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[Neonivek]

*rubs back of head*

I didn't think there were that many questions posted since the last response.

Thanks Toady.

Ill skip my questions... I can't word it correctly. It was about how Toady thinks he can balance the freedom he gives to the players and the overall dwarven image as well as the amount of content he will need in the game overall. Which seems to come up in the question of Mounts and Poisons.

[Dame de la Licorne]

Toady, I know this is a known problem, but if you ever get bored working on the current dev list (heaven forbid!), could you maybe take a look at the FPS display issue in the Mac version (the one where the FPS is always FPS:0, no matter what the settings are)?  Pretty please?

(i'm not familiar with the issue)
but have you tried 40d and all 40d* versions?

Yeah, for me the 40d9 (haven't tried 10 or 11) work great, and show the FPS. The link to them is stickied in this very boutique!

I haven't been able to get the 40d# versions to run on my computer, so I didn't realize the FPS display issue had been fixed in those.  Sorry. 

[Dwarfu]

With the following yet-to-be-worked-out squad changes...

# Add yearly squad schedules (on duty, standing down, off duty, training, in rotations)
# Assigning squads to barracks, split up barracks functions
# Weapon rack and armor stand assignments to individual soldiers within the barracks (automatic or manual if you care)

... how will this affect the soldiers' families?  Will the soldier still claim a room while they are marked to sleep in the barracks?
... if the soldiers/guards are set to 'off duty' in the rotation, will they then go visit their families, sleep in their own rooms, make babies, etc?
... are the stands and racks going to count as owned items, and if so, are nobles going to get negative thoughts if some yokel in the armory has a better one than the noble does?
... will assigning more than one barracks (such as on different levels) confuse everyone?

[Footkerchief]

It starts right away.  You can make the rates pretty fast, almost like regeneration.  I remember writing about this, and I did the calculations there, but maybe it was just an email...  in any case, you could get away with healing heavy damage fully after an hour?  Or was it faster.  I think it was pretty fast, and that it wouldn't be very hard to make it faster or instantaneous as needed with a little change.

Can wounds heal while they have something stuck in them?  I don't know if stuck-ins are even associated to wounds that way, so that might not be a meaningful question.

[Mel_Vixen]

Good question - what happens if a arrow head is stuck in the wound and the wound closes over it?

[Sean Mirrsen]

I suspect the answer is "the wound doesn't close fully as long as something is in it". And I think it was mentioned at some point that stuck-ins are attached to wounds.

[Alfador]

Something with sufficiently fast regeneration could actually push stuck-ins out of wounds as they heal.

[Vlynndar]

Something with sufficiently fast regeneration could actually push stuck-ins out of wounds as they heal.

As projectiles.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Something with sufficiently fast regeneration could actually push stuck-ins out of wounds as they heal.

As projectiles.

Reminds me of that scene in Time Bandits where the English Longbowmen fire arrows into the Devil. Good idea, bad result.

Quote from: Greiger
"Made me think, will it be possible to make a creature immune to certain diseses?"


(From Toady): "For the poison effects that are currently in, you add in affected classes and then immune classes, and when other diseases go in I don't think it'll be handled differently, unless poisons have become more refined by that time."

One idea to possibly handle diseases and immunities would be to have a set number of possible diseases in a given world, with defined effects, means of spreading, preferred/compatible biome, etc.

You could then assign them a percentage chance (like from 1 in a million to 1 in a hundred), per year, that they'll evolve to effect any given species (whether it's a dwarf, a rat, a dragon, a beetle, a bluejay, whatever).
Once they've made that jump, they might then have a 10x greater chance of affecting another species that's in the same group as them (as in "animal", "humanoid", "fanciful", "vermin", etc.). The cure could either be predefined per disease, or selected randomly at the beginning of every game.

I know it's not 100% biologically accurate, but it seems like it might work, and be reasonably easy to add to the game.

[Areyar]

If using the latter evolving diseases concept,
considder host species (or reservoirs):
the host is almost endemically infected with the germ, but is hardly affected because it has innate resistance immunity. (Due to co-evolution of host and parasite/pathogen)
Usually the disease will be happy to remain in its host only through rare chance (increased by high exposure obviously) does it gain the ability to infect an unrelated species.
But when a pathogen does cross to the brave new world of an uncolonised species without any previous exposure, symptoms tend to be extreme. (depending on general virulence and toxicity etc, as the new host does have an immune system... at least the higher order species, low order species tend to rely on innate defences, not adaptive like vertebrates)

I'm dead tired, so my excuses if this post is rambling... 'night.

[SirHoneyBadger]

If using the latter evolving diseases concept,
considder host species (or reservoirs):
the host is almost endemically infected with the germ, but is hardly affected because it has innate resistance immunity. (Due to co-evolution of host and parasite/pathogen)
Usually the disease will be happy to remain in its host only through rare chance (increased by high exposure obviously) does it gain the ability to infect an unrelated species.
But when a pathogen does cross to the brave new world of an uncolonised species without any previous exposure, symptoms tend to be extreme. (depending on general virulence and toxicity etc, as the new host does have an immune system... at least the higher order species, low order species tend to rely on innate defences, not adaptive like vertebrates)

I'm dead tired, so my excuses if this post is rambling... 'night.

I'm not gonna blame you, it's probably just my limited knowledge of biology (microbiology or otherwise), but I'm not quite understanding what you're saying?
I get some of the drifts, but the rest is simply flying over my (also dead tired) poor little head.

Sounds interesting, though!

[Chandrasekhar]

Can wounds heal while they have something stuck in them?  I don't know if stuck-ins are even associated to wounds that way, so that might not be a meaningful question.

"Does he fan-tail a little curious, sir, before he goes down?" said the Gay-Header deliberately.

"And he has a curious spout, too," said Daggoo, "very bushy, even for a parmacetty, and mighty quick, Captain Ahab?"

"And he have one, two, tree—oh! good many iron in him hide, too, Captain," cried Queequeg disjointedly, "all twiske-tee be-twisk, like him—him—" faltering hard for a word, and screwing his hand round and round as though uncorking a bottle— "like him—him—"

"Corkscrew!" cried Ahab, "aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie all twisted and wrenched in him, aye, Daggoo, his spout is a big one, like a whole shock of wheat, and white as a pile of our Nantucket wool after the great annual sheep-shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a split jib in a squall.  Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen—Moby Dick—Moby Dick!"

I, for one, hope that stuck-ins will stay in large creatures that lack the means to pull them out.  Smaller ones wouldn't be able to move with a spear stuck in them, and humanoid large creatures would probably pull them out, but seeing a dragon or something with half a dozen spears from doomed hunters stuck in him would be pretty awesome.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Harpoons are different from simple spears, though, and this would be one case where that difference would matter.

It's a fine idea, though.

[Furious Fish]

I'm wondering. If we created a race that somehow considered it's skin layer 'cosmetic' and would periodically skin itself, would another race that was subjugated by this one then begin skinning themselves with hilarious effect?

I don't want to know what kind of childhood you need to have had to think up something like this.

[umiman]

Ampersand: That's genius. Really, really genius....