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If a megabeast is worshipped and killed, can part of that megabeast become a holy relic to its worshippers?
Hmm... do they ever build a temple for megabeasts? Maybe not? Those might only come from entity-level worship targets, and the megabeasts are passed through family relationships. I don't think there's a mechanism yet for aggregate individual beliefs to pass up to the entity, and that'll likely be one of the major challenges as we start in on real entity work a few releases down the line.
Will other roles like kobold thieves or goblin snatchers in future (with more development of the game and other races) ever be togglable or interactable professions within fortress mode? Given that by editing some memory values (as DFstructures implies) to unrestrict, they could be set up as flags for certain civ types ([BABYSNATCHER] & [ITEM THEIF]) to access, perhaps using the same system as artifact retrievers.
Hard to say, since we're still dwarf-focused in the site-playing mode. It takes directed work to do those things, so it would have to come up in the normal course of affairs. Entity definitions will become more flexible, but I'm not sure what that'll bring in terms of new professions.
Is there a plan to, eventually, allow players to create different types of adv-sites (Adventurer-created sites), aside from just Camps? Perhaps we could one day turn our own camps into a small Hamlet or Hillock, or maybe even a Lair, Labyrinth, Shrine, or Tomb?
is there a plan to allow fort mode sites to become a Hamlet or Hillock, or aLair, Labyrinth, Shrine, or Tomb?
It's not the priority of the embark scenario stuff, but that's the sort of work which will lead to this kind of thing being possible eventually. Hopefully there will be different sorts of player fort mode settlements and larger populations available for adv sites under some common framework before the end of time.
Unless its a secret, what is the typical (or in progress) outlay of kobold sites so far toady?
Not 100% settled yet, so going to remain quiet on it.
Toady have you read a fantasy novel such as any novel from the Discworld series or the Scion of Shannara series, (or any of the short stories from the Majesty fanatsy kingdom sim series of games (like this http://www.majestypalace.com/page/History_of_Ardania ), (or this http://www.majestypalace.com/page/Sources_for_Majesty_Lore) or anything like that) since the start of the myth generation stuff? and if so will it influence how you go about myth generation for your worlds and what books/stories were they? and if not, do you plan to?
Nope. We have more than enough myth material for a zillion years already, though I imagine we'll see relevant stuff from other places in the suggestions forum even if the sources aren't always given there.
How come there are no wooden statues? Is is simply something that is so minor that you've never gotten to it, or do you have any other reasons for not including them? It saddened me when I weren't able to create wooden statues of weeping and suffering elves and trees (to place along the path to my trade depot).
No particular reason I can remember, but that decision was made more than a decade ago by now I think, if statues were in the first release.
Are grown objects actually classed as twigs or logs in a certain narrative of elven ethics and grown nature magic? I guess twigs seeds and fruits wouldn't be much more different to livestock laying eggs/shearing livestock, it makes more sense to value the trunk of the tree as the 'body' and hence why elves dont freak out about camp fires etc since even they probably understand the sentiment to keep warm & safe from non-natural presences.
We haven't specified how the grown items relate to the personhood of the tree... if the tree is being consulted in some way, etc. The elves think they are in the clear, anyway.
Given that the next current few arcs are mostly entity/unit based, has there been any more inward developmental discussion about additional improvements to the natural world? Iterating some of the dev goals for a forseeable point which point towards soil properties/fertility etc.
The myth/magic release isn't particularly entity/unit based, though I don't think it'll be farming directed either. No specific timeline on any of that, since we don't have specific ordered goals in place after the law/property/embark stuff.
I am very interested in the 'debugging mode' you mentioned a while back (see the quote for context if it is needed) because I feel a spectator mode would be an ideal extension to Legends Mode. Would you care to elaborate on your debugging mode and would it be feasible to give the players access to this mode?
It's a messy thing I don't want to have to maintain. We might see something like it when we get to editing historical objects for more fixed worlds, but I'm not sure exactly how that's going to work.
Recently while poking around with dfhack I noticed the option to make myself or others a tavern keeper or monster slayer occupation, I tried to make sure it was all linked properly in other locations but can't be sure if I did.
Is there any behavior/response/conversation option in adventurer mode for being/encountering a monster slayer? Being a tavern keeper in a tavern results in people shouting out orders and responding normally there, but I'm not sure where any monster slayer responses would crop up.
Nope, it doesn't use the occupation there yet. Not sure when we'll start making them work post w.g., since it's a depopulation problem. Artifact quests don't have that problem.
The first one has probably been asked before, but will there eventually be legendary/folklore figures generated as well? Something in the vein of King Arthur or Robin Hood, where their existence is disputed and so on.
