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[Footkerchief]

This just came up in a Suggestions thread:

The philosopher should talk to dwarves, like the mayor.

It appears that the complete redesign of the position system in the next rev should allow this kind of thing.

We'll see.  It really depends on the specifity of the "responsibility tokens", or whatever the position raws will use to assign responsibility to entity positions.  In other words, there'll probably be a hardcoded list of duties that can be assigned to a position, but we don't know whether there'll just be a single COMPLAINT duty or more specific stuff like WORK_COMPLAINT, PERSONAL_COMPLAINT etc.

Is this an accurate description of the responsibility assignment stuff?  How specific are the responsibilities going to be?

[Dwarfu]

RE Baronies and other nobility/royalty,

With dwarves getting landed nobility in their current scope to be based on expanded or additional settlements, I was wondering if this is going to fundamentally change world gen civs.

I am assuming here that dwarves and humans will be sharing a basic nobility/royalty design (I don't expect other races such as elves to have this type of structure).

Currently, anytime a new town/fortress is created, it is from a new group entity spawned from the civ entity.  Is a new system in the works that will allow the group entities to found multiple towns/fortresses?  That way, the human town run by the the group The Scourge of Rags founds a new town and the group's leader becomes a count.  I know the humans are sort of in limbo as far as leaders right now, but I'm interested in the scope of what adding multiple-site (sub-civ) entities will allow for leaders and/or government types.

It'd be great to go to the human King's hall and find counts and barons from across the realm there at court.

(Maybe this should be moved to its own discussion thread - I only added it here as a linkup from the barony stuff)

[Noble Digger]

Last updated 5\23 OH THE SUSPENSE.

[BahamutZERO]

Last updated 5\23 OH THE SUSPENSE.

Seriously. Hope he didn't get abducted by aliens or anything. I'm starting to suffer acute devblog withdrawl syndrome!

[Neonivek]

Last updated 5\23 OH THE SUSPENSE.

Seriously. Hope he didn't get abducted by aliens or anything. I'm starting to suffer acute devblog withdrawl syndrome!

He is currently on his month end break from Dwarf Fortress.

He will HOPEFULLY start updating on the first of June.

[Footkerchief]

He is currently on his month end break from Dwarf Fortress.

He will HOPEFULLY start updating on the first of June.

You might be right, but there was also this:

Given the overall shape of the month, the month-end project work is mostly cancelled this time around, so I'll be pushing straight through into June, with maybe a day or two off DF.

[Zironic]

He's probably doing HFS!

[Noble Digger]

He's probably doing HFS!

The dev updates are also hidden. I guess we need to start digging. (Read: typing random URLs into the browser to find where he hid them!)

[Nilus]

I bet this gets asked all the time but is there an estimate release date for the new version?

[Davion]

I'd say August/September

In other words, no there's not really an estimate

[Footkerchief]

I bet this gets asked all the time but is there an estimate release date for the new version?

There's no official estimate.  My guess would be 4 months.  Another half month for entity positions, two months for squads, and a month and a half for sites and other miscellaneous final stuff.

That said, as late as January, I was still predicting an April/May release, so take this new prediction with a giant ass bag of rock salt.

[Jakkarra]

i had written mostly waht footkerchief said, but my internet died,

im just going to say its done when its done.

[catfry]

I assume if the gap in updates was due to Toady being hit by a bus Threetoe would post about it, so no need to worry about this kind of event
Unless he was hit as well..

[Greiger]

Clearly we are all addicted to DF Dev updates.  I feel withdraw setting in already...

No wait...that's gas.  Well, I'm sure there's withdraw somewhere around here.

[Leafsnail]

Wait, so the next update will make nobility actually useless for something?  Better get ready to install a ski lift in hell.