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[KillerClowns]

Simple questions: are there plans for PCs be infect-able by night creatures in upcoming versions?  If so, will there be a way for PCs to cure themselves, and upon succumbing will infected PCs remain under player control, or will the transformation be considered equivalent to death, converting the PC to a (potentially brutal) NPC for a later adventurer to eliminate?

[G-Flex]

Does anybody else find the new dungeon/sewer/catacomb maps a little excessively chaotic? I just can't imagine any real person designing or building anything with that shape. They kind of remind me of those experiments where they give spiders drugs and see how messed up their webs are as a result.

I mean, I like where this is going, but it looks to me like a little more navigability and geometric regularity would be somewhat more realistic and fun here.

[Footkerchief]

Does anybody else find the new dungeon/sewer/catacomb maps a little excessively chaotic? I just can't imagine any real person designing or building anything with that shape. They kind of remind me of those experiments where they give spiders drugs and see how messed up their webs are as a result.

I mean, I like where this is going, but it looks to me like a little more navigability and geometric regularity would be somewhat more realistic and fun here.

Yeah, there's way too much going on.  My guess is that Toady cranked up a density parameter for development reasons (making it easier to see if the structures were intersecting badly), but hopefully they'll be toned down in the release (or controlled by world gen params).

[Neonivek]

Dang Toady, cities are REALLY starting to get epic.

[Mel_Vixen]

Well I know atleast one city there the underground looks like this but that would be a modern example.

 The thing is we cant judge relay if the thing looks right or not without knowing how the city above looks like. I would even go so far to say that many, atleast 50%, of this structures are just -1 Z cellars under the richer parts of a big trading city.

The maps btw. seem to be 2x3 embarktiles if anyone is wodering.

[Asmageddon]

As far as I know there will(or might be) magic in the future, so concerning magic towers(and all other kinds of towers), will we get something more than big stone bricks? For example tower and walls being random regular polygons made of random material, with hidden artifacts, etc.?

[Vorthon]

As far as I know there will(or might be) magic in the future, so concerning magic towers(and all other kinds of towers), will we get something more than big stone bricks? For example tower and walls being random regular polygons made of random material, with hidden artifacts, etc.?

Now I want to see a tower made entirely out of elf bones...

[Asmageddon]

As far as I know there will(or might be) magic in the future, so concerning magic towers(and all other kinds of towers), will we get something more than big stone bricks? For example tower and walls being random regular polygons made of random material, with hidden artifacts, etc.?

Now I want to see a tower made entirely out of elf bones...

Ah, just wait for adventure mode building and larger elf populations :>

[Miko19]

When the hunger system revamp is planned to be worked upon, so we can finally eat all those elves and other sapients we kill in adventure, or even fortress, mode?

[thvaz]

These underground features will have coffins, doors, statues, small bridges over the sewer channels, or they will be bare for now? And the houses in the city? There will be furniture?

I think they look great. I hope they intersect with the caverns and with house basements. And maybe the sewer water should have another color. I like how the underground interact well with the river on the second picture.

In the cities there will be haunted houses

Cool! I can't wait.
 

[Asmageddon]

I hope they intersect with the caverns and with house basements.

I hope not. Perhaps only sewers and only with certain houses.

[Ethicalfive]

Does anybody else find the new dungeon/sewer/catacomb maps a little excessively chaotic? I just can't imagine any real person designing or building anything with that shape. They kind of remind me of those experiments where they give spiders drugs and see how messed up their webs are as a result.

I mean, I like where this is going, but it looks to me like a little more navigability and geometric regularity would be somewhat more realistic and fun here.

Pretty sure that drugs+spiders making funky webs video is a comedy sketch/propaganda and not actually a real experiment..

I hope the rare catacomb will extend down to the first cavern layer, some more structured, while others more random, sort of how castles can take on several design shapes. To spice up variety between cities.

I hope they intersect with the caverns and with house basements.

I hope not. Perhaps only sewers and only with certain houses.

Looks to me like there are basements in those maps..

[Serrational]

And maybe the sewer water should have another color. 

Maybe plumbing will happen.
Just a thought.
Might have a need.
Might not....

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Better hope Plump Helmets are high in fibre...

[Quatch]

Pretty sure that drugs+spiders making funky webs video is a comedy sketch/propaganda and not actually a real experiment..

Too lazy to find the LSD one, but here is a similar one with a different toxin: http://www.springerlink.com/content/ut03846286p47737/

[devek]

Yay, with vampires we can finally have an emo fortress!

I would cut my wrist with joy, but I'm immortal and it doesn't matter either way.