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v-p, work animals.

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Ah, sorry probably not accessible if dwarves are already out on a mission.

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Ha. Seems that doesn't do what I thought it did. Was sure it just listed the assigned animal. Never mind then.

Quote from: Shonai_Dweller on February 07, 2021, 01:58:59 am

Quote from: Nilsolm on February 06, 2021, 02:25:05 pm

Did they get less common at least?

It seems to be the case, but I've only played one fort in a world with a short history and not many necromancers, so it may not have been representative.

Only one so far in three years (with a lot of other visitors). Seems more reasonable than previously. We'll see though.

Mercs seem to be still missing in action though.

Too many bugged bandits, set the percentile banditry to 0 in entity_default.txt and mercs will occupy the fortification buildings in their stead from the start of wg. when they appear coupled with that bandits can't have conquered_site units which a quick whisk in fortress mode confirms directly as well as w.g observations. Give me a shout if it is still present in 47.05 but i project there would be no change based on the outcome or patch notes.

This leads to the tithes civilizations pay to dedicating bandits to station these less than 10 people forts, to be unable to fall in wg outside of a megabeast/necro routing and vacate for other users. This is taking on board that the change from 44. where mercenaries were a spontaenous adventurer profession being tied now to the mercenary type site needs to ensure that the locality and accessibility (for them to visit your fort to offer services) is visible to players.

Conquering the site to "solve the problem" in fortress mode wont help, since they can't have a secondary use as a site (like kobold caves expanded infrastructure for living) or specific sub-let function to allow other groups friendly to your cause to enter -just somewhere to offload dwarves.

Well, we're seven years into the new embark. Playing a world with no banditry. I've had 5 mercenaries so far (and hundreds of everything else). They started turning up after the fort got a reputation for danger (migrant wave met an invading army) and I think it's that, rather than any reduction of banditry, which is the key point. Even so, 5 is pretty poor. Enough to make a merc squad, just hope no-one dies (yeah, I know I can recruit the poets in the library...)

Gonna retire this fort soon, then try a a new fort with regular amounts of banditry and see if I can coax some mercs in.

I think it should depend from the universe and, as told by other, the spheres (someone old would be less inducated for youth-related magic); in other cases, being old should make the spell-caster more powerful.

Maybe that, in some universes, magic would be a fixed amount each sentient being would have, meaning that those who use the most magic would become Muggles at a young age. Maube such amounts might be vastly different, to simulate the existence of major magicians.

Well, yes, it's a given that any magic suggestions are part of the many options available when Mythgen generates magic.

You can also lower the siege pop triggers to 2 (50) or 1 (20) in the entity_defaults.txt file if you want sieges in a low pop fortress.

Yes, and guess which piece of vital information everyone forgets to tell new people when they suggest they cap the population to help with micromanagement...

Note that most of the time when people think they've experienced FPS death too early, they actually haven't (unless playing on really old/failing hardware). There are a lot of pathing bugs which can suddenly kill your frame rate. Get rid of the factors causing the framerate drop (moody dwarf stuck in tree, pastured dog trying to join a raid, pet trying to path through a locked door, etc) and framerate goes back to normal.

My current fort is 6 years in, it's slower than it might be, but still chugging along playably. 147 dwarves (yeah, 20 more turned up despite the danger), a ton of visitors and a puppy-splosion going on. Gotta fix that. Bunny-splosion on the way if I'm not careful too. Eat more, dwarves!!

(The other case is when people obsess over the FPS number because LNP turns on the fps monitor by default. Kill that. Play until it actually is unplayable.)

What exactly do we mean by "culture" here anyway?
War, destroyed sites, new sites, reclaimed sites, kidnapping, revolution all happens in the background, yes. None of that is "culture" is it?

I'm just wondering this because I'd generated a world with a very short history, which didn't give the civilizations time to develop their own cultures. As a result, they're all pretty much carbon-copies of each other.
Also, what determines a civilization's culture in the first place? Is it just the average 'values' of its population or what?

Culture is due to be more fully implemented in the arc after Mythgen. Right now it's based mainly in values (of which human civs differ from each other but other races are mostly the same from civ to civ). In addition the leader of the civ has some influence on how aggressive they are. Especially if they're a vampire.

Quote from: Shonai_Dweller on March 01, 2021, 04:49:45 pm

Quote from: DogsRNice on March 01, 2021, 04:39:51 pm

Will there ever be different reactions to certain events and things based on personality quirks? for example most dwarves are horrified by ghosts but some might be fascinated/excited by them and react accordingly or dwarves having phobias of things such as types of vermin

Maybe ghosts is the exception, but most events do give different reactions based on personality. It's more noticeable if you mod dwarves to have more extreme ranges of personality of course.

And dwarves have phobias, I think any vermin are possible sources, it's in their descriptions. Leads to their "friends" drawing pictures of them screaming while surrounded by spiders and so on...

probably should have mentioned the hateable stuff part in my post
i meant more of a fear like id definitely not make art of my phobias personally

Neither do dwarves. People who don't like them make fun of them by depicting them surrounded by their feared vermin type.