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[theRH]

whats the advantage ? you have no weapons , no armour and no skills ? why would you play a play now character other than the obvious challenege .

[Deimos56]

I'm fairly certain that it's a placeholder. For now, at least. I assure you that, sooner or later, we'll be able to get real adventurers out of it.

[Rashilul]

You start in your previously abandoned fort

[Untelligent]

If you wanted to play as a generic creature in adventure mode (and who hasn't wanted to play as Batman or a !!HFS!!), it takes three lines of toadycode in the entity raws to give it a "play now!" mode.

If you wanted to give it "full" adventurer status, you'd have to give it an entire civilization. Even if you just copy/pasted an existing civilization, that might have adverse effects, i.e. the Dragon Army wiping out all the other civs.

Not that that's not awesome, but it might make for a boring world.

[Jay]

Yup, Play Now! is best suited for critters that don't use equipment.
I'm not sure what the idea is for having it for any of the normal entities, but...

[cerapa]

I think its supposed to be survival mode or such in the future. Make all your tools and stuff like that.

[Village_Idiot]

And what is this line of code, and where should it be inserted?

[kotekzot]

And what is this line of code, and where should it be inserted?

wiki it.

i remember reading in the dev notes that play now should eventually put adventurers into "interesting" circumstances.

[Untelligent]

Code: [Select]

[ENTITY:BATMAN]
    [CREATURE:BATMAN]
    [INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]
Put that at the bottom of the /raw/object/entity_default.txt file. Other poplar creatures are DRAGON, ELEPHANT, and SPIRIT_OF_FIRE. Refer to the creature files for proper titles for other creatures; they usually match the name, but often the words are switched around to keep the genus in front, i.e. BEAR_GRIZZLY.

Modding DF is very well-documented in the wiki and it's quite easy to do simple things like this.

[Leafsnail]

Spoilers throughout this post.

Note that dragons in adventure mode can't breath fire, SoFs can't use fireballs and tentacle demons can't... you know.

[ArkDelgato]

And what is this line of code, and where should it be inserted?

wiki it.

i remember reading in the dev notes that play now should eventually put adventurers into "interesting" circumstances.

Just imagining what this could possibly be makes me very happy.

You are [name] a guard at a human castle, redying for a seige!
You are [name] guard for a caravan that is attacked by bandits almost every trip!
You are [name] woodsman who makes a living poaching wildlife from the baron's woods!

[smjjames]

Code: [Select]

[ENTITY:BATMAN]
    [CREATURE:BATMAN]
    [INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]
Put that at the bottom of the /raw/object/entity_default.txt file. Other poplar creatures are DRAGON, ELEPHANT, and SPIRIT_OF_FIRE. Refer to the creature files for proper titles for other creatures; they usually match the name, but often the words are switched around to keep the genus in front, i.e. BEAR_GRIZZLY.

Modding DF is very well-documented in the wiki and it's quite easy to do simple things like this.

Sounds like a hell of alot of fun, probably should get used to it as a standard playable race first though.

[zchris13]

Spoilers throughout this post.

Note that dragons in adventure mode can't breath fire, SoFs can't use fireballs and tentacle demons can't... you know.

You have to use your IMAGINATION.

[Greiger]

Imagination as in, instead of using fire as a breath weapon, throw bits of corpses yer bound to collect in your "mouth of holding" as a corpse chunk breath weapon.

[smjjames]

It might be interesting to adventure as a dog or something. Although you have a high potential of dying a quick death.