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[Nivim]

Totally happening.  We are one step closer with the release after next, because then we get adventurer skills.

And this release we get something important to that.

So can I rapidly level up my Diplomacy skill in adventure mode by chopping the arms and legs off of a zombie, putting it in a headlock, and Negotiating at it until I become Exhausted?

You'd need something intelligent to negotiate with. But now that we have at least some methods of healing, you could probably train it after you stabilize a limbless elven child. You could carry him on your back and train social skills all the time. When we get the magic arc, it can be replaced by a familiar.

[Warlord255]

Totally happening.  We are one step closer with the release after next, because then we get adventurer skills.

And this release we get something important to that.

So can I rapidly level up my Diplomacy skill in adventure mode by chopping the arms and legs off of a zombie, putting it in a headlock, and Negotiating at it until I become Exhausted?

You'd need something intelligent to negotiate with. But now that we have at least some methods of healing, you could probably train it after you stabilize a limbless elven child. You could carry him on your back and train social skills all the time. When we get the magic arc, it can be replaced by a familiar.

Social skills would need some use in Adventure Mode before that'd be worthwhile.

That said, practicing triage on victims would be amusing.

[Neruz]

Totally happening.  We are one step closer with the release after next, because then we get adventurer skills.

And this release we get something important to that.

So can I rapidly level up my Diplomacy skill in adventure mode by chopping the arms and legs off of a zombie, putting it in a headlock, and Negotiating at it until I become Exhausted?

You'd need something intelligent to negotiate with. But now that we have at least some methods of healing, you could probably train it after you stabilize a limbless elven child. You could carry him on your back and train social skills all the time. When we get the magic arc, it can be replaced by a familiar.

Fixed.

[Nivim]

 I actually laughed a largely disproportionate amount at that. Possibly because it was my own words that had been altered, and I had not considered that change.

[Vester]

Will be possible to edit the adventurer apperance or at least know about his apperance?

I am similarly interested in this.

Although I imagine we'll all be making either hideous monstrosities or tanned gods and goddesses.

[zchris13]

Or hideous gods and goddesses, it's all the same.

[smjjames]

tanned gods and goddesses.

We need less Hellenistic (Greek) style gods and more celestial horrors. Although the new randomized titans will somewhat fill this niche.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Totally happening.  We are one step closer with the release after next, because then we get adventurer skills.

And this release we get something important to that.

So can I rapidly level up my Diplomacy skill in adventure mode by chopping the arms and legs off of a zombie, putting it in a headlock, and Negotiating at it until I become Exhausted?

You'd need something intelligent to negotiate with. But now that we have at least some methods of healing, you could probably train it after you stabilize a limbless elven child. You could carry him on your back and train social skills all the time. When we get the magic arc, it can be replaced by a familiar.

This above post makes me again realise why I love this game.

[Outcast Orange]

That last bit about the negotiation zombie made me spill my water.
I like how the dev-thread hasn't been added to since my last post, but you lot have already tacked on 3 pages.

[SirPenguin]

Toady, do you think you could provide some screenshots or videos of some of the stuff you've been doing? I went through all the dev updates for this release and I realized we haven't really seen much of anything quite yet. Things like the new squad menu, perhaps the new announcement system or how wounds are displayed now, etc.

Oh, and perhaps some more of those sexy new HFS-esque creatures! Maybe vs. a dwarf or 12...

[wilsonns]

Toady should show us the new arena mode...

[Granite26]

I could go for some battle arena....  Especially if he fed it through some of the artsy helpers first and it came with naration :-D

[Hummingbird]

But hasn't he said that arena mode wouldn't come with the next release?

[JoRo]

But hasn't he said that arena mode wouldn't come with the next release?

I'm going ahead with the arena idea we discussed a bit before -- not arenas in adventure mode, but a mod testing mode. The current simple idea, which can be expanded after this release, is to allow the selection of a raw folder (either the main one or one of the ones associated to a current save, active or not) and to create a 144x144x9 arena with a floor, sky, magma and water. Next up is being able to stick critters in there with equipment and skills, and give them sides. Then you could have them fight and read the combat reports, or jump into one of them and play using adventure mode controls, or just see if they can walk around or live in general. I've got a creatureless version of it up and running in a stripped down dwarf mode -- there are lots of things to fix up, since there isn't any civilization information etc. loaded up and dwarf mode doesn't really like that. This time around, you can't save anything and there are no buildings or jobs created. We can do stuff like that later, after this release is up. The purpose here is basic creature/weapon/armor/material testing.

[SirPenguin]

He also mentioned in the latest talk how it'll be available, although an init setting will default it to off because it takes a lot of the "magic" out of your first dragon experience or what have you