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[Nidokoenig]

It seems to have quite a few little slips like that. Having it append unused ones at the bottom would be great. Perhaps set it to remove the square brackets on untranslated words so they're parsed as notes by DF?

By the way, Badger Mod is live. Currently only includes giant variations, I'll add pony/zebra/etc versions when I roll it into the next version of this mod.

[Tecknojock]

allright, languages have been appended with the untranslated words. All of the language files will need to be redownloaded as I noticed equine was also missing some.

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=862bf2423ae41ca6&id=862BF2423AE41CA6%21352

I'll be working further on what you asked me to do now. You can see my progress at:
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=862bf2423ae41ca6&id=862BF2423AE41CA6%21352#cid=862BF2423AE41CA6&id=862BF2423AE41CA6%21357

Check tasklist.txt to see what I've completed/have yet to do.

[Nidokoenig]

Excellent. One thing I'll mention, the files with your creature variations need to loaded after any files with the creatures they draw data from. This is because the files are loaded in alphabetical order, and the creatures loaded in order from top to bottom. That's why i put "zzz" in the second creature variation file, to kick it down to the bottom just to be sure. It creates a somewhat vague "order is important!" error in the errorlog if the game tries to load them out of order, so I just thought I'd mention it. I'll look over the rest later.

[Sorcerer]

Heyo everypony, long time no see!

I return after like half a year of absence to bring you a possible solution to an important thing that has eluded us up to this point.

Cutie marks!

This builds on the previously mentioned "hack" of using the color system, and i guess some ponies will inevitably love the color "two birds over a silver star" but that's something im willing to accept for something as VITAL as the cutie marks.

Thanks to the magic of python, i was able to jot down a quick random cutie mark generator and a caste cloner which will, in essence, remove all the problems with lots of ponies having more or less the same marks.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3677116/DF/MLP/creature_pony.txt With cutie mark added
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3677116/DF/MLP/creature_ponycloned.txt With cutie mark added and all castes duplicated tenfold. (don't recommend this for adventure mode as it REALLY spams things up)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3677116/DF/MLP/descriptor_color_cutiemark.txt all the randomly generated cutiemarks! this file is required for the above files to work

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3677116/DF/MLP/PonyClony.py (requires python 2.7) without editing the python file this will take creature_pony.txt and output creature_ponycloned.txt
Remember to not put both in your raw directory!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3677116/DF/MLP/cmgen.py (requires python 2.7) messy as hell python program to randomly generate a bunch of cutie marks as "colors" (see descriptor_color_cutiemark.txt) and the list of colors for the appearance tab, doesn't output a file, you need to copy the text from your python window. Completely undocumented!

I recommend keeping your original creature_pony.txt and do any and all edits to that before using PonyClony.py to multiply the castes as otherwise you would have to do the edit ten times over.

This will also have the additional benefit of making coat and hair colors more diverse! Huzzah! The awesomeness has been DOUBLED!

[Telgin]

This will also have the additional benefit of making coat and hair colors more diverse! Huzzah! The awesomeness has been DOUBLED!

Awesome, it's worth it for this alone.  I really wish there was a better solution for this, but until then this is a nice hack to get around the issue.

Now if only there was a way to relate cutie marks to actual skills.  But then what happens if a pony learns a new skill?  Guess that's something even the cartoon hasn't adequately addressed.

[Tecknojock]

Well, if you want to do that, you just separate the casts so that all related cutie marks are in one caste, and then set skill_learn_rate to a higher value.

[Clover Magic]

I'm not entirely sure what "flowing moveponiest" are, but this pony likes them.

lolwut.

[Malt_Hitman]

It's a prefstring from the file creature_zzz_pony_animal_vanilla.txt, for [CREATURE:ELEMENTPONY_MAGMA].   Line 467 on my version.

[PREFSTRING:flowing moveponiest]

I think it's supposed to say "flowing movement" or something similar.

[Clover Magic]

I know that.  I just think it's hilarious, since moveponiest makes no sense whatsoever. 

[Sorcerer]

magma ponies have the poniest of moves!

[BigFatStupidHead]

Sounds like a case of indescriminant "[replace all] men -> ponies". Heh.

[Maklak]

Cloning multiple castes ten times over seems excessive. Why not generate thousands of patterns for cutie marks instead? Well, some cutie marks are going to be repeated anyway. For 200 ponies you'd need 200^2 = 40k or more cutie marks to make them unique with 0.5 probability. That said, congratulations on introducing them.

If BODY_SIZE 250000 is in kgs, then that is too much for a pony that has 1m head height. 100 kg is more like it, and probably still too much. 8 foot candy cane comparison

I was surprised by all these tentacled and spider ponies. I expected only the regular variants from the show, and maybe seaponies or flutterponies.

Is there going to be an updated version of this mod with languages, cutie marks, graphic packs, and all anytime soon? Or at least a general table of links with what to download and install?

[Pokon]

Well, we now have a new monster to add. Freaky, too.

[Sorcerer]

The caste multiplication is to counter a bug with the caste system, with only four castes in two genders there will only ever be eight different cutie marks.
For example ALL earth pony males will have the same hair and coat color, and the same cutie mark.
Well, that's not completely true, as genetic drift is implemented, and will sometimes make offspring with a different set of haircolor.

Once the new version is out and all migrants will be historical figures instead generated on the spot, this problem may be averted, but as of now, caste multiplication seems to be the only way

[Zarhon]

The new creature / monster / villian of the episode is a Ahuizotl apparently.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wikipedia: Ahuizotl