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[Vester]

I agree... It doesn't seem like something that would work in the raws, but who knows?

[HUNTING_TACTIC:DRIVE_PREY_OFF_CLIFF]

On the other hand, my laptop runs slow enough, so I'm perfectly happy with our current ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK predators.

...

Also, Neruz?

Your new avatar is terrifying.

[Halmie]

Your new avatar is terrifying.

Yeah, it hurts my eyes.

I'd love to see predators working together and stampeding animals. The next scourge of adventure mode.

[dragnar]

Also, Neruz?

Your new avatar is terrifying.

Well it is replacing an emerging nightmare monster of some sort...

[SirPenguin]

I should be done with underground civs tomorrow.

I got all excited because I thought this meant another item greened off the list...then I realized all the underground civ stuff he's doing appear to be fixed/tweaks to things already greened off. Doh!

[Nadaka]

pretty much the only things not greened out are underground diversity and testing.

[Totaku]

Just another part of the underground that's nearly complete. Afterward, there's dealing with various map quibbles, and then deciding on the rope material, and then finally doing to remaining items on the spoiler list for the underground(useful rescoucse and rope ladders). This should conclude the underground phase.

But other than that hearing that Toady removed the annoying daialouge from the Adventure mode that occurs out of view is a blessing, but can be a curse. I use to use that to help me pin point certain areas of interest I had in mind to build a fortress. (Yes I usually played adventure mode first despite that I could simply use the map features, why? Because it's FUN. )

But on a more logical scale, it makes sense to remove it. Since it did seem out of place.

[SirPenguin]

Hmm, maybe I'm wrong, but the phrasing,

I also used the new locations associated with announcements to turn off all of the combat spam in adventure mode for events that your adventurer can't see

makes me think he's talking about the side of the window where announcements for combat now go in Fort mode. I took that sentence to mean that he put all the extraneous combat/message spam of events you can't see as announcements on the sidebar so you could choose to ignore them or check them out like you can in Fort mode

[Sean Mirrsen]

I think he just turned them all off. On one hand, you won't be able to know when there's fighting near you, or when random troglodytes drop down the chasm. On the other hand, you won't have to hear the screams of your dying meatshields comrades as you make an expeditious retreat from the cyclops cave.

[dragnar]

But... but then I can't hear my doomed elven strike team fail to kill a dragon!

[Footkerchief]

Hmm, maybe I'm wrong, but the phrasing,

I also used the new locations associated with announcements to turn off all of the combat spam in adventure mode for events that your adventurer can't see

makes me think he's talking about the side of the window where announcements for combat now go in Fort mode. I took that sentence to mean that he put all the extraneous combat/message spam of events you can't see as announcements on the sidebar so you could choose to ignore them or check them out like you can in Fort mode

Nope, it's referring to a tile location: "The combat/hunting/sparring reports work. You can view adv mode style messages by creature and category (comb/hunt/spar) now and all of the announcements have associated dates. Those that have associated locations are zoomable from the announcement/report screens."  Mentioned again later: "Here is the first page of announcements concerning the fighting, here in arena mode the same as they would appear in a dwarf mode combat report. You can jump over to the main view with the screen re-centered on the location of the announcement."

The reason the tile location allows him to easily turn off the announcement spam is that the location can be checked against the tiles currently in view of the adventurer.

The term Toady has used to refer to the sidebar announcements is "notices."

[SirPenguin]

Ah, good call. Though I'm glad to see them go in any capacity, I like my idea better, haha. You could label the screen "distant sounds", allowing you to ignore or pay attention to them. Perhaps that's a bit too gamey, though.

[Footkerchief]

You could label the screen "distant sounds", allowing you to ignore or pay attention to them. Perhaps that's a bit too gamey, though.

Well, it has its advantages.  The main problem is that the game doesn't have a strong enough (or any?) notion of giving you a "partial announcement" -- your adventurer would be deducing way too much information from that distant sound.  (A secondary problem is that you shouldn't be forced to check the notice screen to see important sound-based announcements.)  Instead the announcement should pick out the "loudest" parts of the announcement and tell you about those, if not play an actual sound clip.

I suppose for combat stuff you'd have 1) weapon impacts, 2) vocalizations and 3) footfalls.  The loudness of those events could be checked against ambient noise and your adventurer's hearing ability, maybe in conjunction with some kind of "notability" heuristic, to determine what actually gets announced to you.  If you're surrounded by a raging battle you arguably shouldn't get anything more specific than "You hear metal clashing on metal and screams of pain!" unless you have exceptional skill at picking out battle-related sounds, in which case maybe you'd instead get "You hear stone blades bouncing off iron!" or something.  Trespasser's "real time Foley" comes up here, of course -- it'd probably be essential for actual sound effects in DF, and even without sound effects, it might be helpful for determining the "loudness" of an announcement event.

[Neonivek]

What it could do is it could filter important information depending on your situation.

The sound of people speaking in a city is unimportant.

The sound of speaking in a deep cave is very important.

[smjjames]

What it could do is it could filter important information depending on your situation.

The sound of people speaking in a city is unimportant.

The sound of speaking in a deep cave is very important.

However, how does it determine what your situation is?

Maybe there could be a bunch of options settings to help determine this, however it could get overcomplicated doing it that way.

[Footkerchief]

The sound of people speaking in a city is unimportant.

Except when somebody mentions the mythical kobold treasure cave and your ears prick up because you recently overheard another adventurer being offered money to find it!  So yeah, it's very situation-dependent, as you noted.  The knowledge system rears its head yet again, along with a distinct "world familiarity" system that would operate on object sets that are relatively constant in the world, such as creatures and materials (including what they sound like).