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[Mephansteras]

Toady,

Could you give us some more information on how regional forces are figured out right now? I can't seem to find out much about them, other then the fact that they get various nature tags and are worshiped by elves. Are the nature tags dependent on the elves Sphere alignments? Would making a race that uses Regional Forces but had, say, War and Darkness give you more evil aligned forces?

[Sean Mirrsen]

AFAIK, there's currently only one force - the nature and rivers one.

[Mephansteras]

That's all I've seen too. I was wondering, though, if that was hardcoded to just be nature/river or if that had something to do with the elves Sphere alignments.

[death_cookie]

Having created a gnome civilization that worships a regional force, they don't get nature/rivers, they get nature/mountains, FYI. I'm not sure exactly what triggers that, however, and currently experimenting to see if I can get nature/deserts or something like that by tweaking the entity's biomes.

[Dr. Melon]

I found some that worshipped fish.

[Angry Lawyer]

I think I remember Toady saying something about it picking named terrain features (i.e. rivers, peaks, volcanos possibly) from the local area of the race to be their god.

-Angry Lawyer

[Toady One]

Anybody that worships a regional force just gets one created for their starting subregion.  I think it'll look at the region to decide if it should throw in tags or not...  lemee go check...  yeah, it's based on region type.  Oceans get (animals/ocean), lakes get (animals/lake), glaciers get (animals), tundra gets (nature), mountains get (mountains/nature) and the others get (nature/rivers).  Nature is a parent sphere for animals, and they can't have a parent and a child -- the distinction is because the others don't get plants (although oceans probably should get some subset of plants once it has them).  It should probably also check for rivers later rather than always giving it.

[Mephansteras]

Cool. Thanks, Toady!