet !

[mastahcheese]

i like unicorns
My wife trolled me while I was away from the computer.

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My wife found this hilarious, she says you gave her great ideas, and "thx bro"

[TheKaspa]

It's amazing that this topic managed to reach 6 pages before derailing...