I'd guess in some worlds they could potentially be actual historical figures (though of course it'd be random as to which parts of the legend would be true, embellishments of the truth or merely made-up events) and in others they'd simply be subjects of legends and works of art.
This could be useful for modding as a replacement for deities and the like - so instead of worshipping deities, some races would revere and look up to the heroes of their legends.
Second question more related to modding: will there be a possibility of being able to mod in set historical figures that always appear in every generated world? As in, they'd always have the same name, race, and description - essentially they'd be constants in the same way as megabeasts and the like are.
Lastly, do you intend to have values affect societal structures in civilizations, as well as their behaviour? For instance, a civilization which values knowledge would be more neutral and send out more scholars and explorers into the world, and their people would give out more quests to get books in adventure mode; whereas a civ that values martial prowess would possibly have a warrior-king/queen with an artifact weapon and legendary combat skills, and a way to gain their respect and/or friendship would be to slay various beasts around the world and bring back parts of their bodies - skulls, hands, etc. - as proof.
It's kind of in the same category as simple lies -- having inaccurate information is hard when we're still grappling with regular information.
When we get to the editor stuff, historical figures would be included.
It already works this way in a few places (societies with a negative view of knowledge don't build libraries, for instance). Values are underutilized now since they were late to the party, but hopefully we can continue to correct that.
Will people seeking artifacts react different ways when they see an adventurer with said artifact based on their personality? Does respect for the law increase the chances someone will try to demand it over whether they'd barter for it? Are reactions usually positive or do some fellow questers see high reputation as an artifact finder as threatening?
They can start/end at different states from praising down to an immediate conflict/robbery. Reactions of entity people at the home base are mostly positive, since they generally assume the item is being returned to them, but artifact questers are basically scattered between asking for or demanding the item or accepting defeat or attacking (based on facets/claim type/your rep/values) -- they don't have anything to barter with, so it wasn't considered. It's possible we'll have a bit more as we flesh out this agent stuff, since they are also under the umbrella of artifact questers and will have a different take on the same "army controller" questers use. Betrayal is still on the table, especially if you are traveling with ill-natured people, though we might not get to any of that. Depends on how the agents go. It would be cool to have an ill-natured quester just hang back or join you and then try to rob you while you sleep, though getting that to work mechanically is a little annoying.
how long are you going to make 32 bit compatible versions?
It seems straightforward enough now, but I think the real test'll be the next set of several consecutive bug-fix releases. It takes longer to put up an individual release now, with all the versions, and if that starts to inhibit new versions, we'll have to consolidate somehow.
Are there plans for player-lords in adventure mode to send our subordinates on missions to retrieve the "grand holy artifact sock of cheese , heirloom of the DragonBeer clan" in the near future alongside the AI lords?
It's probably not in the near future just because this has been taking so long, but we are approaching the point where doing something like that is equivalent to adding the conversation interface for it (since the rest of the frameworks will be ready), which is pretty cool.
1. Speaking of player-lords as Untrustedlife said, will player-lords be able to influence the laws and such of a civilization if they are in control of the capital eventually?
2. Will it be possible for hamlets and towns/forest retreats/fortresses and hillocks/dark pits and dark fortresses to, if they do not particularly like the laws of their civilization, leave the civ and start their own?
3. Back to player-lords again, will player-lords be able to make a site leave like question 2 says?
1. It's a long way off, but it would be consistent with the rest. Since laws will be mutable in the initial dwarf scenarios, that part in particular will just be down to having a way for the adventurer to actually exercise their powers, and I'm not sure to what extent the bureaucracy will be modeled, or if you'll just have to declare it to anybody (like the current site takeovers).
2. It'll be the likely premise of one of the first scenarios, for people that don't like monarchs so much. Whether the ai site-founding lags behind is anybody's guess, since I'll be focusing on player forts first, but I want it to be consistent throughout the world.
Unrelated to this question, I feel like I should emphasize again that "embark scenario" is sort of an unfortunate phrase I've taken to using -- they aren't like strict missions from an RTS or something. I just mean further information about your embark situation that tends to fall into one category or another, especially as it regards your relationship to your parent civ.
3. Like not your camps, but if you end up as the leader of a hamlet? Yeah, it's a little tricky -- we'd like all relationships/laws etc. to be capable of changing, but each change requires a specific mechanic/interface etc., especially for the adventurer (since you are right in the middle of it in first person, rather than the abstraction we can do a bit in the fort and a lot in non-player interactions). So it's hard to say when any one power would be implemented -- player actions as a leader of an entity in adventure mode are almost always going to lag behind every other instance of those actions, since they are the hardest to do (though rarely we'll start with the player, since we'll need the detail up front and that's the best way to do it).
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