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I'm not doubting OPīs intentions or his father's, but Toady already stated so many times, this is their project(Tarn and Zach's project). They won't accept outside help.
Really, I fear someday Toady will just give up on explaining so much why he won't share his code, and then abandon the game.
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Originally posted by John Johnston:
<STRONG>I usually find kobold thieves tend to bring the fortress their own clothes and weapons. I like the idea but they'd need to have a very good chance of escaping with their lives intact! Otherwise one dead kobold thief = another dozen items to pick up.What I'd like to see would be weather affecting items left outside. Left all those iron items outside in the rain? They're rusted up to uselessness and disappear after a season. All those narrow wombat leather leggings? Rotten away after a season... something along those lines.</STRONG>
Kobold thieves drop few itens when killed. I think they carry just a copper dagger and a loincloth.
They already steal itens outside somewhat - I suggest that they appear just after the siege, in large numbers. If they could carry more than one item at once(if everybody could 
) it would be even better.
I like your idea of weather destroying itens. Maybe after a year all the clothes would disappear - I think this is realistic enough. Leather would disappear in two years, maybe, but metal should last a long time.
Historically, great battles atracted scavengers, who would sold the loot as scrap metal. Sieges, and maybe ambushes, should atracted some nuisance type creatures, like kobold thieves, just as caravans do. They would steal most of these itens in a period of time, therefore if the player want the itens he should deal with them to avoid the steraling.
These itens should be damaged too, but I think this is already planned to be introduced sometime in the future.
[ February 15, 2008: Message edited by: thvaz ]
I was thinking however not only for graveyards in fortress mode, but for those in npc cities as well.
We already can bury our dwarves in fortress mode, but there isn't another place in the game where you can found cemeteries.
After the last release, people die in world generation, and with the next release, even more people will die, so I think Toady should consider the building of cemeteries in the towns (or near them, in a place where undead are a fact people wouldn't want their dead so close) where inhabitants who died would be buried. You could read the tombs and know who was buried there, or even the cause of death, and this would add up on legends mode.
Further, the sites could be expanded, as in family tombs, rulers mausoleuns, tomb robbers, undeads and so on.
