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Basically that yea, it's an interface issue of not having anywhere to put it.  I guess we could add a dot or circle in the middle of the compass or something, and light it up if there's a hostile enemy near you?
Part of the problem is that the compass is basically there to mitigate the fact that in the original your view distance was incredibly constrained, so you needed to refer to it constantly to look out for danger.  Also it doesn't integrate that well with shifting your view persistently (with the HJKL keys), since if you shift your view to be able to see a monster it removes that information as you're saying.
Now that I'm thinking of it, it'd be nice to have it turn yellow if you're close to being spotted, I think it has all the info it needs to make that decision already...

RE: Wounds, what I'd like to do long-term is add specific wounds (bruises, cuts, gashes, fractures, etc) and mostly phase out HP.  A subset of the concepts is outlined here: http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=448.msg13713#msg13713  So you're not worried about taking 10 HP of damage, you're worried about a "deep cut", that might get infected if you don't take care of it.
At a very high level this is reminicent of how DF handles things, but we don't have a totally rigged-up body system, and don't really want one, so it'll be a good bit simpler in practice.
I know people are concerned about things getting too complicated to handle, a major focus would be on making sure that treating routine injuries wouldn't be a grind.

I really like the bionic reclaimer robot, with existing mechanics it could just use pain-causing attacks, which would basically disable you with speed penalties.  Maybe add something where you can pass out from extreme levels of pain (I mean like 1000+).  Perhaps you should wake up in a bathtub full of ice with a nearby note explaining what happened, and instructions on recovery.

Also good point that bionics from the android trait shouldn't be taken, just unlicensed ones.

There have been a few complaints about funnels not working in thunderstorms, will have to look into it.

Re: copbots, you can justify their behavior any way you like as has been demonstrated, you can also easy build a case for why their behavior is nonsensical.  I do think the key explanation is some combination of them relying on some central resource that is no longer available and emergency modifications being applied to them that made them go haywire. (hey, every apocalypse at once, this includes all the copbots going crazy).

The problem with the copbots IMO is that they're too dumb to outsmart.  You SHOULD be able to break a window, go into hiding or leave the area for a while until the eyebots give up, then return and grab your loot.  I think you can maybe wait it out by hiding, but unfortunately the eyebots spawn centered on the player, not the alarm, so they're nearly impossible to run from.  I filed an issue to address this months ago, but it hasn't floated to the top of the pile of issues to be addressed.  There are other fun things that we would like to enable, like having copbots be persistent instead of teleporting in based on an alarm, and getting them to do stuff for you, either by tricking them or by reprogramming them somehow.

Aah I see, thing is dynamic spawn is going away.  It's really not compatable with this kind of thing, and some kind of "flood fill safe zone" is even more computationally difficult than setting up the borders in the first place.

We have some ideas in the direction of when you start out there are only vanilla zombie types, and they mutate into the tougher zombies over time, but no one has seriously dug into it as yet.

oh duh, my brain wasn't working, we'd just mark the tile dirty and do the check once when it's unloaded.
Already planning on offloading a bunch of bookkeepping onto map tile load/unload.  So yea, there'd just be an algorithm that checks navigability of the tile and it gets run when a map tile is unloaded.  Possibly even allowing for traps to be "pseudo-blocking", so if you have contiguous walls and traps blocking navagability, things would move across, but be forced onto the traps.  Of course that isn't going to do much to zombies unless it obliterates them...

Re: "breaching", the blockage is per-tile, so we won't be checking continuity for an entire perimiter or something.  Imagine it like this, if you zoom out of the normal map scale to the overmap scale (conviniently what you see on the map display), one tile is now just a single square of terrain, and hordes navigate around on it on relatively long timescales (not sure what scale exactly, basically a horde would have an "overmap move speed").  Some tiles, like deep water for terrestrial animals, are already blocking, so on the overmap scale that kind of horde wouldn't be able to cross that tile.  Building contiguous wals across a tile would mark that tile as non-navigible to non-flying creatures, there might be a directionality thing, but it'd be much easier to just say the tile is blocked off entirely.  That way we don't have to worry about the potentially NP-hard problem of determining connected-ness.

This means, for example, that you could have gaps all over the place but still block movement.  The thing is, I'd rather it act a little funny than either delay the feature (potentially by a LOT) or not have it at all.

Will it be possible to have multiple tilesets at once and switch from one to another while ingame ?

That's technically possible, but it would be a good bit of work I think, and we don't have any plans to do it at the moment.

Metric FTW!
Just recently we switched from "quarter-lbs"... <_< (no comment)
to grams for item weights.  Then we convert to either lbs or kg for display based on the option.  I keep meaning to add "slug" "stone" etc as options.
Same for temperature etc. though for that I keep meaning to make temperature display fuzzy and relative.  I mean why does your survivor know the temperature to the degree all the time?

More fun with measures, we use quarter-degrees for gun accuracy.  The only change we might make there is switching to a more common measure called MOA (minute of arc, 1/60th of a degree), which corresponds to one inch of deviation at 100 yards.  This is significantly more resolution than we need, as the entire play field is about 60 yards or so in radius.  More than we need is a good place to be though, and there are no down sides