Bay 12 Games Forum

To what extent can syndromes and interactions alter the personality of a creature in DF? I've been thinking of the idea of various boozes and the like that slowly change the personality of the drinker, spirits in particular domains that float around spreading good/bad personality traits around. Is that sort of stuff possible? I know you can transform a dwarf into another creature or give tags, I just don't know if there's a tag that could directly force a personality trait on a creature. Can you directly modify personality Facets and Beliefs via Syndromes or Interactions? Lots of people having problem with breeding dwarves so I thought it might be interesting for certain "delicacies" to be temporary aphrodisiacs that increase the LUST personality facet for a time, that sort of thing.

This dwarf apparently has an irrational fear of oysters that he felt he needed to engrave the mayor's room with either a nightmare or a terrible childhood trauma:

I noticed that my sleepers in certain places never seem to give me any juicy goods when they are snooping around for things unless they get them from the traditional sources of juicy items (ie. Police Records, CEO Photos, and so on) Are there not any specific documents for sleepers to steal in certain places?

I was thinking it would be nice to have some kind of tactics for use in combat. Nothing fancy but rather a simple way to issue a general order to a squad to choose their targets. Basically you have a random style, a focus fire, and equalizing square-off tactics. That is, the first strategy does what the game appears to do now and attack any available target. The second forces your squad to target a single random enemy until it is defeated. The final one forces your squad to target 1 attack to each target in succession, repeating once each target is attacked.

The principle is to allow you to wound each enemy in hopes that they will miss their next attack.

Additionally, it would be nice if while a unit used martial arts they could randomly disarm a target, dropping their weapon to the ground as loot. Squad members can be disarmed too, forcing them to draw a new weapon or use their own martial arts skill. I did notice that proficient martial artists do different moves now, it seems as if a skilled martial artist could perform some disarming maneuvers as well.

For some reason my founder seems to suffer grievous wounds consistently. He's currently a Liberal Guardian with these stats: HRT: 17 INT: 10 HLT: 14 AGI: 12 STR: 12 CHA: 22

He's wearing a security uniform. However, one single shot from a security guard's .22 will make him badly wounded. A similar wound on a lower ranked lackey with a health of 9 deals a mere light wound. I've even seen them take shotgun shots to the leg and so on. I don't know if this is a bug or not, though. I'll try equipping him with army body armor and try again.

It would be nice if matgloss indices could be given symbol descriptors that determine how that material is regarded in general with regard to the culture. Certain minerals could be given symbolic meaning in their matgloss files that would indicate how a civ regards them. For example, alabaster could be regarded as a LIGHT mineral while jet and other dark rocks could be DARKNESS symbols. This would indicate that civ's willingness to make items out of that particular material because it is symbolic of their civilization. Currently symbols are used in determining how items, people, and places are named by a culture but it doesn't determine how they regard particular materials.

Specific materials could be given significance also in how they are traded. Cultures that cull UNHOLY and VIOLENT symbolic materials would pay less or refuse to trade goods of that material. Conversely, they would pay more for materials of a type that is favored by their culture's symbolism. A culture that worshipped fire would pay more for goods made with materials that symbolized fire.

I suggest a simple token added to materials that would signify their symbolic qualities. This token could be added to all materials including animals and plants. [SYMBOLIC:<symbol] would assign symbolism to a particular mineral, wood, metal, animal, or plant.

Currently webs can only be gathered when moving into the square containing them. This presents a conundrum in that the only webs that can be gathered from a giant cave spider are the ones that are terrestrial. The webs from the giant web that goes over a bottomless pit are impossible to gather because you have to construct floors or bridges over them to get there to gather them but doing so simply destroys the web. Would it be possible to make it so that units can gather silk from an adjacent square?

Alternatively, could you make it so constructing over a webbed square does not destroy the web in question?  Thanks

Would it be possible to add a section in the workshop profile to designate whether or not the workshop will accept orders from the manager? It's bothersome that some orders get placed in workshops that are set aside for particular tasks.

For example, I have a magma forge for metal crafters. However, I put in a work order for steel arrows and that forge gets filled with 10 orders for arrows that will never be fufilled because I have it assigned to a metalcrafter without the weaponsmithing task enabled.

Perhaps something could be added to limit what types of tasks will be queued through the manager at a given workshop.