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[LulllberJack]

Hello from Russian community of this game! Thank you for your work! We have some questions about this game:
Phoenix writes:
Question about magic release: will there be different types of magic?
Maxim Matvienco asks:
It seems like genetics is disable in current releases. If there are any plans of reworking it in nearest future? Would be nice to see some appearance tuples disabling/decreasing probablity of strange appearance combinations (something like black skin and copper hair). What about appearance prefrences? We already have favourite food, metals and animals, but no favorite eyes color etc. In other hand, standarts of beauty can be generated for each civilization separately during worldgen.
Second question: should we expect practical applying of scholar skills? Maybe something like discovereing "technological" secrets. For example: Optical engineer discovered secret of mirror or lense-making, which alows us to create them in glassmakers worksop (or u can just disable some already existing reations by default, so we require to discover them first)
Sergei Rybakov writes:
Are you planning to add ability to make cooperation for musicians in to musical groups, who will organize concerts and world group-tours? Will you add ability to sell fighters/mercenaries for short time? Are you planning to rise criminals among dwarves (vandalism, stealing, murdering, etc.)? Will you add poison plants, which can be identified by experienced planter (with small chance to no-distinction, of course)? Will you make sport competitions?

[KittyTac]

Hello from Russian community of this game! Thank you for your work! We have some questions about this game:
Phoenix writes:
Question about magic release: will there be different types of magic?

Definitely yes. Only Toady knows the specifics though.

[PlumpHelmetMan]

Magic will be procedurally generated. So yes, we will get many different varieties that will vary in nature from world to world.

[KittyTac]

What is the Manifestation, mentioned in the devlog?

[Knight Otu]

What is the Manifestation, mentioned in the devlog?

I'm not sure where it was mentioned (I could have sworn it was a devlog, but apparently not), but its a debug tool-created creature.

[Untrustedlife]

Hello from Russian community of this game! Thank you for your work! We have some questions about this game:
Phoenix writes:
Question about magic release: will there be different types of magic?
Maxim Matvienco asks:
It seems like genetics is disable in current releases. If there are any plans of reworking it in nearest future? Would be nice to see some appearance tuples disabling/decreasing probablity of strange appearance combinations (something like black skin and copper hair). What about appearance prefrences? We already have favourite food, metals and animals, but no favorite eyes color etc. In other hand, standarts of beauty can be generated for each civilization separately during worldgen.
Second question: should we expect practical applying of scholar skills? Maybe something like discovereing "technological" secrets. For example: Optical engineer discovered secret of mirror or lense-making, which alows us to create them in glassmakers worksop (or u can just disable some already existing reations by default, so we require to discover them first)
Sergei Rybakov writes:
Are you planning to add ability to make cooperation for musicians in to musical groups, who will organize concerts and world group-tours? Will you add ability to sell fighters/mercenaries for short time? Are you planning to rise criminals among dwarves (vandalism, stealing, murdering, etc.)? Will you add poison plants, which can be identified by experienced planter (with small chance to no-distinction, of course)? Will you make sport competitions?

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Cool to see some non-english communities popping in here.

[AceSV]

How far off do think you are from a combat system upgrade?  There's a long list of things I've always wanted, like archer dwarves carrying side-arms, throwing weapons like javelin or shuriken, AI for multiple types of ranged weapons, AI not jumping off walls, hooked weapons, weapons that are good or bad at parrying, tip/base balance calculation, spiked shields, helmets that cover the face, gunpowder/explosives, construction-destroying siegers.  It's a lot of realistic stuff that I assume you want to do at some point, I'm curious how far away that kind of thing is on your to-do list. 

[KittyTac]

How far off do think you are from a combat system upgrade?  There's a long list of things I've always wanted, like archer dwarves carrying side-arms, throwing weapons like javelin or shuriken, AI for multiple types of ranged weapons, AI not jumping off walls, hooked weapons, weapons that are good or bad at parrying, tip/base balance calculation, spiked shields, helmets that cover the face, gunpowder/explosives, construction-destroying siegers.  It's a lot of realistic stuff that I assume you want to do at some point, I'm curious how far away that kind of thing is on your to-do list. 

I'm not sure how Toady checks messages, but if it's a bot, use LIME green, not green.

[Rose]

It's not a bot. Toady just reads them himself.

[PatrikLundell]

Either kind of green works as Toady notification, although lime green is the "official" notification color. If you read the answers you'll see that Toady makes references to forumite answers, so the color is most likely used to quickly find the actual questions when writing the answers.

A combat revamp is currently beyond the (sort of) scheduled horizon (Artifacts, Myth & Magic * X [looking at the dev page, M&M consists of 5 sections, all but one with more bullets than the whole of the Artifacts arc, so it won't all fit in one arc], and Starting Scenarios arcs).
It also seems multi tile machinery (e.g. boats) and economy revival are closer to the horizon than a combat revamp.
However, the schedule can be reshuffled due to e.g. side project influences or discovered needs for infrastructure support for things that are scheduled.

[Shonai_Dweller]

I imagine little bits of combat updating will appear from time to time during each release. Taverns doesn't appear combat related but still saw force, helmet removal and proper armor for invaders added at the end. But yeah, a specifically combat focussed update seems a long way off.

[FantasticDorf]

Take mounting a creature for instance, its feasable right now since outside civs realise how to do it (and suspiciously get better configs on what creatures to choose in the artifact update) and it can be pseudo done in arena mode, not least its been prototyped since forever there's not a lot holding back Toady slipping it into a update one of these days.

Item degredation like Shonai says was out of the blue entirely.

[PatrikLundell]

Well, technically dwarves use mounts as well, it's only that they forget how to ride when they become children, and the mounts are restricted to mothers

[Mesa]

FWIW, DF2014 (world activation) offered several big improvements to combat as well.
Since combat is a pretty big part of the game, I think it's fair to say that we can expect little bits and pieces of improvements to it every now and again, which over time might add up to an equivalent of a dedicated combat-focused update.

[pikachu17]

Why do underground plants have seasonal limitations, and aboveground plants don't?