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@GreatWyrmGold:You don't need a head miner to use the designations menu, nor an architectural noble to build stuff. Why would you even need a noble?
I think I answered why I would use a noble, but do you happen to have an alternative idea how to implement this menu using some form of requirement ? I just couldn't think of anything else besides adding a noble as req.
Just mean to say that if the only requirements are material, then they're going to be very easy to mass-produce no matter how you try to balance them. Example: Once you get a steel industry going, it's pretty easy to produce a lot of steel weapons and armor, even Masterworks with a skilled smith. The most time-consuming part of setting up your military is still training your soldiers, though. It's a lot harder to train an axe lord than it is to equip him, unless you're trying to get artifact gear. So, provided all the materials needed for a Golem are available on your map and you don't need to import them, then it stands to reason that as soon as the infrastructure was set up you'd be able to churn them out very rapidly, much more rapidly than training a militia, if it was purely a construction process. If it was much easier to build a War Golem than train an Axe Lord, then it'd pretty much have to be weaker than that Axe Lord or there would be literally no point in training a military, which would render that whole aspect of the game more or less obsolete. The general attitude here seems to be that a good Golem should be able to smash that Axe Lord into meat paste, which I agree with, but in that case you'd need to make it harder to get a Battle Golem than an Axe Lord for the same reason.First off, resources will be scarcer in DF 1.0. I'm pretty sure of that.
As for the berserk thing and skill levels, maybe it is a stupid idea. It's a suggestion, not a list of demands here. Just throwing it out there because I think it would be fun. My solution would be to just have your dwarf churn out cheap worker golems to get his skill up with a couple axedwarves on standby to put them down if they flip. As for them going crazy at all, as I said, have it be like tamed animals going feral. Have a visual indication in the name, and when it starts to go screwy bring it in for a tuneup...."Tuneup" sounds wrong here, I'm not sure why.
I'm not trying to strawman anybody. Can we at least agree that a fair cost versus benefit is completely a matter of opinion in this case?No.
One simple way to limit them would be to have the golemancer only be able to safely animate a set amount of golems at a time (or at least control themIt should very by skill level and golem power, but the idea is sound.), maybe say 2-3 tops. If you had him animate more the risk of him losing control over them would multiply and probably only be a good idea as a last resort defense against a siege (ie, animate a room full of golems, get the hell out of there and pull the lever to let them loose on the gobbos) ^^
Alpha means it's incomplete. Don't expect perfection in alpha. Most games are working on making it impossible to walk through walls and the like at this stage of development.I hate it when people say that. We can't use 'the game is in alpha' as an excuse for much of the game's nonsense. Like Urist being a popular name: no self-respecting dwarf would name their kid 'dagger'. Or the ability to walk through tiles diagonally, or being able to fit 300 dwarves, 250 animals, a dragon and a partridge in a pear tree on two 3x3x3 metre tiles. The pear tree would need its own tile.I hate when people say that.Statues in Dwarf Fortress seem to be the classic greco-roman design. They're big, heavy and cumbersome. It doesn't make sense for a trader to drag these things from their homelands when they can just trade in regular trade goods like figurines.This is Dwarf Fortress. We don't need logic here.
Statues should have to be a custom order from an artist of that region. Custom made statues from other lands should be expensive to both make and import but they should be quite favourable among your population.
The game's still in alpha, guys. Anything you cite is probably a bug or underimplemented feature.
My initial statement was... irrelevant. So was this, I suppose.
Daggers are weapons, and "Urist" is actually a fairly uncommon name in-game. Like Bob; everyone knows it's common from fiction, but I can't think of anyone I actually know named Bob.The Spanish would have some reason for doing so, that would be in their culture. My point is that dwarf-culture (although nigh-on indistinguishable from much of the Bay12 culture) is more accommodating to names like 'Axe', 'Hammer', or 'Magmacarp the Elf-Slaughter of Death'...no self-respecting dwarf would name their kid 'dagger'.No self-respecting Spanish person would name their little girl 'pillar'. Except they do. Because that's called culture.
Not 'dagger'.
Human and Elf female sculptures could spruce up the joint. Remember: Its not porn if it has an urn in it.* I just want to setup some statues for dwarfs to vandalize. A vandalized Human and Elf statue could generate happy thoughts, once vandalized. Vomit upon, throw kitten corpses atop, get bent out of shape and develop bad thoughts off of and then engrave over top it, etc.. The normal FUN stuff in DF, with a twist of lemon and lime.One of his characters, actually. More or less. It was from Thud!, sadly the only Discworld book I've read to date. It was explained that way to Nobby Nobbs for reasons which would derail the thread further.
*not my quote, Pratchett I think said this.
Try "t".Sounds neat. I must say that something like this sounds simple (probably isn't, though) and would add nicely to the interface without detracting from the aesthetics.
but the letter the statue represents should differ from others, something like being on a white trim or other thing.
Have there been threads discussing if such things should even be in the game?It would probably be easier to just implement homosexuality. Maybe include an init option to disable it.Should there also be init options to disable dark-colored skin, women being in the military, or polytheism?
That's not the problem; the problem is choosing which material to build it out of. Designations aren't a good tool for that.The problem is that walls can be made out of lots of different materials.Designations work on things of many materials too. Everything is just a big list of tiles with properties. It's not likely a problem from a technical perspective.
Sorry I like it when people follow the rules...There are solutions, which have been discussed on those threads you did not search for.Don't troll my post, I know people have made posts on the subject, and that in no way diminishes my desire to make another.
Search for an existing thread. If you find a thread similar to your idea, you can bump it to expand on the suggestion, even if the thread is old.It's kinda accepted as what you should be doing around these parts.
Yes there are a number of solutions, all of them pretty obvious.Both of those share the issue that they're a lot different than anything we have now. It would require blending the building and designation codes. Not that it's not possible, but Toady tends to prefer complicated; new features over complicated interface improvements.
Minimum solution: Leave everything the way it is, but change the means of selection to one more like designations.
Grand solution: Reorganize and redo the entire interface into something that actually makes sense, use consistent shortcuts for various things across all menus, unify all means of selection into one system that's actually good. (that goes for the embark site selection controls too).
A more informative title couldn't hurt either.Agreed.
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