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[King_of_the_weasels]

I would like to see the Hauling Arc come after the Caravan Arc.  Goddess knows that far too much space and time is dedicated to hauling...but hey, if future Drives are dedicated to other things, like Content, here is what I want to see:

MEGABEASTS

Phoenix
a flaming cockatoo.  Most likely avian candidate to make the Roc into a Semi-Megabeast, considering that a Phoenix is on fire, has the ability to be reborn, and is likely to be just as large.  Probably fairly easy to implement, since it is just resetting this particular beast back into egg form or perhaps having it become a chick again in a blaze of glory.  Either way, this bird is probably the oldest Megabeast in existence, if it were born in the first place.

What? No.  I've never heard of a giant phoenix.  Phoenixes are like the size of an eagle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology) 

[Sabin Stargem]

In most of the videos and comics I have watched, they are often depicted to be much larger than Eagles.  However, I did alter my descriptions of the creatures I listed in my post, to be more sensible and appealing in my opinion, derived from what I read on Wikipedia, D&D, Tezuka, Pokemon, and my muddled memory of mythology.   Reconsidering the size of the bird, I guess it would make sense that it would be smaller than a Roc, since that beast's most defining trait is sheer size, considering that it has no other special abilities of note.

[RabidAnubis]

The megabeast one wouldn't be that bad actually.  It would take about as much work as the regular animals, correct?

[King_of_the_weasels]

I think dumbledore's phoenix in the movies is a good example of a decent sized phoenix, As long as a human can't ride it in any sense, flying or chocobo style, then I'm fine with it's size.

[Marshall Burns]

Quick quibble: it's the catoblepas's gaze that turns people to stone. Fortunately, its head is so heavy and its neck so weak that it can barely gaze at anyone. It's definitely one of the weirdest creatures of myth (enough so that I was stunned to discover that it does come from myth, not the wonderfully warped imaginations of Gygax and Arneson as I once thought -- along with the leucrotta and a few of the other so-bizarre-I-could've-sworn-they-were-making-it-up entries in the Monster Manual).

[Nivim]

 Hm, if I was capable of getting money to Toady, I would certainly vote for gaze attacks. It's always entertained me to imagine the complete and sudden ridiculousness of someone turning to stone because they looked at something that ugly. Almost as though the vision is just so horrible that they really have no other reasonable choice. Now I'm remembering the eye case I fantasized about so often so long ago and giggling constantly.
 Of course, doing that option right would require quite a bit more coding and time than bees did, as it's an attack that needs to check for target vision (organs, direction, eye-contact, chance-of-successful aversion), ~kill the target, and replace the target's normal corpse with a (possibly already 'built') statue of the target (then check if it falls to the ground and breaks). The special masterwork statues would be the best part of the feature, especially in Fortress Mode.

 I'd expect adult phoenixes would be the size of the average funeral pyre, and worthy of fear and awe at their incineration and rebirth powers. It would be neat to have one come to your fort, wipe out all but a few of your dwarves, and then when you think it's over, a chick appears to finish the roasting.

[IT 000]

Of course first we would have to figure out how to make the dwarf turn into a statue of himself. We can't even get Iron Men to leave a statue of an iron man yet.

Shields should also reflect back sight attacks based on the shield skill. Thus making stone gazing creatures defeatable.

We could then have a Medusa megabeast as well, harder then a basilisk because of it's ability to equip and larger size.

Then a nifty adventurer aesthetic would be, when a stone turning beast destroys a town, every person turns into a built statue.

+2 on the megabeast drive

[Marshall Burns]

Shields should also reflect back sight attacks based on the shield skill. Thus making stone gazing creatures defeatable.

Or it would be cool if you could blindfold yourself like in NetHack.

[IT 000]

NetHack, I remember that game! Stupid leprechauns always takin' my stuff.

I suppose it would be a nifty thing in Adventurer mode, in Dwarf mode it would have to be some sort of armor you could assign to dwarves if one of these badies ever showed up.

[Starver]

i would prefer the vehicle arc to be next if anything [...]

Then we can have a vehicle drive.

(Had to be said.  Well, maybe it didn't.)

[snelg]

Feature drive? Wouldn't new suggestions and all that go into the suggestion voting rather than having drives for all kinds of stuff?

[Sabin Stargem]

Feature Drive - Vote with your dollars, it is the influential way.  Pays for Toady's bills too.

[Starver]

Feature Drive - Vote with your dollars, it is the influential way.  Pays for Toady's bills too.

I've got a boat(murdered)load of microcline crafts here, would they help?

[Ullallulloo]

Or maybe a bugfix drive for those people that really want the dungeon master back?

[Rainseeker]

Given the success of said animal drive, there WILL be another drive, but that has yet to be determined.  Whatever we do needs to be the following:

1. Not a big game changer
2. Have a short programming time
3. Not susceptible to sweeping changes in the future.  It would be a bummer for someone to sponsor something that just HAD to go later.
4. Being atmospheric or adding "flavor" to the game is a bonus.


We've kicked around some ideas already, and Toady has THE say, but I personally wouldn't be against megabeasts, or activities such as smoking and other leisure-time activities.  We'll see!