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[ArrowheadArcher]

You can make any race as evil, good natured or mixmatch of it. Whole races universally evil or otherwise. You can also have fantastic racism between them as plot devices like the dwarves and elves and so on as (sadly) a parallelism of real world. Specially when some, most of all of that racism is found out to be baseless as the plot advances in the case of books and such.

What should be avoided by anyone is seeing a fantasy race, specially a generic one like goblins and think/say/write: "It's offensive to X group of real life people", without any kind of support beyond their own predisposition and prejudgment.

Now, evil necromancers do are a jab at most politicians hehehehee

I think there just needs to be more ethics tags related to nationality and other social issues such as women's ability to participate in a civ for instance. I know there's a workaround for this in modding, but modders are lazy so having thoses types tags would help. It also add to simlution that's going on as well. More soical simultion is all ways welcome.

[LilyInTheWater]

I think there just needs to be more ethics tags related to nationality and other social issues such as women's ability to participate in a civ for instance. I know there's a workaround for this in modding, but modders are lazy so having thoses types tags would help. It also add to simlution that's going on as well. More soical simultion is all ways welcome.

I personally feel that would cause a lot of unnecessary fights in the community and I don't think it would be particularly useful addition to begin with. I like dwarf fortress a lot because it doesn't have stuff like misogyny be a thing in it. The closest the game gets to having gender roles is when the female dwarves have to carry their baby around for a year and I feel that's more of a convenience thing, and I personally would prefer it stay that way. I suppose it would be optional if it could be edited in the raws and thus easily taken out by most players, but see my first point. Simulation and realism are only useful for as long as they are fun--if they are hampering the fun, they shouldn't be that way. That's how I feel in my opinion.

Also this isn't the place for suggestions. Go to the suggestion forums for that.

Let's have a topic change before it blows up.

Does the "myth" part of the magic and myths update only include creation myths, or will there be other tales involving the gods as well in the initial worldgen process? Things like that one myth where Amaterasu hid a cave after Susanoo threw a flayed horse at her so the gods had to convene to try to get her out of the cave, for example.

also

Will there be a way to easily understand how a world's magic system works upon worldgen? Obviously there's room for discovery in gameplay, but it wouldn't hurt if there was at least a rough summary of how each world's magic system is set up on worldgen, unless the creation myth is supposed to explain the magic system as well.

I don't believe these are suggestions, just stuff I was wondering.

Edited the post to clarify my question!

[Dr Disposable]

I was wondering about dragon generation, would dragons be different world to world which I presume is the case, or would there be several dragon types like how there are cave dragons and regular dragons.
And what are going to happen to cave dragons?

[Bumber]

Edit: Nearly forgot. Is 'time before time' references in legends any sort of placeholder for mythgen connections coming in, or do my eyes deceive me?

It's just anything from before year 0 in world gen.

[Silverwing235]

I was wondering about dragon generation, would dragons be different world to world which I presume is the case, or would there be several dragon types like how there are cave dragons and regular dragons.
And what are going to happen to cave dragons?

fixed your colouring, lime green is pretty much necessary for questions to Toady - some sort of eyesight issue, IIRC, not exactly colour blindness so much as... it's uncertain quite what.

[PatrikLundell]

The coloring is not an eye issue as such, but a practical one: coloring the questions allows Toady to quickly find them among the chaff of other posts (like this one). If you look at his answers, you find that he's got no problem reading and linking to those other posts when they contain relevant info.

Thus, it's a way to speed up the monthly answering process (and the sooner that's taken care of, the more time he can spend on "real" DF work).

[Shonai_Dweller]

The coloring is not an eye issue as such, but a practical one: coloring the questions allows Toady to quickly find them among the chaff of other posts (like this one). If you look at his answers, you find that he's got no problem reading and linking to those other posts when they contain relevant info.

Thus, it's a way to speed up the monthly answering process (and the sooner that's taken care of, the more time he can spend on "real" DF work).

Also, the green, as opposed to lime green is really hard to read on some monitors, so lime green is preferred. That said, Toady's never complained about green posts and answers them whenever they crop up.

[ror6ax]

Has generative/adaptive music in DF been suggested before?

[LilyInTheWater]

Edit: Nearly forgot. Is 'time before time' references in legends any sort of placeholder for mythgen connections coming in, or do my eyes deceive me?

Here in particular, I speak for those who are also drawing a blank on whatever a 'fixed world' might be, some kind of post-worldgen thing?

Editors for fixed worlds

"First of their kind" creatures who come into being with a specific age have their actual birthdate as like the year -35. I would assume there is an actual timeline that takes place in the "Time before time" during worldgen, it's just not displayed in the game because it would be weird to see stuff like "in the year -455 x god broke up with y god and in -318 y god lost a finger and z mystical force sprang from it."

[Aid]

Hello Tarn how are Zack and his health?Have you changed the myth generator in any way from the moment you introduced it to GDC?

[DG]

Has generative/adaptive music in DF been suggested before?

Yes. Here are just a couple that have procedural and music in the title.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=159551.msg7102711#msg7102711
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=149508.msg6111038#msg6111038

Although, I assume you mean "how hard do you think it would be to implement and if you do hypothetically intend to, what sort of priority is it compared to things already in the pipeline?" which you wont find an answer for in the suggestion threads.

[Urlance Woolsbane]

Have you changed the myth generator in any way from the moment you introduced it to GDC?

Toady might well have tinkered with the prototype since the presentation, but bear in mind that he has not yet begun work on the Myth Arc, which is expected to last well over a year (easily over two, in my view). The final product will surely differ in various ways from what was shown at GDC, but I don't think you'll glean much of interest on the topic at present. Actually integrating it with the game is a bridge that Toady has yet to cross.

[FantasticDorf]

Has generative/adaptive music in DF been suggested before?

Yes. Here are just a couple that have procedural and music in the title.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=159551.msg7102711#msg7102711
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=149508.msg6111038#msg6111038

Although, I assume you mean "how hard do you think it would be to implement and if you do hypothetically intend to, what sort of priority is it compared to things already in the pipeline?" which you wont find an answer for in the suggestion threads.

If you have a musical major or least a very good RAW modding copy-sheet, you can also write your own for static instruments the game will simply improvise cultural music styles around instead even as a full replacement. So procedural instruments isn't always 100% a nessecity. Infact there's a 50 part huge value-monster constructable steel pipe organ down in the modding section right now, which is the most complete instrument i've seen thus far though it'd be nearly impossible to buy from a caravan, very heavy, and difficult to construct by a nessecity of steel.

A more moderate example of a flute can be simply whittled out of a inexpensive piece of wood for instance with a input reaction recipie but needs fields put in for its sounds for types of composure.

[Murr2]

Will we have a multicore version for the steam release?

[voliol]

Will we have a multicore version for the steam release?

No, DF will not be multithreaded beyond the graphics using a separate thread. It has been discussed many times, and making DF multithreaded is an immense effort for relatively negligible benefits.