Hi Everybody!
So last night I downloaded .09 and messed around with a fortress before .10 was up. I actually thought the animals hostility bug was hilarious. So I'm going to do a story/community game to take advantage of it.
I'm using
MixMod 31.09 v0.4 for variety of pets. There are hundreds of extra creatures here. I've gone through the raws and replaced every [PET_EXOTIC] with [PET]. I'm going to add [TRAINABLE] to animals whenever I feel like it, if I think for a moment it might be funny to have War Zebras, I'll make the change. You know what? I just did that.
There are
49 civilizations in the world right now. I'll be at peace with or hostile toward with a random but large number of each depending on the civilization you choose for me. Since I genned the world after making everything [PET]s, traders should bring all sorts of random animals in cages. I'm going to buy them all.
I hereby pledge to never have a military. I shall have a few Animal Trainers, surrounded by pets, who have perhaps studied wrestling and might wear leather armor (from butchered pets of course). They will be in the military for stationing purposes, but the fighting will be done almost entirely by our furry friends.
I will attempt to keep a breeding pair of each animal locked up (not caged, just chained), so that I can always repopulate. Maybe I'll nickname the head beastmaster Noah, who knows.
If I can dig, caverns will eventually be breached, I need to get more animals.
Cage traps will be the only non-animal defense. Non-pets captured in cages will get to fight the war zebras of course.
I shall embark with a breeding pair of every animal the game allows me to. If this means no skills and no items, so be it. I'll bring at least a digging implement and an axe though.
With so many caravans coming and going, and so many potential sieges, it is going to be unlikely I don't wipe out a few caravans while slowly chewing siegers to death. C'est la vie.
The embark will be a 2x2, since this will be an FPS nightmare, but I'm going to look around for one with 4 different biomes. I genned a giant region, there is a lot of space. I will maximize how many civilizations can reach the site. But I'm open to specific biome suggestions. Also, vote for what race I should be! I'm indecisive.
Good idea? Terrible Idea? Best of both?
Also, I'll dwarf/wizard/robot/kobold/drow/minotaur/otherdwarfthingy/vault_dweller anyone who wants it.