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jei

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Butchering babies
« on: October 11, 2010, 11:12:07 pm »

How about an option to butcher the babies or at least forcing abortions at the hospital?
I've got 200+ dorfs and they won't stop breeding.. A while back I had 35 children alone.

I wouldn't mind if they got bad feelings for it.
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Re: Butchering babies
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2010, 01:07:24 am »

There is an init file field that exists for the specific purpose of controlling dwarf breeding.
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Re: Butchering babies
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2010, 10:51:41 am »

How about an option to butcher the babies or at least forcing abortions at the hospital?
I've got 200+ dorfs and they won't stop breeding.. A while back I had 35 children alone.

I wouldn't mind if they got bad feelings for it.

Well, if you don't mind if they get a negative thought then you could just use the lava, water, and lever operated traps already availale in the game.
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Re: Butchering babies
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2010, 12:57:27 pm »

Yup, init changes or a danger room would do it.

Plus, I think dwarves might be Pro-Life.
Especially the ones you've got.
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Re: Butchering babies
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2010, 01:21:03 pm »

I know that murder is technically unethical to Dwarves, but I think it would be a good idea to allow the player to force his or her Dwarves to do unethical things, at a cost. Killing babies, taking slaves and other things should be possible but strongly discouraged, instead of plainly forbidden. It makes no sense to make it impossible if it's only unethical but physically possible.
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Re: Butchering babies
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2010, 04:30:42 pm »

Players engaging in character derailment is not a concern to design a game around.
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Re: Butchering babies
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2010, 03:30:08 am »

Like people have said, go to the inits. There's a little thing there which stops people from having more children than you specify. Also, putting in a baby killing option when there are so many already is pointless.
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