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In 2D dwarf fortress, you could not specify the name of your embark in any way, it was enforced to be random.  So yes, Boatmurdered was random.

Hey, I bought this game a few days ago.  The forums link it gave me in the purchasing email doesn't work, and the forums link on the website goes to the imperia5x forums... which won't let me post after I registered.  What's up with that?

Anyway...

I've watched the youtube video tutorials, and been reading the guides on the website, but still having trouble wrapping my head around what exactly to do.  I want to keep at it though, because the premise of this game is basically my dream game. Managing people is so much more interesting than micromanaging!

That said, the thing that's REALLY keeping me from grinding it out is the bugginess of the UI.  Going to the system view works about... half the time.  When it doesn't work, the planets are visible but clicking does nothing and the data windows simply don't load in.  When it does work, it often has elements outside the visible screen.  But then again, sometimes loading up a new screen will simply crash the game.

Is this just my PC, or is everyone else also dealing with these kinds of issues?

Quote from: Dwarfu on November 30, 2017, 02:09:11 pm

HAHA! Memories...I still eye wells suspiciously.

Good call! It was such a fun feature. With creatures climbing now it should happen again, someday.

True!  I guess the only way would be if you could set a creature's RAWs so that it lives in the aquifer itself somehow... like a slime creature or a magic being that can actually move through the water-infused rock/soil.  It would spawn as if from the edge of the map, except at the edge of an aquifer.  Alas, the code doesn't support it at the moment.

I have likewise been unable to make my pawn to go to war. In my last game I chose an island with five one-town countries as my starting spot, taking over one of the city-states. Made him the conquering type, but he never declared war on anyone and I never got a chance to tell him to do so either.

This one I can help you with!  It's a three step process to declare war, and you don't even need to be the boss to do it!  Although there's often little point in doing it unless you're the boss, because you want to spread your shadow from the top down.

Step 1: Call for a vote on "Military Posture".  Set it to "Preparation for offensive war".
Step 2: Call for a vote on "Offensive Focus".  Choose a target nation.
Step 3: Call for a vote on "Declare War".  Vote yes.

You must do all 3 to start a fight.  Your thralls will not do this on their own.  You need to do it manually.

Well, according to his devlog, a new "Evil One" is being implemented for the next version, so there's a new character for you guys.  The new Evil One is a master of undead... he can't shadow, can't enthrall, and wins when all mortals are dead.  His key mechanic will be manipulating nations to war with each other, and then after the battles is over, raising the slain as an undead army to march across the land.  Sound pretty cool, actually.

Question for you guys though: When trying to get other nobles to like you, how does intensity of feeling work?  That is to say, do nobles respect people more passionate than them on a subject, or only when their passion is closely similar?  Or is it that friendships only form when passion is HIGH for both people?

Toady, what are your personal feelings towards the "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" situation that currently exists with regards to adventure mode personality?  By which I mean, you are possessing an individual who has their own personality (even if we now get to choose what that may be) and can only watch as you use their body to do whatever, leaving them the freedom only to weep uncontrollably at the death and murder you cause.

Do you feel like this is a bug, to be removed in the future if possible, or is it a feature (that could maybe be communicated to the player better, like being able to talk to the person you are possessing)?

Will the new knowledge "tech forest" be accessible in the RAWs?

If I think up a new fantasy philosophy, can I have the philosophers in game discover it?  Or when the history department at my local IRL university thinks up a new historiography method, do we have to wait for it to be hard coded in or can we just add it to the RAWs ourselves?

For that matter, what about ideas that aren't just ambiguously correct, but are clearly wrong?  People wrote books and chased down clearly false ideas plenty of times in history. It's a part of science too, to propose an idea that might not work out.

Seeing a civilization that, for example, firmly believes in the physicality of darkness (and light being the lack of said darkness) would be fascinating.  Or seeing libraries devoted to a false idea that side tracked all their researchers into not being able to develop a particular technology would be amazing.

Two reasons a civilization might not have a technology-- either they aren't studying, or they're studying the wrong things.