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Quote from: AceSV on July 06, 2015, 04:48:21 am

Quote from: Naryar on July 06, 2015, 03:09:33 am

why the hell does a goldfish woman has boobs ? and why the furry pictures ? ugh

They happened to be on my mind and in my feed, blame the polygamy thread.  But if a DF animal-person has been given thumbs, vocal cords and upright posture, why stop there?  And it's about paintings anyways.  Why wouldn't a dwarf painter paint boobs on things that shouldn't have boobs?

Opposable thumbs or a good grasping part (elephant trunks) are pretty much necessary for any kind of advanced civilization. Tool use and all that. If they don't have grasping parts, then they should just be sentient animals- culture, philosophy, education, yes, but technology ? Nope.

Hell, without grasping parts you don't even get to Paleolithic tech level.

Vocal cords are also a great component of a civilization, sure you can have mute civilizations but language makes it more familiar and easier to interact with.

Upright posture is the next logical step after opposable thumbs. I mean you can be a chimpanzee and have partial bipedy but having a pair of specialized feet and developing a pair of hands frees the hands from movement.

Boobs on a fish, however... what ? I'm fine with them on centaurs and mermaids and stuff that are essentially one part human and another part animal, but ?

(Yeah, I know, fanservice and artistic licence and so on. Still... wat)

Far too many times have I seen, er, mammaries on lizards. I think it makes more sense that Lizards can work in the fast food industry, bear opposable thumbs, and gossip like drunkards than have mammaries. It's biological madness.

Quote from: Arcvasti on July 05, 2015, 05:09:13 pm

Quote from: Laptisen on July 05, 2015, 04:28:35 pm

Quote from: Eric Blank on July 05, 2015, 01:29:58 pm

The ideal solution to weeds is always livestock. Like goats.

We need a goat. Something that can stomach St. Jahns wort.

Goats eat them shrubs though, would they really be interested in flowering weeds? Or am I mistaken about the goaten diet.

Goats eat everything that shows no signs of fighting back.

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lewd

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For the missions, I'm honestly not sure. I was thinking something along the lines of how you gain influence with city-states in Civ to function as side quests. In Civ, there are multiple city-states with different ideals and personalities. For example, some city states might want you to connect your trade network with them to increase their mercantile status, some may want you to harass another city-state to gain more power, and some might be pursuing their own goals and need you to process something or develop a technology. If you want more detail on that, just look up Civ city-states and read through the wiki article.

As for main quests, I'm feeling that delivery, smuggling, and messing with faction politics are the most realistic goals for a slave trader, but I'm not sure how 'fun' those first two would be.

As for the RP v. algorithm thing, I think you should have weapons and probabilities to have a set chance, which is then modified slightly by a sort of chance system. For example, a certain missile should do 300 damage to the engines if it's a direct hit, but the actual damage could range from 250 - 350. This possible variation is due to random chances that could happen (e.g. "The fuselage burst in the impact, damaging the craft further!" or  "The missile's warhead was fast to explode, lessening the force of the blow!) Of course this number could be further modified by slave skills or whatnot, but that's your decision for the depth of this game.

Quote from: Bearskie on July 05, 2015, 06:59:49 am

Quote from: Evil One on July 04, 2015, 10:16:27 pm

Back in the days of 34.11 I built a goblin pong game... By goblin pong I mean a huge series of raising drawbridges designed to catapult goblins across to the other side, which then raises to launch them back or hit them mid air which didn't happen often sadly, but was spectacular when it did... It may have been a bug, maybe not, but seeing a goblin explode and pieces of it get launched across the battlefield was very entertaining.

Such a shame that 34.11 didn't have a developed morale system, I can only imagine what some of the goblins still on the battlefield must have been feeling.

I can only imagine what your dwarves would have been feeling.  "Oh look, just another light shower of goblin appendages."

These days it would probably be "AHHHH!! I JUST SAW FIFTY GOBLIN LIMBS DIE!!!!!" Then they'd go insane.

Urist was horrified x100

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bovine eyes

Spooky.

What I recommend, though, is for that little description of the odd family to have sparse details when they take the order, and then more twisted, crude, ugly details once they start holding up the line. When you say they had "big, soft, brown eyes", that really contrasted against how you revealed your feelings about their actions near the end. This is a small nitpick, though, as I liked how you took this rather mundane evil many of us experience and crafted it into a worthwhile story. I enjoyed reading it.

The ideal solution to weeds is always livestock. Like goats.

We need a goat. Something that can stomach St. Jahns wort.

Goats eat them shrubs though, would they really be interested in flowering weeds? Or am I mistaken about the goaten diet.

Okay, this was in my feed today and I love it.  Sorry for melting your brains again.

http://zinzoa.deviantart.com/art/Cool-Sarah-544102907

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I want to make it a little closer to DF style description this time. 

This is a portrait of Sarah the goldfish-woman and a leather jacket by zinzoa.  Sarah is striking a confident pose.  Sarah is wearing the leather jacket.  The artwork relates to the possession of a leather jacket by Sarah the goldfish-woman.  The style is typical of the Anthro Movement.  The colors are vibrant.  The subject is highly stylized.  The artwork is characterized by smooth lines and soft shading. 



So by now we can start analyzing how the game would make these descriptions.  Subject (sarah), author (zinzoa) and relationship (relates to) fields, as it has now.  Color field (vibrant-somber).  Style field (realistic-stylized).  Maybe a mood field for some paintings that could pick whatever mood the painter had while painting (or experienced recently).  Characterizing the linework and shading through text is a bit boring to read, I would skip that.  "The style is typical of ..." might be irrelevant, but if the game generates artistic movements or trades art between civilizations it could add to the flair.

Them furries  .

Anyway, I think that correlating a style to a geographic site and including why the artwork fits the style would allow for more of an 'art analysis'. The decorative "The artwork is characterized by..." could be omitted. If someone wants some individuality in the description, the style could go as follows:

"The style is reminiscent of the Deviant Artists due to the shading and warm colors, but has linework typical of Zinzoa."

With a bit more dwarf, though.

Quote from: Laptisen on July 05, 2015, 10:06:20 am

Etika has a fascination with HuniePop, apparently.

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I don't know who that is or why it's a big deal.

I personally like him because of his hair, but I do suppose this is the wrong forum for this.