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A recent (failed) experiment with modding made me want to make another request. As I understood, Toady, you are separating the entity site placement tags functions from the other possible applications of them, or something like that.

Would it be possible to make a non-existant entity? As in, one that does not generate sites at all, as opposed to just generating "hidden" sites. The use for this is allowing, say, batmen, ratmen, troglodytes, giants, ettins, and the like, to use crude, makeshift, or stolen weapons, without making them an entity. I'd imagine it would be easier than adding the weapon, armor, and other relevant tags to the creatures themselves.

Also, to clarify - does the system you are currently setting up allow, say, making forest-built "towns", tall towers in the swamps, deep caves in the deserts, etc, etc?

...maybe add tags to allow multiple creature types per entity?

By "we" I mean Toady, of course.  

The amount of uses for this is quite large, getting different species of kobolds or goblins to live together is one. Separating male and female creatures into different creature definitions would be nice too.

On the same topic, is it possible to make a tag that makes an entity "invisible"? As in, it generates the entity's settlements and civspace, but does not mark them in any way, not even on the map once revealed. The idea is to have settlements of, say, antmen, batmen, and the like.

It will probably be set to use the most appropriate ammo for the weapon you are carrying. A sling will shoot any small object, a bow will shoot arrows, no weapon will cause you to throw anything you have.

Don't remember this one suggested, though that doesn't mean it wasn't, but meh.

Being sometimes deprived of all souces of entertainment except my GBA, I have played a roguelike called POWDER, and there I saw a feature that would somewhat reduce the hassle with making throwing side-weapons for adventure mode.
It's what I call "quiver markup", and it basically means that you can go to your inventory, designate ANY item in there as ammo, and then use the "Fire" button to launch any one of them using whatever is available.
The system prefers items that have specific damage, and items that match a weapon in your hand, so you won't be lobbing excess boots when you have bolts for your crossbow, and will rather switch to available throwing knives when those run out. Also, any item that was once quivered retains that setting, so when you pick it up, you don't have to quiver it again.
The benefit is, of course, easily setting up batches of rocks and other items to lob at enemies later, with literally "a press of a button".
The side effect is having to manually quiver up arrows that you pick up, unless a sort of "autoquiver" tag is implemented for weapons, that will quiver those automatically as you pick them up.

I've no idea as to actual implementation, or how theoretically difficult it could be (though I can guess), so I'm just throwing the idea out there. Discuss.

I raised the quesion of mouse support for menus some time ago, with no coherent reply whatsoever. This is the "when it's done" philosophy at its best I guess, but I do understand there are things more important for gameplay currently. What nibbles me most in this case, is the fact that the unwieldy UI of the game turns away many potential players.

Arcanum was brilliant. There were several things I remembered mose from that game. Once I snuck into some building where there was a large safe, seemingly very difficult to bypass. With my basic level of lockpicking, I just used a fate point and opened it. I really liked that system.
The other time I was a high-level mage that concentrated on the energy school. There was this one door that I was supposed to get an answer for. I think the riddle itself wasn't very difficult, nor was obtaining that answer, but there was just something insulting about an ancient rock door questioning a battlemage's intelligence. So I just zapped it with Disintegration and moved on.  

I really liked that game. A shame I can't find an english localized version anywhere around here...

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Originally posted by Cthulhu:
<STRONG>nuclear holocausts are super-cool.</STRONG>

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Yeah, literally.  

Supposedly there's an english version of the client. Or something, I dunno. Check out the english section of the site. I doubt you will find many english-speakers though.