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StupidElves

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Kaiju?
« on: March 30, 2015, 10:02:15 am »
I'm thinking of making a mod that would add kaiju to the game.
I'm also thinking of making it to where every kaiju is a caste of one creature, allowing for lots of potential Fun.
You'd never know which kind it was until you could view the description.

Would anyone be interested in such a thing?
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Re: Kaiju?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2015, 10:14:19 am »
Kaiju just means strange creature. Did you have anything in particular in mind?
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Re: Kaiju?
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2015, 10:23:01 am »
Yeah. Godzilla, Gamera, the Kaiju from Pacific Rim, some of the monsters from Power Rangers, Giga Bowser, etc.
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Re: Kaiju?
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2015, 12:53:50 pm »
The size limit is too small for full-blown kaiju. To do this properly, you need to shrink everything else in the game slightly. I know, I've tried to calculate Godzilla's approximate size in cubic meters (and converted it to cubic centimeters for DF use) using a density of 1000 kg/m3 (humans have a density of 800 kg/m3, but I figured the radioactive metals in him would slightly increase his density), and it ended up slightly over the size cap. I wouldn't even want to know what Anguirus' size would be. Rodan might fit within the cap, but probably only if you reimagine him as an Azhdarchid pterosaur, which would make him much skinnier, and, by DF's reckoning, smaller than the humanoid abomination that is the official version.
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Re: Kaiju?
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2015, 08:28:28 am »
Well, that is a pity.
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Re: Kaiju?
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2015, 08:49:14 am »
Of course, you could just make everything except dragons vermin, leaving the dragons (and 1998 Zilla) to hunt them. Go Kaiju fortress!
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And yet another bit of proof that RNG is toying with us. We do 1984, it does animal farm
Quote from: Max™ on October 27, 2015, 05:59:30 am
...why do your hydras have two more heads than mine? 
Does that mean male hydras... oh god dammit.