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Oh boy, more surveys!  >_>

Of course I am stupid for replying to a post on another site here, but:

Why would a Steam promotion be run on something (anything) other than steampowered.com?

"Yeah, sure, np, I totally believe I'll get a free That Retarded Horse if I click on this itsreallywroldofwar-craft.com.cz link in my spam folder."

IMO, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress/Legendary Heroes (whichever one is the most recent release) is still shoddy. It does equipment better, but if you want a fantasy 4X game, just get Civ4 Complete and Fall from Heaven (or various FFH modmods and modmodmods).

It has absolutely nothing on Master of Mana and MoM should not be denigrated by trying to compare Elemental to MoM*.

*I've actually never played MoM itself, (FFH and its subprojects, some HoMMs, and Age of Wonders are my experiences with fantasy TBS) but all flavours of Elemental are really lacking. The biggest difference in an empire's strategy is whether they're realistically magic-capable or not, or when they have access to unique (but usually borderline inconsequential) equipment. Tech and magic research may as well not even exist. The tactical combat maps are also poorly done, in terms of actually being able to apply any kind of actual tactics to your combat. It doesn't even have actual random map generation; resources are randomized but the map shape is selected from a variety of presets. I think there's about a dozen by default, even shared (more or less) across map sizes. Not sure if you can go looking for more (e.g. whether a map making tool exists for community use).

I'm glad Kael got an actual paid job out of his work with FFH, but its too bad that job is the impossible task of cleaning up Wardell's mess. Maybe he can polish it up a bit more and add some newer/deeper mechanics, but the basic design/mechanics are still limited, and if you're going so deep as to fix those you may as well scrap it all code-wise and start over.

Just embarked as dwarfs and one of the problems that shows up is that there is no plump helmets available or its products. I thought they always had access to underground plants. And yes there are caverns.

Presuming there isn't actually a mistake in the raws, it is entirely based on what the civ actually has access to biome-wise within their territory. Possibly they don't have any tier 1 caverns in their biome (though not likely) or rather, no subterranean water biomes within their territory.

Heya, really simple question. Is bifrost normally a mine-able stone? I know it is listed as a material that you normally get from frost giant corpses, but in my embark I seem to have stumbled upon a location where the first 7 layers of rock contain 'Bifrost.' I haven't been able to melt them into bars or anything, but whenever I make a table or something out of them it ends up being worth 3000 urist which struck me as odd....not that I'm complaining but it definitely made invasions come a lot sooner and more frequently.

No, bifrost shouldn't exist as a layer stone (let alone on the surface as a replacement for soils). This is a case of duplicate raws, caused by a bug with the launcher. I forget exactly how the problem arises, something to do with the order in which you change settings then gen a world (or vice versa).

Ah, here it is:

what's breaking the raws is changing (some) options after changing a tileset. until i can get a fix out, a workaround to the issue is to either:
- close and restart the settings GUI immediately after changing a tileset, and then change any other options
- change all your options first, and ensure that the tileset change is the very last thing you do

Should've tried more fireballs from the eyes, bolts of lightning from the arse.

1. I believe the Invaders World Settings toggle (in the Settings tab) works without regen; it simply flips the [INVADERS:YES] tag in d_init.txt to :NO]. This should work without regen given that is true for temperature, caveins, and weather. Toggling specific races from Civilizations or Other Creatures tab would definitely require a regen.

2. Near as I can tell, the presence of non-water rain disables accumulation in murky pools completely. I don't think there are any examples of good-biome rain in vanilla, but under Surroundings, evil rain is mentioned to have this effect. Since the different flavours function the same, mechanically speaking, I expect the same is true of good rain. Furthermore, even if it did it wouldn't really be a drinkable substance... Drinks are derived from the raws of a plant, the biome rains are just an inorganic material with a liquid form (and attached syndrome).

That said, the good rains do have an effect: beer rain will temporarily add the NO_DRINK tag to a creature, while milk-and-honey rain will add the NO_EAT tag. These will apply if the creature inhales the substance, and given the substance's boiling point, this should happen as soon as it lands on anything (because its boiling point is 895 units lower than the freezing point of most everything else). Even so, use of good rain in this way may not be advisable, as it prevents the ability of your creatures from eating or drinking and gaining happy thoughts in this way. (This may or may not even be a problem depending on how well your fort is doing.)

3. Looks like they have a 25% chance of laying a normal egg (the other 3/4 of the time being limestome, marble, or dolomite). Set up a stone stockpile to take these boulders (ensure there is always space) and disable boulder crab eggs in your food stockpile and your kitchen menu. This should remove any non-egg boulders from a nest box as soon as a hauler as the opportunity, while leaving eggs to mature. Eggs aren't directly edible in masterwork so even hungry dwarves should leave them alone.

4. ./shrug Be patient I guess. I'm not familiar with how to game the caravans, but you can try to make the trip more profitable by selling goods that are a lot more valuable than what you're buying. In theory that will make future caravans bring more stuff. It might also require some gaming involving caravan weight but I'm not familiar with that.

Just downloaded latest trunk; I presume Djinn have been removed? There's now Vine stalkers who "cannot regain health from potions or devices; magical reserves absorb damage and they have a magic-restoring bite."

Also, apparently lava orcs were removed per the may 7 trunk notes but it's in this build I downloaded (windows tile build, says last updated may 14) so IDK.