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Oh well. Not much. Apparently, I just bored everybody to death with my looong posts of suggestions.

Corpses of bored souls are lying all over the ground. It is terrible. And very unexiting.

Best thing is to have nap

[DungeonHunter]

I hope not sending a message to this forum is a sign that toady is busied working on the game    :p

[Toady One]

Whatever I've got will be up six months from today.  I haven't been working on it much lately.  I've been working on various other projects, but I should be back on it as soon as I post one of them.

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

No rush, for I have found a dwarf fortress game that is like the one you are making.

It's called Diggles, and its actually quite like the dwarf fortress, since you control dwarves and you are to dig into a mountain and gain resources and build "buildings" and wage war on other clans and creatures.

Granted, its alot more simplified than dwarves, but it should give us dwarf fanatics something to do while waiting.

[Toady One]

Been working steadily on the item code for a while now.  I guess it might actually be done at some point.  I put up a list of what's going on that I'll try to keep updated regularly.  You can access IT from the Dwarves page.

[ March 03, 2006: Message edited by: Toady One ]

[Gezol]

Thanks for putting that page up. It's nice to be able to keep track of what's happening...

~200 things left to do with the item code? Yikes. How much progress has been made on Core10 so far?

[Toady One]

Actually, quite a lot.  I already did creatures, map events, civ leaders and important items, as well as wilderness populations and mandates from the nobles and so on.  Doing items is the most tedious part, but I've done around 200 of the things I have to do.  If everything goes smoothly I should log in another 150 or so over the next few days, leaving 50 tougher ones, which might take another week.  Jobs is easy, buildings is really annoying (though faster than items), and projectiles is super easy.  Then I have to do some bug cleaning, since I haven't been able to run the game for a long time.  Most of the other core elements after that are more fun to work on, like fire and armies and things like that.

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

Nice List, but two questions:
Does the re-walling thingy mean you can mine out veins and then put walls back up to form rooms?

What are all the Nuthins?

[Toady One]

Yeah, sometimes you make mistakes, and with a few stones you'll be able to rewall a square or squares.  You can't do it indefinitely, since you'd run out of stone, but you won't (shouldn't) need to do it that often.  I'm sure it will introduce all kinds of connectivity bugs, but it is a necessary feature.

The nuthins aren't anything.

[Gezol]

...and looking at the list again, I see a significant amount of progress has been made. Cool.

Are any of the core things afterwards as big a job as this one has been, or do they get less formidable from here?

[Toady One]

None of them should take this long.  I started this crap in the beginning of November.  There have been a number of detours along the way of course, but still, nothing else should take even a month (although with school and all that, who knows).  The thing I put out on August 8 should be most of the way through the core stuff.  There will be a number of outstanding issues, but I'll keep listing the ones I know about and keep working on them after that until it is clean.  Then we'll see what's on the menu.

[Joe Sixpack]

Keep up the good work Toad.

[Gezol]

It really is nice being able to follow your progress. I just checked the page and saw the item code is finished. Kickass.

You don't have to reveal anything if it's too spoily, but what's involved with Core11 and Core40? They sound particularly intriguing. As do Bloat4 and Bloat61, but I'm guessing that information will not be forthcoming on those...

[Toady One]

Those core things were mostly about mounts, monsters, pets and shit-talking like Assyrians.     There are some technical Reqs somewhere about making invading armies able to break through your defenses slowly -- right now certain configurations can stop them cold (although you won't be able to trade, so sieges still mess you up).

Those two bloats are special.

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I maintain that infill and tunnelling enemies will be an inevitability...

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