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Kay

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Single Megabeast?
« on: February 09, 2009, 01:51:40 am »
Is there any way of modding it so that a type of megabeast only appears once? I want to make some sin-against-armok abomination monster that is uber powerful but only one in the world exists.

I would like to know if this is possible at all.
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Re: Single Megabeast?
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2009, 02:45:22 am »
Well, I think you can make it so the initial population of such a creature is 1, and have it not breed. It might die to a stray arrow in world gen though.
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Re: Single Megabeast?
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2009, 11:49:34 pm »
Quote from: Cheeetar on February 09, 2009, 02:45:22 am
Well, I think you can make it so the initial population of such a creature is 1, and have it not breed. It might die to a stray arrow in world gen though.

Woulden't if it was undead =)
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Re: Single Megabeast?
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2009, 02:02:21 am »
Quote from: profit on February 09, 2009, 11:49:34 pm
Quote from: Cheeetar on February 09, 2009, 02:45:22 am
Well, I think you can make it so the initial population of such a creature is 1, and have it not breed. It might die to a stray arrow in world gen though.

Woulden't if it was undead =)


Which is why I'm making a massive undead Elder God Megabeast. :D
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Re: Single Megabeast?
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2009, 09:45:52 pm »
Quote from: Kay on February 11, 2009, 02:02:21 am
Quote from: profit on February 09, 2009, 11:49:34 pm
Quote from: Cheeetar on February 09, 2009, 02:45:22 am
Well, I think you can make it so the initial population of such a creature is 1, and have it not breed. It might die to a stray arrow in world gen though.

Woulden't if it was undead =)


Which is why I'm making a massive undead Elder God Megabeast. :D
That sounds distinctly interesting, but your chances of discovering it, or being discovered by it would be rather small, no?
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Re: Single Megabeast?
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2009, 10:12:04 pm »
Megabeast are spawned in a small group at the begining of a world so no you can't have the game just make one, you can on the other hand make a civ using your unholy abomination and set the starting civ pop to 1, etc.
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Re: Single Megabeast?
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2009, 12:24:07 am »
Actually, that won't work either, as the starting pop number for civs is the number of breeding pairs the civ starts with, so the minimum you could have is two, one male and one female.  It might be possible to make them a sterile race, so that they wouldn't be multiplying and taking out every other civ due to their OP'd nature.
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