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[PMantix]

Okay, this topic is rapidly heading into FATAL territory.

Wow, I read way too much of that before forcing myself to close the tab. disturbing

...

Anyway, I'm not really so interested in having full explicit detail of dwarves sexual escapades. Dismembering, vomiting, magma..  choking enemies with their entrails..   these are the things I'm interested in.

I agree with the earlier post concerning this point. A simple distance check between a couple (or just same tile) before a female creature may become pregnant is sufficient in my opinion. Accompanying announcements are of course a given at this point...  but I really question the value in adding explicit details just to be explicit.

There are a lot more useful things I'd like to see completed first.

 

[ArkDelgato]

Emergency Thread Re-Railing

So, how is metabolism determined?
What does it effect?
Is there the slightest chance that a dwarf could get an overly-fast metabolism and poor energy storage?
Will said dwarf be stuck in perma eat mode?

How is energy storage determined?
Is fat burned in strenuous activity?
Would stuffing the military on cow-fried-cow be advisable before war for the extra energy?

Does different food grant different energy, or is it the act of eating?
Is there differentiation between minerals, vitamins, fats and calories?
Is it unhealthy to eat minced syrup for your only meal?
*could "minced" be replaced with a variable that could be any number of other food-prep words, as a quick fix to making cooking more interesting?
I.E. fried, baked, diced, julienned, grilled, flame broiled, pressed, salted, ect.

Will there ever be size differentiation for clothes?
What size is a dwarven child?
Are human children dwarf sized?


...That should be enough to avoid discussion of a sex-log.

[Sparkles]

I agree with the earlier post concerning this point. A simple distance check between a couple (or just same tile) before a female creature may become pregnant is sufficient in my opinion.

I immediately thought off creating a set of breeding chambers to measure the length of dwarven "goods".

Code: [Select]

O=O
|D|  <- newly pregnant female dwarf over a floor grate
O=O

<three floors down>

O=O
|D|  <- male dwarf with channels to the female
O=O
That's one endowed dwarf.

Edit: Sorry, ArkDelgato

[Rose]

Okay, this topic is rapidly heading into FATAL territory.

I hate you.

[Rockphed]

Emergency Thread Re-Railing

Will there ever be size differentiation for clothes?

Are human children dwarf sized?


...That should be enough to avoid discussion of a sex-log.

Hrm.  While, on the one hand, size differentiation for clothes would be pretty cool from the stand-point of, "Hey, my dwarves are so fat that they can't wear any of the old clothes,"  It could get incredibly annoying from the stand-point of "I just want to build this wall!!!!!  Why are all my dwarves going to get new clothes?"

As for the human children being dwarf sized, I seem to remember Toady talking about muscular tissues granting size increases, so dwarves might even manage to be the same size as humans for some calculations.

[smjjames]

I don't think the nutrition will be modelled that precisely.

Anyways, what's the status on the rope/ladders/suspended elevators/etc, especially for large open spaces?

It'll certainly be cool to have natural looking cave systems rather than a labrynthine maze of tunnels that look like they were made by insane miners. I tried the bigger so called 'older' versions of the caves, but they are just much bigger and much more labrynthine versions of the 'younger' caves.

As far as the rope ladder stuff, I can easily see the mners carrying rope with them in case they have to do some spelunking.

What about rope and pulley systems?

[LordZorintrhox]

Emergency Thread Re-Railing

A gurney flies into the emergency room, the bloated figure on it buried in a sea of LOLcats, bodily fluids, memes, and dancing pandas.  The doctors are grave.

Johnson! I need ten ccs of anti-defamethyl insructinefrin scornibin!
Another derailment?!  But sir, we ran out of ADMINS a dozen threads ago!
Ahh, shit!  He's on fire!
Threads get fevers?
No, you moron, they get flame wars!  Administer sixteen ccs of ten molar administratoricide!
No time for that, give 'em a shot of necrosybin tetra-relign-ifyn!
That could kill the discussion!
It's already dead, Bill!  It died when [337H4KS0r4357 posted a Rick-Roll!
My God, that isn't even how you spell 'lite in 1337!
GET US THAT NEEDLE JOHNSON!

Okay, sorry, couldn't resist.  First thing that came to mind, honestly.  Don't mind me.

Sorry for posting FATAL there, first thing that came to mind.  Though it is a good example of where these kinds of conversations can lead in geekdom...straight into the fuming maw of hell.

In more topical discourse, I would also like to hear about the rope ladders etc. thing that was mentioned.  Are we still getting them?  And, SUPER IMPORTANTLY, will we be able to link then to a lever that makes them wind up?  Because that would make really awesome adventure mode puzzles just so much more easy and, of course, Fun.

Full fledged pulley systems would be out...that would be better suited to a massive mechanics update.

[Granite26]

Wouldn't be so bad of a link if it had been formatted, or correctly colored, or edited, or really, in any way readable...

[smjjames]

I can see some simple pulley type systems or perhaps a belt style system bieng made with what we have right now. But yea, one thing at a time.

[Emeralddragon2]

Just because I am curious, are brooks and rivers going to be changed in any way?

Last time I checked, when dworfs fell into an unchanged river, there was no way out unless you dug a ramp,

Couldnt we have some part of the river lined with ramps?

Or maybe as a brook replacement, we could have the river source tiles produce water when the level is below 3, and line the river with ramps... (ramble ramble)

[SimRobert2001]

Just because I am curious, are brooks and rivers going to be changed in any way?

Last time I checked, when dworfs fell into an unchanged river, there was no way out unless you dug a ramp,

Couldnt we have some part of the river lined with ramps?

Or maybe as a brook replacement, we could have the river source tiles produce water when the level is below 3, and line the river with ramps... (ramble ramble)

i'd rather see dwarves able to climb out of a full river or pond.  i'd also like to see nearby dwarves jump in to save a friend.

[Dae]

i'd rather see dwarves able to climb out of a full river or pond.  i'd also like to see nearby dwarves jump in to save a friend.

I innerly hope the second will be implemented before the first. For hilarious Justice.

[Zironic]

i'd rather see dwarves able to climb out of a full river or pond.  i'd also like to see nearby dwarves jump in to save a friend.

I innerly hope the second will be implemented before the first. For hilarious Justice.

The problem is, there would be a bug in which the rescuing dwarves instantly fall asleep.

[Flaede]

i'd rather see dwarves able to climb out of a full river or pond.  i'd also like to see nearby dwarves jump in to save a friend.

I innerly hope the second will be implemented before the first. For hilarious Justice.

The problem is, there would be a bug in which the rescuing dwarves instantly fall asleep.

Nono. Not fall asleep: Bomrek DumDum cancels climb: dangerous territory.

[Aqizzar]

Oh cool, now we get to see how old our dwarves are!  I've actually been wanting that for a long time.