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[Sean Mirrsen]

I can imagine the latest in noble torture now: lock the hapless noble in a jail cell right next to a talentless dwarf playing the trombone.

Why not several talentless dwarves playing bagpipes?

[Benny]

it'd be fairly cool to have your dwarves go into a fey mood and come out of it with a song they'd wrote and then its kept in the Legends screen. Even better if it would just randomly generate the actual song from some short notes

Urist Bagpiper cancels Eat: Urist Copycat is doing his song no justice

[G-Flex]

Any dwarf (or human) who thinks playing bagpipes in tight, enclosed corridors is a good thing needs to be shot on sight. Those things were meant to be heard for miles *outdoors*.

[Philosophical Gamer]

But remember, bagpipes were originally made out of sheep's bladders, so they can't be all bad.

[Aqizzar]

I'm wondering how Spacial-Sense is going to interact with DF's geometry.  Knowing Toady, it'll probably modify individual pathfinding distances and the likelihood of miners cutting themselves loose of cliffs.  Protip From The Future: make sure your miners and masons have good spacial sense.

These dwarves have more axes of thought than the Sims.  This is going to be so cool.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I wonder if DF will ever reach the level of complexity when equipping your measly force of 20 with Great Bagpipes and sending them against a 500-strong elven siege will drive the treehuggers mad and force them to retreat because of "massive self-induced casualties"?

[Tormy]

Toady, did you know that regular exercising and a good deal of fresh air greatly improve the efficiency of the mind? That's because it increases the amount of oxygen the brain receives.

Mike, mike, mike...so you suppose that Toady's efficiency would skyrocket in that case? Well....it would be nice to see a fully functional Army Arc in 2 weeks.. [..but I guess Toady knows that what is the best for him  ]

..now back to the topic:

The latest dev notes is pure awesomeness, as usual. New physical attribs like ENDURANCE, RECUPERATION, and the soul-linked attributes are most welcome! I am just wondering about some specific attribs, like memory for example, and that how will that work. Dwarves will forgot about some stuff what happened in the past?.. so for example X dwarf had a fistfight with Y dwarf, so their relationship won't be the best , but if the dwarf has a bad memory, there is a chance that he/she will forget about the incident after a period, and their relations will be "normalized"?..or what about the analytical ability? What will be that soul attrib responsible for?

Ah, and let's do not forget about -> The "unarmed" skill, aka "wrestling", has been broken up into four skills. In particular, dodging is now a separate skill...awesome! 

[Neonivek]

It is nice to see he made it possible for faster regeneration, as well as creatures with high stats without needing to increase their size, and I will look forward to when Toady finally allows regeneration of lost bodyparts.

[Toaster]

EMPATHY - being able to feel other peoples' stuff.


Who else wants dwarves feeling their stuff?

[Tormy]

EMPATHY - being able to feel other peoples' stuff.


Who else wants dwarves feeling their stuff?

Correct description: "Empathy is the capacity to recognize or understand another's state of mind or emotion." Definitely a must have in the game. 

[Duke 2.0]

EMPATHY - being able to feel other peoples' stuff.


Who else wants dwarves feeling their stuff?

Correct description: "Empathy is the capacity to recognize or understand another's state of mind or emotion." Definitely a must have in the game. 

 What the original poster stated, or the dictionary reference?

 But yes, awesome update. I wonder how patience will effect you in Adventure Mode. Mayhaps intentionally keeping your character from doing actions you are doing would raise it?

 Goblin: Why won't you finish me off?
 Dwarf: Trainin' patience!

[Mel_Vixen]

Bagpipes were originally made for sheepherding by signaling the dogs andd other Sheephards etc. The usage as actuall instrument is an much newer invention so the timeframe of DF wouldnt allow (except toady says otherwise) bagpipes as Musicinstrument.

Anyway the new skill system looks awesome and makes custom races now more different from the preexisting ones i hope. So Yay for the Toad and an donation if hes done till chrismas (the only time i have money XD).

[Neonivek]

Well Empathy is probably going to improve a Mayor's ability to take in complaints.

[Tormy]

Well Empathy is probably going to improve a Mayor's ability to take in complaints.

...and don't forget! Empathy will be also very important, once Dwarf Poker! will be implemented! 
[Sorry I couldn't miss it, since I am a poker player  ]

[Neonivek]

Well Empathy is probably going to improve a Mayor's ability to take in complaints.

...and don't forget! Empathy will be also very important, once Dwarf Poker! will be implemented! 
[Sorry I couldn't miss it, since I am a poker player  ]

Psh, only if you play the wimpy way that doesn't include five aces.