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[Captain_Action]

What effect does does building a road has on the merchants that come to trade.

[Toady One]

The humans and their wagons won't even come without a road.  It's a bit strange maybe, but what it signifies is that you made some effort to connect yourself to the outside world.  I might end up having smaller human caravans come if you don't have a road, but for now, you don't get any.

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

A question: Roughly how many kingdoms, chiefdoms, empires, rouge nations and holy domains will appear in a standard game?

[Toady One]

I don't really know yet.  It seems like the world generator usually makes 2 or 3 elf type places, 2 or 3 really evil places, and about 15 or so human civs, though that number can decline.  But it isn't fixed at all.  That will be more resolved when I get to those world map core entries I think.

[Toady One]

I finally finished the code updates.  Now I'm working on some technical crap related to civilization items and a save bug before I move on to the rest of the game.  There are probably a lot of bugs with the code updates as well that we'll all enjoy finding for the next several years.

[Prospero]

It's all steps in the right direction  

[DungeonHunter]

I just realized that August 8 is exactly the day when I'll be finished with school! Well it's just the day of my last exam but though, lots and lots of time to test and post bugs and rewrite my game on another language   :cool:

[Gezol]

So, what's been happening lately? It's been a few weeks since the Dwarf Fortress update page was, well, updated...

[Toady One]

I've been working out some combat issues, but nothing that really rose to the level of mentioning.  My birthday is on the 17th, after which I'm going to start the sprint to the finish in a update-page-noticeable way.  Not that I'll finish, but it should be playable with more features (it doesn't even compile right now).  We might need a greek letter somewhere between alpha and beta for what we'll all be doing after that.  Bepha is not dwarfly enough.  Alta sounds too cerebral or something, although romance dwarves rather than Scottish dwarves might be refreshing, or something.

[Gezol]

Good to hear programming hasn't stopped.

Alpha, beta... alpha-beta... There's a joke in there about the origins of the word "alphabet." I just know there is, but I can't come up with it right now. Of course, it probably would only be funny to hardcore history and/or language nerds anyway...

[Toady One]

I'm alpha betting there's some stupid-ass jokes unrelated to the alphabet in there too, but I can't figure out what they are.

[X]

Until his birthday on the 17th he's feeling cold on hookers and gin.

X

[Toady One]

It really is a coming-of-age party more than anything, in that manner.

[Gezol]

And after the 17th... can't anybody see? He's got a war to fight.

[Toady One]

There we are.  I think I can go for an unadulterated Dwarves run from now until August 8th (and beyond).  There are three more weeks of school and then the summer trimester runs up through the deadline.  I don't have any official duties during the summer.

I won't have any summer income at all, in fact.  So, happy birthday to me!  For my present, I get YOUR money!  Well, I put up one of those Paypal buttons, anyway, to spread around the modest costs of running the site, and for food.  The button is on the main page.  I even wrote a blurb.
He he he.  Right at the peak of the site's popularity too.  He he he he...

Anyway, Dwarves.  I'll update that progress page tomorrow (today, whatever) and eventually get through this C++ stuff.  Then it looks like about half-fun, half-slog until the 8th, which is about as good a mix as you can ask for out of programming.