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Truean

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Ideas for sponsorship drives.
« on: March 28, 2011, 11:19:26 am »
We all know the animal sponsorship drive was a huge success. Toady got the cash he needs to keep doing this and we got game features (animals) we want.

Is this a model we can continue? What other things could we hold a sponsorship drive for?
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Re: Ideas for sponsorship drives.
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2011, 11:31:40 am »
UI. :-)
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Re: Ideas for sponsorship drives.
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2011, 12:17:40 pm »
Plants would be the next obvious thing after animals

Metals/minerals would also be a possibility

Other possibilities:

Weapons
(Semi-)Megabeasts
Furniture
Tools and Items
Expanded Modding Possibilities/Options (new tokens, etc)
Expanded Language 'Symbols' (and words) (see the language_SYM file if you don't know what this means)
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Re: Ideas for sponsorship drives.
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2011, 12:36:21 pm »
Quote from: Bohandas on March 28, 2011, 12:17:40 pm
Plants would be the next obvious thing after animals

Metals/minerals would also be a possibility

Other possibilities:

Weapons
(Semi-)Megabeasts
Furniture
Tools and Items
Expanded Modding Possibilities/Options (new tokens, etc)
Expanded Language 'Symbols' (and words) (see the language_SYM file if you don't know what this means)
Religious Spheres

Actually I think that about covers a good chunk of it....
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Re: Ideas for sponsorship drives.
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2011, 09:10:34 pm »
I'd pay some good money for some good UI work. Meaning we have the OPTION to get more in depth if we want to. For example, metal-smith stud with silver-finished goods. We can just hit enter there OR go alt-A and bring up an advanced menu, now we can stud only copper crowns, or granite scepters, things like that.

Also, I wish the stocks screen was managed like the way manage jobs are done. Want to see how many iron breastplates you have? Type Iron Breastplate and it will bring you to there on the stocks page. Dwarf Fortress is absolutely fantastic, I just want more customization/less cumbersome management of my lovely industry.
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Re: Ideas for sponsorship drives.
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2011, 09:44:58 pm »
Toady could get really meta and do a sponsorship-drive-theme sponsorship-drive
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« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2011, 11:51:14 pm »
Plants right now are too basic to even merit a sponsorship drive. I think that a megabeast drive or a weapon drive would probably be a good one to do.

A UI drive would never be done, since overhauling the UI is more than just adding some RAWs, it's a whole new arc.
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Re: Ideas for sponsorship drives.
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2011, 07:58:16 am »
Quote from: sockless on March 28, 2011, 11:51:14 pm
Plants right now are too basic to even merit a sponsorship drive. I think that a megabeast drive or a weapon drive would probably be a good one to do.

A UI drive would never be done, since overhauling the UI is more than just adding some RAWs, it's a whole new arc.

Makes sense, wasn't sure how in depth these are
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