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ZeroGravitas

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Murder was the case!
« on: March 22, 2009, 04:20:58 am »
Apologies to Snoop.

This thread is really more personality traits generally.

Most people have noticed that NPCs will murder fellow inhabitants sometimes in worldgen. Usually a murderer is a multi-murderer: I've seen dwarves that kill 5 other dwarves in their same home fort. I've seen demons that rule goblin civs murder multiple goblins as well.

I assume this isn't totally random: is it related to personality traits?

Murder can happen in Fort mode as well; either during tantrums (I think) or Fell/Macabre moods. Are there other circumstances this will happen? Will dwarves ever just murder someone they have a "Grudge" against? What personality traits after this? I think ANGER does but I'm not sure of others.
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Jim Groovester

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Re: Murder was the case!
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2009, 04:40:23 am »
It's based on civ-ethics. Murder is acceptable in goblin civilizations, so it happens all the time during world-gen, but I don't think it happens in-game. Those murdering dwarves are probably baby snatcher victims.
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Re: Murder was the case!
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2009, 12:39:51 pm »
Quote from: Jim Groovester on March 22, 2009, 04:40:23 am
It's based on civ-ethics. Murder is acceptable in goblin civilizations, so it happens all the time during world-gen, but I don't think it happens in-game. Those murdering dwarves are probably baby snatcher victims.

But how does the game decide who murders whom? The demon leaders of goblins seem to do most of the murdering and demons are maxed out on ANGER.

And I'm pretty sure my murdered dwarf victims were living in dwarf forts. There's no particular reason an historical dwarf couldn't roll a high ANGER, as far as I know, and become a murderer eventually.
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