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[freeformschooler]

What makes you think I know anything? All I'm doing is extrapolating from the stuff Toady told us - that the necromancers write about stuff they know, and that a book about a converted spouse gets 30 pages while one about a direct apprentice who also happened to be a queen gets almost ten times that much.

When you use words like "is quite certainly" instead of "is probably" and "is very likely", you're generally stating something as fact. Any reasonable person would deduce from a statement stated as fact that the stater knows, or at least believes to know, the truth behind the fact they state. Just so you know. For an example of a fact: the aforementioned rule most certainly applies to extrapolation in most circumstances.

I've got another question.

To what extent are we going to see randomly generated interactions/variations on interactions in this release? I know we've got, for example, some flexibility on vampires based on past FotF posts.

[Lord Shonus]

Regarding books:

Are all books currently unique, or can there be copies? For example, if one entity writes a biography of the dwarven king, then several others do the same, would those that had access to the original biography copy it, or write their own. If the former, how would this be represented in-game?

[Askot Bokbondeler]

is there a short term plan to integrate books in fortress mode?

i'm picturing dwarves highly proficient in certain subjects writing books other dwarves could read on their break times to level up both student skill and the respective skill. also, martial arts manuals.
EDIT:and any short term plans for libraries outside of necromancer towers?

[Dsarker]

is there a short term plan to integrate books in fortress mode?

i'm picturing dwarves highly proficient in certain subjects writing books other dwarves could read on their break times to level up both student skill and the respective skill. also, martial arts manuals.
EDIT:and any short term plans for libraries outside of necromancer towers?

Hmmmm... I'm just imagining a book for the student skill....

[Askot Bokbondeler]

perfectly reasonable, there are such books IRL

[Greiger]

While I have never taken the class myself there is apperantly a class at my college that focuses on teaching learning methods and how to get the most out of class time.  It has a textbook.

Ninjas.

[monk12]

One more zombie invasion thing to do -- something fun.

Oooh, intriguing. Allow me to begin the wild mass guessing- I bet it's some kind of special siege zombie, or perhaps zombie mounts.

[piecewise]

I vote for spending a little more time on books, because they're awesome.

[Neonivek]

I vote for spending a little more time on books, because they're awesome.

Ohh yeah NOW I know you... Too bad there is little I can remedy about it

I am very vague sometimes.

[piecewise]

I vote for spending a little more time on books, because they're awesome.

Ohh yeah NOW I know you... Too bad there is little I can remedy about it

I am very vague sometimes.

Very vague indeed.

[thvaz]

I vote for spending a little more time on books, because they're awesome.

They are awesome, but I vote for them to be worked later, in a proper way. The lack of releases is already hurting Toady's income.

[Cruxador]

I can't help but feel that to some extent, the tying of the creation of monsters, apprentices, and books to previously extant historical figures is decreasing the verisimilitude of world gen. Because of how few world gen figures there are (and can be due to computational costs), it is inevitable that every possible dwarf fortress world gen event will happen to a world gen figure; it will be bizarre reading histories where every world gen figure is a leader or noble or one kind or another who had wrote a book, discovered immortality, and then became a monster.

I don't feel that the computational load of worldgen stuff should be considered too heavily. Even if worldgen's computation cost were massively huge, it's not that big of a deal because we can just let the world generate on one core while doing other things on a different core.

[eux0r]

is there a short term plan to integrate books in fortress mode?

i'm picturing dwarves highly proficient in certain subjects writing books other dwarves could read on their break times to level up both student skill and the respective skill. also, martial arts manuals.
EDIT:and any short term plans for libraries outside of necromancer towers?

im interested in those questions too.
on another note: martial arts manuals are useless irl, so i doubt it would make sense implementing those(well, they could be there, but without the effect of actually learning any combat skills)

[Askot Bokbondeler]

by martial arts i meant books on swordplay, archery, etc. those are martial arts too

[Rose]

what about marital arts?