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"Careful Movement" in adventure mode is really the opposite.  It's what allows you to jump off cliffs.  Now it also allows you to jump in lava, if you really want to.

Toady already mentioned that by wiping out civilizations, or even entire species, you'll change the name of the age.

Is the 5-10 number simply a random die roll, or does it check the RAWs for data?  If I gave bunny rabbits the megabeast tag and adventurers can to slay it, would it slay 5-10 of them before going down, or would the game recognize that the bunny is harmless and have it die immediately?

Likewise, if I gave the megabeast damblock 9000 and attack 9000 or some such ridiculous numbers, would it take more adventurers to kill it?

Furthermore... while ranges make sense when dealing with megabeast/civilization overlaps, wouldn't megabeasts be VERY territorial against OTHER megabeasts?  Wouldn't the standard territory system you have in place work better there?  You'd have one map for civilizations, and one map for megabeasts.

[ March 12, 2008: Message edited by: Fieari ]

There's a suggestion forum, you know.  This thread is about the current development stuffs.

EDIT: Speaking of said current developments...

Civilization territories only overlap in one square currently, you said.  When you get to megabeasts, I think it would make a lot more sense for those territories to overlap completely, more or less ignoring each other.  Territory for a single brute is not the same thing as territory for a large number of weaker beings.  For a dragon, territory is mostly hunting grounds, I'm thinking, which could easily consist of the entire human civilization.  The human ruler wouldn't pull back his borders... there's no occupying force.  He'd see it as an internal matter.  And the dragon wouldn't care.

Elves vs Humans vs Dwarves vs Goblins, it makes sense to keep the overlap minimal, because it deals with settlements.  But megabeasts are a different matter.  I know you plan to have the overlaps be more extensive when wars come in, but I think numerical population should be a huge consideration as well.  Very small and very large civilizations could easily be sitting on top of each other.

[ March 10, 2008: Message edited by: Fieari ]

Probably not.  DF, unlike almost all modern games, does not run slow because of processing graphics, but from processing the world itself.  Thus, nothing with regards to the graphics should cause either speed ups or slow downs.  It's just a couple of bitblts either way, which are pretty darn cheap, processor wise.

I would not mind the three essays (on stone gathering, hunting, and a couple of general things) I just wrote on the subject going into such a guide.
http://www.bay12games.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=11&t=000285

I've only seen half of that movie, mostly because I saw it too young, clandestine and without parental approval, with a friend, and neither of us could finish watching it at the time.

I just tried, and found that I can't quite make out where the boundaries are for all the tiles... some of them even seem to overlap somewhat!  Could someone else try and see if they can do better than I?