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[LordNagash]

Wow you weren't kidding when you said you took pretty much everything. And I wasn't even sure most of that was a good idea in the first place!

[Mike Mayday]

Thanks for this one, Mayday
Since I'm playing in ASCII now, gonna give it a shot!

[Captain Mayday]

I'm interested in peoples feedback on this, so please let me know.
In this version, I've tried to make Avari trade properly. Please let me know if this doesn't work and I'll keep trying to make them simply kill you instead.

[LumenPlacidum]

I'm not sure how you did this, but I generated another amazing LL world.  I like using continental map parameters for this mod.  Basically, there're two vast goblin empires that have pushed other civs to their own little islands, except for one human group that's protected by a short distance of savage lands.  The goblins are just throwing hammers of 5-8 thousand goblins against any human villages that crop up within range.  The humans defend with about a thousand people but always get cut down to the last man.  The goblins are actually led by a single human who leads ALL of these attacks, and has for the last several hundred years.

Actually, that brings me to a point; were goblins and hobgoblins supposed to generate immortal human and dwarfs to be their site leaders?  It's not that they do so by babysnatching and then having tangled family lines.  They're generated with the civ at the start of the world, like demons are in vanilla.

[Thuellai]

Yeah.  Those "humans" are actually demons in mortal guise.  Read the documentation, mate.

[LumenPlacidum]

that would explain why the "human" bitchslapped my avatar adventurer once, tossing him backwards 40 squares to explode all over his tower.  I find it actually rather awesome that this demon in mortal skin has basically been performing one particular atrocity for his entire existence.  He's been attacking these towns, taking tons of prisoners and corpses, and stretching their skin over his tower.  The tower is covered in the skins of like, 10,000 humans by now.  So, as he wears skin, so shall his home.  Creepy.

[Nonanonymous]

I typically think of those 'Humans' and 'Dwarves' like Ganondorf.  It just sort of jumped out at me when it listed the attack as a backhand and gave it that much damage.

[Captain Mayday]

that would explain why the "human" bitchslapped my avatar adventurer once, tossing him backwards 40 squares to explode all over his tower.  I find it actually rather awesome that this demon in mortal skin has basically been performing one particular atrocity for his entire existence.  He's been attacking these towns, taking tons of prisoners and corpses, and stretching their skin over his tower.  The tower is covered in the skins of like, 10,000 humans by now.  So, as he wears skin, so shall his home.  Creepy.

Honestly that sounds awesome.

[Captain Mayday]

Current status:
Most recently I've split the existing Body_default file into several others folder.
Along the way I've removed some of the body definitions, and restructured others.

Hopefully, this should allow me to expand a bit easier in future.
I'm aware of the coming changes to the body raws in the coming versions, so breaking it down like this should make it easier to quickly reference the parts I need to upgrade them.

Anyway, onto EVIL! Terrifying in particular.
Currently it seems like there's just not enough EVIL SAVAGE stuff to up the threat level on Terrifying biomes.
Any suggestions at this point would be marvellous.

[Zorgn]

Recently had my first caravan for a new fort come. Hobgoblins. They came up, leading their donkeys, and immediately destroyed my depot. Very nice of them. They then went and destroyed every single building I had. Workshops, furnaces, everything. And they spammed me about needing a depot.

How do I keep this from occurring? I don't want peaceful merchants walking around my fort destroying things. I can't even have my soldiers kill them because they're not hostile.

[Captain Mayday]

Recently had my first caravan for a new fort come. Hobgoblins. They came up, leading their donkeys, and immediately destroyed my depot. Very nice of them. They then went and destroyed every single building I had. Workshops, furnaces, everything. And they spammed me about needing a depot.

How do I keep this from occurring? I don't want peaceful merchants walking around my fort destroying things. I can't even have my soldiers kill them because they're not hostile.

So sorry, I'll fix it up for next release. This is due to their Building Destroyer tag. Please remove it if it's giving you grief.

[Zorgn]

So sorry, I'll fix it up for next release. This is due to their Building Destroyer tag. Please remove it if it's giving you grief.

Thanks a lot. I'll try that.

[Earthquake Damage]

Anyway, onto EVIL! Terrifying in particular.
Currently it seems like there's just not enough EVIL SAVAGE stuff to up the threat level on Terrifying biomes.
Any suggestions at this point would be marvellous.

In the same vein as the tourists that run around my worlds (think macaques, only dwarf-size and using an amusing graphic tile posted by Eiba IIRC a long time ago), I would add lawyers or tax collectors to terrifying biomes.  But since you probably don't want anything silly in your mod...

How about rancors?  Or shoggoths?  Imps and demons from the Doom series?  Trollocs, half-men, and other such WoT critters?  Someone (mover005 according to my notes) posted headless and mongbats from Ultima quite some time back.  Rampaging automatons built by the Ancients?

Or, from real world mythology, maybe nuckalavee (might make a better semimegabeast than roaming beastie)?  Or banshee?  Jötnar, or whatever the Norse frost giants are called?

As for (semi)megabeasts, maybe rakshasa.  Or whatever the hell Grendel is.

[popers]

Recently had my first caravan for a new fort come. Hobgoblins. They came up, leading their donkeys, and immediately destroyed my depot. Very nice of them.

So sorry, I'll fix it up for next release. This is due to their Building Destroyer tag. Please remove it if it's giving you grief.

Yeah, that pissed me off as well. So far the only way to deal with those deceptive hobgoblins is to smash a couple of bridges onto them. That usually teaches them a lesson- After such treatment they tend to come armed and dangerous, like every self-respecting hobgoblin should.
And regarding the level of EVIL in terrifying biomes- I fell kind of disappointed. I was expecting some hard-core survival test for my expedition and all I got was a bunch of skeletal-ducks. Zombie-swans aren't that scary either. I know it's just my luck probably, but if I embark in a terrifying location, I want to be scared shitless.
just a tought. Great mod nonetheless.

[Captain Mayday]

Recently had my first caravan for a new fort come. Hobgoblins. They came up, leading their donkeys, and immediately destroyed my depot. Very nice of them.

So sorry, I'll fix it up for next release. This is due to their Building Destroyer tag. Please remove it if it's giving you grief.

Yeah, that pissed me off as well. So far the only way to deal with those deceptive hobgoblins is to smash a couple of bridges onto them. That usually teaches them a lesson- After such treatment they tend to come armed and dangerous, like every self-respecting hobgoblin should.
And regarding the level of EVIL in terrifying biomes- I fell kind of disappointed. I was expecting some hard-core survival test for my expedition and all I got was a bunch of skeletal-ducks. Zombie-swans aren't that scary either. I know it's just my luck probably, but if I embark in a terrifying location, I want to be scared shitless.
just a tought. Great mod nonetheless.

Yep, hence my push for EVIL SAVAGE beasts at the moment. The terrifying biome type lacks a good variety of creatures.