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[Deon]

Snow-dwellers? Nice idea. Though it will force to play on standard maps only (because even now some of the entities spawn not every time; I wish there was an option "spawn in any case" for entities to allow every one to be present on map).

[Deon]

Finally, the release is almost there. I'm gonna make a map as soon as the editor is avaliable.
Also thanks to Dwarmin for the idea, I may add Lossoth after I'm done with conversion.

Prepare to Ring Wars: knights of the old kingdoms =).

[Deon]

I'm trying to play at this tiny map:


It's a small model of the thing I'm trying to make.
Well, the problem is that we're unable to place cities and entities are a bit randomly allocated, however elves live in forests, haradrim in desert and orcs in rocky lands, which are mostly in Mordor.
However current civ balance usually makes the world to end with humans only which sprawl everywhere. I need to playtest a bit more.

[Naze]

Are you gonna add werewolves to it? Or are they already in it?

[Deon]

I have wargs only. But I can add werewolves. If I'm not mistaken they were not shapeshifters.

[Naze]

They basically sentient wargs, humans turned into wolves by Sauron in the first age I think.

[Deon]

I thought they were bred from wolves by the Sauron who turned into wold once himself.

[Naze]

Might be, I'm trying my hand currently at making a large map that looks like Middle earth.

[Deon]

This is the 1st 39b release.
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=300
However it lacks additional classes, currently it has just some major races (humans, elves, uruks, goblins and ents).
It's NOT a full version, however I need your help to balance the entities out.
Please explore and make your suggestions. Well, maybe it's a current combat meter which is "irrational", or maybe it's about my races, but I keep getting things like these (note: the elves are not narrow, do not use wooden weapons (metal instead) and have no -1 damblock):

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Uruks rule for some reason though they're not tougher than a human. But they win 5 vs 25 easily. It's very strange.

[Naze]

You need to remove the entity grouping tokens. And I got something wierd. Uruks also are allied to me in fort mode....You also have duplicate Uruk-hai.

106: Ngusluustol, "Terrormurder", a mountain fortress
   Owner: The Angry Wraith, goblins
   Parent Civ: The Wooden Lie, goblins
   Leader: –sbu Dreadfuldrools, uruk
   25 uruks
   27 dwarves
   6 humans
   2 uruks prisoners

[Deon]

Duplicate? I must be hurrying while packing files.

Anyway "friendliness" of evil races is the current adventure-mode-hostle feature which removes a lot of fun.

EDIT: Ah, shi... I forgot to remove additional entity file from the previous version in the archive, now it's ok.

Anyway I figured out that the killing strangeness is affected by the worldgen randomizer strangeness only and the races seem to be balanced.

[Deon]

Is there anyone who knows some good english-tolkien languages dictionaries?
i have a couple and I'm making a sindarin language file, but I can't find the "armor" word anywhere.

[Deon]

The 3.0 is out, with all races' and spheres' tweaks.
The new way of friend/enemy determination breaks the standard good/evil setting, I think it'll wait until Toady makes it more configurable.

There's a strange bug with "nothing" creatures appearing, I'm trying to track it down.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Found it. CREATURE_CROW lacks a name tag.

Also, shouldn't there be both crows and krebain?

[Deon]

Thank you very much! I fixed it.
Do you mean crebain? I forgot about them. Now they're in.
3.1 version is out.