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Rakustilrom can certainly be female.  It's a gender-neutral name, after all.
Er, it is now.

Not having any orcs around is usually the opposite problem I tend to have.

I really like the idea of useful nobles.

Historically, the 'warrior nobility' was common to feudal societies.  I think that would be an easy way to make the nobility useful - tie them into combat.  Either by being better leadership (perhaps use superior squad AI when the Duke is around?)  or by being good warriors themselves (a 'knight' noble might be a welcome addition... especially if he's considered an active soldier).

If the Captain of the Guard were the permanently designated Squad Leader for all the Fortress guards, people would like him a lot more.  It would make the Fortress Guard useful (rather than a job for all disabled and permanently injured dwarves) as well as providing incentive to let good soldiers be the Captain of the Guard.

Perhaps Guards could patrol areas that are designated as 'Entrance' or 'Gate' by the player.  Maybe even allow the player to make a 'Patrol' area that FG and RG will frequent.

The philosopher might increase XP gain?  Grant XP gains in random skills?  Wouldn't that be cool?

Of course, the full use of nobility is tied to higher game functions that don't yet exist, like being able to invade other nations.

I suggest you play vanilla for a while to see what you want to add.

It's very hard to mod a game or download the right mod when you don't know what you want.

Agreed w/ Derakon.

Maybe I just need to change the Orcs' active season... which would make this a more appropriate topic for the modding forum.

Making a wooden mace (or 'club') is easy as pie.  In fact, they may well be the oldest weapon in existence.  I'm constantly surprised that the game doesn't have them already.  It just seems wacky that the only people who make wooden weapons have swords, but not clubs.

Quote from: Warlord255 on September 05, 2009, 08:58:23 pm

There is some "soft" progression in-game already in that most advanced tech - such as steelmaking or glassmaking - requires more dwarves and resources to be run with any amount of efficiency.

I think people underestimate just how powerful this force can be.  There's good arguments that this is predominantly responsible for Earth's technical progress.

QFT.
Much of ancient "technology" was not increased by discoveries of facts previously unknown, but rather by labor and economic progress being sufficient to implement known theories, practices and techniques.  And I like it how the PLAYER gets to invent most of the great dwarven creations, like the magma-spewing Ultimate Weapon of Surface Destruction.