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When I have DF dreams, it's usually adventure mode, quite thrilling stuff!  I remember discovering some pink eyeless amphibian experiments that were indeed unique, for they had custom Phoebus sprites.

My DF dreams are usually frustrating, involving me trying to solve some problem in-game similar to one I'm actually working on, but being baffled by the mechanics of it.

Urist McMasterChef, up yours for never using dwarven syrup no matter how many stockpile tricks I try.  I guess the gold barrels of it make a great export good though because apparently every chef out in the rest of the world knows how to use it.

Siege engines that launch dwarves, damage from impact determined by their weight.

I don't provide this feedback about my experiences with this system just to whine, I want this to be improved, I'm interested to see what this system working well looks like! It has potential, but, as-is, it's just not fun (or Fun) for me, and a lot of other people (ranging from new players to long-time players) I know. Among local people I know who play DF it's been the main source of frustration and "I'll just wait for the next release..." attitudes I've seen lately, even though we all have different approaches to the game, and different degrees of familiarity with it, and different degrees of patience for it.

I'd like to see the differences between corpse-induced stress be a lot more marked.  I don't see why it would be traumatic at all to see a goblin toe when you literally enjoyed killing that bastard.  If anything you should get a good thought from that, "yep that s.o.b.'s still dead."  However, it's entirely reasonable someone would be traumatized by, for instance, having their spouse and children rotting in their own bedroom.

The trouble with necromancy is that it's also tied with immortality, and immortality is a problem that goblins have as well.

Where with goblins I'd make more unstable and prone to civil wars among each other and revolutions among any non-goblins they've conquered or enslaved, I'm not sure Necromancy would be so much different, I mean unless they've killed everyone and the entire world is undead, necromancers should have a lot of trouble maintaining power.

This requires having civilizations and intrigue matter and not feel clunky; a town or group-of-towns should overthrow their old leader for  economic, cultural, and political reasons(like "I've pissed off/alienated enough of my vassals, that they've abandoned their oath to me").

though for that to happen part of me thinks religion and politics need serious adjustments.

Other than the necromancy in my own civilization, the world (a pocket world) is remarkably wholesome.  Goblins are without a civilization and nearly extinct.  Everyone else is peaceful.  Other than the necromancer, the only other "bad" people are some outlaw group of people that has been persecuted for ages and currently has only 10 outsider members in something called "dark human pits."

Can't trade because the caravan is still unloading two weeks after arriving.

Nobody had any particularly useful suggestions or, for that matter, any suggestions at all, but some time after the "caravan is leaving soon" message and the caravan actually leaving, the unusually lethargic traders somehow managed to finish unloading and I bought them out, as I usually do after removing the most astoundingly useless items they have for trade.

Quote from: Egan_BW on September 23, 2020, 12:56:29 am

How do you know that dwarfs aren't already taller than humans? All we have is volume of the creature, and simple descriptors saying they're tall / short for a dwarf. Every dwarf could be a stalk reaching the sky and every elf could be wider than they are tall and we would never know.

There's a line from the elven diplomat that makes fun of the dwarves' height.

Elves now gaslight dwarves on a variety of subjects. Dwarves should be grateful that elves shared their invention of magma with them.

Maybe elves are so dumb they can't tell the difference between a dwarf being short and a dwarf just being far away.

So I suddenly get a message about a missing dwarf.  I can't figure out where he is, so I go looking if he got in any mischief in announcements that I missed among the cancellation spam and the recent discovery of the magma sea and all the sudden mineral discoveries this triggers, seemingly out of nowhere as I hadn't breached anything.



These keas are miserable creatures and have been continually stealing things.  Since I beefed up the security at what is now the only entrance it's mostly just stray bolts (that have mostly been shot at previous keas).  But surely they can't kill a dwarf, right?

Still the times are right.


The kea message.


The missing message.

So I check combat logs.


Uh-oh.  That's kind of ominous.  Where did this happen?


Double uh-oh.  Guess what's right under that open space? You've probably figured this out already.


Yeah.

Remember that magma sea discovery?  I guess we have an explanation for that too.  Semper fi, Sigun Olonlegon, bird fighter and explorer.