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[danmanthedog]

Haa plans for the future and I also forgot about those japanese hornets. scary guys they are.

[heydude6]

mephs custom sculk tag

They what?

I meant the skulk tag that banshees, werewolves and kobolds have. The gui calls it skulk. Also you can ignore that part completly since when i began writing my post i didn't think of making it so that the seige triggers if the theif leaves the map and so i thought about using the skulk tag to trigger the seige instead. It should  be perfectly possible to make it so that a seige triggers when a japanese hornet escapes the map meaning that we don't need the skulk tag.

Also it is very difficult to understand your comment.

[Meph]

SKULKING is a normal vanilla tag that kobolds have. Thats why I was surprised to see someone mention a custom Meph Tag, which is something that doesnt exist. I cant make up stuff. ^^ I have to work with the same things any other mod works.

[heydude6]

OK that makes sense

Also this isn't the best place to post this question but is it possible to make Armour clad animals a seperate caste of the regular animals instead and simply give them a population ratio of zero so they are never naturally born

[Meph]

Almost. Pop-ratio 0 is ignore, the game thinks it doesnt exist and give its the default 50. Pop-ratio1 is the best you can do, and raise the other castes pop-ratio to 999999

[heydude6]

ah well too bad. Maybe toady might add something like that if we ask him. Shouldn't be too hard

[Samarkand]

Almost. Pop-ratio 0 is ignore, the game thinks it doesnt exist and give its the default 50. Pop-ratio1 is the best you can do, and raise the other castes pop-ratio to 999999

Could you duplicate normal castes several times to swamp them out even more?

[Meph]

Makes no sense. Just raise pop-ratio more.

[Samarkand]

Makes no sense. Just raise pop-ratio more.

I wasn't sure if 6 nines was a limit or something. Not aware of how to mod even a little. But I may try learning soon!

[Zeni]

I'm loving the idea of a eusocial insect race! I have some suggestions that I think would make them feel more the part.

I think the insects themselves should be the weapons instead of wielding them. Hardened claws, mandibles, venomous stings ect.

It should be a numbers game. Instead of making them tough, make them expendable. Maybe large clutches of young at a time?

Could the caste system involve eggs (babies) and larva (children)?

Workshops revolve around food preservation and storage. Possible gene strengthening (similar to the biology study the dwarfs use) that uses captives to strengthen the queens gene pool.

Cannibalism of the dead!

What do you guys think?

[Meph]

Might I remember everyone that this thread exists? http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138577.msg5279089#msg5279089

[Zeni]

Might I remember everyone that this thread exists? http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138577.msg5279089#msg5279089

Didn't even see this page! Also didnt know it was this far along. 

[Meph]

It was the same time I made the poll for the next big feature and started fundraiser #2. The cleanup, raw merging and humans were the result, but if more people would have voted on insects, it would be insects now that prance around, not humans.

Edit, wow I looked it up. 89 for humans. 87 for insects. ^^ By 211 votes, thats 0.3% difference.

[heydude6]

Might I remember everyone that this thread exists? http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138577.msg5279089#msg5279089

wait i thought this was the insect ideas page? Does that mean that my japanese hornet enemy civ idea was useless? What is this page for then?

[heydude6]

Ok idea. This is slightly derailing but at the current moment there is no thread that talks about fixing the few bugs masterwork has

So the main problem i want to talk about is the armoured animals giving birth to armoured babies. So the way i think it can be fixed is that we make it so that whenever an Anoucment that says Armoured animal has given birth to baby apears ,DFHack immideatly does a check to see where all the armoured babies are. DFhack then transforms them into unarmoured babies. What do you think? is it possible? Is it possible..... but too difficult for a mere mortal to do?

Also is there a thread were ideas like this actually belong?