Could future wounds involve hitting major artterys?
Yeah, this is one of those things languishing right now on dev_single. I think it's sort of part of one of the power goals going up soon (there are still about 20 that need to be cleaned up and posted), but it involved an artery that is ruptured rather than extreme spraying. I don't see how we can last forever without spraying though.
Oooh oooh, can we have witch burnings too? Perhaps some sort of randomized heresy aspect to the religions?
Yet another
dev_single languisher from the old Armok notes (ctrl+f "burnings"). There's a power goal (84) called Kill the Witch that doesn't even reference burnings! Heresy might be most fun when the laws are fleshed out more beyond the simple ethical framework stuff that's in for civ entities now -- then a site's laws could just as well be applied to religious conduct, but enforcement would require just a bit more tinkering since the site's have guards dedicated to that, where in most religions regular people would be responsible for more of it (of course spotting regular site crimes floats that way too). As I do the required site stuff, we'll see what happens... I imagine it'll be a fluid process that will have all sorts of bloats tacked on, but since it'll be a while it's hard to say what they'll be.
Toady, have you thought about spending a couple releases just fleshing things out that are already there? Like doing more stuff with the personalities and friendships, adding in more diverse dialogues for adventure mode, expanding the stuff you can craft and do with power from windmills and such?
It's often on my mind, but I'm usually caught between extending the skeleton of the game and patching up bugs/the interface. Instead I get a catalog of
Reqs and
Bloats that I hardly ever check off which generally fit into this sort of flesh-out-the-skeleton work (with ~500 more to be added whenever I find time to write them up -- maybe I should just do some instead, he he he). Yet the idea of the v1/not v1 split is to delineate where meat/skin needs to be on the bones before more skeleton is produced, vaguely. As a perpetual alpha, there can be a kind of general dissatisfaction with available features/balance/accessibility, and it would be nice to attack that a bit. Now that I've finally got the 100
Core items laid out, the picture is a bit more clear to me now, and hopefully the skeleton, meat and skin can all start to converge at that intermediate destination.
Still, it'll be hard -- the
Core items are much more exciting and personally rewarding to work on, and the bugs/problems come with much more immediacy attached to them. It's somewhat tragic that there hasn't been a single new basic item or building type added this year, stuck mostly on world gen as I was. Some of the things you mentioned (eg friendship, under love and romance -- when I mentioned "love of all sorts" I was referring in part to things such as "brotherly love"/friendship/family as driving forces for stories, and this would come up in dwarf mode) occur as parts of
Core items, at least, so you can count on a few things being accomplished before I start freaking out at 0.
99.
181.
40a.
Interestingly, the
Core completed number has actually been going up slowly in comparison to
Reqs, but I think that's partially because all the stuff I was working on for the passed year and a half (world gen + Z) was vastly under-
Core'd in the dev notes. With these latest dev additions, I'm hoping I can chip away at it more regularly but it's difficult to tell how it'll play out.
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