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[Dante]

Well, there was some talk about power for buildings when the custom workshops got done, so he's at least aware of that. And the vehicles should be covered in the siege improvements section, assuming siege engines are raw'd rather than hardcoded. I can't imagine teleporting behaviour of any sort will go in before the far-distant magic arc.

[Footkerchief]

How much power do you plan on giving modders over buildings?
Will we eventually be able to have buildings which require power to function, or which spawn creatures (particularly members of the player's civilization/race) as well as items?
Will we eventually be able to have buildings which allow teleportation, whether between two buildings or simply set to a waypoint? Will we be able to have migrations require and be spawned on a building?
Will any of this be possible with some kind of script?
Will it be possible to change the siege alert text (A vile force of darkness has arrived!) to something else?
Will we eventually be able to make vehicles, with customizable tiles and sizes and be able to set man/dwarfpower requirements on certain functions of those vehicles (such as a tank firing its gun, or a driller drilling) and attach skills to those positions, and have those skills affect performance?
Will this be possible with some kind of script?
When can we expect any of this, if ever?

Beyond what Dante said above, and what Toady said about sieges in DF Talk 2, Toady's not going to have specific answers for any of that.  It'd certainly all be cool, but it's too far off to say anything with certainty.

[numerobis]

The dev_now makes me wonder: what is the blocker on having adventure-mode dwarves be able to do everything a fortress-mode dwarf can do?  Is it just a matter of adding some UI for it (i.e. a matter of time), or some deeper question?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Realtime. Normally, dwarves do stuff in realtime. You'd have to somehow think of a way for an adventurer to keep his wits about him when doing something for a long time. Maybe an alternative "realtime mode" for Adventure Mode? Some roguelikes get away with it, like 3059. Say, if no combat happens around the player, allow to switch into realtime, so normal fort-mode actions can be done.

[Footkerchief]

Maybe an alternative "realtime mode" for Adventure Mode?

This would be nice for all kinds of things, like just standing in a town and watching people walk around.

[numerobis]

There's a mechanism for cancelling jobs when interrupted, so that should work out.

[SirPenguin]

Say, if no combat happens around the player, allow to switch into realtime, so normal fort-mode actions can be done.

I'm actually making a roguelike myself for a class and this is the direction I think I'm going to take it - similar to a Bioware game, like Baldur's Gate or Dragon AGe.

[Neonivek]

Well a general ability to skip time during Adventure mode would always be nice as well...

But still...

[Azkanan]

y'all know you can just hold . to make time pass, right?

Or, make a macro that presses "." X number of times.

I made a macro for picking up and throwing. I can eat my breakfast whilst watching my Adventurer throw dirt at his feet. He does it a thousand times; knocks me into the legendary after about 5/10 minutes.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Considering that we've got ASCII for Fortress Mode, I wonder if maybe someday we might see such a "realtime mode" concieved in glorious wireframe?

ala

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_of_daggorath

Sure it's 3D graphics, but it's 3D graphics from 1982.

[Footkerchief]

Considering that we've got ASCII for Fortress Mode, I wonder if maybe someday we might see such a "realtime mode" concieved in glorious wireframe?

ala

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_of_daggorath

Sure it's 3D graphics, but it's 3D graphics from 1982.

I'm confused, what does the realtime mode described by Sean Mirrsen have to do with graphics?

[SirHoneyBadger]

The post is only half serious, but there is a certain desire to go along with it:

I'm thinking of "realtime" in terms of sitting back and watching the world pass by. Observing dwarfs in your Fortress, for instance, wandering around in the persuit of their daily lives, or actually performing jobs you yourself ordered.

ASCII is the right choice for Fortress mode, as far as I'm concerned, and I can see it working fine for Adventure mode too, but people-watching? Immediate environment perception?

Graphics don't have to be just about glitter. They can actually be a tool, sometimes. This seems like it might be one of those cases.

Wireframing would allow a bit of that, just enough to give you a sense of "you are there", without breaking the illusion and "filling in the blanks" your imagination is providing.

[Footkerchief]

That's cool and all, but let's please not discuss graphics in this thread.  We've had billions of threads about graphics and there won't be anything new to say until Toady implements something.

[SirHoneyBadger]

I'm not really discussing them-as in, this isn't a suggestion that wireframes be limplemented-just mentioning something that your post made me think of, as concerns the realities and limitations of the current game to portray it in an effective way.

So, no crazy graphics flamewar, please.

[CobaltKobold]

How much power do you plan on giving modders over buildings?
Will we eventually be able to have buildings which require power to function, or which spawn creatures (particularly members of the player's civilization/race) as well as items?
Will we eventually be able to have buildings which allow teleportation, whether between two buildings or simply set to a waypoint? Will we be able to have migrations require and be spawned on a building?
Will any of this be possible with some kind of script?
Will it be possible to change the siege alert text (A vile force of darkness has arrived!) to something else?
Will we eventually be able to make vehicles, with customizable tiles and sizes and be able to set man/dwarfpower requirements on certain functions of those vehicles (such as a tank firing its gun, or a driller drilling) and attach skills to those positions, and have those skills affect performance?
Will this be possible with some kind of script?
When can we expect any of this, if ever?

You are supposed to Email these in.

Only if you want them answered on DFTalk. Questions arestill answered here.

in re: adventurer skills: yes, timescale. Also the whole "material/anvil" dependency cycles, as well as building whole workshops yourself to do things not really feeling like how you'd do it.

And UI would need making, yes.