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[danmanthedog]

Thank you

[Insanegame27]

Thank you

Thank you good sir!

+1 for FPS efficency

unlike some people, some OTHER people don't have ultra super mega computers that run a million frames a second.
This amount of other people includes me in the numbers.

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?
Cannibalism of the dead!

I fully agree with the insects being the weapons. although they do need SOME range weapons
Numbers game? no and yes. sort of. maybe. ARMOK DAMNIT. i would say yes but kobolds... I would say no because of framerate laaaaag
Ima make a poll for cannablism





so far I have suggestions for;

Pets:
slave wasps. wartrainable. hunttrainable. vastly inferior to the hive civ. lays eggs. stings inflict pain. butcher produces venom, meat and honey. (if you watch http://youtu.be/EZ1eAM8CChc then you will see that wasps raid beehives for honey and bee larvae)
Slaves. as previously mentioned. non breeding. llifespan max of 5 years. These are the expendable creatures. (Are pet deaths announced?)
Suggestions

Weapons
Stinger: main weapon, venomous (paralysis after 1 day). Stingers penetration can be upgraded [reaction: coat stinger in (insert metal here)].
Mouth: secondary weapon
Compound bow: fires arrows. twice as powerful as an orcish recurve bow (on-par with composite bows)
Slingshot: fires "shot" which are blunt and "jagged shot" which are edged.

Armour:
I have finally made my mind up for armour. there is to be no normal armour (bar looting) but there will instead be-
ScaleMail: halfway between chain and normal armour.

Industry:
Slavery podium
Infactory (Infectory? geddit? Yes I know its a REALLY bad pun but still)
suggestions?

[Insanegame27]

OK everyone. We're going with a mix between parasitic and social.

new poll is up

[heydude6]

The only problem i see with cannabalism is how do we deal with ghosts?

[heydude6]

Infactory (Infectory? geddit? Yes I know its a REALLY bad pun but still)

I think it should be called a hatchery, although we will have to sacrifice the pun

[SharpKris]

well we could use something similar to slabs i guess

[Insanegame27]

Idea: a way to transform civ-members into butcherable livestock, mimicking the callous efficiency in which insects will cast off their weak and incapacitated. (Such as the treatment worker bees get upon returning to the hive too drunk to fly straight, or the way excess drones in ant colonies are most often killed by the colony's own workers.) To get around any ghost issues, I'm thinking it could be a free reaction that kills the worker and spawns a non-sentient copy that can be treated like any other livestock.

This is the ONLY thing I have taken from the insect thread.
I like this idea

[Zuzu Reish]

Idea: a way to transform civ-members into butcherable livestock, mimicking the callous efficiency in which insects will cast off their weak and incapacitated. (Such as the treatment worker bees get upon returning to the hive too drunk to fly straight, or the way excess drones in ant colonies are most often killed by the colony's own workers.) To get around any ghost issues, I'm thinking it could be a free reaction that kills the worker and spawns a non-sentient copy that can be treated like any other livestock.

This is the ONLY thing I have taken from the insect thread.
I like this idea

I don't know if that would get around the ghost issue, in and of itself; the worker would still 'die,' and so the game would consider the ghost spawn to be eligible even with the butcherable livestock as a replacement. That's my understanding, at least.

[heydude6]

Are you sure? When meph did the caste transformation for guild dwarves they don't create ghosts.

[-Nihil-]

Creature1:Caste -> Creature1:Caste is different than Creature1:Caste -> Creature2:Cast

[slay_mithos]

Well, Meph transforms the workers to pets for a while before returning them to workers, so it might be worth lookking into.

[Zuzu Reish]

Yeah it's definitely worth looking into. I should clarify that I very much like the idea; I feel like insectoids would be pretty efficient with the use of their biomass.

[-Nihil-]

Well, Meph transforms the workers to pets for a while before returning them to workers, so it might be worth lookking into.

I just feel like if it was that easy Meph would have done that for hermit mode.

[zach123b]

doesn't ghosts require the creature to have the [INTELLIGENT] tag? or something close

[heydude6]

But don't civs need and intelligent tag in order to survive world gen? I'm just asking i don't know anything about the Intelligent tag other than the fact that it labels the animal as sapient and that it creates ghosts.