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Thanks for the replies Toady, but id be sure to answer your question for a change based on what i know of the subject topic with this new info.Quote from: ToadyOneI didn't change anything directly here, and I didn't edit anything for the dev log. When I was testing, I ran the attack code so I could get some humans, and there were elephants, which was a bonus since we wanted to show their tile at some point. Does PET or TRAINABLE put them in the regular non-exotic pool for 'monster' races? Elephants have MOUNT_EXOTIC, but these weren't mounted - they came in the troll way, a whole bunch of them. The lone elephant there was the result of a bug (making it the leader of the whole army), but it was followed by about 20 more that I figured were legitimate 'monster' units. Or could a general have tamed them in world gen? I'm not sure, ha ha.
Filtering, the [POSITION:CAPTAIN] noble or overlapping any variable position of creatures outside the defined scope fixes this kind of thing, as that's mainly the w.g nonhistorical and no-equipment fodder the AI throws virtually unlimited amounts at you for. If it was a inaccessible class of creature and that the civ couldn't fufill to find that creature (sentient or otherwise) inside itself it'd omit them entirely and as i remember it working the once after i made a faulty RAW definition, sending out site militia's making historical site population trickle down after being unable to reach its reliable captains.
Example made for humans being similar to the dwarven template under the mountain civ, with the creature clause.Spoiler: "Captain code enclosed" (click to show/hide)
From what you say, that elephant is just controlling the smallest branch of the army onto your site technically underneath the lieutenant/general hierarchy, and animals have been noted, as per bug report ( #6708: Human civilization's soldier is an Alligator Recruit. ) as recruits themselves so maybe the elephant brought its own squad by chance?
A additional note, that creature-feature monster squads vanish from goblins (trolls in armor etc) if this is also filled out with trolls appearing in the correct capacity.
The elephants being tamed for their [MOUNT_EXOTIC] is quite likely the result of a general going out of their way to travel the wilds for animals now that i think about it since [USE_NON_EXOTIC_PET_RACE] and elephant [PET] is compatible on the surface while [MOUNT_EXOTIC] is not, i was just wondering if there was more to it personally but this is a satisfiable result.
Crikey. I didn't expect to pick up the save, and with Christmas being just around the corner, I probably won't be doing anything with it for the next week.
So, um, Merry Christmas, and SmallHands will update when it updates?
Edit, 2 days later: My hurdle with playing SmallHands is that I don’t have a project to start or complete; there’s always the option of having a kind of maintenance year, but those aren’t fun to read, even if they can be challenging and interesting to play. In the absence of fancy builds, I’ll try to lean on roleplaying - I’ll resume the identity of mamzel Malfoy, and play it off as if she’s currying favor with the dwarves after she got like a dozen of them killed. On purpose.
Have we ever considered trying to cover the entire surface with vomit on purpose?
