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[Meph]

Then let me ask the other way around: Any boring raw-stuff, like basic underdark life, reactions and buildings, which dictates the biggest part of their playstyle? 

[Putnam]

Not much, yet. That's my next step, though.

[Putnam]

Guess what I'm working on again in earnest.

[Meph]

Final Fantasy Fortress?

[Putnam]

Only 3 spells are from final fantasy

Right now, I've decided to shove soul magic aside so I can actually get some work on interesting non-trivial things done. Like poisoning.

[Meph]

I could write up the clay stuff, a drow embassy and the workshop to unpack the custom tradegoods. All races need those, and it would take some workload of you.

[Putnam]

Okay.

Right now, I'm trying to think of things that could be done with crystal "batteries" that have a certain amount of charge in them. Enchantment a la Elder Scrolls?

Ooh, that could work, I think. Have the user pick in a menu between a few syndrome effects, place them all into a syndrome-made-from-scratch and place that syndrome into the raw syndromes list. That's kinda... wow, though, but I think I can handle it.

[Putnam]

Yo, got a new release up.

EDIT: Fuck it.

My current game plan in general is to make Drow have things that literally no other mod has, maybe even that no other mod has use for. Near every niche is filled by other Masterwork playable races, so I'm filling the batshit niche. Drowfort--let me be honest--is where I do my moonshots, my out-there ideas that don't fit anywhere else. Also, I find it funny that the serious-ass grimdark drow are the ones that I dump my TTGL crap onto.

And that's why v0.7 is going to be all about the menu screens. Let's see what I can do with the idea of "custom enchantments".

[Meph]

Sounds interesting.



I did some designs for the buildings. Here some thoughts on them:

The chandler, metallurgist, kiln, pottery, brick oven and crematory would be the same as in dwarf mode. Make candles/torches for Rendermax, make Alloys, dry/extract stuff, make pottery, make bricks for megaprojects, burn items to ash/coal to make space.

The stables would feed grazers with mushrooms only, because I assume that most drow pets are belowground monster. The feeding station could be a smaller version. Either both, or only one... feeding station to feed meat to giant spiders and the like. One could make pets grazers that require food that does not actually grow anywhere, this way you can simulate a carnivore getting hungry, and your drow have to feed it. Easily manageable if the grazer value is low enough. Grazing pets could also require specific food, the cavern moss, this way you dont have surface animals, but rather break into the first cavern for your pets.

Emissary is the Embassy, and the Hoardmaster is the Trade Storage. First one calls caravans and sieges, second one unpacks special tradegoods, maybe does some in-fort trading. Emissary could also use your new scripts for converting invaders, but I'd rather say thats something for magic/late-game-tech.

Slag, Ore and Gem grinder take on the role of Slag Pit, to clean up slag from smelting, the Ore Processor to refine the ore before you smelt it, and gem-powders, which could be used for decorations, colors, glazing and the like.

Glassblower makes simple items from glass that are missing in the glass furnaces.

Slaughterhouse butcheres the custom itemcorpses I had to add, for the megabeasts and sentient invaders.

Boneshaper makes items from bone that are missing in the craftsdrow-shop.

Beast Kennels could train warbeasts, like the dwarven version, but without the armoring. Just skill increases, an early building.

Alarm lever/siren/whatever, simply runs the siren script.

What do you think? Do you like those, because I can easily do the reactions/inorganics for them, its mostly using dwarf-mode stuff. Its all basic fortress life stuff, and I'd be happy to help, that way you can focus on your scripts and testing.

[Putnam]

Yeah; heck, for the most part, the already-existing reactions can be used.

[Meph]

Almost. I'll make copies with unique IDs, I dont want different races to use the same reactions. It causes nothing but trouble when I change dwarven alchemy to a new system, but orcs suddenly lack alchemy... or the pottery... so drow get a REACTION_DROW for everything.

[Putnam]

k

[Etherdrinker]

You should let Drow use slaves, to feed carnivorous pets, one most important and exploitable thing about drows, they donīt have much ethics like most other races.

[Putnam]

Drow already do use slaves, but... that could work, I think.

[Etherdrinker]

Add an reaction.

Use Slave to feed beast.

Or

Add a reaction in the Butchery

Butcher Slave.

choppa dat  hummie dem fed da big monsta!!!