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Xelanthol

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Personal Items?
« on: March 25, 2011, 11:37:21 pm »

I did a brief forum search and didn't find anything specifically-so don't get angry at me if there is another thread.

But yeah, personal items for our dwarfs would be interesting. Some kind of building where you could "bring goods to station" (not quite a ship right) and you could bring things like crafts, scepters, goblets etc. You could dish out items to dwarfs and they would carry things on them like rings, earrings, and these would generate happy thoughts based on the quality. You could also assign items, like an artifact crown to a baron to make them super happy.

Kids playing with toys could influence the level of their skills when they reach adulthood, or generate I happy thought for the parents.

On an off note-I wish instruments could be used for like a band-dwarfs would have a skill using instruments-and would generate happiness for nearby dwarfs based on skill of the performer x quality of the instrument.
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Re: Personal Items?
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2011, 12:00:15 am »

They used to have shops and bought personal items, back when the economy was in the game, but when the economy was taken out, so was this. 

Toady almost certainly plans to put it back in at some point when the economy starts to function again during the next few Caravan releases.

As for children playing with toys and people using instruments, he's also planning on bringing those things in, probably with taverns.

After all, it seems kind of silly for Toady to have made a "musicality" attribute that isn't used in any skills if he wasn't planning on introducing some music-related skills somewhere down the road...
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Xelanthol

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Re: Personal Items?
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2011, 12:16:32 am »

Lol all very true, I suppose i'm just awaiting features in that case. Seems like all my dreams are accounted for...

Can't wait!
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