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[SirHoneyBadger]

I agree with StrikeTheSand. Racially motivated comments are best reserved for those tree-buggering elves.

[Deon]

Oh well, I haven't started anime and racial discussion so I'm gonna skip it.

Just a few answers.

I liked back when men were men and didn't use far fetched size 10 swords.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odachi
Ritual swords > 2m. And THOSE guys were Men (at least in comparison to us petty modern humans).

I think the oriental culture is horridly cliched and over-used.

I didn't try to use cliches. I used some wikipedia and old samurai film weaponry and clothes, nothing more.
Also it's just a small part of oriental culture involved. If everything goes well I'm gonna adapt my old arabian character set to this and make some "desert people" as well.

Deon, you've made these yourself?

As I wrote in the 1st post I highly love Sphr set and almost everything which is standard here is from him. However I modified his humans to get oriental ones (I could do them from scratch but it would take more time and also I wanted humans to look similar despite of their race); also I've made kobolds, goblins and a few of added/missing creatures (like giant desert scorpion and wild dog etc.) myself.

All I would recommend would be a Mayan-style race. An actual use for blowdart users.

I want to stick lizardmen in this niche. At least the most common "lizardman" is based of aztecs or mayans actually.

do you want feedback of bugs or just general comments?

I have enough general comments, thank you . Also I'm pretty sure there're no bugs, at least a few playtests and empty errorlog.txt show no bugs so far. I want your feedback and ideas which may help in further development.
The main issue may be with humans+humans trading in the same season etc. Maybe I will have to assign different seasons to them. And nords could be able to send caravans in winter.

I plan to integrate Martial Arts mod in it later if Sean doesn't mind because he hasn't updated for a while and there's a lot of work.

P.S. I've just realised that I forgot to add undead graphics for lich, vampire and ghoul. Oh well, I plan an update with more diverse items/clothing so I'll add it there.

[Duke 2.0]

 I just want blowdart shooters wearing Giant Jaguar clothes. That's all I ask.

[Deon]

Oh, I get it. And some obsidian swords?

Also to a guy who started anime comparison. What made you think so? Oversized weapons in tileset? Sorry, it's intentional, in another case you won't be able to see them in 16x16 palette.

[Im_Sparks]

Right, right. Didn't mean to offend anyone(this is the internet, after all. You're going to need some tougher skin)

Anywho, I think it's a nice mod, I just don't like the art style. Good job creating such nice sprites though 

[jester]

hmmm, my dwarves are refusing to pick up their copper pick hammers, duel weilding them isnt working either, am I missing something obvious?

[Deon]

Are they miners? xD
I used pickhammer as mining tool AND hammer skill weapon. This may lead to strange results... However if it doesn't work I will leave it only as hammer since a pick is enough for me.

Also I've updated the 1st page with small list of added items to humans/dwarves.


And I picked japanese not randomly or because of anime mania. As I told I'm going to make separate language for each subrace which is a ton of work, but with japanese naming it would be easier and more "realistic" in the end.

[jester]

Ha, yeah they are miners,  changing their weapon prefs to hammers disables the mining job so that doesnt help either.  I started another fort with the same embark items and it told me that copper pick hammers were unavailible (like it does with some types of fish) the first was in a mangrove swamp and the second was a swamp/mountain region if that helps.  The normal picks seem to work fine.
  You still going to be working on the fallout mod Deon or are you calling it finished?

[PTTG??]

I kind of like the idea of having DF humans using separate "castes", disturbing as the phrasing may sound. But... you've only made Aryans and The Yellow Menace. Where's the Nubians?
I've also kind of enjoyed the mixed elements of human culture- turbans in barbarian icelands, straight longswords in tropical camel-intensive kingdoms and so on. I propose that there be four or five sub-groups of varying tone and allowing them to be selected randomly for each civ.
While we're at it, why not some Dwarven Clans and Elven Tribes? And Goblin Lineages!

[Deon]

Where's the Nubians?

As I told I will be add more subcultures/subraces and for now this is just a test release to get rid of some obvious faults of me.

[Marlowe]

Why Nubians? Where's the Rhoxolani Sarmatians?


Did you do anything funny to Elves? You didn't mention them.


The Kobold bugtech is a nice touch; one thing though; are all these races playable civs? Seems a silly question but I missed it if you said so.

[Tormy]

Deon, you've made these yourself?

As I wrote in the 1st post I highly love Sphr set and almost everything which is standard here is from him. However I modified his humans to get oriental ones (I could do them from scratch but it would take more time and also I wanted humans to look similar despite of their race); also I've made kobolds, goblins and a few of added/missing creatures (like giant desert scorpion and wild dog etc.) myself.

Ah, right! Yes indeed, sphr's gfx set is one of the best. [Only Mike's set is at least as good as sphr's]

[Fleeb]

Hmm, I started adventure mode as a human (lowest adventure tier) , and picked samurai swordsman, and I show up as a very western fighter with chain mail and a two handed sword.

The humans higher up the adventure tier show up as cutthroat and raider and the like, and seemed to be dressed like ninjas?

Also, started adventure mode as a kobold and can't talk to anyone. Not sure if this is a bug or not but thought I'd mention it.

::edit:: top tier humans aren't dressed like ninjas, standard western style dress same as bottom tier humans. Also, cutthroats start with no weapons or armor.

[Deon]

Cutthroats etc. are from "outlaw" entity which can have some problems, it's a placeholder for raiders which should be replaced by some raider civ which should be eventionally in war with your entity. I could remove some essential weapons (cutthroat = swordsman).

MY BAD! F**K I knew it's bad to mod something while being drunk . I placed "samurai ***" etc. names on western guys instead of eastern,  thank you for mentioning, I will release a fix soon which won't break save games.
It was late and I messed up "***_name", it'll be fixed now.

[Deon]

Just tested cutthroats and they have short swords as they should.

Anyway I fixed something for the new version: now creatures from skulking entity are called "humand bandits" so you won't be confused with their skills.