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[Skij]

Hey there peoples on the forum, I was recently wandering my way through a world on my way to explore an HFS'ed fort, when I was accosted by a human bandit leader and a couple of cronies. The leader showed up, announced himself and then promptly died of old age. I was just posting to see if this was a rare occurrence and if other adventurers had encountered this.

[gomwon]

While rare, it has happened.

[RAKninja]

Hey there peoples on the forum, I was recently wandering my way through a world on my way to explore an HFS'ed fort, when I was accosted by a human bandit leader and a couple of cronies. The leader showed up, announced himself and then promptly died of old age. I was just posting to see if this was a rare occurrence and if other adventurers had encountered this.

yep.  funnily enough, the bandit who croaked had just killed my last adventurer.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Somehow, even when people are about to die of old age, they are willing to do strenuous things like walk up stairs, ride to dwarven fortresses, and chop off steel-clad adventurers' heads with an axe the size of your dwarven adventurer's entire body.

[Synthet]

I have a harder understanding of how someone so old and weak is still the leader, or have the ability to stand.

[RAKninja]

I have a harder understanding of how someone so old and weak is still the leader, or have the ability to stand.

to use pro wrestling examples, look at ric flair, or even better, mil mascaras.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I have a harder understanding of how someone so old and weak is still the leader, or have the ability to stand.

Simple. Noone ever challenged him to single combat. As to the not falling over, he probably gave himself a heart attack yelling at you to get off of his lawn. Or bragging about his kills. I suppose those aren't mutually exclusive.

[Neonivek]

As horrible as that leader was... the people under him were worse.

[Karnewarrior]

I have a harder understanding of how someone so old and weak is still the leader, or have the ability to stand.

Simple. Noone ever challenged him to single combat. As to the not falling over, he probably gave himself a heart attack yelling at you to get off of his lawn. Or bragging about his kills. I suppose those aren't mutually exclusive.

I AM OLD OLDENOLD THE OLDER OLD OF OLDENING. I KILLED THE LAST MAN TO STEP ON MY GRASS.

OH, WAIT, HEART ATTACK *ded*

[Urist Da Vinci]

I have a harder understanding of how someone so old and weak is still the leader, or have the ability to stand.

Simple. Noone ever challenged him to single combat. As to the not falling over, he probably gave himself a heart attack yelling at you to get off of his lawn. Or bragging about his kills. I suppose those aren't mutually exclusive.

The effects of aging on the physical body of a creature aren't simulated in DF, yet. Creatures stay at their adult peak physical condition until death. The leader probably died like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGFuHC75aY when his aging caught up with him.

[IT 000]

I have a harder understanding of how someone so old and weak is still the leader, or have the ability to stand.

Simple. Noone ever challenged him to single combat. As to the not falling over, he probably gave himself a heart attack yelling at you to get off of his lawn. Or bragging about his kills. I suppose those aren't mutually exclusive.

The effects of aging on the physical body of a creature aren't simulated in DF, yet. Creatures stay at their adult peak physical condition until death. The leader probably died like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGFuHC75aY when his aging caught up with him.

This gives me an idea, you could mod in another BODY_SIZE that, after 40, the creature 'shrinks' thus making them more frail and less potent in combat.

[Zdrok]

Wait, does the player ever age?  I've never thought about that.

[iyaerP]

Wait, does the player ever age?  I've never thought about that.

Presumably, but I can't think how it could possibly ever be an issue.

[RAKninja]

Wait, does the player ever age?  I've never thought about that.

never had one survive one year, much less 20.

i suppose he will though.  start an adventurer, and look at the physical description.

retire it, and play a good 20 years in fortress mode.  unretire the adventurer, and check the description again.  if you see signs of aging (grey hairs and the like) odds are your adventurer has an expiration date.  unless you're an elf.  elves dont count.