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Damn you smjjames!

Quote from: Spehss _ on December 08, 2014, 07:09:23 pm

Did Toady say anything on the subject or did he just purge the thread in silence? Curious as to his response to his game being used to do...stuff like that. I know it was a mod, but the engine is DF, and Toady made DF.

Quote from: Toady One on December 08, 2014, 03:28:23 pm

Quote from: Gnorm on December 08, 2014, 02:13:46 am

Smeeprocket, I must extend my dearest thanks to you for putting together this project. I have no doubt that it will offer me an endless source of fun.

I removed the thread created by Gnorm as concerns the quote above.  Gnorm has also been removed.

I have to say, this is a really good response. "Gnorm has also been removed."

See link in Smeeprocket's sig.

Imagine the worst possible thing you can do in such a mod.

That happened.

The worst?
I think you underestimate our imagination. 

Can somebody PM what happened with that mod? I tryed to open the link earlier but didn't have time to read it now I can't open it anymore

Me too, I can guess what it was but I'd like to be sure before I say anything more.

I haven't been to /pol/ in a year or so, besides few times someone's linked me to a relevant thread. Most of the actually intresting stuff has moved to different boards so all that's left was what miauw said, half of the people pretending to be neonazis (or black/slav/asian/martian/whatever master race) and the other half thinking they found their place. Good for comedy and parody but mostly just meh.

I come to Happy thread and the first thing I see is penis symbolism.

IMMINENT TOADY

Everything is penis symbolism. Everything.

Racism and ebola, USA and South Africa...

Quote from: Objective on December 06, 2014, 08:45:37 pm

I haven't seen enough hentai, but it's not hard to know where this is going.

Nobody has ever seen enough hentai.

I've seen enough hentai.
No, really, I'm done. I'll never /d/ again...
We all know this decision isn't going to last.

Yeah, we need more games that allow that. It might be hard to balance but it would add to replayability a lot. One thing I've wanted to see in game for a long time has been RTS game set in middle-ages +/- few hundred years where instead of given unit list you design your own units, equipment and training (read: stats and abilities) and all against adapting AI that does the same. Best I ever saw in Fallen Enchantress was enemy dropping all armor from their units to get rid of initiative (how often unit acts in combat) penalty when I overused trait that gave me attack bonus against enemies with lower initiative. It's a nice trick, but far from challenging AI.
Designing units doesn't have to be limited to just front line troops either. If your normal builder units could be modified in the same way you could build sort of "combat engineer" type of units that wouldn't need other units to protect them, they could build fortifications and man them right away themselves. And all the other type of units that are done away from modern games? Siege weapons like catapults and ballista fall apart when you rain arrows on them and kill their crew, but what if they were left behind, waiting for another crew trained in using them? Viking style raiding ships, anyone? Capturing enemy equipment would be possible to use as game mechanic, having Dominions style moral as a stat so that units who are not trained to stay and fight would break and flee when people start to die around them, leaving behind what they were using...
So many things could be done. But it's not gonna happen. Focusing on gameplay depth in this age, who does games like that?