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[Daniel the Finlander]

You can either randomize your personality and values according to your creature type and culture (just tapping 'r' until you get a paragraph/needs you like), or you can go in and set your values/personality facet by facet manually (in a gigantic slider list).  Your personality in the latter case is still restricted by creature type (so you can't make a very altruistic goblin), but you can set as many values outside of your culture as you want (instead of the standard 3 or so).  It isn't based on a point system, since one personality isn't supposed to be better than another (though there will always be min-maxy settings that you can use to make your character have fewer needs, etc.).

So there is a relatively easy way to view the values of different civilizations outside Fortress mode! Unfortunately not for the values of goblins and kobolds without modding and it's certainly a bit clunky, but it's better than nothing.

[thedrelle]

They still all try to kill you over there as part of their ethics.  We'll have to wait for things to be more nuanced before you can visit.

It is unethical for a goblin to not kill dwarves, elves or humans who crash their poetry readings.

[NJW2000]

According to Goblin ethics, a death threat is an invitation to tea, so why is it their fault if everyone misinterprets their poetry-tea party death threat as invitations? Should be pretty obvious, really...

[Max™]

Oh dear, being able to change your personality and have it matter, and sliders, why am I excited about sliders?

[LordBaal]

Oh dear, being able to change your personality and have it matter, and sliders, why am I excited about sliders?

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[Porto]

Oh dear, being able to change your personality and have it matter, and sliders, why am I excited about sliders?

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Such a great show.

[Urist McVoyager]

Amen to that.

How will visitors petitioning to become citizens interact with population caps? I assume the petitions themselves will work like Liaison visits where we get a new screen with the relevant information and a choice about the petitioner. Will we still get those petitions even if we've already hit our cap?

[Kitsune]

Oh dear, being able to change your personality and have it matter, and sliders, why am I excited about sliders?

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Such a great show.

Who names there kid show sliders?

[forfor]

here's one: will adventurers ever be able to make more crafts? I for one would love to roleplay as a blacksmith working to craft the best masterpiece gear possible, using adventurer loot to fund these endeavors. Or be able to cook my kills. Or any number of things like that really.

edit: Lord Baal: sorry, I'm new to the forum XD

[LordBaal]

It's planned, no date yet. Also green your questions my friend.

[Adrian]

Will people petitioning the fortress be a mechanic designed for that single purpose, or will it be part of a framework allowing for different kinds of petitions?
ie. For the imprisonment of the valued upper class, the banishment of a troublemaker, making a certain deity the official fortress religion, a declaration of war, etc.

[Dirst]

Will people petitioning the fortress be a mechanic designed for that single purpose, or will it be part of a framework allowing for different kinds of petitions?
ie. For the imprisonment of the valued upper class, the banishment of a troublemaker, making a certain deity the official fortress religion, a declaration of war, etc.

I want a pony!

A system like the old fashioned SimCity "biggest problems facing the city survey" would be useful.  The problem is the screen will be clogged with the elves asking you to spare the trees, dwarves petitioning for the expulsion of their grudges, and indecipherable graffiti from kobolds.

[Urist McVoyager]

Well, not if you do it like Caravans where it only happens once a year, or a season. Add to the Mayor [Receives_Petitions] token and then once a season have a listing of things the citizens want to see happen, with appropriate choices.

[Tilogour]

Are you going to add possibility to tame wild animals in adventure mode?
As I remember historial figures can do that.

[Knight Otu]

Thanks, Toady!

Are you going to add possibility to tame wild animals in adventure mode?
As I remember historial figures can do that.

Eventually, something like that should be able to happen. It's mostly a question on how the historical figures do it, and how the new knowledge system. I can't find the relevant quotes right now, though.