He's alive. From the feeds I've been 'stalking':
April 18th -
Back in Germany; planning the next tour. Besides some UL hiking and mountaineering I'd like to visit East Africa later this year. Maybe Algeria too.
13 countries left in Africa. 5 left in Asia. Rest is islands...
I have much respect for him, and his work here has been huge...
on further note, I'm just about done cleaning the trade shop reactions(I'd say 95%) for humans and dwarves. recombined them, renamed them appropriately, fixed their titles, separated out their buildings. I came across several errors, where reaction names were 'corrupted' etc. basically ensuring right now that each race has the same "items" it has currently for buy/sell, and that they appear in the "same" order.
I came across one error, the pet purchases for humans produces a named critter... one on the animal list, but can't be trained or butchered. I'm trying to find the correct flags right now to make it appear as stray XXXX (tame) so the dogs can be turned into war animals.... and so that animals purchased can be butchered. -fixed, sort of. more investigation, produced worse information, actually the named dog is trainable etc. but its fully wild and unfriendly.... well I have it kicked the name off the unit (it shows up when you "v"iew it and its a number.... so I put the name back, and made them "tame" which apparently sets it to semi-wild, which at least wont attack your other animals or units. and its trainable etc....FUN.
Considering slapping a few cleanup sell reactions to reduce the number of reactions(why have in stone 10+ sells for the same price, just create 1 sell that takes any stone, with detail selection that will sell at lowest price. keep the higher price individual sells. same for gems, plants, etc. I could probably clean out 1/4th the reactions.. plus these "any" reactions will be able to clean up/out a lot more items.
after that moving on to pottery. It crosses 3 entity files, and is contained in the Kobold race reaction file.... which means it really needs its own file, and cleaned names, made more readable. And personally its a personal issue I've manhandled in the past... now I want to finish it off...