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You mentioned in the interview the other day that the 200 or so animal people don't have the layers info in their graphics RAWS to show clothing, hairstyles and such visually. That's a lot of data, so seems reasonable.

A somewhat related question:

From my understanding, the creature variation templates will continue to only be for creatures in the upcoming release, instead of being generalized for all sorts of objects. I imagine this is some technical issue, but on which level?
And if it ends up being expanded/replaced by something more general, do you think it could work on graphics tokens as well? Admittedly a bit suggestion-y, but I think it could shorten the graphics files quite a lot using the argument functionality.

+1, though I wonder if it should be tied into the religions rather than the civilizations. As far as I know that's where most diet-related mandates come from... except perhaps the dog/cat eating taboo? Hmm, all in all religious law vs state/entity law is something which could really be developed.

If you have it religion-side you could have monster-cults with sacred animals related to the object of worship. The dragon cult which won't let you eat lizards, or the giant-fire-breathing-bunny-titan cult which keeps rabbits fed by the best of garden greens, etc.

It's the alien, right?

Will you include earnings from the Premium version in the monthly Bay 12 Reports? It's hard to speak for others, but I know I would appreciate the transparency.

Also, if it hasn't been disclosed by this point (the start of December), will DF Classic/ASCII mode be ready at the Premium launch?

This particular detail, or hopefully some form of it, is pretty much accounted for already, I'm afraid:

Quote from: devlog

Better megabeasts

    Variety and randomization within constraints (e.g. various dragons)
    Reproduction
    Share any intelligent/diplomacy behavior that other hist figs have when appropriate

Hmm, I wonder if any of the diplomacy behaviors in the current/upcoming (Steam/itch.io) version are on hist fig levels? The caravans and raids are sent out centrally from an entity object afaik, but what about the goblin sieges demanding artifacts, as has been hinted at ? If that exchange is decided by a goblin commander, then perhaps the extant intelligent semi-megabeasts could make a similar demand. Otherwise there's the issue of hist figs only doing diplomacy as proxies.
 
Not that that shouldn't change though, but if the framework isn't there I imagine we might have to wait until the entity/site/diplomacy rewrite post-myths-and-magic.

+1

But I think some colossuses and similar creatures should be allowed to eat, depending on the mythgen. Precisely because of the terribleness of it.

Thanks Toady for another month's worth of replies!

The new formatting looks very promising. Are the vanilla raws split into multiple zipped folders going forwards, or was the "vanilla_buildings" example just an example?

I started watching Serial Experiments Lain this week, after constant exposure to the titular character when wandering the neocities. I had gotten the vibe down surprisingly well, but that doesn't mean it isn't extremely good or evocative. And confusing, to boot - it's a show that you shouldn't binge on your first try, as each and every episode contains about as much to process as an average anime's cour, or as one of the two last episodes of Evangelion. Suffice to say it hits the spot.
If you somehow are on an old-style forum for an ASCII-graphicked game in the year, and haven't watched or considered watching the show that tries to condense the early internet essence into 13 23-minute episodes, then you should reconsider.