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[nil]

I'm sure this is the sort of thing you plan to do eventually, but the adventurer mode improvements have me contemplating time frames: What are your plans for integrating retired adventurers into Fortress mode, e.g. by having them lead founding parties?

[shadow_archmagi]

Will Companion Acquiring be streamlined anytime soon? With the new version, it seems much easier to haul around 20 companions but it's kind of a nuisance to go door to door looking for soldiers and having to repeat the same conversation 20 times whenever you need to stock up again

[Footkerchief]

Is three any chance of restoring compatibility with older Windows versions?

As another user mentioned (albeit in the wrong thread), the game now fails to launch on XP-SP1 with the following message:

edit: Guys bugs into the Bugtracker please. Toady has installed it exactly for that purpose.

Yeah, this one was already reported.

When will there be a raws tag for bodyparts that should be able to be levered or popped out, e.g. eyeballs?

There's already a tag for body parts that can be popped out, UNDER_PRESSURE.  It probably wouldn't be suitable for eyes, though.  There's an extant bug report about not being able to gouge out eyes.

[1freeman]

I am loving the new addition's to adventure mode but..

are you planning on adding aimed shots for ranged weapon's anytime soon/at all?

the lack of aiming make's it hard to actually get a good shot at something with my peasant hunter, I keep shooting my prey in the foot and it gets kind of annoying after a while.

EDIT: also, are the delay's between shot's supposed to simulate reloading, and if so will there be a option to not reload automatically afer each shot, like a combat preference? 

[Flaede]

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Especially given the existence of ghosts, I'd think that villagers would like to have the bodies back for proper interment to make sure that the victims rest easy. Not only from the "Care for the Dead" point of view, but from the "Make sure they don't haunt the shit out of us" point of view.

Yeah, thats what I had in mind. It would also be a nice change from the "kill this - kill that" quests. Players could be send to caves of very powerful creatures, which would be much too difficult to kill yet. They just have to sneak in, get the skull and run like hell if they are discovered. Maybe leave a peasant behind as a distraction. Next quest: retrieve peasant parts.

Naw. You leave a peasant behind as a distraction, they're going to haunt YOU.

[Mel_Vixen]

Aimed shots for Projectile weapons are a bit ambiguous since they are different from hand to hand combat. Distance, angle, wind if the enemy moves and some more things have to be taken into account and would i think need a own framework and maybe even a own front end.   

[Footkerchief]

I am loving the new addition's to adventure mode but..

are you planning on adding aimed shots for ranged weapon's anytime soon/at all?

the lack of aiming make's it hard to actually get a good shot at something with my peasant hunter, I keep shooting my prey in the foot and it gets kind of annoying after a while.

This was addressed earlier:

Do these aimed attacks work for Ranged weapons too? Will spitting cobras aim for your eyes?
Is Armor taken into account thus will the Ai attack an un-armored part of someones body if the rest is to hard to get through?

You can't currently aim ranged attacks, though it might get in before the release.  In that case the skills used will have to change again, of course, though it might be that there aren't skill influences the same way there, since opportunities and changing chances are supposed to come in part from the positioning from the ongoing fight, which can't be influenced in the same way by a distant shooter.

[Armok]

THEORY: people compare threetoes significant, but human, contributions to the one-in-a-million talent and fanatical devotion. That makes it seem to them like they could do it themselves, and they grow envious of his position so close to the core development of somehting so unique, forgetting that threetoes contributions are still those of a dedicated hard working expert.

[Arkose]

vomiting only occurs once before the creature starts retching instead

It seem strange that every creature is now going to vomit out everything all at once. In my experience, it takes at least two or three cycles to empty out the stomach and start having dry heaves. To better emulate vomiting from a finite stomach, how about if vomiting increased the creature's hunger meter; the creature will retch instead of vomiting if the hunger meter is above some value.

(Vomit verisimilitude is important to me.)


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[Footkerchief]

vomiting only occurs once before the creature starts retching instead

It seem strange that every creature is now going to vomit out everything all at once. In my experience, it takes at least two or three cycles to empty out the stomach and start having dry heaves. To better emulate vomiting from a finite stomach, how about if vomiting increased the creature's hunger meter; the creature will retch instead of vomiting if the hunger meter is above some value.

I made a suggestion a long time ago about improving vomit.  Feel free to bump it with additional ideas!

[1freeman]

Another question for the Toady One.

When livestock are incorporated, will we be able to train war and hunting animal's. also will there only be farm animals or will we be able to purchase dog's and cat's?

[Mel_Vixen]

Heh that would be nice. Especially if the UG-tribes get animals too which you can buy. I mean i hired almost an entire tribe of olm-men (i tell you theyr poisonous spears are blessed by Armok) but some associated Cavern-nastys would be cool.

vomiting only occurs once before the creature starts retching instead

It seem strange that every creature is now going to vomit out everything all at once. In my experience, it takes at least two or three cycles to empty out the stomach and start having dry heaves. To better emulate vomiting from a finite stomach, how about if vomiting increased the creature's hunger meter; the creature will retch instead of vomiting if the hunger meter is above some value.

To bad that vomit does not yet contain acids or syndroms. XD some animals might do then a pre-emptive vomiting onto you.

[Sizik]

Another question for the Toady One.

When livestock are incorporated, will we be able to train war and hunting animal's. also will there only be farm animals or will we be able to purchase dog's and cat's?

I don't see why he would remove features we already have, especially since most of the changes besides the new animals will only be in adventure mode towns.

[Dante]

When will there be a raws tag for bodyparts that should be able to be levered or popped out, e.g. eyeballs?

There's already a tag for body parts that can be popped out, UNDER_PRESSURE.  It probably wouldn't be suitable for eyes, though.  There's an extant bug report about not being able to gouge out eyes.

Oh yes, guts popping out. They are still attached, and trail behind the creature, right? Should that be the case for eyeballs? I'd imagine that an action violent enough to extract an eyeball would generally be enough to automatically sever the optic nerve as well.

Another question for the Toady One.

When livestock are incorporated, will we be able to train war and hunting animal's. also will there only be farm animals or will we be able to purchase dog's and cat's?

I don't see why he would remove features we already have, especially since most of the changes besides the new animals will only be in adventure mode towns.

I think he meant in adventure mode anyway.

[ManaUser]

Is three any chance of restoring compatibility with older Windows versions?

As another user mentioned (albeit in the wrong thread), the game now fails to launch on XP-SP1 with the following message:

edit: Guys bugs into the Bugtracker please. Toady has installed it exactly for that purpose.

Yeah, this one was already reported.

It's not necessarily a bug though, is it? Toady could have decided not to support old OSs anymore. I hope that isn't the case, but it's possible so I thought it made sense to ask.