Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Arkenstone]

I noticed that all the animalmen shared a single entity in the raws, and I wondered: does this mean they all live together in one civ, or does each individual civ choose a single race to lead it?  I tested this in a very simple manner: I removed the elves' entity file, and added [CREATURE:ELF] under [ENTITY:PLAINS] (and that was the only change I made).  I gened up a pocket dimension then selected start game>adventure mode, and:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Note that I have the elf civ selected, but the symbol is the same as for humans. Also, the elves have the "Play now!" option, separate from humans.
I stopped there to post this, now going to conduct further testing.

[Lofn]

A civ entity will select a creature at random from the listed possibilities.  That was the case in the last version, too.

[Arkenstone]

Really? Didn't know that
Oh well; anyways, my test adventurer is doing fine, just exterminated the last(?) megabeast on earth.  He then got lost underground, but i just found a downwards passage and am gunna explore the HFS there 

[soul4hdwn]

if you add a race to a entity then the individual cities or nations of that civ will have a different race that shared the entity.

if you have two different entities with CIV_CONTROLABLE then you have to tab to the war and trade screen when embarking to see which civ is going to be used in fortress mode. can be changed in game by pressing +/- on the nations list and going back to the war tab. whatever is on the topmost in the war/neighbors tab is the race to be used.

[Arkenstone]

Nice. This means you can pile on the extra races, and not worry as much about game balance being screwed up.  Dark Elves and Chaos Dwarves under [ENTITY:EVIL], anyone?

[soul4hdwn]

Nice. This means you can pile on the extra races, and not worry as much about game balance being screwed up.  Dark Elves and Chaos Dwarves under [ENTITY:EVIL], anyone?

just to make it clear because i might have explained weirdly. 1 entity, multiple races, multiple cities, each city is a different race but they all work together. if they siege it'll be of one race or the other at a time.

[Arkenstone]

Exactly.  That way, you can put in all those new races, and not be under constant siege by ALL of them...