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varkarrus

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Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« on: December 09, 2008, 10:54:13 am »
Add [BOGEYMAN] tag, and creatures will actively stalk/eat sentient children.
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And you can't eat them, either, sadly. Even though it'd make sieges so much more fun; dwarves lining the walls, drooling and carrying sharp knives and forks, ready for the upcoming meals.

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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2008, 11:22:30 am »

 And if said boogyman creature is killed by a child(Legendaries come to mind), fear of said creature would go away.

 Urist: Kogan... did you just kill the bogyman?
 Kogan: I made a hat out of it's skin, too!

 Then again, Dwarves don't seem to be afraid of anything when you know that once the damned thing is dead, all of it's body parts are becoming somebodies hat, or cloak, or bolts.
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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2008, 12:31:08 pm »
On the other hand, a live raccoon sends them scurrying in fright.
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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2008, 12:39:00 am »
RACCOON!?  WHERE!?!?

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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2008, 01:26:04 am »
Quote from: madrain on December 10, 2008, 12:39:00 am
RACCOON!?  WHERE!?!?

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 Really, one just fall off my roof.
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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2008, 02:06:22 am »
In general, fear as a permeating emotion - correlated to sadness, but less linear - would be interesting.
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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2008, 03:18:53 am »
That doesn't sound very dwarvenly...
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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2008, 10:06:43 am »
what dwarves are you talking about!?
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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2008, 01:55:32 pm »
Night?  There's night?
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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2008, 03:02:32 pm »
Quote from: Draco18s on December 10, 2008, 01:55:32 pm
Night?  There's night?

There should be, once the lighting arc comes around.  Adventure Mode already has a realistic day-night cycle, why should Fortress Mode have a bizarre perpetual midnight sun?  Besides, it would give the player some much-needed cues as to how fast in-game time is passing.
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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2008, 03:29:37 pm »
Quote from: Footkerchief on December 10, 2008, 03:02:32 pm
Quote from: Draco18s on December 10, 2008, 01:55:32 pm
Night?  There's night?

There should be, once the lighting arc comes around.  Adventure Mode already has a realistic day-night cycle, why should Fortress Mode have a bizarre perpetual midnight sun?  Besides, it would give the player some much-needed cues as to how fast in-game time is passing.

Because otherwise people would get seizures from the rapid flashing between night and day?

Days go by really fast, if you keep an eye on it. Someone figured out how many ticks per day, but I don't remember how many it was and I can't find it on the wiki now.

I guess we could abstract it like everything else dealing with time in fortress mode is, and have the day/night cycle take a whole month or something. That does seem a little silly to me though.
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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2008, 03:35:43 pm »
Quote from: BurnedToast on December 10, 2008, 03:29:37 pm
I guess we could abstract it like everything else dealing with time in fortress mode is, and have the day/night cycle take a whole month or something.

This...

Else slow down every job by a factor of 30(ish) and up food production output by 30 times (stacks of 150!!!!)  Would make mining fun... go down to the bottom, dig 3 tiles, and come back up.

One wonders if time shouldn't be moddable?
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Re: Make dwarven children afraid to sleep at night.
« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2008, 06:13:23 pm »
Quote from: Granite26 on December 10, 2008, 03:35:43 pm
One wonders if time shouldn't be moddable?

Yeah, I've wondered why there aren't init options for how many ticks a day takes, etc.

I'd be happy with stretching the cycle to last a whole month.  Really, I just want any kind of cycle at all, to mix it up a little.  You could have stuff like goblins attacking at night to make the most of their night vision, and so on.
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